Just hours after Gregg was nominated, it became clear that Gregg's Legislative Dir from 2002 to 2004, Kevin Koonce, had been trading sports and music tickets and booze for legislative favors to Abramoff. Abramoff and his cronies were asking for $3.5M earmarks and the defeat of a defense appropriations bill that would have hurt Abramoff's Native American gaming clients. |
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