Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, June 22, 2006, the Senate Indian Affairs Committee released a report about the

depth and breadth of misconduct by convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and ex-congression

Michael Scanlon. Among other things the report called the levels of

corruption astonishing, which you know if your scandal merits the word astonishing given all the levels of

corruption and crazy scandals in Washington that is really saying something about your

level of scandal and the reason this report came from the Senate Indian Affairs

committee is because Abramoff was, among other things,

a lobbyist on behalf of Native American tribes who were seeking to develop casino gambling on their reservations.

But really, Abramoff was, I I would say mostly a lobbyist for himself and his friends.

He overbilled the tribes charging an estimated $85 million in fees and in one case he secretly orchestrated a lobbying campaign against his own clients

to then justify them paying for his own lobbying services to counter that lobbying effort,

which is very, very, very sketchy. I'm going to go ahead and say this was very, very, very sketchy.

I'm going to go ahead and say this was very, very, very sketchy.

There are lots of details and tentacles and other things to discuss,

and here to do that, as always are,

Nicole Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley.

Hello there. Hello Jody. Hey there. And Philip Bump of the Washington Post is

back National Political Correspondent and author of the newsletter how to read this chart

Philip thank you for joining us for this second episode in a row thanks of course and

when I emailed you about joining for a couple episodes you said I was not around for the 1929

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