Or perhaps we could just give him an all-expense paid trip to the Vegas tables?
Thank you, Casino Jack! You're spreadin' among them like the Bird Flu! Heckuva job! Three More Lawmakers Linked to Abramoff
By TONI LOCY and PETE YOST, Associated Press Writers
Sat Feb 11, 7:28 AM ET
WASHINGTON - Three members of Congress have been linked to efforts by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a former General Services Administration official to secure leases of government property for Abramoff's clients, according to court filings by federal prosecutors on Friday.
The filings in U.S. District Court do not allege any wrongdoing by the elected officials but list them in documents portraying David Safavian, a former GSA chief of staff, as an active adviser to Abramoff, giving the lobbyists tips on how to use members of Congress to navigate the agency's bureaucracy. Abramoff is cooperating with federal investigators in a wide-ranging probe of corruption on Capitol Hill that threatens several powerful members of Congress and their staff members. Last month, he pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud. Safavian is charged with lying to a GSA ethics officer when he said Abramoff was not seeking business with the agency at the time the lobbyist paid for Safavian and several others to go on a golf outing to Scotland in August 2002.
At the time of the trip, prosecutors said, Abramoff was trying to get GSA approval for leases of the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington for an Indian tribe to develop and for federal property in Silver Spring, Md., for use by a Jewish school.
Two of the elected officials referred to in Friday's filings have been identified in published reports as Reps. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio, and Don Young, R-Alaska. According to Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, the two representatives wrote to the GSA in September 2002, urging the agency to give preferential treatment to groups such as Indian tribes when evaluating development proposals for the Old Post Office.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060211/ap_on_go_co/lobbyist_probeAdd 3 more republicans to the endangered species list: Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio, Don Young, R-Alaska, and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W Va. (Wow... still no democrats. I sense a pattern here...)
Folks, you gotta admit that Jack Abramoff has the potential of knocking out more poisonous members of congress than even a fair election would.