Stephen Payne Video

The London newspaper The Sunday Times reported that Stephen Payne, lobbyist and member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, offered to take cash in exchange for arranging meetings with top-level Bush administration officials.¹ His statements were recorded on tape during an undercover investigation by a Sunday Times reporter.

Fast Facts

1. Undercover reporter asked Payne to arrange a meeting for exiled central Asian president
2. Payne offered meetings with Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice
3. Payne asked for between $600,000 and $750,000, a third to go towards the Bush library²
4. The balance would go to his lobbying company Worldwide Strategic Partners¹
5. August 2007: Appointed to Homeland Security Advisory Council's "Secure Borders and Open Doors Committee in ³

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