Finally, the spotlight turns on corrupt Tom Feeney

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FBI Questions Rep. Feeney (R-FL) Over Abramoff Ties

The St. Petersburg Times reports:

The FBI has asked U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney for information about his dealings with Jack Abramoff as part of its ongoing investigation into the lobbyist convicted of defrauding clients.
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Feeney is one of three House members who “accompanied Abramoff to Scotland on trips that included rounds of golf at the legendary Royal & Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews.” The other two: former Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH), who is serving prison time for corruption, and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-FL), currently under criminal indictment.

Feeney said in a statement that he “considers this an embarrassing episode in his 17-year career as an elected official and an expensive lesson for him as a public servant.”

UPDATE: More bad news for Feeney. He is listed as “Representative #3” in Justice Department documents filed in federal court today on Mark Zachares, “a former Bush administration official and House GOP aide who is expected to plead guilty tomorrow on a federal corruption charge” related to Abramoff.

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Only impacting criminals?

And they're not done. President Bush last week endorsed a proposal by Rep. Tom Feeney, R-Fla., which would allow the Justice Department to expand the use of "administrative subpoenas," gathering up books, papers, documents and electronic data, free of frustrating judicial supervision or the need to make a case before any grand jury -- whereupon the subjects of such subpoenas would be barred from telling anyone but their own lawyers about them ... guaranteeing we won't even know how much of this is going on.

The administration also wants to remove the right to be freed on bond of those accused -- not convicted, mind you, merely accused -- of anything the government calls "terrorism."

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Voting fraud

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Claim against Feeney deserved to be aired

A Feeney article declaring the attacks on DeLay partisan:

Case Closed: The unanimous dismissal of allegations against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

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1. about damn time!!!!!!!!!!. k&r..eom

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2. Didn't feeney threaten the journalist of the Seminole Chronicle article linked

above? I recall that article coming out and it was a big deal here on DU.