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Pablo E. Carrillo (born 1969) is a one-time admiralty lawyer from
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, Louisiana, who was U.S. Senator
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's chief of staff. In that capacity, Carrillo led McCain's investigations of the
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tribal lobbying scandal and the
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Boeing tanker scandal, which McCain referred to extensively throughout his campaign.


Role in Jack Abramoff Tribal lobbying scandal

Carrillo served, as The Washington Monthly described in May 2006, as "McCain's wingman on Indian Affairs", as his Chief Investigative Counsel on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. There, Carrillo led a high-profile investigation into allegations that flamboyant GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his partner Michael Scanlon, a former aide of House Leader Tom Delay, bilked several Indian tribes out of tens of millions of dollars. Holding what Vanity Fair described as "five gory, highly publicized earingsin 2004 and 2005" on that issue, Carrillo's investigation first exposed Abramoff and Scanlon's scheme to defraud these tribes and led to, according to The Washington Post, "one of the widest ranging federal corruption investigations in decades," which "may help McCain, a likely contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, reinforce his image as a Washington reformer and a proponent of campaign finance reform." That investigation was also described by Roll Call as "set
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a standard for what Congressional oversight should be, but often isn't" and the New York Post as giving rise to possibly "the worst Washington corruption scandal since the
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sting nailed six congressmen and a senator 25 years ago." It helped expose wrongdoing that recently led to, among other things, guilty pleas from Abramoff,
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, a US congressman, and two senior congressional staffers on fraud and public corruption charges; a guilty plea from the head of a bogus non-profit organization for lying to Congress and tax fraud; the conviction of the Bush White House's chief of procurement policy and a former deputy Interior secretary for, among other things, lying to Congress; the development of lobbying reform legislative initiatives; and the publication of a major Senate report, called "'Gimme Five'—Investigation of Tribal Lobbying Matters".


Role in the Boeing tanker scandal

Carrillo led McCain's investigation of the Air Force's decision to replace its tanker fleet by leasing airplanes from Boeing. The investigation resulted in a major corruption scandal, which led to successful prosecutions of Boeing's CFO
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and senior Air Force official
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; and Boeing being forced to deduct about a half-billion dollars in payments required under a global settlement agreement with the Justice Department. The investigation received widespread praise: ''
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'' described that investigation as "hav ngoutmaneuvered Air Force brass and Boeing's 35 person Washington lobbying operation in a classic Washington power play and a media blitz worthy of
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"; a major watchdog group as "congressional oversight at its best, something we rarely see anymore"; and ''
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'' as "burnish ng cCain'sreputation as a giant killer." Carrillo's role in that investigation was profiled by the ''
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's'' ''CongressDaily'' and the investigation, in among others places, '' 60 Minutes Wednesday''.


Other

Carrillo is a graduate of
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and
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, where he served as Managing Editor for the
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.


References

1 LinkedIn Professional Networking Website—Pablo E. Carrillo, available at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/8/262/1a2; Amy Svitak (November 17, 2003). "People—Oscar! Use a Coaster!", CongressDailyAM 2 Peter H. Stone (2006). "Heist—Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington"; Matthew Continetti (2005). "The K Street Gang—The Rise and Fall of the Republican Machine"; T.A. Frank and Zachary Roth (May 2006). "White Hats vs. Black Hats--Who's who in Washington's scandal investigations", Washington Monthly; Paul Kiel (July 24, 2006). "Gimme Five--Take Two?", TPM Muckraker, available at http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2006/07/gimme_five_take_two.php 3 Institute for U.S. Law (2003). "U.S. Legal Method—Introduction to U.S. Law: Faculty and Guest Lecturers", available at http://www.iuslaw.org/lecturers.php 4 T.A. Frank and Zachary Roth (May 2006). "White Hats vs. Black Hats--Who's who in Washington's scandal investigations", Washington Monthly; The Exchange—The Murphy Institute of Political Economy, Tulane University (Fall 2005). "Class of 1992", available at http://murphy.tulane.edu/pdfs/exchange-fall-2005.pdf 5 Paul Kiel (July 24, 2006). "Gimme Five--Take Two?", TPM Muckraker, available at http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2006/07/gimme_five_take_two.php 6 David Margolick (April 2006). "Corruption--Washington's Invisible Man", Vanity Fair, available at http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/04/abramoff200604?printable=true¤tPage=all 7 Senate Committee on Indian Affairs (June 2006). "'Gimme Five'—Investigation of Tribal Lobbying Matters," 109th Cong., SEN. REPT. NO. 109 325, available at https://web.archive.org/web/20081025073337/http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/gimme5.html 8 House Committee on Government Reform (March 2002). "Justice Undone—Clemency Decisions in the Clinton White House", 107th Cong., H.R. REPT. NO. 107 454 (contributor) 9 House Committee on Government Reform (October 2000). "Failure of White House to Produce Subpoenaed Email—Threats, Obstruction and Unanswered Questions", 106th Cong., H.R. Rept. No. 106 1023 (contributor) 10 Pablo E. Carrillo (November 1996). "Manuel v. Louisiana Sheriff's Risk Management Fund: The Louisiana Supreme Court Clarifies the Non Retroactivity Principle in Third Party Bad Faith Actions," 71 TULANE LAW REVIEW 325 11 Pablo E. Carrillo (June 1998). "Beware of Scylla and Charybdis: Stock Purchases of Privately Held Companies and the Remedies Problem Under Rule 10b 5—What is the Buyer to Do?" 72 TULANE LAW REVIEW 2113 12 Pablo E. Carrillo (Spring 1997). "Selected Topics in Negotiated Acquisitions: Pre-Closing Knowledge of Material Misrepresentations and Rule 10b 5—A Response to the ABA Committee's Analysis of the 'Leading' Cases," Louisiana State Bar Association/Business & Corporate Law Section Newsletter {{DEFAULTSORT:Carrillo, Pablo Living people People associated with the Jack Abramoff controversies American political consultants Tulane University alumni Tulane University Law School alumni 1969 births