According to TPM Muckraker, our own Thad Cochran benefitted from the largesse of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and in turn helped Mr. Abramoff's client, the Mississippi Choctaws, by quietly inserting language in legislation that exempted the Choctaws from supervision by the National Indian Gaming Commission and by supporting on the floor of the Senate a federal grant of $16.3 million to the Choctaws to build a jail which the Justice Department said that the Choctaws could afford to build themselves.

Which is to say that while Senator Cochran may not have done anything illegal, it seems awful sleazy.

Email: Abramoff Associate Urged Funds for GOP Sen. Who "Never Said No"