The government of a U.S. Pacific territory is investigating why it paid $1.2 million for ethics advice to a rabbi close to a Jewish lobbyist who is under investigation. The burgeoning congressional investigation into Jack Abramoff’s lobbying practices has reached the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which in 1996 paid Rabbi David Lapin $1.2 million to promote “ethics in government.”
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