Whatever happened to the Abramoff Scandal???

Shouldn't we have heard more about that by now?

I ask. Why isn't he?
And what about that wire the dukester wore for weeks before his indictment? :shrug:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2213368

More to come.

:sarcasm:

She was mentored by Michael Chertoff, she was a Frist family acquaintance and a HCA lobbyist, she was a recess appointment of her Decider-and despite criticisms she was put in charge of the Abramoff JUST US investigation-oh yes, she's still there.

I think she still has something to do with the National Procurement Fraud Task Force even though her colleague Paul McNulty is gone (with a lot of others)

Alice S. Fisher profile from Source Watch
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alice_S._Fisher

IMPEACH GEORGE WALKER BUSH NEXT!

happening in the Wilkes trial. Next is Foggo...

CBS News, NY - Oct 31, 2007
White House Won't Release Abramoff Documents, Waxman Says
By John Bresnahan
Oct 31, 2007 - http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/31/politics/politico/thecrypt/main3436815.shtml

(The Politico) House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) says the White House is improperly withholding roughly more than 600 pages of documents related to imprisoned former GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and he wants them handed over to his committee by Nov. 6.

In a letter today to White House Counsel Fred Fielding, Waxman said, "The White House is withholding hundreds of pages of documents about the activities of convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff on the grounds that these documents involve internal White House deliberations. Unless the president is prepared to assert executive privilege over these documents, they should be turned over to the Oversight Committee without further delay."

According to Waxman, current and former White House officials are refusing to cooperate with his committee's ongoing probe into Abramoff's dealings with the White House.

"This year, the Committee has sought to conclude its investigation by requesting (1) depositions with White House officials and former Abramoff lobbyists and (2) documents from the White House. The investigation has encountered obstacles because four witnesses, including individuals who worked in the White House, have raised Fifth Amendment concerns," Waxman wrote. .....

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Doolittle Inc.
DEBRA J. SAUNDERS
Nov 11, 2007 - http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071111/OPINION/71110060/1049

This year, Rep. John Doolittle made Roll Call's "10 Most Vulnerable House Incumbents" list.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington placed Doolittle on its "22 Most Corrupt Members of Congress" roster. The Placer County, Calif., Republican also is in the small club of elected officials under federal investigation for corruption. His name has come up in connection with convicted uber-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and with convicted (as of Monday, on bribery charges) defense contractor Brent Wilkes. In April, the FBI searched Doolittle's Virginia home.

Doolittle was forced to resign from the House Appropriations Committee. Nonetheless, Doolittle is running for re-election.

In September, Doolittle told the Sacramento Bee, "I understand the phrase that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. I am not going to have any of these weasels who, for self-promotional efforts, are cooking up these half-baked polls and trying to influence me. What I find amazing is that they want me to give up so they can get what they want."

Getting what he wants -- that Doolittle knows. Doolittle, you may recall, made news for letting a campaign fund pick up the tab for babysitting his daughter -- $4,581 since 2001, The Washington Post reported in 2006. He brought new meaning to the phrase "family values."

Doolittle's annual salary has been more than $150,000 since 2002. Not enough. So he and his wife gave themselves a raise. Wife Julie set up a political fund-raising firm that allowed her to earn 15 percent off of every dime raised for Doolittle's Superior California Fund. She also received a cut for donations she raised for his re-election campaign -- to the tune of $140,000 over three years.

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