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Information may change rapidly as the event progresses. | David Hossein Safavian (suh-FAY'-vee-an) was chief of staff of the United States General Services Administration (GSA), the procurement arm of the U.S. federal government and in 2004, an employee of the Office of Management and Budget. He was arrested September 19, 2005, based on "a three-count criminal complaint filed at federal court in Washington, D.C. The complaint charges Safavian with making false statements to a GSA ethics officer and the GSA-OIG, along with obstruction of a GSA-OIG investigation." [1] Safavian is the first person arrested in the Jack Abramoff lobbying and corruption scandal. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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An Iranian American from Detroit, Michigan, Safavian graduated fifth in his class at Detroit College of Law. In Michigan, he served as an aide to Michigan House Representatives Robert Davis (R) and William Schuette (R), and still later he worked for Janus-Merritt Strategies. Iranian Americans are Americans of Iranian descent, including those who are expatriates in exile or permanent immigrants. ...
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Safavian was a longtime friend of lobbyist Jack Abramoff. In the mid-1990s, the two worked at the Washington-based lobbying firm of Preston Gates & Ellis. There they brought in millions to the firm while working on the Mississippi Choctaw tribal account. The pair were members of a team, reports CNN, “that was lobbying to keep the Northern Mariana Islands [a US territory] free from certain US labor and immigration laws.” Jack A. Abramoff (born February 28, 1959) is a United States political lobbyist, Republican activist, and businessman who is a central figure in a series of high-profile political scandals. ...
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In 1997, Safavian and Grover Norquist founded a lobbying firm, the Merritt Group, which was renamed Janus-Merritt Strategies (and is sometimes referred to as "Janus Merritt" or simply "Janus"). The tenor of the firm was fiercely ideological. "We represent clients who really do have an interest in a smaller federal government," Safavian told Legal Times in a 1997 interview. "We're all very ideologically driven, and have a bias in favor of free markets." He went on: "We're not letting people who offer us money change our principles." Grover Glenn Norquist (born October 19, 1956) is the Republican president of the noted anti-tax lobbying group Americans for Tax Reform, and a well-connected conservative activist with close ties to business and the media. ...
The firm's clients included businesses like BP America, the U.S. division of British Petroleum. There were foreign companies like the Corporacion Venezolana de Cementos and Grupo Financiero Banorte. There were gaming interests, including Indian tribes: the Saginaw Chippewa - a client the firm shared with Jack Abramoff, the Viejas band of Kumeyaay Indians, and the National Indian Gaming Association. [2]. Safavian also registered as a lobbyist for the government of Pakistan, the government of Gabon, and Pascal Lissouba, the corrupt former president of the Republic of the Congo. This article is about the corporation known as BP. See also BP (disambiguation) BP (formerly British Petroleum and briefly known as BP Amoco) (NYSE: BP) is a petroleum company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. ...
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In 1999, Safavian founded the Internet Consumer Choice Coalition, a nonprofit whose sole purpose was to fight a bill authored by Republican Arizona senator Jon Kyl that would have made online gambling a federal crime. Coalition members included the American Civil Liberties Union, the Association of Concerned Taxpayers, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Interactive Services Association, the Small Business Survival Committee, and the United States Internet Council. Some coalition members--the Interactive Services Association, for one--were also clients of Safavian's. Another, Americans for Tax Reform, was Norquist's activist group.[3] This page is about the current Arizona Senator; for his father, a U.S. Representative from Iowa, see John Kyl; for an unrelated U.S. Representative from Mississippi, see John Kyle. ...
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In January 2001, Safavian left Janus-Merritt to become chief of staff for Representatives Chris Cannon (R-UT). On May 16, 2002, he became chief of staff in the General Services Administration. In 2003 he was picked by President George W. Bush to oversee federal procurement policy at the Office of Management and Budget. [4] He is now age 38. The chamber of the United States House of Representatives is located in the south wing of the Capitol building, in Washington, D.C.. The Media:United States House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Congress of the United States. ...
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Indictment David Safavian was indicted October 5, 2005. He is accused of making false statements and obstructing investigations into his dealings with Jack Abramoff while he was chief of staff for the General Services Administration. October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ...
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On January 27, 2006, Safavian filed a motion to dismiss the case. The judge will rule on the pretrial motions February 28. The trial date is set for April 3, 2006.
Safavian's indictment refers, among other things, to an August 2002 golf trip to St. Andrews, Scotland involving Jack Abramoff, House Republicans Bob Ney and Tom DeLay, Grover Norquist, and former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed. See St Andrews, New South Wales for St Andrews, Sydney, Australia. ...
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In short, the allegations are that: (a) it was illegal to accept that trip (because Abramoff had dealings with GSA at the time), (b) Safavian lied about the trip, and provided false documentation, thereby obstructing both Senate and executive branch investigations into the matter; and (c) that he concealed his efforts to help Abramoff acquire control of two federally managed properties in the Washington area.
The full text of the indictment is at http://www.ragingblog.com/files/safavian.indictment.pdf.
Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia, have returned campaign donations that they received from Safavian. Richard John Santorum (born May 10, 1958), commonly known as Rick Santorum, is an American politician from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. ...
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Miscellaneous Safavian's wife Jennifer Safavian is chief counsel for oversight and investigations on the House Government Reform Committee. [5] Jennifer Safavian, is chief counsel for oversight and investigations on the House Government Reform Committee, which is responsible for overseeing government procurement and is, among other things, expected to conduct the Congressional investigation into the Federal failers of Hurricane Katrina. ...
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