Abramoff Broke, Lonely Could IMPLICATE 12 IN CONGRESS!

[kpete]

Abramoff broke, lonely, New York Times will report
RAW STORY
Published: January 9, 2006

"After pleading guilty last week to federal corruption charges in Washington and Florida, Jack Abramoff, former lobbyist, is learning how unpleasant disgrace can be," the New York Times will report in Tuesday editions, RAW STORY has learned. Excerpts:


Even if Abramoff wanted to escape the suburban home where he has hunkered down, the knee surgery he underwent Thursday has hobbled him. He sits at home, friends say, speculating about which of the people who no longer return his calls are making which anonymous snipes in the newspapers...

And, of course, he is dangerous. As part of his plea, Abramoff agreed to become the principal witness in what many say could be the most explosive corruption investigation in congressional history. Abramoff's ties to the Republican Party stretch into the executive branch, and he could implicate up to 12 members of Congress, people involved in the case said.

Abramoff, who will be sentenced after fulfilling his agreement to cooperate with prosecutors, continues spewing messages on his Blackberry, even though his crimes were partly exposed by hundreds of brash e-mail messages chronicling his actitivies and contempt for his clients.

"You can't stop him," one person close to him said.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/NYT_Abramoff_friends_privately_saying_they_0109.html

edit to add link to NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/10/politics/10lobbyist.html?hp&ex=1136869200&en=d029c26014d44bbe&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Straight Shooter]

1. Abramoff is a cornered rabid dog.

He's going to come out biting all the hands that fed him.

:popcorn:

[txindy]

11. Yep, except he'll think it's the other way around.

That HE made THEM and that they owe him. :shrug: Maybe he's right, but, either way, they're disowning him - viciously and publicly - and Jack's gonna roll and roll and roll and roll and..... Heh.

[Imagevision]

24. Jack broke....! yeah right, he's down to his last 30million...!

[cantstandbush]

31. I am sure he has been threatened with being "suicided" so I don't

really think he will name all the names he could name.

[FreedomAngel82]

17. I can't wait!!!

:popcorn:

[KingFlorez]

2. Sounds like he's got nothing left to lose

He's really going to stick it to them

[FreedomAngel82]

18. Yep, sure sounds like it

And nothing more dangerous to the people associated with him.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. so who are the twelve? I hope it is JD in AZ. He is the biggest blowhart

[oasis]

10. J.D. Hayworth the disgusting orangutan. It would be great to see him in

spin mode after Abramoff signs, seals and delivers him to the feds. :nopity:

[KittyWampus]

12. Hayworth LITERALLY makes me see red. No other human has that effect

I can't explain it. Something about him makes my aggession meter go way up.

[TahitiNut]

26. Me too. And I do think he'll go down with Abramoff.

Hayworth is as dirty as they get.

[TahitiNut]

25. Here are my nominees, only partly influenced by wishful thinking.

Tom Delay (R-TX) ... of course
Bob Ney (R-OH) ... of course
Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA)
Eric Cantor (R-VA)
Richard Pombo (R-CA)
Dennis Hastert (R-IL)
J.D.Hayworth (R-AZ)
Don Nickles (R-OK)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
John T. Doolittle (R-CA)
"Chip" Pickering Jr. (R-MS)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
John Boehner (R-OH)
Conrad Burns (R-MT)
Dave Camp (R-MI)

[oasis]

28. Don Nickles

Is no longer a member of the senate. However, he is still jail eligible.:-)

[Straight Shooter]

30. Yes, please, Rohrabacher, the Grand Poobah of Abramoff defenders.

I watched him on a video clip defending bush's spying. He was loud, obnoxious, overbearing, and had absolutely no facts to back up his bombastic tirade. In essence, the quintessential Republican.

[mikeytherat]

35. Please Cantor! Oh, please oh please oh please!

I'll be good this year; I'll walk the dog every day, I'll clean my room, mow the lawn, stop depreciating non-taxable items brought forth from the previous tax year, you name it!

mikey_the_rat

[dogday]

36. Would be nice to see this one go down

John Cornyn (R-TX)


All my representatives are republican and they are Bush cheerleaders, it has been tough...

