The latest on the Abramoff case:

The testimony showed in much more detail how closely Mr. Abramoff worked with Mr. Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition, who received some money from tribes that participate in casino gambling to run a campaign to shut down rival casinos. Mr. Reed, now a candidate for lieutenant governor in Georgia, has insisted he did not know he was receiving money from Indian gambling entities.

The panel members remarked that Mr. Abramoff had routed $10,000 from the Choctaws to Mr. Reed’s campaign fund for chairman of the Georgia Republican Party, without the tribe’s knowledge.

Mr. Abramoff also appeared to have a closer working relationship with Grover G. Norquist, the head of Americans for Tax Reform, than had been known. The lobbyist refers more than once to payments made by the Indian tribes to Mr. Norquist’s group in exchange for visits to the White House.

“Last year Grover set a meeting for certain select tribal leaders (Coushatta and Chitimach were the only ones) and the speakers of the House of several legislatures to meet with the President in a small meeting for photos, etc.,” Mr. Abramoff wrote to Chris Petras, an official from another tribe he represented, the Saginaw Chippewas, on Aug. 12, 2002. “The tribes paid for the event (total cost was $100k for the entire thing, and each tribe put in $50k). Grover has asked me to line up a few tribes to do so again.”

Ms. Rogers, the Choctaw official, testified that the tribe had not intended for its payments to go to Americans for Tax Reform to gain White House access, and that in fact no one from the tribe had been part of the visit. Mr. Norquist has denied any link between the donations to his group and the West Wing visits he organized.