The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana spent $120,000 a year on Jack Abramoff. What did the tribe get for its services?
Besides the usual fraud and boasting, Chairman Alton D. LeBlanc Jr. got a $200 Montblanc pen. But he wasn't the only one -- a lawyer for the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana who secured a $125,000 monthly contract got a pen as well.
Other people on Abramoff's 2001 holiday gift list included former Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), who doesn't remember getting a $250 box of Godiva chocolates. DeLay's chief of staff was to get a $100 box.
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