Friday, December 16, 2005

Cato Institute For Scandal

Business Week reports:
A senior fellow at the Cato Institute resigned from the libertarian think tank on Dec. 15 after admitting that he had accepted payments from indicted Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff for writing op-ed articles favorable to the positions of some of Abramoff's clients. Doug Bandow, who writes a syndicated column for Copley News Service, told BusinessWeek Online that he had accepted money from Abramoff for writing between 12 and 24 articles over a period of years, beginning in the mid '90s.
This is a big story.It seems the real libertarian think thank is the Mises Institute located outside Washington.No word yet from Cato on their website on the Bandow scandal.You haven't heard the last of this story.