ZIOCON/GOP = another name for MAFIA MONEY; Abramoff scandal ties to 9-11 Atta drugrunning!

see it? Abramoff money network to FL election fraud/Chinese spies, in Feeney?
see it? Abramoff money network to TX election fraud, in DeLay?


things I missed calling your attention to: the Abramoff/Feeney/DeLay issues and those "Scottish fund raising" trips supposedly connecting them together financially.


All this could mean that the Grand Juries are sharing information on Florida-Ohio e-vote fraud of Feeney connections as well as Abramoff/DeLay money conduits like Scotland (which means that the DeLay indictments ARE GOING TO BACK INTO Abramoff's larger network of indictments)...


1. Abramoff was Senior Director of Government Affairs for the Greenberg Traurig law and lobbying firm [1] and was CRNC National Chairman from 1981-85. He is also a Director of **the National Center for Public Policy Research,*** a conservative activist group. ...

2. DeLay, ex-Majority Leader of U.S. House (indicted for similar money launding operation, in Texas election fraud) calls Abramoff one of his "closest and dearest friends." Eventually, where did DeLay's money come from, perchance? Abramoff?

3. DeLay, Ney and Florida Republican Representative Tom Feeney [key to creating the "steal Florida 2000 e-vote fraud program"] have each gone on golf trips to Scotland that were apparently arranged or funded by Abramoff. These trips took place in 2000, 2002, and 2003. ***Ney and Feeney each claimed that their trips were paid for by ABRAMOFF'S National Center for Public Policy Research,*** but the group denied this. Spokespeople for Ney and Feeney blamed NCPPR for filing errors [or covering up the link].

4. and on Feeney e-vote fraud:

31.Aug.2005 03:59
MILITARY! Arrest Bush now! Video of Ohio '04 Vote Fraud Testimony: "FL fixed since '00"

Bush has no rights to sit in any chair or office--except perhaps the electric chair. He stole both 2000 and 2004. He is an illegitimate narcissistic dictatorial twit. Feeney has no rights to even be in the Congress, he should be arrested as well. Plus, Feeney's Florida network connects with a Chinese spy network in the USA. In the past five years, a coterie of traitors has hijacked both the Republican party as well as U.S. democracy, destroyed the whole U.S.A. Constitution and Bill of Rights, taken the U.S. into two wars on false pretenses, has been involved in countless financial crimes and war profiteering crimes...what are you waiting for?!

...

VIDEO:  http://www.iwilltryit.com/fixed1.htm

Computer programmer Clinton Curtis testified at the December 13th, 2004 Congressional hearing in Columbus, Ohio naming [Abramoff-connected] Republican Congressman Tom Feeney as the person who hired him to prepare vote-rigging software.

The programmer claims that he designed and built a "vote rigging" software program at the behest of then Florida Congressman, now U.S. Congressman, Republican Tom Feeney of Florida's 24th Congressional District.

Clint Curtis, 46, claims that he built the software for Feeney in 2000 while working at a sofware design and engineering company in Oviedo, Florida (Feeney's home district).

Curtis, in his affidavit, says that as technical advisor and programmer at Yang Enterprises, Inc. (YEI) he was present at company meetings where Feeney was present "on at least a dozen occasions".

Feeney, who had run in 1994 as Jeb Bush's running-mate in his initial unsuccessful bid for Florida Governor, was serving as both corporate counsel and registered lobbyist for YEI during the period that Curtis worked at the company.

Feeney was also concurrently serving as a Florida state congressman while performing those services for YEI.

Feeney would eventually become Speaker of the Florida House before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002.

He is now a member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.

At an October 2000 meeting with Feeney, according to the affidavit and BRAD BLOG interviews with Curtis over the past three days, Feeney inquired whether the company could build a "vote fraud software prototype".

At least three YEI employees are said to have been present at that meeting; Curtis, company owner, Mrs. Li Woan Yang, and her executive secretary, Mike Cohen. Two other YEI employees may have come in and out at different points of the meeting according to Curtis.

Curtis says that Feeney "was very specific in the design and specifications required for this program."

"He detailed, in his own words, that; (a) the program needed to be touch-screen capable (b) the user should be able to trigger the program without any additional equipment (c) the programming to accomplish this needed to stay hidden even if the source code was inspected."

Though there was no problem with the first two requirements, Curtis explained to the Congressman that it would be "virtually impossible to hide such code written to change the voting results if anyone is able to review the uncompiled source code"

Nonetheless, he was asked at the meeting by Mrs. Yang to build the prototype anyway.

Curtis, "a life-long Republican" at the time, claims that it was his initial belief that Feeney's interest was in trying to stop Democrats from using "such a program to steal an election". Curtis had assumed that Feeney, "wanted to be able to detect and prevent that if it occurred."

Upon delivery of the software design and documentation on CD to Mrs. Yang, Curtis again explained to her that it would be impossible to hide routines created to manipulate the vote if anybody would be able to inspect the precompiled source code.

Mrs. Yang then told him, "You don't understand, in order to get the contract we have to hide the manipulation in the source code. This program is needed to control the vote in South Florida."

Mrs. Yang then took the CD containing the software from Curtis, reportedly for later delivery to Feeney.

In other meetings with Feeny prior to the 2000 elections, it became clear to Curtis that Feeney had plans to suppress the vote in strong Democratic precincts. In the affidavit, Curtis claims that in those meetings Feeney had "bragged that he had already implemented 'exclusion lists' to reduce the 'black vote'." Feeney also mentioned that "proper placement of police patrols could further reduce the black vote by as much as 25%."

Curtis says that he submitted his resignation to YEI effective December 2000, but stayed on until they had found someone to replace him in February of 2001. He eventually became employed by the Florida Dept. of Transportation (FDOT) after leaving YEI.

 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/08/323857.shtml

[Can you see it the Abramoff/Feeney/money gets into e-vote fraud links? Feeney's Yang Enterprises was full of Chinese spies as well--something that Greenberg Traurig law firm has been accused of money laundering for into Democatic election cycles.]


5. on how Grand Juries of Texas going after DeLay are going after DeLay's money links to Abramoff via these Scotland trips...the money link is something they are pursuing...

October 4, 2005 -- DeLay scandal goes international. A Texas Grand Jury has brought two more indictments against Rep. Tom DeLay, in addition to an earlier criminal conspiracy indictment. The latest two indictments are for money laundering. GOP apologists for DeLay contend that Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle is a Democratic activist bent on a vendetta against DeLay. They have no comment on the fact that it was two separate 12-member Grand Jury that brought the three indictments against DeLay.

However, what throws cold water on the entire GOP spin strategy is the fact that the U.S. Department of Justice is participating in a criminal probe of DeLay for his political fundraising activities in Great Britain, an investigation that includes DeLay's May 2000 meeting in London with Lady Margaret Thatcher, the former Tory Prime Minister.

The investigation involves DeLay's possible support for legislation in return for free trips abroad, including a May 2000 golf trip to St. Andrews, Scotland. DeLay's May 2000 meeting in St. Andrews with Scottish Tory Member of Parliament Brian Monteith and other Scottish Tory leaders are also being investigated. Monteith is an acquaintance of indicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff. A leaked British Home Office document states that the U.S. Justice Department requested the Home Office's assistance in a criminal probe "involving high-profile American and UK-based individuals, including a leading congressman and former prime minister Margaret Thatcher."

