The scandal that just keeps on giving…….

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney’s controversial golf trip to Scotland in 2003 apparently was paid for by a foundation that Senate investigators described as a “slush fund” used by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

The foundation’s connection is included among thousands of pages of Senate records and is the first evidence of who apparently paid for the trip, which has sparked an FBI probe.

Investigators for the Senate Indian Affairs Committee have detailed a pattern of Abramoff pressuring Indian tribes for donations to his Capital Athletic Foundation, either directly or indirectly, and then using those funds to pay for golfing junkets to Scotland for powerful public officials.

In January, Feeney agreed to pay $5,643 to the U.S. Treasury after a House ethics panel found that his trip to Scotland with Abramoff violated congressional rules.

“Representative Feeney is anxious to discuss this matter further when the time is appropriate,” press secretary Pepper Pennington said Thursday in declining comment.

The sponsor of the 2003 trip has been at issue since Abramoff’s dealings with public officials first came under the microscope.

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