Involvement With Jack Abramoff
Abramoff's plea agreement details his practice of hiring former congressional staffers, including Volz (who is identified as "Staffer B"). Abramoff used these persons' influence to lobby their former Congressional employers, in violation of a one-year federal ban on such lobbying. Three days after Abramoff's plea, Volz resigned from another lobbying firm, Barnes & Thornburg.
While Volz was Ney's chief of staff, "Abramoff had Ney insert a provision into an unrelated bill that would re-open the Tigua Indian Tribe's casino. Volz was Abramoff's chief point of contact during this effort, and soon thereafter Volz left Ney's office and went to work for Jack Abramoff, where he immediately began to work as a lobbyist in violation of the one-year ban on lobbying after leaving the House of Representatives."
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