Malaysia's Mahathir denies paying Abramoff - Yahoo! News

Malaysia's Mahathir denies paying Abramoff - Yahoo! News:

"Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said lobbyists may have paid to arrange his 2002 meeting with President George W Bush, but denied any money came from his government, Bernama news agency reported.
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Mahathir said his White House meeting with Bush in May 2002 was arranged by a U.S. think-tank, the Heritage Foundation, to discuss foreign policy issues, the agency said late on Monday.

'I understood some people paid a sum of money to lobbyists in America but I do not know who these people were and it was not the Malaysian government,' Mahathir, who retired in late 2003, told reporters on Monday in the northern state of Penang."