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WASHINGTON (AP) - A former Bush administration official is charged with making false statements and obstructing a federal investigation into his dealings with lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
David Safavian, a former chief of staff of the General Services Administration and Abramoff lobbying associate, concealed from federal investigators that Abramoff was seeking to do business with the government when Safavian, a GSA official at the time, joined him on a golf trip to Scotland in 2002, according to an FBI affidavit and government officials.
FBI agent Jeffrey A. Reising said in the affidavit that a lobbyist — identified elsewhere as Abramoff — had enlisted Safavian's help in trying to gain control of 40 acres of land at the Federal Research Center at White Oak in Silver Spring, Md., for a private high school that Abramoff helped establish.
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