Abramoff Visits in White House Logs Are Linked to Rove and a Budget Aide

Abramoff Visits in White House Logs Are Linked to Rove and a Budget Aide

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/11/wa...=1&oref=slogin

WASHINGTON, May 10 â?? Newly disclosed White House visitor logs involving the lobbyist Jack Abramoff refer to a 2001 visit in which Mr. Abramoff talked with Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser, about hiring two people for jobs at the Interior Department, a Bush administration official said Wednesday night.

The official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the Justice Department's continuing investigation of Mr. Abramoff's illegal lobbying, said that neither person got a job at the Interior Department, an agency of special interest to Mr. Abramoff because of his multimillion lobbying work on behalf of Indian tribe gambling operations.