Bloomberg: Scanlon, Abramoff Partner, Charged With Conspiracy (Update2)

Bloomberg
(Update2)
Nov 18th 2005

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aq8X0aVZIW5I&refer=top_world_news

Scanlon, a former aide to U.S. Representative Tom DeLay, will propose a plea agreement at a hearing scheduled for Nov. 21, said his lawyer, Stephen Braga.

Oh, sweet lord. Does this mean...could it possibly portend...federal indictments for dear Tom?

Is anyone tracking stocks that deal with digestive products: Maalox, Zantac, Tumms?

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Abramoff_lobbying_partner_agrees_to_testifying_1118.html

Michael Scanlon has agreed to testify against one-time business partner Jack Abramoff in any future criminal case involving the ex-lobbying superstar, ROLL CALL reported Friday afternoon. Excerpts.
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The Justice Department has filed a “criminal information” document in federal court related to Scanlon, and there will be a hearing before a federal judge Monday afternoon.

At that time, Scanlon is expected to plead guilty to one felony count of conspiracy. Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas), would them testify against Abramoff and anyone else indicted in the case, according to Justice Department sources.

According to the criminal information document, Scanlon’s alleged illegal activities are linked to Abramoff and Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio), although neither is named in the indictment. Only “Representative #1” and “Lobbyist A” are mentioned, although media reports and testimony before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee make clear the inference is to the two men.

Sing, bird, sing!

Welcome to the DU PhilipShore.

...Scanlon and "lobbyist A" are singing like birds. I'm anxious to get the details on the "stream of things of value." ...or the dirt on some of the players in this scandal.

Stay tuned for yet another exciting episode of "As the Turd Whirls."

year. woohoo!

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007063.php

"19. From in or about January 2000 through in or about April 2004, SCANLON and Lobbyist A , together and separately, provided a stream of things of value to Representative #1 and members of his staff, including but not limited to a lavish trip to Scotland to play golf on world-famous courses, tickets to sporting events and other entertainment, regular meals at Lobbyist A's upscale restaurant, and campaign contributions for Representative #1, his political action committee, and other political committees on behalf of Representative #1."

I can't help but wonder if the name starts with a D as in Delay? One can hope!

19. From in or about January 2000 through in or about April 2004, SCANLON and Lobbyist A (Abramoff), together and separately, provided a stream of things of value to Representative #1 (Ney) and members of his staff, including but not limited to a lavish trip to Scotland to play golf on world-famous courses, tickets to sporting events and other entertainment, regular meals at Lobbyist A's upscale restaurant, and campaign contributions for Representative #1, his political action committee, and other political committees on behalf of Representative #1.

also be attributed to Delay? Is there anything in that list that Delay didn't also receive? I ask the question only because I really don't know.

If it is, indeed, Ney, it simply means it will take a little longer to rope in Delay as I have little doubt Ney is cooperating with the prosecution.

Apparently, Tom and Christine didn't have to pay for entertaining a party of 6.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/8/4/152337/8867

"Abramoff used Signatures - best known for its presumably succulent $74 steak - to conduct his lobbying business at a corner table he kept reserved on the second floor and, it seems, to curry favors by handing out free meals to important guests. (Restaurant records show that during at 17-month period in 2002 and 2003 Signatures gave away $180,000 of food and drinks, including Abramoff's $65,000 tab.)

Last month, for instance, several news outlets obtained this e-mail (dated 5/2/02) in which Abramoff instructs his staff not charge House Majority Leader Tom DeLay:


Subject: Tom and Christine DeLay
Want to come in Thursday, May 9, 7PM. Table of 6, put it where I sit and remove that other table. Their meal is to be comped. Thanks,"

applied to Delay but, thanks to your post, it is proof positive it does.

;) :kick:

The lawmaker, identified only as ``Representative #1,'' agreed to perform ``official acts,'' such as supporting legislation and placing statements in the Congressional Record and helping an Abramoff client install a cellular network in Congress, according to the charge.

