Horace Cooper

Abramoff Scandal Figure Pleads Guilty To Hiding Gifts On Disclosure

Justin Elliott | April 7, 2010, 5:44PM

Horace Cooper

Former aide to Dick Armey and former Bush Labor Department official Horace Cooper plead guilty today to falsifying a disclosure report after accepting gifts from lobbyist Jack Abramoff in 2003.

"Cooper admitted that in 2003 he solicited and accepted gifts from Jack A. Abramoff and Neil G. Volz, former Washington lobbyists who had a client with business before the DOL. Cooper admitted he concealed his receipt of these gifts from DOL ethics officials and his supervisors," according to a Justice Department press release.

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