How high up do the Abramoff connections go?

[radfringe]

How many more are connected to Abramoff - and how high up are the connections? Abramoff has "bragged" about his white house connections...

we have DeLay, Flanigan (see story below), Safavian, Ney, Norquist, Racicot (see below), Rove, and the list appears to go on...

Bush's Nominee for No. 2 Justice Post Withdraws
President Bush's pick for the second-ranking position at the Justice Department abruptly withdrew his nomination Friday after facing weeks of questions over his ties to the lobbyist Jack Abramoff as well as his role in formulating policies for the treatment of suspected terrorists.

The nominee,Timothy Flanigan, a former deputy White House counsel who is now a senior lawyer at Tyco International, had been scheduled to face yet another round of questioning next week from senators who had grown skeptical about his nomination as deputy attorney general.
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The Repub Conga Line Toward the Courtroom Spreads to Montana
http://watchingthewatchers.org/story/2005/10/7/114551/012

The sleaze connections among top Republicans and the corporate world seem endless. The investigation of Abramoff now includes criminal charges against three mafia types accused of killing the man from whom Big Jack and his "connected" buddy bought a cruise line/gambling company, and could well entwine Grover Norquist, a host of Ohio Republicans, and several members of congress.

Now the Missoula Independent publishes an article speculating that the investigation and trial of the money laundering charge against DeLay may lay bare the role of then-RNC Chairman Marc Racicot in both the money laundering and the deregulation of power companies in Montana that has been a disaster for the state's citizens

[EST]

1. The web of the culture of corruption and cronyism will be

found to include all the GOPhers of any consequence and a good third of dem leadership.

[texpatriot2004]

2. This is a useful link for his connections

www.jackinthehouse.org

[radfringe]

3. thanks for the link.... n/t

[acmejack]

4. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy!

Racicot is a sleazy little weasel (with apologies to all weasels!).

[texpatriot2004]

5. Yeha apologies to weasels. n/t

[maine_raptor]

6. What about that White House Procurement Guy they nabbed the other day?

What the hell was his name, and did he have any connection to Abramoff, et al?

[texpatriot2004]

7. Safavian and Yes see

www.jackinthehouse.org