Representative Robert Ney, an Ohio Republican, took a trip to Scotland in 2002 that was sponsored by Abramoff. Ney, as chairman of the House Administration Committee, was responsible for deciding on the installation of the phone network.

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Ney, as chairman of the House Administration Committee, awarded a contract in 2002 to Foxcom Wireless, now Vienna, Virginia-based MobileAccess Networks, to install cell-phone transmission equipment at the Capitol. Foxcom paid Abramoff's law firm, Greenberg Traurig LLP, $280,000 in 2003 and 2004. Foxcom's lobbyists included former Ney chief of staff Neil Volz.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aq8X0aVZIW5I&refer=top_world_news

Even though it looks like Ney is the Congressman mentioned in this filing by the Justice Department, I will be surprised if DeLay is not eventually charged in connection with the Abramoff criminal organization.

SCANLON and Lobbyist A , together and separately, provided a stream of things of value to Representative #1 and members of his staff...

Lobbyist A is able to plead out because the investigators are looking at more & bigger fish, and he's ratting them out. It may be that Rep. #1 is in the same spot -- he saves his butt by spilling his gut. In this scenario, Delay is more the fish than the rat.

(still within this scenario) If Delay is the rat, then you have to believe that the fish will be found at the very top of the food-chain in D.C. ...Kingfish, if you will.

or C-Span or somewhere.

Abramoff's slime is all over the Republican party.

...every time I go deeper & learn something more -- I feel like I need shower.

edit for sp.

is Ney or DeLay, I really love seeing DeLay's name linked with Scanlons in these articles. DeLay needs to go, and it would be great to have both Ney AND DeLay kicked out of office. I hope they both end up serving prison time.

I am not a lawyer, but I sued and got a favorable ruling--in writing-- from the Federal Appeals court for the Eleventh Circuit. Most of the parties-- I later learned-- and their lawyers are very well connected Republicans, one of whom is even the lawyer for one of the largest campaign contributors for the Republicans in Miami.

I did not even file a lawsuit--but when the PI investigated the parties the court said wronged me--those parties then hired a different law firm from the one I named above--Akerman Senterfitt--whom recently hired Two major Bush Cheney '04 Advisors.

http://www.akerman.com/documents/res.asp?id=204


And according to a law.com article below, Abramoff, has ties to a Akerman Senterfitt's law partner whom was a former Bush Cabinet member.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1078196807144

Abramoff is listed on the Internet site for President Bush's re-election campaign as a "pioneer," meaning he has raised more than $100,000. He also has been active on behalf of Mel Martinez, a former Bush Cabinet member and partner at Akerman Senterfitt in Orlando who is running for the GOP nomination for Bob Graham's U.S. Senate seat.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0811-08.htm

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=IN7A1S0UQVI9
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050811113209990029



The recent ruling for my civil suit says:

Plaintiff (myself) seeks to attack the stipulation agreement which he believes rewrote Party A’s Will to deprive him of any funds that Party A intended to leave him and which he argues is void due to the failings of Party B. We need not decide whether we are barred from reviewing the agreement by the Rooker-Feldman doctrine or the statute of limitations. It is sufficient to note that, to the extent Plaintiff was wronged Party C is not the offending party. The agreement was between Party D and Party E (It was also signed by Party B on behalf of Plaintiff and Parties F,G, H) Party C merely signed a form that acknowledged that it was being appointed….for the reformed Will… and agreed to follow the directions given in the agreement.. Party C is not the one that negotiated the agreement nor did it have any obligation to plaintiff...It is not Party C who has harmed Plaintiff...

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The last PI I hired screwed up.

Washington Post
By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi
Sunday, November 20, 2005; Page A08

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/19/AR2005111900937.html

Before he hit his mid-thirties, Michael Scanlon played enough roles to fill a lifetime: lifeguard, press aide to a powerful congressman, multimillionaire public relations entrepreneur.

Now the sandy-haired, buttoned-down Republican -- author of e-mails detailing wildly brash schemes to make money in politics -- is likely to take a turn as a star witness for the prosecution in the Justice Department's investigation of lawmakers, lobbyists, Capitol Hill staffers and executive branch officials.