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Funny thing about being named to a cabinet post on your own terms - it tends to make folks take a closer look at you and your past. Mark Nickolas did some yeoman's work with FEC reports and came up with a real doozy.  Move over, CrabGate:
Specifically, did Gregg deliberately conceal nearly a dozen contributors to his leadership PAC -- White Mountain PAC -- at the very time he served as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security after it awarded many millions of dollars in TSA contracts for airport security equipment to those same donors?

...During June and July 2005, as Gregg's subcommittee was dealing specifically with how to allocate the billions in homeland security funding for projects -- like the ones Reveal was seeking -- Gregg began meeting with and taking contributions from the company's top officers and lobbyists for his leadership PAC, just as Rogers had been rounded criticized for at the time.