And I have to think between Emily Get Out of the Way Miller, Michael Scanlon, and Tony Rudy all leaping over themselves to puke out information, he is SCREWED. It was like a total house of cards--Emily went after the perfidious Michael, Michael gave up Tony, and Tony circled around and wrapped up Abramoff. That woman scorned brought the entire Hill down, to paraphrase Jackie A! And it was all over a crazy, greedy, GOP pigboy, bastard former aide/lobbyist scumball:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB114377080620413121-lMyQjAxMDE2NDMzMTczNzEwWj.htmlThree weeks after Mr. Scanlon got married, Ms. Miller was a bridesmaid at the Houston wedding of another former DeLay aide. Ms. Miller confessed to friends at the reception that she had helped Mr. Scanlon spread negative stories about Mr. Rudy, according to people who attended. When she saw Mr. DeLay and his wife, Ms. Miller tearfully apologized and said she had been used as a pawn in Mr. Scanlon's fight with Mr. Rudy, to whom she also expressed remorse...After flying back to Washington, Ms. Miller called Mr. Scanlon's ex-wife, Carrie Anne Liipfert. People familiar with Ms. Miller's thinking say she missed spending time with Mr. Scanlon's son. She also sought the comfort of another woman hurt by Mr. Scanlon. Over the next few months, the two spoke frequently and became friends. Ms. Miller told Ms. Liipfert about the millions of dollars Mr. Scanlon was making and about the properties he had purchased, according to people who know both women.
....The Justice Department, already investigating Mr. Abramoff's SunCruz deal in Florida, expanded its investigation to include his work in Washington with Mr. Scanlon and the Indian tribes. Federal prosecutors soon found out that Mr. Abramoff and Mr. Scanlon received more than $80 million from the tribes.
Mr. Scanlon at first seemed unfazed. In the months after the story broke, he bought a pair of $2 million beach houses and returned to his lifeguard job. In July 2005, he sold the beach house he bought for Ms. Miller for a $1 million profit, according to court records.
But pressure was mounting on him. Justice Department prosecutors secretly approached Ms. Miller to help build a case against her ex-fiancé, says a person familiar with the case. Last November, Mr. Scanlon pleaded guilty to bribery charges. He agreed to go to jail for as long as five years and pay back nearly $20 million to the tribes. Mr. Scanlon also implicated Mr. Abramoff.
Six weeks later, Mr. Abramoff pleaded guilty to corruption and bribery charges and agreed to pay the tribes $26 million. Depending on his sentence in Washington, he may spend a decade behind bars. In his plea agreement, Mr. Abramoff said he sought to bribe Mr. Rudy "to perform a series of official acts" by offering him golf trips, meals and a $50,000 payment to his wife....It's all so incredibly sordid, it reads like a bad "Inside Politics" made-for-TV script!
As for DeLay, he can only recover if he gets a Weinberger-style PARDON from Monkeyboy after the 08 elections. They've likely got him dead to rights, so, no pardon, he does time. These scuzzballs WORKED out of his office, and DeLay was the conduit to make the "official acts" (little bits and pieces, inserted into legislation) happen!
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