Ney, Reed Listed In Lobbying Trial Files - AP

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In the first case arising from the Abramoff influence peddling probe, an FBI agent read out the names of the participants on a weeklong golf excursion to Scotland and London that Ney, R-Ohio, Reed and two congressional staffers went on with Abramoff in August 2002. Ney is seeking re-election, and Reed is running for Georgia lieutenant governor.

The records show that the private jet chartered by Abramoff cost $92,000, while the golfing party enjoyed accommodations at luxury hotels in Scotland and London that cost thousands of dollars for each participant.

Ney's chief of staff, William Heaton, was on the trip, as was Paul Vinovich, counsel to the House Administration Committee, which Ney chaired. Ney has stepped down from that post amid the ongoing Abramoff investigation. Also on the Scotland trip was Neil Volz, Ney's previous chief of staff who in 2002 had just gone to work for Abramoff. Volz has pleaded guilty in the criminal investigation of the lobbyist and is slated to testify in the criminal trial.

Abramoff paid Reed's businesses to mobilize Christian voters against casinos that would compete with Abramoff's Indian tribe clients. Reed has said repeatedly that he regrets his work with Abramoff. The travel records about Ney, Reed and the others surfaced in the trial of long-time Abramoff friend David Safavian, the former top procurement official in the Bush administration.

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Let the records explode!!!

...The entire Ohio republican party and the rw christian front.

Here's hoping for many, many indictments & prosecutions. :toast:

Thanks WillyT! Don't you just know most of the scandals will end up tied together somehow!:toast:

It cannot happen quickly enough.

I just hope enough comes out. They have too much power to CTA. Way too much.