Ex-aide pleads guilty to fraud
From Times Wire Reports
A onetime top aide to former Rep. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) pleaded guilty to a conspiracy to defraud the House as part of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.
John Albaugh, 41, admitted accepting perks from lobbyists in exchange for official favors.
More than a dozen former officials and lobbyists have pleaded guilty in the scandal, as has Abramoff himself.
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