Convicted influence peddler Jack Abramoff’s ties to the White House extended to the point that the administration took action against a State Department official standing in the way of an Abramoff project, according to documents just released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

"The Abramoff team persuaded White House officials to intervene to remove from office a State Department official, Alan Stayman, who had advocated reforms in the Northern Mariana Islands that Mr. Abramoff opposed," the report said.

Abramoff, who raised more than $100,000 for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, and donated money to numerous Republican lawmakers, pleaded guilty in January 2006 to three criminal felony counts in Washington, D.C., relating to the defrauding of American Indian tribes and corruption of public officials. He also pleaded guilty to two criminal felony counts in a separate federal court in Florida and is serving a six-year prison term. He reached a plea deal that included testifying in ongoing corruption in investigations.

Among Abramoff’s lobbying clients was the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Monica Kladakis, the deputy associate director of the office of presidential personnel (OPP), was interviewed by the committee, according to the report.

She "confirmed that OPP became involved in Mr. Stayman's removal after White House officials were contacted by Mr. Abramoff's team," the report said.

"The documents and testimony obtained by the committee in this investigation confirm that that Mr. Abramoff and his associates had access and influenced some actions at the White House," the report said. Markup begins on the report June 12.

The White House has publically chastised Abramoff. In January 2006, spokesman Tony Snow referred to him as "an exuberant practitioner of sleaze," but questioned a House report that year that listed hundreds of encounters between White House staff and Abramoff.