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Is Abramoff getting ready to sing? This could be a big thing. From the NYTimes article

Unique resource - you betcha . As a comment, Abramoff's partner Scanlon already cut a deal with the prosecutors a couple of weeks ago; probably this is what upped the pressure on Abramoff.

This is bound to screw up the holidays for a number of republicans in Washington:

 

Oh, I certainly think he will sing. This is a win-win situation. He gets a reduced sentence, so that definitely helps him. His political career was over for all intents and purposes anyway because of his involvement in this. But on the other hand, Abramoff is a small fish in all of this. If they want the "big fish" in this then they are going to need his testimony.

 

There is an interesting article in the Post today about the money link between DeLay and Abramoff link.It ties DeLay to russian oil money:

If you read the article (which is pretty long) it apears that the russians wanted DeLay to speak in support of the IMF bailing out the russian economy.

 

I wonder what the Russian guy who posts here thinks of all this? Russian economy and oil, a Jewish-American lobbyist for the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC (sp?), Christian pastors and right-wing "family values" politicians who support bans on gay marriage. Enough to make a nationalistic, Catholic Russian conservative's head spin.

 

Well, looks like Abramoff is ready to cut a deal (where's that dancing banana when you need it ) From the NYTimes story:

There are other cases against Abramoff, but apparently he'll serve any prison terms concurrently. So this means the maximum he'll get is 10 years. Hopefully the prosecutors will get something good out of this. You gotta love the quotation at the end of the story:

Anyone cares to estimate how long till the first head rolls in the House? (my bet is on Bob Ney, and I give him a couple of months)

[ January 04, 2006, 17:37: Message edited by: khaavern ]

 

Tom DeLay must be puckering up as we speak, because he can kiss his ass goodbye. Who knows exactly what's going to happen here, but DeLay looks screwed in a major way.

 

Wow, DeLay gave up trying to regain his leadersip post already !!! NYTimes article

This Abramoff stuff must be really powerful . Truth is, I was expecting that the connection of DeLay with Abramoff be somewhat tangential; meaning Abramoff gave DeLay some money, and facilitated some stuff for him (kind of what lobbiysts do usually ). There must be more to this than meets the eye.

Some more tidbits can be found in this accompanying article

Same Buckham which appears abouve in connection with the U.S. Family Network. Probably a name we'll see more of in the future.

Moreover, this firm Alexander Strategy seems to also be implicated in the bribery scandal related to Rep Duke Cunningham:

Cunningham will do prison for the stuff, and, according to an article I read a couple of days ago (in the Times) , in his last days in Washington he was wearing a wire

Who says politics is not fascinating ?!

[ January 08, 2006, 05:14: Message edited by: khaavern ]

 

Well, Ney has given up his leadership post (under from some pressure from his colleagues, no doubt):

I did not know that he was also supposed to oversee lobbying. Must be a nice job, if you can get it

Kind of like setting the wolf in charge of the sheep.

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It seems that finally the guys in the House can use that cash they are so eager of gathering to some good purpose