WASHINGTON -- During the 2006 mid-term election campaign season, bloggers and news organizations often mentioned the existence of a photograph that showed President George W. Bush with former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

The photo was never published for the general public, but a liberal watchdog group has now posted the photo on its Web site.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics said a photographer took the picture at a 2003 campaign fundraiser. (View the picture here.

The group said the White House wanted to keep the snapshot under wraps. A White House spokesman said it has previously acknowledged that Bush and Abramoff met.

Abramoff helped raise more than $100,000 for the president's re-election campaign. He's now serving time in prison for a fraudulent Florida casino deal and is cooperating with the FBI in a bribery probe involving members of Congress and the Bush administration.

In related news, a former Interior Department employee was sentenced to two years probation and fined $1,000 Tuesday for failing to report gifts he received from Abramoff.

Roger Stillwell accepted hundreds of dollars worth of football and concert tickets from Abramoff, who at the time was lobbying for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Stillwell was with the Interior Department's insular affairs office, which handles issues involving the island government.

"It was never my intention to deliberately violate the law, but clearly I did so, and I extend my sincerest apologies to this court," Stillwell said.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Alan Kay handed down a relatively stiff penalty for the misdemeanor offense. Defense attorneys asked for six months probation and prosecutors did not oppose it because Stillwell cooperated in the Abramoff investigation.

"He is forever linked to a national symbol of excess and corruption," defense attorney Justin Murphy said.