Friday, December 16, 2005
Sad, Sad Day For The Cato Institute
A senior fellow at the Cato Institute resigned from the libertarian think tank on Dec. 15 after admitting that he had accepted payments from indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff for writing op-ed articles favorable to the positions of some of Abramoff's clients. Doug Bandow, who writes a syndicated column for Copley News Service, told BusinessWeek Online that he had accepted money from Abramoff for writing between 12 and 24 articles over a period of years, beginning in the mid '90s.Read the whole story here. How stupid can one person be?
Hat tip to Betsy's Page.
Update: The story was covered on Saturday by both The New York Times and the The Washington Post.
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