'''Indicted for Corruption'''<br>
Until Safavian's arrest on September 1619, 2005, for [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/19/AR2005091901859.html making] "repeated false statements to government officials and investigators about a golf trip" to Scotland he took in 2002 with [[Jack Abramoff]], the connection between Abramoff's corruption and his [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/09/20/BL2005092000753_pf.html connections] to the [[Bush administration]] had been "relatively weak." [http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/5299.html]
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