Bush Assistant Labor Secretary worked on Abramoff accounts worth millions

[kpete]

Bush Assistant Labor Secretary worked on troubled Abramoff accounts worth millions of dollars
John Byrne

A onetime member of Jack Abramoff's lobbying team who romanced Congress and opinion leaders for lobbying accounts valued at more than $11 million and shuttled members of Congress to the Northern Marianas Islands remains an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Labor, RAW STORY has found.

Patrick Pizzella, Assistant Secretary of Labor for Administration and Management, worked with Abramoff to lobby on behalf of dozens of clients—among them the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, eLottery and the Saginaw Chippewa. Lobbying work Abramoff did on these accounts is under investigation by a Senate Committee, the IRS and the Department of Justice.

Pizzella is the sole member of Abramoff's lobbying retinue remaining in the Bush Administration at the level of congressional confirmation. David Safavian, a onetime gambling lobbyist and Abramoff colleague, resigned and was arrested in September for obstructing justice in connection with the investigations. Abramoff pled guilty to counts of bribery and fraud Tuesday and faces a decade in prison.
http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Bush_Assistant_Labor_Secretary_worked_on_0104.html

[LeftNYC]

1. What was that silly Libby poem to Miller...

the roots connect where you vacation. Or some other such crap. Seems apropo in this case.

O what a tangled web the GOP weaves.

[soothsayer]

4. Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning,

They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them.

[LeftNYC]

5. so beautiful...

:puke:

[Spazito]

6. Hmmm, maybe the Abramoff criminal enterprise is what Libby

was referring to in his 'poem'. It would make eminent sense, imo. The roots are, indeed, coming into the light and the selling out to save one's own ass has begun, ergo the "they turn in clusters" could well be applied to what is currently happening.

[acmavm]

2. These people all have connections that should make them

ineligible for positions with the government. But with the bush** admin it seems to be expected, if not necessary.

[CottonBear]

3. Another rotton apple. I am so disgusted with these crooks.

:grr:

[donkeyotay]

7. The name is ringing a bell. Wasn't he, the other Abramoff employee

along with Susan Ralston who became a "special adviser" to el presidente? Was he a special adviser, too?