Remember the Scotland trip arranged by Abramoff that Tom Feeney went on? The one where they all played golf twice a day? Feeney reported that the cost was $5,640 and, after the Ethics committee said to, he paid it back. Turns out it was all a lie and the trip actually cost about $20,000 per person:
Zachares pleaded guilty to conspiracy and admitted in documents, among other things, that the travel report he filed upon returning from Scotland was filled with lies that were coordinated by Abramoff.
Zachares had said the trip was paid for by a conservative think tank, the National Center for Public Policy Research, that it had cost $5,643 and that the purpose was fact finding. All three were lies, according to the documents.
Feeney, 48, an Orlando-area Republican who has been contacted by the FBI as part of the Abramoff investigation, reported precisely the same details in his travel report on the Scotland trip.
When will they learn that the cover-up is almost always worse than the crime?
