Feeney/Abramoff & Ney/HAVA/Abramoff Connections Under MSM Radar

[Amaryllis]

Feeney/St. Andrews/Abramoff and Ney/HAVA/Abramoff Connections Still Flying Beneath the Radar
...As Ney Chief of Staff Becomes Latest GOP Player to Cop a Plea Today

Over the weekend, AP reported that email from Tom DeLay's (R-TX) office to Jack Abramoff's office reveals that the indicted former-majority leader was quite aware of who was paying for his $75,000 trip to St. Andrews, Scotland to play golf in 2000.

All of which makes it likely that Bob Ney (R-OH) was similarly aware of who was paying for the lobbyist funded vactation when he took a similar trip with Abramoff in 2002.

All of which makes it likely that Tom Feeney (R-FL), the third Republican Congressman to take the trip to St. Andrews, he in 2003, was also aware of who was paying for it.

Feeney has done a fine job of flying under the radar on this matter up until now. But with DeLay now down and out, and Ney's chief-of-staff, Neil Volz, copping a guilty plea today -- making him the fourth such criminal to implicate Ney in the vast Right Wing Conspiracy -- we'd think it only a matter of time before the media start noticing Feeney's conspiratorial involvement as well.

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Secondly, Kiel reminds us about Ney's use of his pet bill, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002, to help a few of his closest "friends":

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More pointedly, however, we've reported on the roll Abramoff and Diebold played along with another former Ney chief-of-staff, David Distefano, in both passing HAVA in the first place, and ensuring it stayed intact as Diebold needed it to.

That story, in which funds were apparently funnelled through to Ney from both Diebold and Abramoff's firm Greenburg Traurig, has also been overlooked by the media in general. If they care to pick up that ball now, they can find a lot of still-uninvestigated open ends in our report right here.

For the rest:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002797.htm

[Mnemosyne]

1. Thanks Amaryllis! Far and wide! n/t

[Melissa G]

2. Great post, Amaryllis! n/t

[Melissa G]

3. up to 5! n/t

[BeFree]

4. Is this how the money flowed?

HAVA cost the U.S. $4 billion over 5 years, paying the tab for the e-voting machinery.

Diebold, being the biggest e-voting vendor, was first in line for the money.

Diebold probably was the recipient of $2-3 billion of the money. Big money.
Big, big money.

And what did Diebold deliver for that $2-3 billion?

A few hundred thousand crummy laptops, worth, at most, $400 each.

Diebold had buckets of cash poured down upon them from Delay and Ney's HAVA, and spent the minimum amount of money building the Diebold product.

Does anyone think Ney and Delay got kickbacks from Diebold?

[Amaryllis]

5. They and their cronies most likely got re-elected on machines

purchased by HAVA money and programmed by the same vendors that were involved in ushering in HAVA in the form that they wanted; I would call that kick back! controlling congress is pretty significant kick back, wouldn't you say?

[BeFree]

6. Diebold touchscreen... $400

Diebold programming to select certain winners.... $10,000

Keeping Kerry from taking back our white house... priceless.

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They got their kickbacks, alright. And we got kicked in the teeth.

[nicknameless]

7. !

K&R

[bleever]

8. They can run, they can even hide, but we're coming, and we won't stop.

Thanks, Amaryllis! And thanks as always to BradBlog.

[Patsy Stone]

9. I feel cheated

by being able to only recommend this once.

Thanks!

[Dudley_DUright]

10. I didn't not realize Feeney was caught up in the Abramoff scandal

That just made my day! :evilgrin:

[Tuesday_Morning]

11. k & r

Great post!

[Amaryllis]

12. As usual, Brad makes the connections that MSM fails to make!