EMAIL SHOWS FEENEY'S OFFICE WAS INSTRUCTED ON HOW TO REPORT GOLF TRIP TO SCOTLAND WITH ABRAMOFF

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The email from Abramoff's assistant to Feeney's assistant. It was also sent to Zachares...

Congressional aide Mark Zachares pled guilty this week to charges of having accepted some $40k in cash and gifts from Abramoff, and has been giving details to federal investigators of how they had all agreed to claim the cost of the trip as $5,643 per person, and how Abramoff was working on a long term plan to see Zachares posted in a position where he could do favors for the lobbyist.

Here is the story:

Rep. Tom Feeney's (R-FL) office followed the specific instructions of Jack Abramoff's office in reporting the precise cost of his golf junket to Scotland with the disgraced lobbyist as $5,643, instead of the $20,000 the trip actually cost, according to an email obtained by the St. Petersberg Times.

Feeney, the corrupt, once-powerful GOP congressman and very close friend of the Bush Family has denied for years that he knew the lobbyist had paid for the trip, but the email from Abramoff's assistant seems to suggest otherwise, according to the Times Anita Kumar:

The e-mail from Holly Bowers, Abramoff's then-assistant, instructs recipients to say a conservative think tank, the National Center for Public Policy Research, paid for the trip at a cost of $5,643 per person.

In reality, the extravagant trip that began with a trans-Atlantic flight on a private jet and featured twice-daily golf at world-famous locales cost about $160,000, or $20,000 per person for each of the eight attendees.

Feeney, 48, an Orlando-area Republican who has been contacted by the FBI as part of the Abramoff investigation, reported precisely the details supplied by Abramoff's office in his congressional travel report on the Scotland trip.

Feeney has been fingered as "Represenative #3" in documents filed by investigators related to Zachares' recent guilty plea.