In August 2004, Thatcher's son, Sir Mark Thatcher, was placed under house arrest by South African police for his involvement in a plot to overthrow the government of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea in a coup d'etat that involved British, Angolan, and South African mercenaries and British, Lebanese, and American financial backers. The Boeing 727-100 used to fly the mercenaries to Equatorial Guinea via Zimbabwe (where it was impounded) was bought from Dodson Aviation, an Ottawa, Kansas company, just a few weeks prior to the planned coup. One of the largest investors in Equatorial Guinea's oil industry is Dallas-based Triton Energy, a firm that is close to George W. Bush. It has been a significant contributor to the Republican National Committee.

Thatcher was nabbed by South African police in Cape Town prior to his fleeing to Texas. His Texas-born wife Diane Burgdorf Thatcher, the conservative daughter of a Dallas millionaire care dealer, and their two children had already left South Africa for Texas. Thatcher had been under investigation by a special South African anti-corruption squad, code named the "Scorpions," since 1995. In 1994, Thatcher fled Texas for South Africa after he was charged with racketeering in a $6 million civil action. In January 2005, Thatcher pleaded guilty to violating South Africa's anti-mercenary laws and was fined $505,000 and allowed to leave for Britain. The United States denied Thatcher a visa to join his family in Texas. Last month, the couple announced that they were divorcing due to an "irretrievable breakdown."

It is doubtful that the Justice Department, under Republican Alberto Gonzales, would participate with Earle in a criminal probe of the former House Majority Leader if there was not a criminal predicate for such an investigation.

It is also commonplace for Federal and state prosecutors to share information when their investigations are targeting the same individual or group of individuals. The Justice Department probe of DeLay involves the possible laundering of money from Britain to DeLay's Republican political action committees (PACs). Those same PACs are part of Earle's probe of the illegal laundering of corporate money through the Republican National Committee.

The DeLay probe now includes prosecutors and investigators from the Travis County District Attorney's Office, the U.S. Justice Department, the British Home Office, the London Metropolitan Police, and the Scottish Police Services. GOP charges that the investigation is a Democratic plot are laughable and inane.

In addition to state charges, DeLay also faces possible criminal charges in relation to his dealings with convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff as well as the latest revelations about laundering political campaign money from Britain. If convicted on the Texas money laundering charges alone, DeLay faces up to life in prison.

 http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/326222.shtml

Can you see it? All the Grand Juries are like the blind men each focusing on little bits of the same big (Republican) elephant. Soon they will know the full beast since the Grand Juries, the DOJ, and others intel services overseas are sharing information with each other!

Please pass this link around...

Abramoff is a bad apple, but this posting is transparently anti-Semitic garbage. Compost....

What? Mislabeling this as "anti-semitic" is reminiscent of Judith Miller going to jail for her self proclaimed "freedom of the press" when she was just hiding out from incriminating herself from federal crimes.

I've come to realize that anyone who intentionally uses "anti-semetism" is really saying: "I'm taking the 5th amendment on this"....

There out to be a term for how some people attempt to hide their own criminal behavior or selfishness by publicly misclaiming they are/were taking the moral highground.

Some of my favorite examples:

--- Judith Miller's laughable use of "I'm going to jail to defend freedom of the press (when she already had Libby's permission to speak to the Grand Jury...she was merely saving her own skin from culpable criminal charges"

--- Bush/Rove's attempt at destroying checks and balances criminally, while saying that any interference with a totally autonomous executive branch is a break of the "balance of powers." Er, no. The balance of powers is not a doctrine of how different branches are autonomous, the balance of power has never been justified like that: it means that all branches DO INTERFERE with the others intentionally.

--- Aparthied in Israel, destroying schools, banks, infrastructure, shipping in nuclear waste storage facilities into Palistinian areas, keeping Palistinians and Jewish peoples from marrying, preemptively invading Egypt in the 1967 war--all this aparthied is called "saving and protecting" Israel. I'd love to see South Africa in the 1980s use that line: "saving and protecting white Africa" as a motto fails to really sound all that justifiable.

Is there a term? There's the term "wrapping oneself in the flag", and "hypocrisy" though that fails to really catch the issue. The issue is closer to how people attempt to defend psychopathic behavior as a form of ethical code/morality.

This is a great compilation that gets to the core of what's rotten in government these days. Thanks for posting.

Sadly-people are easily manipulated with the propaganda of religion...controlled-like one big cult- the lines are drawn- us v. them
Just the way they like it.
The Mafia state has no god but the almighty $$$$
I can only hope that everyone has the sense to know that the originating authors had nothing to do with the underlying message permeating from this posting.
We should not allow someone's delusions taint our view of the hard work put out by those investigating on the ground. googling alone does not make one a real researcher.
i should know ;-)

Another example of the ongoing public association of Bush family and Israeli Mafiya, in Russia.


Bush Family & Financier Berezovsky (fled Russian CRIMINAL) dumb down kids after CIA coups
23:39 Oct-17 (1 comment)
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/10/326946.shtml

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Florida investigators have discovered that the beach tract where Rove's home is located (for which he paid a mere $165,000 for the land in 2002) was owned by the St. Joe Company, Florida's largest private land owner and a firm that George H. W. Bush and the DuPont family have had a significant financial stake. An informed source told WMR that Rove's sweetheart land deal is tied to the Tom DeLay/Jack Abramoff money laundering scandal.

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Rove Soon To Leave For Florida
'Republican Riviera'?
By Wayne Madsen
11-6-2005


Rove soon to be living on "Republican Riviera?" As rumors swirl around Washington that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove may soon be leaving the White House soon "to spend more time with his family," there is renewed interest in how he obtained a sweetheart land deal on his Rosemary Beach home on the Florida Panhandle.

Florida investigators have discovered that the beach tract where Rove's home is located (for which he paid a mere $165,000 for the land in 2002) was owned by the St. Joe Company, Florida's largest private land owner and a firm that George H. W. Bush and the DuPont family have had a significant financial stake. An informed source told WMR that Rove's sweetheart land deal is tied to the Tom DeLay/Jack Abramoff money laundering scandal. "Florida is the center-of-gravity with Abramoff's deals," said the source.

St. Joe also owns half of the real estate development firm Codina Group, founded by Armando Codina, a personal friend of George H. W. Bush and one-time business partner of Governor Jeb Bush.

Until 1994, when Jeb Bush first ran for governor, the Codina Group was known as the Codina Bush Group. Since Jeb Bush became governor, he's taken care of his old business friends, selling them state-owned land at cut rate prices.

Conveniently, Rove's Panhandle neighbors will include some of Jeb's and Dubya's top fund raisers and friends -- people financially tied in with St. Joe and Codina.

 http://waynemadsenreport.com/


Insiders Say Rove May Leave White House

11-6-2005

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Karl Rove's colleagues are preparing for the possibility that he may leave the White House because of the CIA leak case.

Despite the insistence of friends that he is out of legal jeopardy, several of the lawyers who deal with special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald believe Fitzgerald is continuing to look into the possibility of charging Rove with lying to investigators or the grand jury or both, Time magazine reports.

