Investigator Aided Abramoff's Client; Dorgan Says He Had No Idea at the Time That Any of the Transactions Were Connected to the Lobbyist

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The top Senate Democrat investigating Jack Abramoff's Indian lobbying met several times with the lobbyist's team and clients, held a fund raiser in Abramoff's arena skybox and arranged congressional help for one of the tribes, records show.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., acknowledges he got Congress in fall 2003 to press government regulators to decide, after decades of delay, whether the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts deserved federal recognition.

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Investigator Aided Abramoff's Client; Dorgan Says He Had No Idea at the Time That Any of the Transactions Were Connected to the Lobbyist

Dorgan met with the tribe's representatives and collected at least $11,500 in po...

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