Montana Senator Conrad Burns (R) part of Casino Jack Abramoff probe

Report: Burns Part of Lobbyist Probe
The Missoulian

Saturday 26 November 2005

Helena - The scope of a US Justice Department investigation of indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff is wider than previously believed and now includes his dealings with US Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The front-page story quotes anonymous sources, including lawyers and others involved in the case.

It said prosecutors in the Justice Department's public integrity and fraud divisions are looking at “possible influence-peddling" by Abramoff with congressional Republicans - former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas, Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio, Rep. John Doolittle of California and Burns.

The story quoted Burns' spokesman, J.P. Pendleton, as saying the senator's office has not yet been contacted by the Justice Department and that Burns has not retained a criminal defense attorney.

“We are more than happy to help out in any investigation should we be asked," Pendleton told the Journal.

Burns, up for re-election next year, helped one of Abramoff's tribal clients, the Saginaw Chippewa tribe in Michigan, obtain a $3 million congressional grant to build a school. Because of its Indian gambling, the tribe is one of the richest in the nation and makes annual $70,000 payments to each member.

The Montana senator has denied any wrongdoing. Burns, who headed a Senate subcommittee overseeing the grants, said he pushed for the grant to the Saginaw Chippewa tribe at the urging of Michigan's two US senators, both Democrats.

The Journal said Burns has received $150,000 in contributions from Abramoff, his lobbying partners and his clients since 2001.

In addition, the Journal reported the Justice Department is investigating at least 17 current and former congressional aides, with about half taking lobbying jobs with Abramoff, and two former Bush administration officials. Abramoff hired three Burns aides to join his lobbying firm.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/112605A.shtml

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I just want to say:"Keep 'em coming!" But, it's wrong to be so gleeful, isn't it?

Ok, maybe not. :evilgrin:

:applause: :popcorn:

:)

Murtha's speech cracked the back of the Iraq invasion. U.S. troops discovered nearly 170 starving and abused Sunni Arab detainees in an interior ministry-run facility in Baghdad.

Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, Bill Frist all under indictment, Woodward talking about others in the Whitehouse outing CIA agents.

Michael Scanlon, former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay agreed to cooperate with congress investigation.

First to go to jail is Bob Ney, R-Ohio, received trips, tickets and campaign donations in exchange for official acts.

And a list of which Indian casinos we might want to boycott for supporting Abramoff?

some were going out of business and they needed a lobbyist to help them out in DC. Somebody with connections on the Hill etc. So Abramoff would show up and offer his services on contingencies. For example, he'd force these tribes to donate money to the RNC and different Republican candidates. If they didn't he'd walk and they could try to find somebody else who wasn't nearly as well-connected. So he'd rope these people in and bilk them out of millions. That was his schtick. He played casinos against each other too. Recieving money from one, while he was getting money from another competitor and using some of the money given to him to fund Christian Right groups who are opposed to gambling. He'd use people like Ralph Reed to get casinos shut down after he had bilked them, so none actually supported him, they just came looking for help and this guy took advantage of it.

you should see the e-mails he and Scanlon would send to each other. They'd say awful stuff about these Indians, call them "troglodytes" etc. I am a Blackfeet Indian, btw. This guy is the lowest of the lowest dirtbags.

Down I tell ya!

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I hope he gets hammered in the election next year. Or it would be nice if he just retired. :)

Take him - and the rest of his party - down a couple more notches.

win again. Maybe this will expose him enough to issue in a defeat.

so, chances are once his opponent was decided he'd likely have a tough battle. He does face a primary challenge too. Um... it'll be interesting, sorta depends on who wins the primary. I think Jon Tester the Senate President can beat him. Any of the others probably would have a tougher shot. This Abramoff might really hurt Conrad though. It's not good, plus the governor's popularity may help any Dem running sneak in there and beat Conrad.

