Report: Abramoff Had FBI Data

The lobbyist improperly got and acted on a secret file about the Marianas, an inspector general says.

By Walter F. Roche Jr., Times Staff Writer
July 1, 2006

WASHINGTON — Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff improperly obtained a top-secret FBI document and tried to use the information to aid his clients in the Pacific Island territories, according to a report released Friday by the Justice Department's inspector general.

The lobbyist feared information in the document could be damaging to his clients' interests, the inspector general said, and he used his knowledge of its contents to warn them and to devise a counterattack.