More DeLay-Abramoff quid pro quo-DeLay led bid to close Livingston casino

[kpete]

Jan. 11, 2006, 1:19PM
DeLay led bid to close Livingston casino
Note to Justice coincided with Abramoff's work for another tribe


By MICHAEL HEDGES and SAMANTHA LEVINE
Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay and three other Texas congressmen prodded the Justice Department in 2001 to close an Indian tribe's East Texas casino as lobbyist Jack Abramoff was reaping huge payments from a competing tribe.

Abramoff, who had close political ties to DeLay, pleaded guilty to corruption charges last week and is cooperating with a federal investigation into his dealings with congressmen, congressional aides and his clients.

DeLay and the other congressmen sent a letter about the casino to the Justice Department on Dec. 11, 2001, eight days after Abramoff said in an e-mail to a lobbying associate, "We have to shutter Alabama Coushatta and fast."

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[NVMojo]

1. and then they screwed em backwards ...these people are flat out immoral