Former Department of Labor Chief of Staff Pleads Guilty for Failing to Report Gifts From Former Lobbyist Jack Abramoff

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WASHINGTON, April 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The former chief of staff for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Employment Standards Administration pleaded guilty today to falsely certifying his Fiscal Year 2003 Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division. Horace M. Cooper, 44, of Lorton, Va., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle in the District of Columbia to a criminal information charging him with making and using a false certificate or writing.

According to court documents, Cooper was the chief of staff for the DOL's Employment Standards Administration from December 2002 through August 2005. In that position, Cooper was required by federal regulations to complete annual Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Reports. 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.

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Former Department of Labor Chief of Staff Pleads Guilty for Failing to Report Gifts From Former Lobbyist Jack Abramoff

Cooper was required to report the gifts he received from Abramoff and Volz on his annual financial disclos...

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