'Guilty, your honor', Zachares agrees to cooperate in Abramoff scandal

Source: Pacific Daily News

Mark Zachares is talking to federal investigators about his knowledge of Jack Abramoff's lobbying activities.

After having pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Washington, D.C., the former Northern Marianas labor and immigration chief has agreed to cooperate with the widening investigation into Abramoff-related lobbying activities.

Zachares, 48, entered his plea to a one-count criminal accusation that alleges he was part of a conspiracy to use public office to get insider information for Abramoff in exchange for what the prosecution called a "steady stream of things of value."

Zachares became the 11th defendant to plead guilty in the Abramoff lobbying scandal.
"Guilty, your honor," Zachares said to U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle, when the judge asked what plea he would enter to a single count of conspiracy, according to a report by The Associated Press.

During the court proceedings, Justice Department attorney Richard Pilger disclosed that Zachares' wife also is in legal jeopardy, the AP reported.




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And what President fired a prosecutor looking into Abramoff and the Marianas
after Abramoff called Karl Rove?

but it just sickens me.

The breadth and scope of the corruption that runs through our entire government - the nastiness of this mal-administration - the death and destruction and perversion of justice that has occurred in the last 7 years just devastates me.

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And every last one of them a Republican! Please, Katie Couric, save us! You mindlessly repeated the canard that Abramoff was an equal opportunity corruptor, bribing Republicans and Democrats alike. Yet here we are, and out of 11 guilty pleas, all 11 of them are Republicans. Where are all the Democrats Abramoff was involved with, Katie? You said you would check on your baseless smear and get back to us. Too busy booking Rush Limbaugh for your new show to do a little research for your faithful viewers?

Katie? Katie?