:kick:

October 17, 2005
TVC's Sheldon Accepted Big Bucks to Support Gambling, Mislead Followers

The Washington Post reported Oct. 16 that the Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, head of the Traditional Values Coalition, accepted at least $25,000 in direct funds, and perhaps thousands more in indirect support, from an online gambling company and indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff in a 2000 campaign to block federal legislation that would have banned online gambling.

Furthermore, former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed reportedly acted as a financial, political and marketing go-between, channeling (laundering) funds in a $2 million pro-gambling campaign involving former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's office, the gambling industry, and Christian rightists allied with Reed and Sheldon who were willing to accept money without knowing its source; shoot down antigambling legislation without concern for the facts; and battle fellow Christian rightists.

When the campaign briefly went sour, and Sheldon's lying was exposed, Sheldon diverted attention with an attack on homosexuals.

As XGW noted last week, Sheldon continues to exploit homosexuals to divert attention from his own unethical behavior.

According to the Post,

{Reed and Sheldon} kept in close contact with Abramoff about the arrangement, e-mails show. Abramoff also turned to prominent anti-tax conservative Grover Norquist, arranging to route some of eLottery's money for Reed through Norquist's group, Americans for Tax Reform.

At one point, eLottery's backers even circulated a forged letter of support from Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R).

{DeLay aide Tony C.} Rudy declined to comment for this report. A spokesman for Reed -- now a candidate for lieutenant governor of Georgia -- said that he and his associates are unaware that any money they received came from gambling activities. Sheldon said that he could not remember receiving eLottery money and that he was unaware that Abramoff was involved in the campaign to defeat the bill. Norquist's group would say only that it had opposed the gambling ban on libertarian grounds.

More:
http://www.exgaywatch.com/blog/archives/2005/10/tvcs_sheldon_ac.html

I'm near overload.

All they needed was enough money and a common scapegoat!

Jewish World Review Dec. 2, 2003 / 7 Kislev, 5764
Queer allies
By Evan Gahr
http://www.jewishworldreview.com

The little-noticed alliance between gay marriage opponents and alleged terrorist sympathizers


The Massachusetts Supreme Court decision to legalize homosexual marriage in the Bay state re-ignited the culture wars. The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, perhaps the preeminent liberal Jewish organization in Washington, DC, applauded the ruling. Religious-minded conservatives, however, were horrified. They are determined to stop the gay rights movement in its tracks. At what price?

JewishWorldReview.com has discovered that prominent religious conservatives — Jews, Catholics and Evangelical Christians — are allied with a radical Islamic group to stop gay marriage. Pushing a constitutional amendment that would restrict marriage to heterosexuals, they work with the Islamic Society of North America. What is ISNA? According to terrorism expert Steve Emerson, ISNA:

* has held fundraisers for terrorists (e.g., after Hamas leader Musa Marzuk was arrested, it raised money for his defense, claiming he was innocent and not connected to terrorism)

* has condemned US seizure of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad assets in the United States after 9/11

* has consistently sponsored speakers at their conferences that defend Islamic terrorists. Recently, a leader denied in an interview with an NBC affiliate that ISNA took any Saudi money but that was a brazen lie as evidenced by a recording of an ISNA conference in which it was revealed that money came from Saudi Arabia.

"ISNA," says Emerson, "is a radical group hiding under a false veneer of moderation."

<snip>

Although efforts to contact some ISNA's colleagues were unsuccessful, those that were located hardly seemed perturbed when provided last week with detailed information — from impeccable sources — about ISNA. Thus far, it appears they'll remain with ISNA on the advisory board to the Alliance for Marriage, which has attracted considerable Congressional support for its much ballyhooed constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriage.

More:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1203/marriage_terrorists.php3

This is the guy who was so interested in rounding up the wild horses for slaughter. It would be a real shame if he were to find himself hobbled/tethered in a smallish corral full of those very horses, wouldn't it? Chris Floyd, in his article entitled "Beastly Behavior", described him and his ilk as "...crippled
souls obsessed with conquest, control and domination".
See Mr. Floyd's article at:
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/12/17/120.html

Likes to you the N word when talking about black people. No shame whatsoever.