Samuel Hook is an associate of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and husband of Shana Tesler, a lobbyist who worked under Abramoff as a member of "Team Abramoff". Hook is a former contract employee at Greenberg Traurig, and owner and president of two other Abramoff-controlled entities, Grassroots Interactive, LLC and Federal Program Services, LLC. Hook signed Eshkol Academy's 2001 tax return. Abramoff hired Hook to serve as interim executive director of Eshkol Academy in November 2002. Hook was paid $20,000 for serving as the interim director, and the payments may have come from the Capital Athletic Foundation.