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Secret Service Reveals More Abramoff Visits
Secret Service Logs Show Abramoff Visit to Cheney Aide, White House
Family Residence

By PETE YOST
7/8/06
The Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The Secret Service on Friday revealed four more visits to
the White House in 2001 by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, including
one to see a domestic policy aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.

The newly released records of Abramoff's access to the White House
bring the total number of his known visits to seven.

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 family
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.

The Secret Service material surfaced as a result of lawsuits by the
conservative organization Judicial Watch and the Democratic National
Committee. An earlier Secret Service search turned up just two
Abramoff White House visits, and a further search turned up the
additional contacts.

Judicial Watch said the public has a right to know "why an admitted
felon had appointments with the Bush White House." The DNC said it
will aggressively pursue additional questions about visits to the
White House by Abramoff and his lobbying associates.

The government is asking a judge to dismiss the lawsuits, but another
group that is suing, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington, says it will also seek more information on the visits.

Abramoff has pleaded guilty in an influence-peddling scandal and is
cooperating with a wide-ranging Justice Department probe of alleged
corruption on Capitol Hill and in the executive branch.

A former White House aide, David Safavian, was convicted in a trial
last month for covering up his relationship with Abramoff. Safavian
was the Bush administration's top procurement official until his
arrest last year.

Abramoff's other previously undisclosed trips to the White House
complex in 2001 were on March 1 and May 17. Both were to meetings in
the Old Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House.

It has been previously known that Abramoff was in the White House on
May 9, 2001, when President Bush had his photograph taken with an
Indian tribal official who was an Abramoff client.

The Secret Service earlier disclosed White House visits by Abramoff on
Jan. 20, 2004, the day Bush delivered his State of the Union address,
and on March 6, 2001.