This sounds solid, doesn't it? From The Hill ...

Rep. Charles Taylor (R-N.C.) used earmarks to create an overseas study program for Russian business students coordinated by his friend and business partner, an ex-KGB general’s wife and onetime English teacher.

The International Trade and Small Business Institute, created last year and funded through a Taylor earmark to the Small Business Administration (SBA), uses federal money to send seven Russian students to eight North Carolina schools for business courses. Two of the students hail from Ivanovo, the depressed textile city where Taylor is majority owner of the local bank and a frequent real-estate investor.

Taylor, you'll remember, is also the guy with the Abramoff fundraiser bamboozle. And before that, he was the one who said he didn't cast a vote on CAFTA because his voting card broke.