FORMER U.S. HOUSE SPEAKER ACCUSED OF SPENDING TAX DOLLARS LOBBYING FOR TURKEY
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14:47 ~U 22.12.09
Former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert serves as a foreign agent
for the Turkish government to lobby against the Armenian Genocide
Resolution while spending over $40,000 a month of U.S. taxpayers’
money on office space, staff, cell phones and a leased SUV, reports
Politico, a political journalism organization based in Arlington,
Virginia, and disseminated by the Armenian Council of America.
In 2005, allegations arose that Hastert may have been previously the
recipient of tens of thousands of dollars of secret payments from
Turkish officials in exchange for political favors and information.
"As an American tax payer and descendent of Armenian Genocide
survivors and victims, I find it highly repugnant and despicable on
many levels that my tax dollars are possibly funding a Turkish lobbyist
who works feverishly to deny the historical tragedy of my ancestors,"
stated Vasken Khodanian, Chair of the Armenian Council of America.