User:User At Work/Wives

Tony Rudy	Lisa	Liberty Consulting "A consulting firm owned by the wife of Tony C. Rudy, DeLay's deputy chief of staff, was paid $15,600 by [U.S. Family Network] in 1999 and another $10,400 in 2000"
Tom DeLay	Christine	Buckham's Alexander Strategy Group "made monthly payments averaging $3,200-$3,400 apiece to DeLay's wife, Christine, for three of the years in which he collected money from the USFN and some other clients." [January 1997], Tan's network of companies Tan Holdings had written five checks of $10,000 each to USFN, and Buckham's wife had claimed $10,000 in "commissions" on these checks, according to the group's ledger. Later in 1997, Wendy Buckham claimed another $10,000 in commissions on Tan's checks, and in 1998, Alexander Strategy Group took another $20,000 in commissions explicitly attributed to the Tan donations, according to the ledger.
John Doolittle	Julie	Julie Doolittle has a consulting firm called Sierra Dominion Financial Solutions. Two of her clients are her husband's leadership PAC and campaign, for which she does fundraising. She gets a 15% commission on contributions. Julie Doolittle's other known clients are Jack Abramoff and Ed Buckham.
John Sweeney	Gayle Ford	Her company Creative Consulting has made a substantial income since 2003 from Sweeney: $49,209 in fees variously described as "fundraising" or "consulting" on FEC reports. Her other client was PCC Consulting, aka Powers, Crane, & Co.
Edwin Feulner	Linda	Linda Feulner was a paid consultant to Alexander Strategy Group.
Curt Weldon	Karen and Kim (daughters)	Solutions North America Inc. won a $240,000 contract to promote the good works of Dragomir and Bogoljub Karic, linked to Slobodan Milosevic. Saratov Aviation, a Russian aerospace manufacturer, hired SNA for $20,000 a month plus 10% of any new business it generated. Itera International Energy Corp., that had just agreed to pay his daughter's firm $500,000 a year to "create good public relations." SNA paid for Weldon chief of staff Michael J. Conallen Jr. to take a "fact-finding" trip to Serbia. Kim is employed by AgustaWestland, who Weldon helped win a $1.7 billion contract to build Marine One.
Richard Pombo	Annette	Federal records show that Rep. Richard Pombo used campaign funds to pay his wife and brother a total of $255,916 over the past two years -- or 25 cents for every dollar the Tracy Republican raised for his re-election effort. Reports filed with the Federal Election Commission also show Pombo's campaign paid the congressman's wife, Annette, an additional $39,938 from 2001 to 2002. His brother Randall received $169,299 during the same period, bringing the total payments to the family since 2001 to $465,153.
Ed Buckham	Wendy	"She also collected $43,000 in "commissions" that year on the first $524,975 in contributions to the group from business entities that worked with Abramoff, according to its ledger."
William J. Jefferson	Andrea Green	ANJ Group received more than $450,000 from iGate.
Jeffrey Shockey	Alexandra	When Jeffrey Shockey left his lobbying job at Bill Lowery’s firm in 2005 to become deputy staff director for the House Appropriations Committee (at $160,000), Lowery's firm hired Alexandra as a subcontractor. She keeps an office at Lowery's firm and works under the name of Hillscape Associates. Hillscape’s address on federal disclosure forms, too, matches that of the Lowery firm.
Rick Renzi	Roberta	Details of the raid on Patriot Insurance Agency in Sonoita, Ariz., were not immediately available. Renzi’s most recent financial disclosure form lists the business as an asset belonging to his wife, Roberta, and valued at $1 million to $5 million.