More from Newsweek. Clearly, the full extent of the relationship between Ken Mehlman, who was the Political Director at the White House before becoming chair of the Republican National Committee, and Jack Abramoff has yet to be fully explained:

The e-mails show Rove's then chief political deputy, Ken Mehlman, now chairman of the Republican National Committee, had his own repeated contacts with Abramoff—in stark contrast to previous public statements. According to the new records, Abramoff and his associates turned to Mehlman in their bid to obtain $16.3 million in federal funds from the Justice Department to build a jail for the Mississippi Band of Choctaws, an Abramoff client. In one e-mail, Abramoff associate Tony Rudy described to Abramoff a meeting he had with Mehlman about the subject. "Mehlman said he would take care of this," Rudy wrote. "He was a rock star." After Justice later approved funding for the Choctaw jail, another Abramoff associate e-mailed a colleague: "Those guys should get anything they want for the rest of the time they're in office ... Opening Day tickets, Skins v. Giants, oriental massages, hookers, whatever ... " Mehlman denied any wrongdoing. "The job of the political director is to meet with interested parties—in some cases, political supporters—and hear them out," he said Friday. Of the events described in the report, Mehlman said, "It was all stuff that was aboveboard. All stuff that was appropriate."

Ken's a "rock star" who can have anything he wants. Sure looks like Mehlman was Abramoff's guy in the White House...or one of them anyway. There is more to this story.