If that happens, Rove almost certainly would resign immediately.

Several Bush administration officials predict that within a year, the president will have a new chief of staff and press secretary, probably a new treasury secretary and maybe a new defense secretary, the magazine said.

If Rove does head out, he may leave behind a wounded president.

"A president who loves to hit home runs and wants to be remembered for swinging for the fences is being forced to take base hits," says a former White House official.

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In 2001, Abramoff was working as a lobbyist for the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to prevent rival gaming casinos from siphoning off its Texas customers. He paid Former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed as a consultant, and Reed lobbied to get the Alabama-Coushatta and Tigua casinos closed in Texas--to increase the profits and clientele of Abramoff's casinos just across the Texas/Louisiana border in Louisiana.

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In E-mails, Consultant Claims Link to Cornyn
By Suzanne Gamboa
The Associated Press

Saturday 12 November 2005

Christian Coalition leader says he influenced effort to shut casinos.

Washington - Former Christian Coalition director Ralph Reed claimed in a 2001 e-mail to a lobbyist that he choreographed John Cornyn's efforts as Texas attorney general to shut down an East Texas Indian tribe's casino.

The lobbyist was Jack Abramoff, who is under federal investigation, along with his partner Michael Scanlon, on allegations of defrauding six Indian tribes of about $80 million from 2001 to 2004. The e-mail, along with about a dozen others, was released last week as part of the investigation.

In 2001, Abramoff was working as a lobbyist for the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to prevent rival gaming casinos from siphoning off its Texas customers. He paid Reed as a consultant, and Reed lobbied to get the Alabama-Coushatta and Tigua casinos closed in Texas.

In the Nov. 30, 2001, e-mail, Reed told Abramoff that 50 pastors led by Ed Young, of Second Baptist Church in Houston, would meet with Cornyn to urge him to shut down the Alabama-Coushatta tribe's casino near Livingston. He said Young would back up the request in writing.

"We have also choreographed Cornyn's response. The AG will state that the law is clear, talk about how much he wants to avoid repetition of El Paso (where the Tigua casino was) and pledge to take swift action to enforce the law," Reed wrote. "He will also personally hand Ed Young a letter that commits him to take action in Livingston."

Cornyn, now a Republican U.S. senator, had filed a lawsuit in 1999 to shut down the casino operated by the Tigua tribe in El Paso, saying it violated the state's limited gambling laws. In 2002, federal courts shuttered the Tiguas' casino and Cornyn used that ruling to shut down the Alabama-Coushattas' casino.

Cornyn, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing, has denied knowing Abramoff. He also has said he was unaware of Reed's work with Abramoff.

He said he did not remember receiving a letter from Young or Reed, or providing a letter to Young; he acknowledged meeting with the minister.

"Their efforts were irrelevant to what I was doing," said Cornyn, who was elected to the Senate in 2002. "It's kind of eye-opening to me that apparently people make money claiming credit for something I decided to do under the law."

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee blocked out references to Cornyn in the e-mails it released last week. But in previous Reed e-mails released by the committee, Cornyn's name was not removed.

The previously released e-mails showed that in 2002, Abramoff and Scanlon secretly funneled millions to Reed to help fund the campaign to get the Tigua casino shut down. The lobbyists then persuaded the Tiguas to hire them to reopen it.

A Reed spokeswoman refused to respond directly to questions about whether Reed had copies of or had seen Young's letter, or details about how he "choreographed" a response from Cornyn.

"No one should take credit for state Attorney General John Cornyn's actions and the faith community's support," Reed's spokeswoman Lisa Baron said. "Ralph Reed never has and never will."

She said Reed did not learn the Louisiana Coushattas were Abramoff's clients until 2002, and he was not aware that the tribe contributed to "our efforts" until 2004.

But Reed's e-mails suggest Cornyn's work was instrumental to Abramoff in fending off competition for his client.

Members of the Louisiana Coushatta tribal leadership testified last week that Abramoff used the threat of the Alabama-Coushatta casino in Texas to get more lobbying business.

Young said he met Cornyn for the first time at a pastors' meeting in late November 2001, where Cornyn spoke to about 15 to 20 pastors. Young also said he did not remember any exchange of letters occurring at the meeting as Reed said in the e-mail.

Cornyn "told us the situation. He was filing affidavits. We said we support you" because of the pastors' concerns about gambling, Young said.

Young dismissed Reed's suggestion that Cornyn needed him for support in the 2002 Senate race. He said he stays neutral because his church attracts Democrats and Republicans.


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 link to www.statesman.com

In 9-11 events, it looks like the Nordquist/Rove groups handed the "Islamic fronts" whenever personal contact was required, though they were puppeted by the ziocons at one remove...for instance, note the ziocons more direct connections to funding Al-Queda (via Perle and Feith) in Yugoslavia in the late 1990s. At back of the Al-Queda phenomena is the ziocons. I additionally note that the the only Al-Queda cell ever arrested--in the Palistinian territories--was found out to be a Mossad front--set up by Mossad to entrap and use the angst that is generated by the repressive environment to be useful for the Orwellian ziocon control network.



ABRAMOFF:


from above:

--- In 1995 supposed Jewish Zionist Abramoff....worked for the Global Council of Islamic Banks, whose chairman, Saleh Abdullah Kamel, was under investigation for alleged funding of terrorism, including Osama Bin Laden....

below:

"In the early 1980s the Islamic Bank for Development, which is located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, like the Permanent Secretariat of the Islamic Conference Organization, bought a new computerized system to cope with its accounting and communication requirements. At the time the system was more sophisticated than necessary for their actual needs....It was decided to use a part of the system's memory to host the Islamic Conference's database."


GROVER NORDQUIST:


and of course Grover Nordquist and Rove have Al-Queda tie in's as well.

Grover Nordquist, Republican operative, AL-QUEDA MIDDLEMAN for Bush Admin. [[
AL-ARIAN [Baraka Group in Tampa, FL funding] , AL-AMOUDI [World Association of Muslim Youth/Abdullah bin Laden, Virginia branch of funding], GROVER NORDQUIST/KARL ROVE [connected with AL-AMOUDI! this is the chain of people via which loyal FBI agents were told by the "White House" to stop investigating 9-11 false flag operations going on]]

"The busy Mr. AL-ARIAN had contacts not only with Mohamed Atta and al-Qaeda, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, but also with Karl Rove and the Bush Administration, through REPUBLICAN INSIDER GROVER NORDQUIST, who is a close friend of Karl Rove, and who was hired by Al-Amoudi as the front for him. "

"John Loftus, ex-DOJ official: About a year-and-a-half ago, people in the intelligence community came and said-guys like Alamoudi and Sami al-Arian and other terrorists weren't being touched because they'd been ordered not to investigate the cases, not to prosecute them." "But, who was it that fixed the cases?... the answer is coming out in a very strange [though logical] place. What Alamoudi and al-Arian have in common is a guy named Grover Norquist... He is the guy that was hired by Alamoudi to head up the Islamic institute and he's the registered agent for Alamoudi, personally, and for the Islamic Institute. "The rumpled, balding figure [Al-Arian] was spotted darting into the offices of Republican power broker Grover Norquist last July... Sami Al-Arian emerged more than two hours later... Al-Arian was visiting the Islamic Institute, a Muslim outreach group cofounded by Norquist and housed within his office suite." [Norquist is close friend of Karl Rove.] "In 1998... the Islamic Institute [Norquist/Al-Arian], the AMC [al-Amoudi] and Al-Arian [Islamic Institute/Grover Norquist] were all working together."

