Former Ney aide names names in Abramoff Case

[kpete]

Former Ney aide names names. Neil Volz, Rep. Bob Ney’s (R-OH) former top aide testified today in the trial of David Safavian, saying that when he worked for Abramoff, he received help from not only Ney, but also Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Rep. Don Young (R-AK), and Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-OH).
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/30/former-ney-aide-names-names/


May 30, 2006, 10:40AM
Ex-Congressional Aide Testifies for Gov't

By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A former congressional aide and lobbyist described Tuesday how he obtained advice, insider information and help from Bush administration procurement chief David Safavian to advance two projects being promoted by Republican influence peddler Jack Abramoff.

The aide, Neil Volz, who was a partner of Abramoff's at the time, also outlined how they 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.

more at:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3914638.html

[Bandit]

1. It would please me to no end if Don Young were to be indicted

He has been a plague on Alaska. He and his counter part in the Senate Ted Stevens are the largest recipients of Lobbyist money.

[eviltwin2525]

17. few things warm the cockels of my heart

more than the thought of Young and Stevens rotting in prison. They are the Darth Vader and Emporer Palatine of environmental politics (funny how that goes hand-in-hand with corruption and arrogance, isn't it?).

[roguevalley]

35. you and me both. did you know his house back there has gold

fixtures?

[tanyev]

2. Why, they're all Republicans.

I'm shocked.

[tridim]

3. But lots of Dems also took money

from Abramoff clients.

[Debi]

19. !!!!

:rofl:

[Joyce]

38. Be specific if you have evidence

Otherwise, do not make false charges. If you have specific, concrete evidence, then put it on this website, please.:kick:

[Old and In the Way]

41. Abramoff's clients do not equal Abramoff.

Nothing wrong with money going to Congresspeople directly. Abramoff was ruunning a legislative extortion racket on behalf of the Republican Party. It's what the "K" Street project is all about.

[maxrandb]

46. I think TRIDIM

simply forgot the :sarcasm: smiley.

If Ohio doesn't go completely "blue" this November, then we know the elections are rigged. Not only do they have a corrupt, indicted, convicted 14% approval rating Republican Governor, but the state has been driven into the dirt by "one-party" rule over the past decade.

This is the same state that invested state employee pension funds in rare coins that happened to disappear, but they also....wait for it....invested that money in "Beany Babies".

I'm not joking. They actually found boxes and boxes of the little furry stuffed animals when they were looking for the "missing" coins.

My brother was actually tempted to pay his state taxes this year by sending in a couple dozen Beany Babies.

Nice to see that the "adults are in charge".

[The Deacon]

5. But, but...

Didn't CNN, MSNBC, Faux News, NY Times & Washington Post all say this was a bipartisan scandel? Could the MSM be <gasp> wrong?

[zbdent]

8. I've said, all along, that they would be desperate to find one (any)

Dem who accepted a dime from Abramoff so that they could claim the 99-1 scandal as "bipartisan" . . .

I wouldn't be surprised if a Dem got convicted for accepting a chivalrous door opening from Abramoff . . .

[MissWaverly]

12. Lobbyists are always giving freebies

there's a difference between free baseball tickets and $140,000 contribution for your favorable
vote on XYZ bill.

[TankLV]

28. But they already have one - that guy from New Orleans.

Congressman.

Has NOTHING to do with this scandal, and he has HIS OWN UNIQUE allegations that INVOLVE NOBODY ELSE, but who cares for DETAILS!

[Old and In the Way]

43. We need to differentiate between freelance corruption

and institutionalized corruption. We (Democrats and Republicans) have always had plenty of the former, but the new Republican Syndicate has made corruption a core political principle.

In fact, I doubt the RNC is really excited in running Congressional candidates that have integrity, honesty, and a desire to reform DC....that would not be in their Party/Syndicate's long or short-term interests. They want team players who are ethically challenged, without principle, susceptible to a little bribery, and preferably with skeletons in their closet...they make the best Republican rubberstampers.

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

26. Don't be silly. It can only be a COINCIDENCE.

[symbolman]

4. Thanks KPete, good find

NOW the FUN BEGINS..

Thrill as the Right Wing starts spreading that Corruption Butter around, screaming about "Dems taking money, too" (My Answer: Pass this along to your Congress Critter, "The Democrats took donations from the Tribe, but NOT the BRIBE, THAT was the Republicans..")..

Wonkette is talking 11 Indictments and said it a long time ago, the heat is ON for this summer..

Abramoff just MIGHT be the one that gives us our country BACK..

Maybe we can all pitch in and send him some KYJELLY, cases of it as a personal Thank You :) and to hand out as Party Favors to his buddies..

[kpete]

6. My worry is

What KIND of country we will get back!

[symbolman]

9. One that's gonna take a LOT of FIXIN'

We're gonna need a REAL LEADER.. someone who can repair 30 years of damage, untold rights kicked to the curb..

