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Report: Reed, Abramoff Hatched “Black Churches Insurance Program”

HeadlineJul 14, 2006

GQ Magazine has revealed new details of the ties between Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed and convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. According to former associates, Reed and Abramoff devised a plan they called the Black Churches Insurance Program. The plan would offer lobbying services to African-American churches. Instead of direct payment, Abramoff would arrange life-insurance polices that would have made him the beneficiary when elderly Church members passed away. A former Reed associate said: “…It sounds like Jack approached Reed about mortgaging old black people.” The news comes just one week before Reed faces a primary in his campaign for Georgia’s Lieutenant Governor.

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