Bob Ney--in big trouble--hopefully?

[AlCzervik]

He's bing investigated in connection with Abramoff.

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Ney became chairman of the committee thanks to his political patron, Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), who recently stepped down as House majority leader after he was indicted on a charge of conspiracy to violate a Texas campaign law. Shortly after Ney arrived in the House in 1994, he became a part of DeLay's Retain Our Majority Program (ROMP), a fundraising effort in which GOP colleagues donated to Republicans such as Ney in districts without a safe majority. After lines were redrawn to make Ney's district more Republican, he returned the favor, donating to other vulnerable House Republicans. That helped him earn his chairmanship in 2001, leapfrogging over a colleague with more seniority.

Ney and Abramoff, whom DeLay once described as "one of my closest and dearest friends," crossed paths as early as 1996. That year Ney took a trip to Montenegro sponsored by a foundation that had links to Abramoff, who was a lobbyist for Montenegro.

A few years later, Ney paid unusual attention to another Abramoff client, the Florida gambling boat company SunCruz, which was headquartered more than 1,000 miles outside of Ney's congressional district. Abramoff and his business partner were trying to buy the cruise ship fleet from Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis, but Boulis was demanding unwelcome additional terms.

In March 2000, Ney used the Congressional Record to assail Boulis.

Boulis was killed execution style



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/17/AR2005101701918_pf.html

[sasquatch]

1. Does Ney have mob connections like Trafficant does?

:wow:
Mike Malloy is right when describes these people as a "Crime Family".

[AlCzervik]

2. well he's connected to Tom Delay so i'd say yes he has crime family ties

[Botany]

3. Bob Nye also helped in the "show trial" hearings in March on the Ohio Vote

he brought in ACVR (American Center for Voting Rights) and their
spokesman Mark F "Thor" Hearn who was was chief legal consul for
bush cheney 04. He is totally corrupt and dirty.

[mod mom]

4. Right you are Botany, I was there. Why would a congressman from a rural

Ohio district be rewarded with Delay/Abramoff favors? It's because it Chairs the House Administration Committee which oversees elections and the purse strings for HAVA, EAC etc.

BTW...Kenyon College, the liberal college that incurred 10+ hour waits to vote last November (while nearby Nazarene College (repuke) has no long lines) was in Bob Ney's district.

[Botany]

6. Nye could have given Conyers subpoena powers last Dec.

He knows that Ohio is dirty.

BTW I am very familiar w/ Knox county where Kenyon college is @.
A good friend's husband and all his good old boy red neck friends
(hunters and very much not liberals) all registered (and in some cases
for the first time) and voted against bush.

They were union workers, truckers, farmers, and equipment operators.
Spare the bush won the rural vote story. sure he got the fundie dumb asses
but he DID NOT get all the rural vote that his #s showed.

[mod mom]

7. We had a 10 acre home in Gambier up until 5 years ago, and I agree with

you. It really makes you wonder about counties like Warren, Clermont, Hamilton down south. When you ook at Hackett's numbers from the 02 race and you read Rosebud's hypothesis about ballot order, it makes you wonder just how big Kerry's win was in Ohio. I personally think it was a landslide.

[davidinalameda]

5. I don't think there are any gambling boats in Ney's district

which includes the upper Ohio Valley

but then again I may be wrong

Ney's slime

[texpatriot2004]

8. Ney is against voting reform. nm