Photo TIME saw of Bush and Abramoff Crook Pal - Junior Calls him "Jefe"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1151784,00.html
In one shot that TIME saw, Bush appears with Abramoff, several unidentified people and Raul Garza Sr., a Texan Abramoff represented who was then chairman of the Kickapoo Indians, which owned a casino in southern Texas. Garza, who is wearing jeans and a bolo tie in the picture, told TIME that Bush greeted him as "Jefe," or "chief" in Spanish.


http://www.indianz.com/News/2005/006291.asp

Ex-Kickapoo chairman wants release pending trial
Wednesday, February 2, 2005

The ex-chairman of the Kickapoo Tribe of Texas asked a federal judge on Monday to be released from jail pending his trial on corruption charges.

Of the seven people charged with stealing more than $900,000 from the tribe, Raul Garza Sr. is the only one to remain locked up. The other defendants, all non-Indians, are free on bond.

Garza says he will agree in advance to be extradited from Mexico if he happens to travel across the border. The tribe has a reservation there.


The idictment:
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/2004/Kickapoo.ind.pdf

[DS1]

1. Shitkickers and kickapoos. Talk about comedy fodder.

[phoebe]

2. don't forget GHW Bush also met with one of these tribal leaders

and had his photo taken - have to find that again..
it was some years prior to this scandal and may have had nothing to do with anything - can't seem to find it

[pk_du]

3. Lovelin Poncho is the one you are thinking of.....n/t

first denied being phot-ed at May 9th 2001 meeting of Grover norquists "Americans for Tax Reform" fundraiser in the Old Executive Building with Chimpy.....then when confronted with evidence he now admits he did. (along with Abramoff)

[phoebe]

4. thanks - couldn't think of the name..