Mariana Island story hits the Times Union 10/18/06

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If you live in the 20th Congressional District, pick up a Times Union...it is a good read.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=526600&category=REGIONOTHER&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=10/18/2006

U.S. Rep. John Sweeney may have violated congressional ethics rules by failing to reveal who paid for a trip he took to a Pacific island with a lobbyist hired by convicted Washington influence peddler Jack Abramoff.
In January 2001, Sweeney traveled 8,000 miles to deliver a speech to the Saipan Chamber of Commerce in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory infamous for its garment sweatshops and prostitution trade. He traveled with Tony Rudy, who had just left the staff of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to work for Abramoff