McCain denies romantic involvement with telecommunicationslobbyist, Vikki Iseman. She is a partner at the firm Alcalde & Fay, and represented telecommunications companies for whom Mr. McCain’s commerce committee was pivotal. Her clients contributed tens of thousands of dollars to his campaigns.
Read the whole story at the NY Times: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/21/mccain/index.html?eref=yahoo
Update: Controversy now surrounds Senator McCain over whether he acted unethically to help Lowell Paxton, one of Ms. Iseman's clients. Paxton had a license application for a TV station pending before the FCC. Paxson himself has said that he did meet with McCain in the senator's office and told him about the TV station issue. He recalls he asked the Senator to write a letter to the FCC. Earlier last week McCain denied any contact with Paxton. But McCain testified in a 2002 deposition that he had met with Paxton and told him he would be glad to write the FCC asking for a decision. The Senator wrote two letters asking the agency to expedite it's decision on Paxton's Pittsburgh license. The FCC shot back, rebuking the Senator for his "highly unusual" involvement in a pending application. Eventually the FCC granted the application, but by that time the takeover deal had fallen apart. According to Paxton, Vikki Iseman may have even been in the room when Paxton asked McCain for help. Senator McCain was then chairman of the powerful Senate Commerce Committee. "The woman was a professional. She was good," said Paxton. Yeah, maybe too good.