What's the Heritage Foundation doing serving as a lobbyist for the Malaysian government? And who's investigating? A reader in the lobbying world emails, "I guess the big question here is who at the Heritage Foundation told Malaysia to hire Abramoff?? And if Abramoff is a donor of the HF..?? And did Abramoff pay any of this money he received to HF..??"

Update: More from Matt Yglesias, Sam Rosenfeld and Paul Kiel: "It would take quite a while to untangle the relationship between Heritage, Alexander Strategy Group, and Abramoff, but suffice it to say for now that Alexander Strategy and the Heritage Foundation shared offices in Hong Kong. And they worked with Abramoff. This meeting was just one part of a long, entangled, and very sketchy relationship between the three and the Malaysians. No doubt the money worked its way through some back channels."

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Posted by Laura at February 21, 2006 01:11 AM