From MSNBC October 23, 2003:

"John Loftus, ex-DOJ official: About a year-and-a-half ago, people in the intelligence community came and said-guys like Alamoudi and Sami al-Arian and other terrorists weren't being touched because they'd been ordered not to investigate the cases, not to prosecute them."

"But, who was it that fixed the cases?... the answer is coming out in a very strange place. What Alamoudi and al-Arian have in common is a guy named Grover Norquist... He is the guy that was hired by Alamoudi to head up the Islamic institute and he's the registered agent for Alamoudi, personally, and for the Islamic Institute. Grover Norquist's best friend is Karl Rove, the White House chief of staff, and apparently Norquist was able to fix things."...

"Think of the Muslim chaplain's program that he set up as a spy service for al-Qaeda."


KARL ROVE:


KARL ROVE, AL-QUEDA CONTACT IN WHITE HOUSE, THROUGH CLOSE FRIEND GROVER NORQUIST: "Grover Norquist's best friend is Karl Rove, the White House chief of staff, and apparently Norquist was able to fix things [through Karl Rove, so that 9-11 covert op of false flagger (drug dealer) connections 'performed' at the FL/San Diego, CA flight schools were allowed to continue as the laying down of red herrings pre-9-11 for importnat post-9-11 blame narrative to be useful to invade Afghanistan and Iraq--and other countries.]."...


Title: World Beware: The US as rogue state! BUSH personally MEETS FALSE FLAGGER SIDE OF 9-11
Author: Grant Noah, (madcowprod.com)
Date: 2004.11.01 08:46
Description: HOLY SH*T~! We got 'em red handed NOW FOLKS. The whole puzzle piece of the WHOLE OPERATION HAS suddenly clicked in my mind. Hopefully it does in yours. Details follow. We got 'em here like we have yet to get em' before!! No one can deny this. Thoroughly documented quotes from boring trite corporate media posts, assembled by the great people at Mad Cow Morning News 9-11 research team (  http://www.madcowprod.com )--and because whoever posted those quotes really failed to draw the connections out, I took the liberty of spelling out the connections. If you want corporate media attributions to all quotes, they are all linked on the single referenced webpage below.
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/11/301639.shtml

Title: SPEECH:"Bin Laden, Etc Are CIA Stooges" - EX-Deputy Attorney General; Bush 911 TERROR PAL Al-Arian jailed
Author: grouping
Date: 2005.07.21 02:03
Description: The lawsuit of 2002 that this guy files against Al-Arian--the Tampa, FL 9-11 cell connection--is most interesting. Why is it interesting? Well, because Bush is hard and fast friends with Al-Arain; why settle for treasonous Rove? Get treasonous Bush, who meets with Al-Arian who is currently in federal prison awaiting trial for terrorism connections to 9-11. Bush is conversing with his family merely one month before 9-11; terrorist Al-Arian scheduled to meet in the White House with VP Cheney, though Cheney cancels the meeting.
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/07/321874.shtml


and hard core Zionists RICHARD PERLE AND DOUGLAS FEITH funding Yugoslavian Al-Queda operations, below.., who like Abramoff, are hard right Zionists.



MAIN ARTICLE:


So, Where Did 'Al Qaeda' Really Come From?

By Wayne Madsen
11-19-2005

More on Al Qaeda -- the database.

Shortly before his untimely death [very likely murder], former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook told the House of Commons that "Al Qaeda" is not really a terrorist group but a database of international mujaheddin and arms smugglers used by the CIA and Saudis to funnel guerrillas, arms, and money into Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Courtesy of World Affairs, a journal based in New Delhi, WMR can bring you an important excerpt from an Apr.-Jun. 2004 article by Pierre-Henry Bunel, a former agent for French military intelligence.

"I first heard about Al-Qaida while I was attending the Command and Staff course in Jordan. I was a French officer at that time and the French Armed Forces had close contacts and cooperation with Jordan . . .

"Two of my Jordanian colleagues were experts in computers. They were air defense officers. Using computer science slang, they introduced a series of jokes about students' punishment.

"For example, when one of us was late at the bus stop to leave the Staff College, the two officers used to tell us: 'You'll be noted in 'Q eidat il-Maaloomaat' which meant 'You'll be logged in the information database.' Meaning 'You will receive a warning . . .' If the case was more severe, they would used to talk about 'Q eidat i-Taaleemaat.' Meaning 'the decision database.' It meant 'you will be punished.' For the worst cases they used to speak of logging in 'Al Qaida.'

"In the early 1980s the Islamic Bank for Development, which is located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, like the Permanent Secretariat of the Islamic Conference Organization, bought a new computerized system to cope with its accounting and communication requirements. At the time the system was more sophisticated than necessary for their actual needs.

"It was decided to use a part of the system's memory to host the Islamic Conference's database. It was possible for the countries attending to access the database by telephone: an Intranet, in modern language. The governments of the member-countries as well as some of their embassies in the world were connected to that network.

"[According to a Pakistani major] the database was divided into two parts, the information file where the participants in the meetings could pick up and send information they needed, and the decision file where the decisions made during the previous sessions were recorded and stored. In Arabic, the files were called, 'Q eidat il-Maaloomaat' and 'Q eidat i-Taaleemaat.' Those two files were kept in one file called in Arabic 'Q eidat ilmu'ti'aat' which is the exact translation of the English word database. But the Arabs commonly used the short word Al Qaida which is the Arabic word for "base." The military air base of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is called 'q eidat 'riyadh al 'askariya.' Q eida means "a base" and "Al Qaida" means "the base."

"In the mid-1980s, Al Qaida was a database located in computer and dedicated to the communications of the Islamic Conference's secretariat.

"In the early 1990s, I was a military intelligence officer in the Headquarters of the French Rapid Action Force. Because of my skills in Arabic my job was also to translate a lot of faxes and letters seized or intercepted by our intelligence services . . . We often got intercepted material sent by Islamic networks operating from the UK or from Belgium.

"These documents contained directions sent to Islamic armed groups in Algeria or in France. The messages quoted the sources of statements to be exploited in the redaction of the tracts or leaflets, or to be introduced in video or tapes to be sent to the media. The most commonly quoted sources were the United Nations, the non-aligned countries, the UNHCR and . . . Al Qaida.

"Al Qaida remained the data base of the Islamic Conference. Not all member countries of the Islamic Conference are 'rogue states' and many Islamic groups could pick up information from the databases. It was but natural for Osama Bin Laden to be connected to this network. He is a member of an important family in the banking and business world.

