The case against Tom DeLay just got stronger.

The DeLay-Abramoff Money Trail, Part 2
By Paul Kiel - March 24, 2006, 5:53 PM
The case against Tom DeLay just got stronger.

Back in December, the Washington Post dropped a bomb on the now-deposed Majority Leader with their article on the U.S. Family Network, an organization that posed as a grassroots outfit, but was really a slush fund pumped full of cash from Jack Abramoff's clients to curry favor and buy favors from DeLay. Well, a new piece from the National Journal (unfortunately, not online) adds some crucial details to the story and provides much more concrete evidence that DeLay was bought.



So put it together: DeLay's chief aide gets $250,000 paid into his front operation by Abramoff clients. Two weeks later, DeLay is having dinner in Russia with those Abramoff clients.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000182.php


edit to add:

TOM DELAY AND THE RUSSIANS....

But it turns out the junket is the least of the story, because after the trip NAFTASib also gave money to the U.S. Family Network, an advocacy group closely associated with DeLay. Lots of money. A million dollars, in fact. And just what did the Russian security establishment want from DeLay? Did they really spend a million bucks via NAFTASib just to influence DeLay's vote on an IMF bailout — as one of DeLay's associates admitted to the Post? Who knows.

But whatever it was for, Peter Stone has a new piece in the National Journal today informing us that even more money was involved than we thought. Through a front company, NAFTASib also donated $250,000 to the U.S. Family Network before DeLay's trip to Moscow. That payment came shortly after a lunch meeting in Houston, and Stone reports that "the meeting has attracted the attention of federal investigators."

I'll bet it has.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_03/008495.php

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

:D

Somewhere, someday soon the two investigations will merge.

This is an entirely different DeLay scam.

I'm going to end up... happy. And as George Will reminded us, liberals cannot be happy.
x(

We'll be more freakin' happy than anyone can stand!

with that man - Jack who?

I was afraid that his repuke judges would be letting him go scot free...but it's not looking so good for ole Tom doing the happy dance.

What planet is this, sheesh!

And by the way, who put him in that position? shrub? New majority leader?

with his absolute power.

:rofl::spray::rofl::spray::rofl::spray::rofl:

Wonder whose "Maytag" Tommy-Jean is going to be?

:nuke::rofl::spray::evilgrin::rofl::spray::evilgrin::rofl::spray::evilgrin::rofl::nuke:

:woohoo: :toast: :party:

Bwahahahahaaaaaa!!! Details here.

Guess he'll be over crying on the shoulders of the scum at the NRA.




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