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Abramoff Cohorts Offered Immunity To Testify Against DeLay At Sentencing

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Source: Talking Points Memo

At former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's sentencing hearing today, two of DeLay's former aides and associates of Jack Abramoff -- who pleaded guilty to corruption charges years ago -- may testify against their old boss.

The two ex-aides, Mike Scanlon and Tony Rudy, were offered immunity in Texas in exchange for their testimony, the Austin-American Statesman reports. The two have been convicted on federal corruption charges, and their testimony won't get them off the hook there -- but they could get a state prosecutor to testify on their behalf at their own sentencings.

Read more: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/abramoff_cohorts_offered_immunity_to_testify_again.php#more

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