MOsanthrope

Posted by Chris on April 26, 2006 at 1:41 pm.

He’s no Jack Abramoff, but he knows how the game is played:

Charles E. Polk Jr., 45, of the 3400 block of Tiverton Drive in St. Charles, made the pleas in U.S. District Court in St. Louis to one count of interstate transportation of funds obtained by fraud and one count of tax evasion.

In so doing, Polk avoided trial on the other 21 counts of the indictment, which alleged several fraud schemes as well as four other tax counts claiming he failed to pay taxes on an additional $1.4 million in income over four years.

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A lobbyist who knew prominent figures in Washington, Polk also served as attorney for local governments in the St. Louis area and served as general counsel in 2000 to the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District.

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Polk’s activities in Oklahoma City prompted criticism, as some survivors claimed he had thrown around his connections to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft to try to convince people to hire him. Polk was emcee at Ashcroft’s swearing-in ceremony in Washington in March 2001.

(Hat-tip: Steve).

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