Where is the missing $200,000 Abramoff money (Maryland)

message from the MD Democratic Party - worth a read!

Overlooked in the massive Jack Abramoff corruption scandal is the fact that Abramoff is a Maryland Republican and ran his criminal enterprise through a phony Maryland company named by the federal prosecutors in Court filings.

Abramoff founded “Grass Roots Interactive” in Silver Spring, MD with his friend and fellow Republican Ed Miller, who now serves as Deputy Chief of Staff to Governor Ehrlich! Miller has been identified publicly as part of the investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, yet Ehrlich continues to pay him with your Maryland tax dollars.

The federal charging documents say that Abramoff used Miller’s company, GRI, to defraud a major corporation of millions in dollars intended for lobbying, but instead the money went into Abramoff’s pocket. However, the same charging documents say that almost $200,000 of that money did not go to Abramoff, and is still missing after it went into GRI, the company Miller founded!

Select the documents below to read the criminal Court documents on the Miller/Abramoff company, GRI and the missing $200,000!

Read the Abramoff Criminal Information
http://www.mddems.org/pdf/abramoff1.pdf

Read the Abramoff Plea Agreement
http://www.mddems.org/pdf/abramoff2.pdf

From these documents it is clear that GRI, Miller and Abramoff not only defrauded their client, but Abramoff also pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion. The question is, was the State of Maryland also defrauded in this scheme, and did Miller and Abramoff also avoid their legal responsibilities under state laws? Even though 15 field offices of the FBI are conducting a wide-ranging, ongoing investigation of Abramoff, the Governor has not only failed to launch a parallel State investigation, he has one of the main actors in this scheme working on his senior staff on the government payroll!

Since the Governor refuses to do his duty to protect Maryland taxpayers, yesterday I sent a letter to the Maryland State Prosecutor calling for an investigation by that independent office. Click here to read the letter to State Prosecutor, Robert Rohrbaugh.

If you want to lend your voice and call on Rohrbaugh to investigate if Marylanders have been defrauded by Miller and Abramoff, you can contact the Office of the Maryland State Prosecutor.

I think it is outrageous and an insult to Maryland taxpayers that we are paying the salary of Ed Miller, and the Governor has taken no action against him. Last week I called on Governor Ehrlich to fire Miller. If you agree that taxpayers should not be paying the salary of someone at the center of the Abramoff criminal investigation -- who may have defrauded the State of Maryland through a scam company set up under Maryland law -- I hope you will contact Governor Ehrlich and demand he fire Ed Miller.

All of this is yet another reason to end the culture of corruption in Washington and Annapolis, and elect a Democrat as Governor of Maryland.

Sincerely,

Terry Lierman
Chair
Maryland Democratic Party

I am kicking to the greatest page

Miss Waverly

for the rest of the democrats in this country.

Just imagine Maryland Gov Ehrlich (Republican) having his right hand man being investigated and linked with Abramoff?

He had to carry the money all the way to the laundry.