ISRAELI COMPANY WITH TIES TO ABRAMOFF

Steve Sailer

ISRAELI COMPANY WITH TIES TO ABRAMOFF

Thu Jan 5, 2006 01:55

C-SPAN: Jack Abramoff Investigation
http://www.c-span.org/special/Abramoff.asp

U.S. LEGISLATOR QUESTIONS CONGRESSIONAL CONTRACT FOR ISRAELI COMPANY WITH TIES TO ABRAMOFF…

Congressional Democrats are calling into question a $3 million contract for an Israeli company to install cell phone antennas in the Congress. When the American LGC Wireless lost out to Israel’s Foxcom, it complained that a long-standing tradition for Congress to use American companies had been violated. According to the Washington Post, Democrats saw a more nefarious matter unfolding around Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Administration Committee, which awarded the contract. A suggestion has been made that ballots filled out by cell phone service providers for the committee were tampered with. Building upon the intrigue, the 2002 deal followed by a matter of months a Foxcom contribution of $50,000 to a charitable organization run by Jack Abramoff. Abramoff is a Jewish lobbyist with close Republican ties who is the target of multiple criminal investigations by the government. He was known to have a close relationship with Congressman Ney.
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Jack Abramoff's Israeli connections

The "Deep Background" gossip column by former CIA agent Philip Giraldi of Cannistraro Associates is one of the many reasons you should subscribe to The American Conservative. It does not appear online, but I'll reprint an item from the 12/5/05 issue, which came out a week ago (I should have posted it immediately, but instead I waited until the Abramoff-Ney scandal heated up).

One of the more intriguing aspects of the federal investigation into the activities of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff is his Israeli connections. His large $2.2 million bail is reported to be due to fears that he would flee to Israel, as some of his business associates have already done, to avoid prosecution. Abramoff, an Orthodox Jew and ardent Zionist, set up a charity called Capital Athletic Foundation, which illegally provided $140,000 worth of weapons and security equipment to hard-line Israeli settlers.

Abramoff also allegedly convinced Congressman Robert Ney, House Administrative Committee chairman, to award a contract worth $3 million to a start-up Israeli telecommunications firm called Foxcom Wireless. The contract was for the installation of antennas in House of Representatives buildings to improve cell-phone reception. Not surprisingly, such equipment can be designed to have what is known as a "back door" to enable a third party, in this case Mossad, to listen in. That an Israeli firm should be given such a contract through a selection process that was described as "deeply flawed and unfair" is explicable, particularly as there were American suppliers of the same equipment, and it suggest that the private conversations of some of our Congressmen might not be so private after all.

In a previous scandal in 2001, FBI investigators strongly suspected that two Israeli companies, AMDOCS and Comverse Infosys, which had been allowed to obtain U.S. government telecommunications contracts, were able to use back-door technology to compromise the security of DEA, Pentagon, and White House phones.

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OVERVIEW
Jack Abramoff started his career in politics as the national chairman of the College Republicans and became one of the leading young supporters of the Reagan Administration. He briefly left Washington for a producing career in Hollywood, but returned as a lobbyist when the Republicans won control of the House and Senate in 1994. He quickly built one of the most lucrative lobbying practices in Washington, DC, representing everything from technology companies to the Northern Mariana Islands. But his biggest clients were a number of Indian tribes that operated casinos.

Today, Jack Abramoff is accused of bilking those tribes out of millions of dollars and funneling the money through real and phony non-profit organizations to pet projects and his own bank accounts. His operations are under investigation by two Senate committees, multiple federal agencies and a number of states. One of those states, Florida, has already indicted him on wire fraud charges for his purchase of a chain of casinos. His partner, Michael Scanlon, a one-time press secretary to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), has plead guilty to a number of charges in U.S. federal court, and a former White House acquisitions chief has been indicted in connection to Mr. Abramoff's activities. More members of the Bush Administration and up to 60 members of Congress may also be under scrutiny by federal authorities.

Below you will find a number of resources that will help you make sense of this complex story. We have included links to newspaper and magazine articles, as well as the work of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, which has held five hearings as part of their investigation.
http://www.c-span.org/special/Abramoff.asp

In a previous scandal in 2001, FBI investigators strongly suspected that two Israeli companies, AMDOCS and Comverse Infosys, which had been allowed to obtain U.S. government telecommunications contracts, were able to use back-door technology to compromise the security of DEA, Pentagon, and White House phones.
http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/11/jack-abramoffs-israeli-connections.html

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