Remember Roger Stone?

[DoYouEverWonder]

Remember all the hoopla about the forged TANG documents that proved Bush went AWOL. It was rumored at the time that Roger Stone and his wife Nydia may have been the ones who set Lt. Burkett up.

Seems Stone pulled the same tricks again last April. Passing around packages to people with forged documents. Nice guy. Somehow this all ties in with Abramoff's current woes. There's a lot of dirt in the world of Indian Gaming.



Inside Bush's Indian Bureau

April 27th, 2004

<snip>


By April 11, Time's reporter was on the phone with Smith citing, and then faxing, another ostensible Bersinger letter—one that demanded a $250,000 payment from a Louisiana tribe, the Coushattas. Everyone, including Stone, would eventually agree that the third letter was a fabrication, so instantly discredited that Time never mentioned it in the April 15 story. Not only does the addressee, Coushatta vice chair William Worfel, say it's a phony, but he says he met Stone for the first time two weeks before it was written. "We exchanged cards," Worfel recalls, adding that federal investigators who questioned him said they'd found his card in the offices of Buena Vista. Stone says he "has no memory of ever seeing the Louisiana letter." Copperthite, who was not involved in the Smith dispute, says "Stone handed me that package with that phony letter in it."

The other two letters raised damaging enough issues, as Stone points out, and within four days of Time's piece, New Jersey senator Bob Torricelli wrote Norton seeking a Smith investigation. Stone says he "probably" got his old friend Torricelli to do it. Several fake faxes about Smith started arriving at Interior—one from Brulte's office—and Stone allies at the Thompson tribe wrote letters deriding Smith. The Interior inspector general started an investigation, but the White House—where staff assistant Jennifer Farley had pressed Smith to side with Buena Vista—forced Smith out shortly after the probe began. The IG finished its report by August 2002, but has yet to release it though Smith, Peebles, and Pratt want it released.

[Fridays Child]

1. Is there a link?

:)

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Oops, here you go

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0417,barrett,53013,1.html

Lot's more gory details inside.

[UTUSN]

2. You Mean THIS Lovely Couple? The a-trois Party Is Alex CASTELLANOS

Whups, forgot the Paste function.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. I don't know

they seem invisible?

[Gabi Hayes]

6. what about Castellanos? I really hate that mofo.....the epitome

of unctuousness

is he involved in their diddling?

please.....details

[UTUSN]

7. Not Specifically Involved, Just Had to Consolidate Pictures of Recurring

scoundrels. The same SCOUNDRELS just keep surfacing. At one point I had scores of separate graphics to the point of overload, so I had to group them together, and when ONE of the pictures is applicable, the rest of the similar group is there, not necessarily implicated in the current weaselly doings.

[starroute]

5. Another lovely product of the College Republicans

The Nixon-era class was Karl Rove, Lee Atwater, Roger Stone, and Terry Dolan.

The Reagan-era class was Jack Abramoff, Grover Norquist, and Ralph Reed.

What a bunch of sweethearts.

[UTUSN]

8. Roger Just Keeps Rolling Along - No Shame, and an Estate to Boot

*******QUOTE*******

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0417,barrett,53013,1.html

.... The dark force of Indian gaming, retained as a hidden consultant by tribes and developers across the country, was Roger Stone, a veteran of eight Republican presidential campaigns and star of the Miami/Dade recount shutdown. Scott Reed is often his up-front lobbyist face.

So, too, are William Brack and Chris Changery, onetime lobbyists with Brownstein, Hyatt, the Denver-based firm that employed Norton. Changery had been a press spokesman for Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the Colorado Republican who chairs the Indian Affairs committee. Brack is counsel to the Nighthorse Foundation, a recent invention of the retiring senator. Stone threw a fundraiser for the senator at his Miami estate. Though Brack and Changery left Brownstein in 2003, Stone still gets tribes to hire them "for the specific mission of inserting our language" in a Campbell bill, according to a Stone memo. Though the two recently orchestrated a Campbell-sponsored technical correction helpful to a Stone project, neither filed as lobbyists. The language, which deliberately omitted the tribe's name, was quietly withdrawn after Voice inquiries about it. ....

...a collision course with Stone and his usual coterie of sidekicks—Reed, Brack, and Changery. ....

The mostly Democratic insiders around Potts picked Stone as the Republican player who could, as Buena Vista attorney John Peebles put it, "reverse the area director's order" that dislodged Potts as tribal chair. ....

Everyone, including Stone, would eventually agree that the third letter was a fabrication, so instantly discredited that Time never mentioned it in the April 15 story. Not only does the addressee, Coushatta vice chair William Worfel, say it's a phony, but he says he met Stone for the first time two weeks before it was written. "We exchanged cards," Worfel recalls, adding that federal investigators who questioned him said they'd found his card in the offices of Buena Vista. Stone says he "has no memory of ever seeing the Louisiana letter." Copperthite, who was not involved in the Smith dispute, says "Stone handed me that package with that phony letter in it." ....

The other two letters raised damaging enough issues, as Stone points out, and within four days of Time's piece, New Jersey senator Bob Torricelli wrote Norton seeking a Smith investigation. Stone says he "probably" got his old friend Torricelli to do it. Several fake faxes about Smith started arriving at Interior—one from Brulte's office—and Stone allies at the Thompson tribe wrote letters deriding Smith. ....

********UNQUOTE*******

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. This whole Indian Gaming thing

stinks to high heaven. Lot's of money and corruption.