Reply #3: Abramoff was just one prong in the GOP foreign influence peddling scheme. [View All]

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Here are other scandals coming to light now:

Former Appropriations Chair Jerry Lewis (R-CA) - distributed hundreds of thousands to favored GOP lawmakers through his own PAC. That money was provided by corrupt defense contractors, MZM and ADCS (Wade, Wilkes), and a huge Israeli-controlled global hedge fund, Cerberus-Gabriel. Two US Attorneys investigated. One, Carol Lam, was fired. The other, Debra Wong Yang, accepted a $1.7 million signing bonus to go to work for the LA Law form that's defending Lewis. See, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/10/21556/5045

In addition, a major California GOP fundraiser, Gerry Parsky, headed the "Parsky Commission" that picked the replacements for fired US Attorneys. Parsky was a partner in that same LA Law Firm, and runs his own "vulture capital"/defense contracting company that's selling off key US defense companies to foreign investors. See, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/3/10/21543/2678