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Bloomberg has this article up about how Ney, DeLay, Burns, etc are seeing increased campaign donations after being tied to the Abramoff scandals.

Ney, 51, a six-term lawmaker, took in almost 80 percent more money in 2005 than in 2003. He faces a challenge from Democrats in the November election after winning 66 percent of the vote in the 2004 election. Abramoff and Scanlon said they offered Ney a golf trip and campaign cash in exchange for help on legislation benefiting their clients, the Justice Department says. Ney's legal problems didn't stop five executives of Houston-based Stanford Financial Group from donating $14,200 to his campaign committee in the last three months of 2005. In September, Ney took to the floor of Congress to praise the company's chairman, R. Allen Stanford, for his work in promoting better ties among countries in the Western Hemisphere. Stanford employees were Ney's biggest campaign donors in 2005. Ney flew on a Stanford jet in 2003 to a meeting in Antigua, where Stanford's offshore banking business is headquartered.