"Because of the presence of 'rogue states,' it became easy for terrorist groups to use the email of the database. Hence, the email of Al Qaida was used, with some interface system, providing secrecy, for the families of the mujaheddin to keep links with their children undergoing training in Afghanistan, or in Libya or in the Beqaa valley, Lebanon. Or in action anywhere in the battlefields where the extremists sponsored by all the 'rogue states' used to fight. And the 'rogue states' included Saudi Arabia. When Osama bin Laden was an American agent in Afghanistan, the Al Qaida Intranet was a good communication system through coded or covert messages.

Meet "Al Qaeda"

"Al Qaida was neither a terrorist group nor Osama bin Laden's personal property . . . The terrorist actions in Turkey in 2003 were carried out by Turks and the motives were local and not international, unified, or joint. These crimes put the Turkish government in a difficult position vis-a-vis the British and the Israelis. But the attacks certainly intended to 'punish' Prime Minister Erdogan for being a 'toot tepid' Islamic politician.

" . . . In the Third World the general opinion is that the countries using weapons of mass destruction for economic purposes in the service of imperialism are in fact 'rogue states," specially the US and other NATO countries.

" Some Islamic economic lobbies are conducting a war against the 'liberal" economic lobbies. They use local terrorist groups claiming to act on behalf of Al Qaida. On the other hand, national armies invade independent countries under the aegis of the UN Security Council and carry out pre-emptive wars. And the real sponsors of these wars are not governments but the lobbies concealed behind them.

"The truth is, there is no Islamic army or terrorist group called Al Qaida. And any informed intelligence officer knows this. But there is a propaganda campaign to make the public believe in the presence of an identified entity representing the 'devil' only in order to drive the 'TV watcher' to accept a unified international leadership for a war against terrorism. The country behind this propaganda is the US and the lobbyists for the US war on terrorism are only interested in making money."

In yet another example of what happens to those who challenge the system, in December 2001, Maj. Pierre-Henri Bunel was convicted by a secret French military court of passing classified documents that identified potential NATO bombing targets in Serbia to a Serbian agent during the Kosovo war in 1998. Bunel's case was transferred from a civilian court to keep the details of the case classified. Bunel's character witnesses and psychologists notwithstanding, the system "got him" for telling the truth about Al Qaeda and who has actually been behind the terrorist attacks commonly blamed on that group. It is noteworthy that that Yugoslav government, the government with whom Bunel was asserted by the French government to have shared information, claimed that Albanian and Bosnian guerrillas in the Balkans were being backed by elements of "Al Qaeda." We now know that these guerrillas were being backed by money provided by the Bosnian Defense Fund, an entity established as a special fund at Bush-influenced Riggs Bank and directed by Richard Perle and Douglas Feith.

 http://waynemadsenreport.com/

The money funneling from Abramoff to Delay seem to connect: these connects are coming to the surface, as predicted in the original summary of the first article above...

points of note

1. the DeLay money tranche and the Abramoff money tranche do connect, given this tenuous DeLay aide connect to Abramoff in this indictment

2. and moreover, particlarly given the below quote. This trip was organized for DeLay and through Abramoff. Though both sides are anguished over blaming the other over it.

"According to the charge, Scanlon and Abramoff, once a powerful Washington lobbyist, provided a stream of things of value to a member of Congress, identified only as "Representative No. 1," from January 2000 through April of last year. The lawmaker and members of his staff received a lavish golf trip to Scotland, tickets to sporting events and other entertainment, regular meals and campaign contributions in return for supporting legislation, according to the court documents. Rep. Bob Ney, a Republican from Ohio, said recently he had received a subpoena as part of the U.S. Justice Department's investigation of Abramoff."

This gets into Ohio issues...and the neocon/Abramoff connects to the UK! (see above, where they are unable to get their cover story straight about this golf trip...as each side attempts to hide)


Ex-Republican aide charged in corruption case
Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:50 PM ET

By James Vicini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A one-time aide to former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay of Texas has been charged with conspiring with his lobbyist partner Jack Abramoff to defraud Indian tribes of millions of dollars and to corruptly give gifts to a member of Congress, prosecutors said.

The filing of the one-count charge in federal court against Michael Scanlon, was contained in what is called a criminal information, usually used in cases involving a plea agreement, rather than in an indictment.

It was filed in federal court on Thursday and made public on Friday.

According to the charge, Scanlon and Abramoff, once a powerful Washington lobbyist, provided a stream of things of value to a member of Congress, identified only as "Representative No. 1," from January 2000 through April of last year.

The lawmaker and members of his staff received a lavish golf trip to Scotland, tickets to sporting events and other entertainment, regular meals and campaign contributions in return for supporting legislation, according to the court documents.

Rep. Bob Ney, a Republican from Ohio, said recently he had received a subpoena as part of the U.S. Justice Department's investigation of Abramoff.

A spokesman for Ney said the lawmaker will fully cooperate in the investigation. "He has not been told that he is the target of any investigation and there would be no grounds to do so. Mr. Scanlon's being charged with lying to and cheating his clients does not change that," the spokesman said.

According to the seven-page court document, the conspiracy's purpose was for Scanlon and Abramoff "to enrich themselves by obtaining substantial funds from their clients through fraud and concealment and through obtaining benefits for their clients through corrupt means."

A Justice Department spokesman said a hearing had been scheduled for Monday in federal court in Washington in Scanlon's case, but refused to give any details.

The documents described Scanlon's dealings with "Lobbyist A," with whom he worked. Although the lobbyist was not identified by name, a source close to the investigation said that it was Abramoff.

Scanlon's former boss, DeLay, faces conspiracy and money laundering charges in Texas as part of a campaign finance investigation. He resigned as majority leader in September when he was indicted.

Abramoff has pleaded not guilty to federal charges in Florida that he defrauded lenders in a casino cruise line deal.

The charges involving Scanlon said Abramoff solicited an Indian tribe in Mississippi in 1995 as a client for lobbying services on various issues.

Abramoff recommended that the tribe hire Scanlon's company, Capital Campaign Strategies, while concealing the fact that Abramoff would get half of the profits from the tribe's payments to Scanlon, according to the court papers.

The tribe paid Scanlon's firm $14.8 million from June 2001 through April 2004, while Scanlon concealed from the tribe that 50 percent of the profit, about $6.3 million, was kicked back to Abramoff under their secret arrangement, according to the papers.

The court documents detailed similar arrangements for tribes in Louisiana, Michigan and Texas.

 http://today.reuters.com/news/
newsArticle.aspx? type=politicsNews&storyID=2005-11-18T224952Z
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Texas, Ohio, California, and Montana eyed in the Abramoff financial networks...and of course Washington D.C.


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Prosecutors in the department's public integrity and fraud divisions are looking into Abramoff's dealings with four Republicans

- ex-House of Rep. Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas,
- Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio,
- Rep. John Doolittle of California and
- Sen. Conrad Burns of Montana

...also investigating at least 17 current and former congressional aides, about half of whom later took lobbying jobs with Abramoff, as well as an official from the Interior Department and another from the government's procurement office...

...investigators were looking into whether Abramoff and his partners made illegal payoffs to the lawmakers and aides....

Michael Scanlon, a former aide to DeLay and partner to powerful Republican lobbyist Abramoff, pleaded guilty to conspiracy...