Started with Reagan pulling everyone to the right, right of center, where we stayed, now they are pulling us so far that it may not be long before we are doing what I predicted America would be doing about now, when I was in college 30 years ago.. admittedly drunk at the time, but I told folks we'd be "Goose Stepping for Jesus all over the world"..

Not that far off, really.. :)

[me b zola]

44. Yep

And the new SC appointees will have ugly ramifications for decades, if not generations, to come. It will be no easy task to restore sanity--and Constitutional law--to the US.

[mod mom]

7. I had someone tell me Ney will NOT be indicted because of his connections.

I said impossible, but this person, (someone in the know) has said he has been in serious trouble before and his "connections" have always pulled him through. Let's hope this person is wrong, but we should watch Ney closely just in case.

[mod mom]

11. some backgrond on Ney:

Two of Ney's former aides in state government, Tom Strussion and David Randall, both served jail time in the PIE medical malpractice insurance scandal in Ohio in the late 1990s. Both former Ney aides landed lucrative lobbying/consulting jobs.

Volz was a former Statehouse aide to former Senate President Stan Aronoff. Both Aronoff and Ney escaped any serious charges in the Statehouse honoraria scandal of the mid-1990s which, in part, inspired term limits and new campaign finance regulations in Ohio.

[Joyce]

39. If it's up to the courts,

then it's going to be tough going. Today The U. S. Supreme Court decided (with Alito casting the deciding vote) that government employees cannot blow the whistle on government wrongdoing. Check the ACLU website. This is outrageous! Some U. S. Supreme Court! I'm so angry at the Dems who voted for cloture on the Alito confirmation. They should have filibustered, and now we're all going to suffer for that HUGE mistake.

:mad:

[NYC]

10. Recommendation #5.

Abramoff is the gift that keeps on giving.

[Roland99]

13. It's a Republican Scandal!

[suegeo]

14. For freedom fries alone, Ney needs his ass kicked.

N/T

[mod mom]

15. No for HAVA alone....

[Joanne98]

23. For blocking HR2239. Rush Holt's paper trail bill.

[DUBYASCREWEDUS]

16. No, No, No!

People just pull up the MSNBC headlines for today - they are just worried about the boxing tickets Harry Reid received. Such insignficant stuff such as you report is just not important! Let's find 1 Democratic scandal and play it to the hilt while thousands and thousands of Republican scandals slide under the radar.

[Debi]

21. Reid accepted BOXING TICKETS??

That's much worse than a golf 'junket' anyday!!! For shame!!! x(

[lumpy]

30. I heard they were comlimentary tickets

from the state boxing commission.

[Debi]

33. That Bastard - taking complimentary tickets

next thing you know he'll be going to cocktail parties and eating hours devours! :wow:

[fooj]

36. Wasn't he an ex-boxer?

[Joyce]

40. No, he IS

an ex-boxer.

[Orion The Hunter]

18. Great story!

Ahh yes...Abramoff...he's like the gift that keeps on giving!

[Donovan61]

20. Game on, Repukes

I can hardly wait for the spin to begin. These guys are toast.

[ThomWV]

22. Much of West Virginia is Pleased at this news

Toss that bitch to the wolves and I'll take them for pets after the feast.

[Hubert Flottz]

25. I LOVE it!

The wolves wouldn't eat that SHIT!

[WiseButAngrySara]

24. Oh, this is good!!! K&R (an aside, why am I always #13? this will make

rec. #13, and it seems as if my posts #'s or my recomm. are almost always #13. And no, I'm not that superstitious.)

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

27. First...Thanks kpete for ALL your posts... Second Wow.

This must be seen by all.
K & R
:kick:

[callous taoboy]

29. God I hope asshole Don Young goes down-

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

[Divine Discontent]

31. NO TO NEY! dirty frickin republicans... bipartisan scandal my aZZ!

www.cafepress.com/warisprofitable <--- Check this out! top 06 & 08 Dem/Rep & anti-Bush stickers/shirts

[Joyce]

42. About that "Wesley Clark" poster on your post...

isn't he a partner in one of the major data-mining operations based in or near DC? Please find out. I remember reading that his new career was to be in data mining related to security matters. I cannot trust those who are part of the "revolving-door" culture of the Congressional-Military-Industrial Complex and Clark surely seems to be a part of that. What do you know about this?

[Divine Discontent]

48. I'll look into it for sure.... tks... N/T

[Supersedeas]

32. and the Network talking faces will do WHAT with the information

[Botany]

34. This bears looking into

Bob "HAVA nice day" Ney .... get him and then they will fall.

[No Exit]

37. (rubs hands together) Oh, goody, can we expect resignations?

Are there some more republican families out there who need Dad to "spend more time with them"? :)

[gademocrat7]

45. I hope these rethugs go to jail.

More chances for Dems to take back the House.

[Deep13]

47. To Rep. LaTourette I extend the following condolence:

Nice going, asshole.