Yesterday, the Secret Service unexpectedly disclosed records of more visits by Jack Abramoff to the White House (we’re now to a total of seven). So what was he doing there?
The AP puts a couple of the pieces together:
One Abramoff White House visit, according to Secret Service logs, was on April 20, 2001, to see Cesar Conda, at the time Cheney’s assistant for domestic policy.
Five days after the Conda meeting, one of Abramoff’s former lobbying colleagues, Patrick Pizzella, was nominated by the president as assistant secretary of labor. The Secret Service logs do not state why Abramoff met with Conda.
One log entry indicates Abramoff visited the White House residence on Dec. 10, 2001, for two hours, as part of a large holiday party.
The Secret Service entry for Abramoff’s name that day reads, “POTUS,” “WH,” “RESIDENCE,” and lists the number of people present as 326, according to the documents. POTUS refers to the president of the United States.