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11-26-2005

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The US Justice Department's probe of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff is broader than previously thought, examining his dealings with four lawmakers, former and current congressional aides and two former Bush administration officials, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

Prosecutors in the department's public integrity and fraud divisions are looking into Abramoff's dealings with four Republicans - former House of Representatives Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas, Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio, Rep. John Doolittle of California and Sen. Conrad Burns of Montana, the paper said, citing several people close to the investigation.

Abramoff is under investigation over his lobbying efforts for Indian tribes with casinos. He has also pleaded not guilty to federal charges in Florida that he defrauded lenders in a casino cruise line deal.

The prosecutors are also investigating at least 17 current and former congressional aides, about half of whom later took lobbying jobs with Abramoff, as well as an official from the Interior Department and another from the government's procurement office, the Journal said.

Justice Department spokesman Paul Bresson declined to comment on the investigation.

The newspaper said investigators were looking into whether Abramoff and his partners made illegal payoffs to the lawmakers and aides in the form of campaign contributions, sports tickets, meals, travel and job offers, in exchange for helping their clients.

DeLay and Ney have already retained criminal defense lawyers.

Spokespeople for the two lawmakers told the Journal that they have both hired lawyers and have not been contacted by the Justice Department.

Michael Scanlon, a former aide to DeLay and partner to powerful Republican lobbyist Abramoff, pleaded guilty to conspiracy on Monday under a deal in which he is cooperating with prosecutors probing the alleged influence-buying.

Scanlon left DeLay's office and become a partner to Abramoff, who has been indicted for fraud in a separate case in Florida. The plea agreement has been seen as a major advance in prosecutors' efforts to investigate the lobbyist.

from above:

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Press accounts have suggested that Abramoff used his political connections to gain support for the deal in Washington [8].Tom DeLay, then House minority whip, gave Boulis a flag that had flown over the capitol building. Abramoff brought his lead financier in the deal to a fund raiser for DeLay in Abramoff's box at FedEx Field. Ohio Republican Representative Bob Ney promoted the [Sicilian mafia connection of] Kidan/Abramoff in the House on several occasions. In March 2000, before the deal was closed, Ney accused the SunCruz management of cheating passengers. On October 26 2000, praised the change of ownership: "While Mr. Kidan [with his Sicilian mafia connections] certainly has his hands full in his efforts to clean up SunCruz's reputation, his track record as a businessman and as a citizen lead me to believe that he will easily transform SunCruz from a questionable enterprise to an upstanding establishment that the gaming community can be proud of." Ney has since [turned tail and] accused Abramoff of duping him. A DeLay spokesperson [equally turning tail] said that he had no recollection of the meeting. DeLay, Ney and Florida Republican Representative [Mr. Vote Fraud and Chinese spy network contact] Tom Feeney have each gone on golf trips to Scotland that were apparently arranged or funded by Abramoff. These trips took place in 2000, 2002, and 2003. Ney and Feeney each claimed that their trips were paid for by the National Center for Public Policy Research [connected to Abramoff], but the group [turned tail and] denied this. Spokespeople for Ney and Feeney blamed others for filing errors.

...

2.

something to add:

In his plea agreement, Scanlon said that he and Abramoff, referred to as "Lobbyist A," provided travel, golf fees, entertainment, and campaign contributions to public officials "in exchange for a series of official acts and influence." At least one congressman, widely believed to be Rep. Bob Ney, an Ohio Republican [who had defended Diebold, which is HQ'ed in his state of Ohio--keys in which Ney/Feeney connections to Diebold in FL...], received trips to the Super Bowl in Tampa and to Scotland, meals at a restaurant owned by Abramoff, and campaign contributions.

Ney provided "official acts" to Abramoff, including helping a client secure a telephone contract for the House of Representatives and placing a statement drafted by Scanlon into the Congressional Record criticizing the owner of a casino boat company that Abramoff wanted to buy. Abramoff has also been indicted on fraud charges in connection with that failed purchase. A Ney spokesman says, "All that this plea agreement shows is that Mr. Scanlon had a deliberate . . . scheme to defraud many people, and it appears, unfortunately, that Representative Ney was one of the many people defrauded."

So far, the investigation has resulted in the resignation only of the chief procurement officer at the White House Office of Management and Budget, who was indicted on charges of lying to investigators.

Still, there are suddenly lots of folks with the shivers on Capitol Hill--and it's not just because of the change in the weather.

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 http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051205/5abramoff.htm


3.

This Diebold defending Ney is the same friend as the Florida vote frauding Mr. Feeney, who in signed depositions by the programmer Clinton Curtis, of Florida and formerly of Feeney associated Yang Enterprises, claims that Florida was vote rigged and defrauded in the 2000 Presidential Elections via a program paid for by Feeney associated Yang Enterprises in 2000. Yang Ent. turned out to be connected with a Chinese spy ring stealing NASA secrets as well, though was remarkably unpunished for it.

Title: MILITARY! Arrest Bush now! Video of Ohio '04 Vote Fraud Testimony: "FL fixed since '00"--through Feeney
Author: get rid of him!
Date: 2005.08.31 03:59
Description: Bush has no rights to sit in any chair or office--except perhaps the electric chair. He stole both 2000 and 2004. He is an illegitimate narcissistic dictatorial twit. Feeney has no rights to even be in the Congress, he should be arrested as well. Plus, Feeney's Florida network connects with a Chinese spy network in the USA. In the past five years, a coterie of traitors has hijacked both the Republican party as well as U.S. democracy, destroyed the whole U.S.A. Constitution and Bill of Rights, taken the U.S. into two wars on false pretenses, has been involved in countless financial crimes and war profiteering crimes...what are you waiting for?!
 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/08/323857.shtml

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And it touches White House _directly_ now:

summary:
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"A senior White House budget official, David Safavian, has been arrested for failing to report gifts from the indicted lobbyist."

SH*T! SUNCRUZ LINES fraud from 2000 as well, he pleads guilty:

Mr Abramoff was **also expected to** [he does, see second article] plead guilty to fraud today in a separate case in Miami, involving his purchase in 2000 of a fleet of [unregulated offshore Florida] casino ships [that Mohammad Atta was known to slap down large bets at the cruise line's tables--uncaring whether he won or lost--after Abramoff bought it. Was Atta both in charge of the drug transhipments (re Hopsicker's investigatory work in the book _Welcome to Terrorland_) as well as the money laundering (re Hopsicker's work in articles mentioned above).

The man Abramoff bought the fleet from, Konstantinos Boulis, was shot dead a year later in the middle of a dispute over the sale.

Mr. Abramoff entered a [Miami] courtroom trailed by about 100 news media cameras, and told United States District Court Judge Paul Huck that he was guilty of conspiring to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, and of a separate charge of wire fraud. **The judge set sentencing for March 16.** Prosecutors in the Miami case were accusing Mr. Abramoff of faking documents to get a $60 million loan to buy a fleet of gambling ships in 2000 [at whose CEO position he places someone linked with the Italian Mafia]. Four other charges were dropped under a plea agreement that calls for a six- or seven-year prison sentence.

Mr. Abramoff had been scheduled to stand trial in the Florida case next Monday, [though since he now pleads guilty instead] and the all-encompassing plea agreement with Justice Department prosecutors means that the Miami sentence can be served concurrently with the Washington sentence.

