Italia Federici (born August 12, 1969), the former president of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy (CREA), a greenscam organization.
[1] Federici was also a political aide to Secretary of the Interior and CREA co-founder Gale Norton.
[2] Federici pleaded guilty in June 2007 to tax evasion and obstructing the United States Senate investigation into the Jack Abramoff Indian lobbying scandal and was sentenced to four years probation.
[3][4][5] Federici founded CREA with Norton and Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist, a college friend of Abramoff, in 1997 with money Federici inherited;[6] The organization was also funded by, and supported the goals of, mining and other industries.
A February 18, 2003, email from Abramoff to Federici said "...This will be a PR disaster as you can imagine, especially if for some reason Interior agrees to approve this deal.