Secret Service: More Abramoff visits to the White House

I found this off the New York Times--yes, it is another exciting episode of The Jack Abramoff Show! The Times article is titled Secret Service Reveals More Abramoff Visits:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Secret Service on Friday revealed four more visits to the White House in 2001 by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, including one to see a domestic policy aide to Vice President Dick Cheney.

The newly released records of Abramoff's access to the White House bring the total number of his known visits to seven.

One Abramoff White House visit, according to Secret Service logs, was on April 20, 2001, to see Cesar Conda, at the time Cheney's assistant for domestic policy.

Five days after the Conda meeting, one of Abramoff's former lobbying colleagues, Patrick Pizzella, was nominated by the president as assistant secretary of labor. The Secret Service logs do not state why Abramoff met with Conda.

Talk about a coincidence here! Abramoff visits the White House to see Cesar Conda, Cheney's assistant for domestic policy, and then five days later we get a former Abramoff lobbying colleague Patrick Pizzella to be nominated by the president to be the assistant secretary of labor? And it was just a coincidence? Abramoff's meeting had nothing to do with Pizzella's nomination to a top White House job?

Oh, and does anyone remember this little Abramoff friend who was appointed to a White House job:

A former White House aide, David Safavian, was convicted in a trial last month for covering up his relationship with Abramoff. Safavian was the Bush administration's top procurement official until his arrest last year.

The stench is getting pretty bad here!