[Independent_Liberal]

4. Fasten your seatbelts folks!

It's going to be a bumpy ride.

:)

[sasha031]

5. evil basterd

[FreedomAngel82]

29. Is that picture real or just a photoshop?

He isn't really kissing Abramoff is he?

[Raster]

6. How the mighty fall! Good riddance and hope he takes many with him.

I hope abramoff's crimes are heavily investigated and every last one of the bastards is prosecuted to the fullest.

[C_U_L8R]

7. When do they crank up the smear machine??

it doesn't really seem like they are going after Old Jack
the way they go after other adversaries... with BS and slime.

I think the repuke crooks must be truly scared. Dya think?

[FlaGranny]

33. How could they go after him

for BS and slime? Everyone already knows Abramoff is a crook. They couldn't possibly say or do anything to make him look worse. In addition, the worse Abramoff looks, the worse his ex-buddies look.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

8. There are some pretty suspicious deaths . . .

. . . surrounding these crazy Neocons and Rabid Fundamentalist Xtians . . .

Nothing like keeping watch over your shoulder, when ya got a bum knee, eh, Jackie-Boy?

[quiet.american]

9. "Yet few people want to do business with him."

Gee, I wonder why. :nopity:

[Roland99]

13. Awww...him wonewee. Y'all want to pitch in and send him a care basket?

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

14. Only TWELVE??? come ON !!!!

there have to be more than twelve :)

[Sugarcoated]

15. Any chance that creep Drier

might be taken down?

[orleans]

16. i heard (friday i think) he could squeal on 100! n/t

[FreedomAngel82]

19. A 100?!

So if that is true what would happen to Congress next? I heard on Stephanie Miller's show she reported about sixty, but a 100 is pretty big!! Wow!

[orleans]

23. wait--maybe i'm thinking of the 100 referring to the 100 years

he could have faced in prison.

i'll look through some articles i printed and see if i can find out for sure what the heck i was talking about. (sorry. smile)

[shanti]

21. there are quite a few californian repukes in the bunch

i'm going to love seeing pombo go DOWN!

[NightOwwl]

20. Hold the presses! NYTimes accurately reports...

"Abramoff's ties to the Republican Party stretch into the executive branch."

Got that, freeps? You can't run, and you can't hide...it's all-Republican, all-the-time.

[txindy]

22. Exactly. Jack's "ties to the Repub Party stretch into the exec. branch"

Enjoy the new home Jack arranges for you!

:nopity:



:rofl:

[DanCa]

27. I wonder Who is all involved.

[madokie]

32. we had a simular incident here in Oklahoma back in the '70s

with the county commissioners almost all the commissioners throughout the state were charged and convicted, best I can remember it was well over a hundred. Only one beat his charge, and he was our commissioner, cost him everything he had, died a poor man. a guilty found not guilty man. So I'm loving watching all these scandals unfold and feeling comfortable that the truth will come out, justice will be. American's are not going to lay down and roll over, they're just now starting to wake up and when they do it will be hell to pay, as Will Rogers said years ago there needs to be a politician hanging from every tree between here and washington. We keep rattling cages, making noices, our voice's will be heard.

[No Exit]

34. A song keeps going through my mind...

It's one of the many great songs from that great musical, "Fiddler on the Roof"...

"If I were a rich man...ya da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da...
...the most important men in town would come to call on me...
they'd ask me to advise them...
like Solomon the wise... ('if you please, Rabbi Jack... pardon me, Rabbi Jack')... posing questions that would cross a rabbi's eyes!!

...and it won't make one bit of diff'rence
if I answer right or wrong...
when you're rich, they think you really know!"

(Sorry, Jack. Your "friends" were just using you--sort of like you were using them. Your restaurant is closed. You'll have to go back to your humble Beverly Hills roots now.)