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Slate.com
March 27, 2006
Timothy Noah

Think Tanks for Sale

Amy Ridenour, Abramoff Fellow.

...not all the money Abramoff directed from his clients to [the National Center for Public Policy Research]—which ran to the millions—was transferred to third parties. Some of it remained at NCPPR. We don't know how much, but apparently it was enough to make Abramoff address Ridenour less like a grantee and more like an employee. Ridenour, for her part, was eager to please her magnifico.

How eager? Eager enough, apparently, that Ridenour was willing to grind out an op-ed piece, a letter to the editor, and a press release extolling the virtues of Abramoff's clients. What follows are some e-mail exchanges, published for the first time, in which Ridenour, Abramoff, and an Abramoff associate discuss some, ahem, scholarly work that Abramoff underwrote at NCPPR.

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National Center for Public Policy Research

Tom DeLay's Right Arm

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