WA POST: Abramoff implicated "scores of other persons not yet charged,"

[L. Coyote]

Abramoff Pleads Guilty to Three Counts
By The Editors - August 27, 2008 - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/08/justice_dept_seeks_reduced_abr.html


Justice Dept Seeks Reduced Abramoff Sentence .... Jack Abramoff has spent more than 3,000 hours helping more than 100 law enforcement agents in an ongoing federal corruption probe that has implicated "scores of other persons not yet charged," .... the extent of Abramoff's cooperation was described in documents from both prosecutors and defense lawyers..... The government also is seeking about $23 million in restitution.

Abramoff ... helped convict more than a dozen people ... court papers indicate an extensive ongoing investigation by referencing a document that is sealed because it contains grand jury information. Still under investigation are former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and retiring Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.), among others.

Abramoff's attorneys also referred to a statement by Noel Hillman, former public integrity chief at Justice and now is a federal judge in New Jersey, who has said that Mr. Abramoff's decision to plead guilty and cooperate and expose the wrongs he and others did was a 'watershed' event in addressing public corruption."

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One can only imagine how diligently the Junta's DoJ minions are working to keep
Cheney's pay-to-play scandals and the Bush-Abramoff friendship out of this case.

Even with this "good news," Americans know full well that this is just more cover-up, at best!
Even Abramoff is likely still parsing everything to protect those at the top of their schemes.
Where are the indictment of those Abramoff worked for? All we see is lessor figures going down!

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Deja DU: HORTON: The Case of the Amazing Vanishing Corruption Investigation = ON ABRAMOFF
Mar-17-08 09 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3022643

McCain made this scandal vanish in time for the 2004 election.
That fact deserves frequent revisiting, and promotes further cover-up!

That said, it is really great to see a summation of how this major scandal,
one involving cover-up of visitor logs of the White House and VP, reaching
inside DeLay's Congressional leadership too, has very much been stalled .....

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The Case of the Amazing Vanishing Corruption Investigation
Scott Horton - March 17, 2008 - http://harpers.org/archive/2008/03/hbc-90002657

While the Bush Administration’s public integrity lawyers are busy staking out a Democratic governor’s rendezvous with an expensive call-girl, and attempting to shut down the work of a state legislature in order to probe the teaching plans of Alabama legislators who moonlight in junior colleges, the largest corruption scandal in American history has all but disappeared. It’s worth taking a second to ask: Why did the Public Integrity Section completely lose interest in the most important public corruption scandal in the nation’s history? .....

[w8liftinglady]

1. this is why I think our AG choice is so critical..

[tblue37]

7. "Bulldog" Kerry. John Kerry knows how to chase down and

expose corruption.

[C_U_L8R]

2. No wonder McCain can't decide on a VP

he can't figure out who is less implicated

[L. Coyote]

3. ROFLMAO. His VP pick might be indicted before the election!!

That can't be! McCain is an insider on this stuff. He covered up parts of the scandal before the 2004 election, while "playing" the maverick.

[EFerrari]

5. You mean, less than McCain is? Anyone seen Ralph Reed lately?

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/15/mccain-abramoff-reed/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/25/mccain-withheld-controver_n_88304.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/12/mccain-received-100000-_n_86245.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20080814/pl_usnw/dnc__scheunemann_link_highlights_mccain_s_abramoff_problem

[L. Coyote]

4. Roll Call: More Prosecutions Possible from Abramoff

Bush and Cheney on that list?

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More Prosecutions Possible from Abramoff
By Paul Singer - August 28, 2008 - http://www.rollcall.com/news/27729-1.html

A government motion seeking a reduced sentence for disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff also includes ominous hints that other “public officials” remain under investigation ... the government on Wednesday requested that Abramoff’s sentence be tempered by the “extraordinary cooperation” he has provided ....

The Justice Department brief also mentions that “there remain several ongoing or completed investigations of Abramoff and the relationships that he had with various public officials.” .... the department has submitted a sealed description of these investigations to the court.

According to the brief, the ongoing investigations cover “the same type of conduct which was outlined in Abramoff’s plea documents. In other words, the allegations are that the lobbyists provided a stream of things of value to public officials in exchange for a stream of official action.”

A number of Members’ names have surfaced ... including Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.) and former Reps. Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) and Tom DeLay (R-Texas).....

[amuse bouche]

6. This is taking too long