American International Center

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The American International Center LLC was a front organization established in 2001 by Michael Scanlon as part of his conspiracy with Jack Abramoff to receive and redistribute funds given by their clients for personal and political gain. AIC, like Scanlon Gould Public Affairs and Atlantic Research Analysis, was effectively a shell for Scanlon's primary company, Capitol Campaign Strategies.

Presented as a thinktank, American International Center was headed by Scanlon's childhood friends, Brian Mann, a yoga instructor, and David Grosh, a lifeguard on the Delaware shore who operated it from his beach house. Grosh had no qualifications or experience relevant to policy research and currently works in construction. At a Senate hearing into the

"Do want to be head of an international corporation?"… I kind of laughed and I said, "All right, well, you know, what's involved? What do I got to do?" And he said, "Pretty much nothing". So I said, "Okay, sure and that's how it got started."[1]

The American International Center received a $500,000 contribution from the

References

• Text of Scanlon plea
• One Committee's Three Hours of Inquiry, in Surreal Time, Dana Milbank, Washington Post, June 23, 2005; A06
• Houses of cards, Jamie Dean, WORLD Magazine, January 14, 2006