Emails come back to bite again. Will folks ever learn? David H. Safavian, who resigned from the White House budget office days before his arrest last September, was convicted of four counts of lying and obstruction of justice in his statements to investigators about Mr. Abramoff and about a 2002 golf trip to Scotland that the lobbyist arranged for Mr. Safavian and others. Mr. Safavian was acquitted on an additional obstruction charge. The jury saw e-mail traffic from the summer of 2002 in which Mr. Abramoff repeatedly asked Mr. Safavian for help in acquiring two real-estate parcels that were controlled by the G.S.A., including the Old Post Office Building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, close to the White House. Mr. Safavian arranged a meeting at G.S.A. for Mr. Safavian's wife to discuss the properties on the day before he left for Scotland. Full story of White House Aide Conviction