...he pleaded guilty [in Washington DC court] to defrauding at least four Indian tribes of tens of millions of dollars, enticing government officials with bribes and evading taxes. In the Washington case, Mr. Abramoff accepted a recommended reduced prison sentence of about 10 years in exchange for testifying against former associates in the influence-peddling case. The agreement also requires Mr. Abramoff to pay more than $26 million in tax penalties...

***How much time Mr. Abramoff will spend in prison will be determined later, after he has fulfilled most of his obligation to help investigators.***

The corruption inquiry involving Mr. Abramoff, potentially one of the most explosive in Congressional history, has expanded in recent months to encompass dozens of political operatives, including former Congressional aides and lobbyists suspected of arranging bribes in exchange for legislative work, participants in the case said. His testimony, coupled with that of Michael Scanlon, a former Abramoff business associate who pleaded guilty in November, reaches into the executive and legislative branches...drawing an ever-tighter ring of evidence around the former House Republican majority leader, Tom DeLay, and other senior Congressional Republicans.

Prosecutors are reported to be focusing on about 20 politicians and their staff, including the biggest recipients of Mr Abramoff's largesse. As well as Mr DeLay and Mr Safavian, they include Bob Ney, the Republican head of the House administration committee known as "the mayor of Capitol Hill" for his extensive influence, and Democratic senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. The three men [currently...] have all denied any wrongdoing.

[However, in the second article, released court documents fill in the DeLay as well as Ney connections, due to Abramoff talking.]

Mr. Abramoff helped funnel more than $1.5 million in campaign donations to hundreds of elected officials, more than half of them Republican, since 2000, according to analyses of his work. As prosecutors threatened to indict him - and ultimately, late Monday night, worked out a negotiated settlement after weeks of intense wrangling - ...

Mr. Abramoff has been in talks with prosecutors for some 18 months, his lawyer in Washington, Abbe D. Lowell, said. According to people involved in the case, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because the broader investigation is continuing, **Mr. Abramoff at times offered guidance to investigators as they pursued other targets.**

According to participants in the case, he has shared information about

-- David H. Safavian, a former Bush administration official indicted last year, and

-- Tim Flanigan, the Tyco executive who withdrew his nomination as the second-in-command at the Justice Department after his ties to Mr. Abramoff came into question. Tyco is also mentioned, although not by name, in the plea agreement.

**The publicly released court documents, followed by the Justice Department's news conference about the case, were designed as a "shot across the bow" to other potential suspects in the inquiry, a person involved said.**

"With most cases, the plea is the end, but with Abramoff, the plea is just the beginning," said an FBI official who spoke on condition of anonymity, adding, "This one has legs."

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Abramoff To Reveal All In Congress Bribes Scandal
Senior politicians alleged to have accepted favours
· Republicans likely to suffer most damage

By Julian Borger in Washington,
The Guardian - UK
1-4-2006 [note date]

A well-connected Republican lobbyist agreed yesterday to give evidence against top politicians whom he allegedly bribed, in what analysts predict may prove to be the biggest congressional scandal in American history.

The lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, pleaded guilty to engaging in a conspiracy involving "corruption of public officials" as well as fraud and tax evasion, after striking a deal with federal prosecutors that is expected to lift the lid on a culture of corruption in Congress, in which legislative favours are routinely exchanged for lucrative perks.

Politicians from both parties received money from Mr Abramoff and his clients, but the scandal is likely to inflict most damage on the Republicans and could ultimately threaten their hold on Congress.

One of the party's most powerful figures, Tom DeLay, who was instrumental in orchestrating its victories in 2000, 2002 and 2004, is at the centre of the investigation for his close financial ties to Mr Abramoff. He is also facing charges in a separate case involving political money-laundering in Texas and had to step down from his job as House majority leader last year.

A senior White House budget official, David Safavian, has been arrested for failing to report gifts from the indicted lobbyist.

"This is potentially the biggest congressional scandal in history," said Melanie Sloan, a former federal prosecutor and the head of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a watchdog organisation. "Abramoff knew everybody. He knows how Washington works."

The White House spokesman Scott McClellan was unable to say yesterday whether George Bush had ever met Mr Abramoff, but he denounced the lobbyist. "What he is reportedly acknowledged doing is unacceptable and outrageous," he said. "If laws were broken, he must be held to account for what he did."

Mr Abramoff was a central fixture in Washington political life, wining and dining top politicians in his own restaurant, hosting them in plush corporate boxes at sporting events, and flying them on all-expenses-paid golf trips to Scotland.

The lobbyist and his partners also coordinated political donations worth $1.7m (£975,000) to more than 200 members of Congress on behalf of clients such as the Choctaw Indian tribe in Mississippi, the US-administered Northern Mariana islands in the Pacific and Russian oil magnates.

Legislation passed by Congress in recent years directly benefited those clients and the justice department's ethics division is now seeking to prove that those votes were bought.

"Words will not ever be able to express my sorrow and my profound regret for all my actions and mistakes," Mr Abramoff told the judge in a Washington courtroom. "I hope I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and those I've wronged or caused to suffer."

Mr Abramoff was also expected to plead guilty to fraud today in a separate case in Miami, involving his purchase in 2000 of a fleet of casino ships. The man he bought the fleet from, Konstantinos Boulis, was shot dead a year later in the middle of a dispute over the sale.

Prosecutors are reported to be focusing on about 20 politicians and their staff, including the biggest recipients of Mr Abramoff's largesse. As well as Mr DeLay and Mr Safavian, they include Bob Ney, the Republican head of the House administration committee known as "the mayor of Capitol Hill" for his extensive influence, and Democratic senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. The three men have all denied any wrongdoing. Mr Dorgan and several other members of Congress have returned political donations received from Mr Abramoff and his clients, in a rush to distance themselves from the man who was once a popular socialite.

Despite the involvement of some Democrats, Stanley Brand, a former congressional lawyer, said Republicans were likely to feel the brunt of any public backlash in the November congressional elections.

"The party in power always suffers," said Mr Brand, who is now in private practice specialising in defending public officials.

The scandal will also bring scrutiny of Mr DeLay's decade-long bid to pack Washington lobbying firms with Republicans. The scheme, known as the "K Street project" after the wide boulevard that houses much of the industry, helped create lucrative jobs for party activists.

But Mr Brand doubted that the scrutiny would lead to profound change.

"Everyone will get worked into a lather and then they'll go back to what they've done for the past 200 years ... You're not going to get money out of politics and you're not going to get influence out of government."

Backstory

The Abramoff scandal began last year as a little-noticed investigation into casinos on some Native American reservations. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and other tribes complained to Senate investigators that they had been paying millions of dollars to Washington lobbyists to help protect their gambling income from taxation and competition but were getting little in return.

The lobbyists in question were led by Jack Abramoff, a Washington super-lobbyist who owned his own plush restaurant, Signatures, for entertaining politicians, and Michael Scanlon, a former spokesman for one of the Republican party's top power-brokers, Tom DeLay.

The inquiry uncovered a culture of influence-peddling that infused Congress and tainted the White House, as first Mr Scanlon and then Mr Abramoff decided to cooperate with the justice department. As well as meals at Signatures, Mr Abramoff offered hospitality in comfortable "sky-boxes" at sports events and golfing trips to Scotland, for a chance to play at St Andrews.

