The drip, drip, drip of incriminating Abramoff details continues.
This time, prosecutors dropped 278 emails that detail the kind of chummy chicanery that fallen superlobbyist Jack Abramoff shared with former General Services Administration official David Safavian.
A sample excerpt, courtesy of WaPo:
On May 14, Abramoff wrote: “Can I host a party for you at Sigs [Signatures, a restaurant Abramoff owned]? Something like cocktails? Let me know if that is allowed. I really want to do it.”
Safavian replied: “No, but you can join me for a drink at the happy hour being thrown for me on Monday night at Bullfeathers on the Hill.”
Abramoff: “Bullfeathers?! What?! Can you move it to my restaurant?”
The e-mails suggest that the Signatures party never occurred, but 10 days later, on May 24, Abramoff got down to business: “I have a gsa question. There is a facility which is under the control of the GSA in silver Spring Maryland . . . I was wondering if it is possible to get some of the property for a school. Do you know if that is doable and how? Thanks.”
