Abramoff Probe Exposes Another Bribery-Colored Coincidence for Bob Ney to Explain 
Ohio Rep. Robert Ney personally lobbied the then Secretary of State Colin Powell to relax U.S. sanctions on Iran. Who asked him to? A convicted airplane broker who had just taken the congressman and a top aide on an expense-paid trip to London, Newsweek has learned.Ney's lawyer confirmed to Newsweek that federal prosecutors have subpoenaed records on Ney's February 2003 trip paid for by Nigel Winfield, a thrice-convicted felon who ran a company in Cyprus called FN Aviation.
Winfield was seeking to sell U.S.-made airplane spare parts to the Iranian government - a deal that would have needed special permits because of U.S. sanctions against Tehran. Ney's lawyer, Mark Tuohey, said Ney had no idea of Winfield's criminal past, which included a 1982 conviction for trying to swindle Elvis Presley in an airplane deal and two more in the late 1980s for tax evasion.
KEYWORDS: robert ney, nigel winfield, jack abramoff
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