Ney aide describes WH links to Abramoff

[OzarkDem]

Another peek inside the organized crime syndicate known as the GOP...

"A former congressional aide and lobbyist described Tuesday how he got insider information, advice and assistance from Bush administration procurement chief David Safavian to advance two projects for Republican influence-peddler Jack Abramoff.

The aide, Neil Volz, who was a partner of Abramoff's at the time, also outlined how the Abramoff team received assistance from several Republican congressmen including, Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, and Rep. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio.

Within weeks of this assistance, Safavian, Ney and two of Ney's staff members accompanied Abramoff, Volz and other Abramoff associates on a golfing trip to the famed St. Andrews course in Scotland and then to London. Volz said the bills for $500-a-night hotel rooms, $100 rounds of drinks, $400 rounds of golf, dinners and travel on a private Gulfstream jet were paid by Abramoff and his staff and he never saw Safavian pay for any expenses."

http://www.cleveland.com/newsflash/cleveland/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1149036853260310.xml&storylist=cleveland

[Supersedeas]

1. yet, I'll bet we get little discussion from the Network talking faces