Howard Hills Is The Hero Of His Own Story

Howard Hills Is The Hero Of His Own Story
Submitted by Roy Temple on Mon, 01/30/2006 - 5:30pm. GOP AbraMafia GOP Culture of Corruption

The name Howard Hills may or may not ring a bell to you. Hills is a former Reagan administration official, worked on the transition team for the first Bush administration, and is a lawyer who has done work for various Pacific Islands over the last 20 years. But Hills is most famous for work he never even performed.
According to an audit by the Office of Public Auditor on Guam, Hills is the Laguna Hills attorney who funnelled $324,000 to lobbyist Jack Abramoff for lobbying services that Abramoff performed on behalf of the Superior Court of Guam. The payments were made in $9,000 increments in order to evade Guam's procurement statutes, and Abramoff never registered on behalf of the Superior Court of Guam, instead he registered as a lobbyist for Howard Hills.
You might think that Howard Hills would be embarassed by the shenanigans he pulled on behalf of Mr. Abramoff, but you would be wrong. Mr. Hills thinks his conduct is a morality tale--a testament to his personal integrity.
On the website, Peace Corps Online, there's a post with the headline: Howard Hills Blows Whistle On Abramoff. That post links back to a story from the Orange County Weekly, in which Howard Hills' self-congratulations continues.
And back in March, Mr. Hills wrote an op-ed for the Coastline Pilot, in which he held himself up as the model of integrity.
This is all very interesting, especially since just last week, Mr. Hills told the Pacific Magazine:
The lawyer reiterated that it is impossible for him to involve Abramoff with his Rongelap representation since they were never associates and he never had any business deals with the lobbyist.
And if all this weren't bizarre enough, sources tell Fired Up! that Hills often brags about that fact that his wife is the sometime nanny of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's triplets. While this has not yet verified, it is clear that Hills and Rohrabacher have some sort of relationship as Hills has given Rohrabacher several thousand dollars in political contributions over the years.
This isn't the first time we have heard about nannies for Rep. Rohrabacher's triplets. Just last week, The Hill reported on a shower for the Rohrabacher's, thrown by Jack Abramoff and other lobbyists, in which they donated cash for the Rohrabacher nanny fund.
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