Powerful Lawmaker's Relative Linked Financially to Contractor

Republican money laundering take four hundred and .... oh I lost count.
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By Peter Pae, Tom Hamburger and Richard Simon, Times Staff Writers
June 8, 2006

WASHINGTON — A political fundraising committee headed by a defense contractor has paid thousands of dollars in fees to the stepdaughter of House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-Redlands) at a time when the contractor has been lobbying Congress for funding.

Lewis' stepdaughter, Julia Willis-Leon, has been paid more than $42,000 by the Small Biz Tech Political Action Committee, according to campaign finance records. The PAC is led by Nicholas Karangelen, founder and president of Trident Systems Inc.