Shawn Vasell
Shawn M. Vasell is a former congressional staffer and lobbyist who served as a senior aide to Senator Conrad Burns, and as aides to then-congressman Porter Goss and judiciary subcommittee chair Senator Spencer Abraham, and, as a lobbyist, was part of Team Abramoff. After working for Porter Goss and Spencer Abraham, Vasell took jobs as a lobbyist for Preston Gates & Ellis, and then the law firm Greenberg Traurig LLC before he was hired by Conrad Burns as his State Director in 2001. After a year-long stint with Burns, Vasell returned to Greenberg Traurig in January 2003. Vasell was listed as a lobbyist for the Saginaw Michigan Tribe in 2003, according to Roll Call March 1, 2005. According to John Byrne of The Raw Story, Vasell's official biography for Greenberg Traurig, which has since been taken down, had noted his work during the Florida recount: "Shawn Vasell noted that he was a 'team leader' in Broward and Duval counties in his bio."