On the January 4 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh baselessly claimed that Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) is "tainted" by the Jack Abramoff scandal because he helped a Saginaw Chippewa Indian tribe -- an Abramoff client -- acquire educational money "[i]n exchange" for Abramoff-directed contributions. In fact, the articles Limbaugh cited to support this claim present no evidence linking Abramoff-directed contributions to a letter Levin and Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) wrote urging Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT), chairman of the Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies of the Committee on Appropriations, to approve the education funding. The Saginaw Chippewa tribe ultimately received a $3 million school grant, although the tribe had to be exempted from requirements otherwise rendering them ineligible for funding normally targeted at impoverished tribes.
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