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The Abramoff and Scanlon tribal lobbying fees, 2001 to 2003

Six tribes paid Michael Scanlon's firms at least $66 million in three years; the Senate committee found that Abramoff secretly shared the fees.

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Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan paid Scanlon's companies this much, by the committee's count, $10M Primary record 1
Paid under the fee-splitting arrangement the committee found; "funded" here means money paid, not a gift.

Jack Abramoff the committee found he secretly split with Scanlon the fees tribes paid Scanlon, without telling the tribes Primary record 1
Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan paid $1.9 million in one payment, which was split: "800 for you, 800 for me" Primary record 1

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"Gimme Five": Investigation of Tribal Lobbying Matters, S. Rept. 109-325, U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, 22 Jun 2006. Primary record
the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan (‘‘Saginaw Chippewa’’), $10,007,000
Abramoff and Scanlon had agreed to secretly split, between themselves, fees that the Tribes paid Scanlon from 2001 through 2003.
One example of this fee-splitting arrangement arises from a payment of $1,900,000 from the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan.
The Committee, therefore, finds that most of the Tribes received little of the intended benefit for the significant sums they paid to Scanlon and that most of the money paid by the Tribes was used for purposes unintended by the Tribes.

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