One of the lucky golfers was Mr DeLay, who took his wife and entourage on an Abramoff-financed trip to Scotland in 2000. [It will be interesting to see whose version of the story is the correct one. DeLay of course is still denying this connection, however, with Abramoff turning state's witness...] He [DeLay] has claimed it was a working visit, involving a meeting with Margaret Thatcher. Baroness Thatcher's office has confirmed the meeting.

Mr DeLay stepped down as House majority leader in September after being charged in a separate case involving political money-laundering in Texas.

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Lobbyist Pleads Guilty in Florida; Second Plea in 2 Days
By Abby Goodnough and Anne E. Kornblut
The New York Times

Wednesday 04 January 2006

Miami - A day after he pleaded guilty to three felony counts in Washington, Jack Abramoff, a once prominent Republican lobbyist, pleaded guilty today to two felony charges of conspiracy and fraud in a case stemming from his purchase of a casino boat line in 2000.

Wearing a light-colored baseball cap and a dark suit, Mr. Abramoff entered a courtroom here trailed by about 100 news media cameras, and told United States District Court Judge Paul Huck that he was guilty of conspiring to commit wire fraud and mail fraud, and of a separate charge of wire fraud.

The judge set sentencing for March 16.

Mr. Abramoff's appearance in court here came a day after he instantly became the star witness in a sweeping federal investigation into public corruption in Washington when he pleaded guilty to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials as part of a settlement with federal prosecutors. The inquiry could involve as many as a dozen lawmakers, people involved in the case said.

In the chilly weather of Washington on Tuesday, Mr. Abramoff, 46, wore a black fedora and a trenchcoat, but he appeared contrite and subdued both there and in the balmy setting today in Miami, where his lawyers said he was suffering from a knee injury.

He was in the Miami courtroom for about 25 minutes, and was then scheduled to go across the street for a meeting on his bond; but one of his lawyers, Neal Sonnett, asked the judge to postpone that meeting so that he could avoid the throng of reporters outside. "I don't know if you know what the outside of the courthouse looks like," Mr. Sonnett told the judge, "but Mr. Abramoff almost got knocked over this morning as we were coming in."

The judge cleared the courtroom of reporters and met with the defendant and lawyers involved in the case after they left.

Prosecutors in the Miami case are accusing Mr. Abramoff of faking documents to get a $60 million loan to buy a fleet of gambling ships in 2000. Four other charges were dropped under a plea agreement that calls for a six- or seven-year prison sentence.

Mr. Abramoff had been scheduled to stand trial in the Florida case next Monday, and the all-encompassing plea agreement with Justice Department prosecutors means that the Miami sentence can be served concurrently with the Washington sentence.

In the Washington case, Mr. Abramoff accepted a recommended reduced prison sentence of about 10 years in exchange for testifying against former associates in the influence-peddling case. The agreement also requires Mr. Abramoff to pay more than $26 million in tax penalties and restitution to former clients, although he has told associates he is broke.

How much time Mr. Abramoff will spend in prison will be determined later, after he has fulfilled most of his obligation to help investigators.

The corruption inquiry involving Mr. Abramoff, potentially one of the most explosive in Congressional history, has expanded in recent months to encompass dozens of political operatives, including former Congressional aides and lobbyists suspected of arranging bribes in exchange for legislative work, participants in the case said.

His testimony, coupled with that of Michael Scanlon, a former Abramoff business associate who pleaded guilty in November, reaches into the executive and legislative branches and appears to be drawing an ever-tighter ring of evidence around the former House Republican majority leader, Tom DeLay, and other senior Congressional Republicans.

On Tuesday, he stood hunched in front of a Federal District Court judge, his eyes downcast as the plea deal was announced. He bore little resemblance to the brash operative who in hundreds of e-mails messages obtained by prosecutors once boasted about his financial kickbacks, referring to them as a "gimme five" scheme.

Instead, in front of Judge Ellen Huvelle, Mr. Abramoff confessed to making "a multitude of mistakes" during a decade or so of lobbying work. In a soft, grainy voice, he pleaded guilty to defrauding at least four Indian tribes of tens of millions of dollars, enticing government officials with bribes and evading taxes.

"All of my remaining days, I will feel tremendous sadness and regret for my conduct and for what I have done," Mr. Abramoff said. Emerging from the courthouse into a light drizzle wearing a black fedora, he slipped into a waiting car and was driven away. Mr. DeLay, who has taken in thousands in campaign donations from Mr. Abramoff and accompanied the lobbyist on a lavish golf trip to Scotland in 2000, has denied any wrongdoing. Richard Cullen, a former United States attorney representing Mr. DeLay, said his client "is confident that when the Department of Justice completes its investigation and gets to the bottom of this that they will conclude that he did nothing wrong." No lawmaker has been charged in the case.

Court documents filed Tuesday gave a snapshot of what Mr. Abramoff has been telling investigators during their plea negotiations over the last year and a half.

In one instance cited in court documents, Mr. Abramoff directed favors to a senior DeLay staff member - referred to in documents as "Staffer A," but identified by lawyers as Tony C. Rudy, now a Republican lobbyist. Those favors came in the form of payments to Mr. Rudy's wife, Lisa. Mr. Abramoff paid $50,000 to Lisa Rudy through a charity organization in exchange for her husband's "agreement to perform a series of official acts," the plea agreement said.

"Abramoff, Scanlon and others engaged in a course of conduct through which one or both of them offered and provided a stream of things of value to public officials in exchange for a series of official acts and influence," the agreement states.

Also mentioned in the plea agreement was a "Representative No. 1" who, along with members of his staff, accepted gifts, travel and free meals at Mr. Abramoff's restaurant, Signatures, in exchange for legislative help, including inserting a comment into the Congressional Record designed to help Mr. Abramoff with a business deal.

Representative Bob Ney, Republican of Ohio, was identified as this figure after court documents were filed in connection with Mr. Scanlon's plea deal. Although Mr. Ney did not deny his association with Mr. Abramoff and Mr. Scanlon on Tuesday, he insisted, as he has in the past, that he was tricked by the two men into doing work on behalf of their lobbying clients.

According to people involved in the case, Mr. Ney's former chief of staff, Neil Volz, is referred to in the documents as "Staffer B," and is accused in the paperwork of violating the one-year lobbying ban after leaving Mr. Ney's office before beginning to lobby his former boss again. Lawyers for Mr. Rudy and Mr. Volz did not return calls seeking comment.

Mr. Abramoff helped funnel more than $1.5 million in campaign donations to hundreds of elected officials, more than half of them Republican, since 2000, according to analyses of his work. As prosecutors threatened to indict him - and ultimately, late Monday night, worked out a negotiated settlement after weeks of intense wrangling - the government's lawyers argued that Mr. Abramoff had gone past the routine business of campaign fund-raising and political glad-handing into the realm of bribery. Or, as Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher put it on Tuesday, Mr. Abramoff "went far beyond lawful lobbying."

Mr. Abramoff has been in talks with prosecutors for some 18 months, his lawyer in Washington, Abbe D. Lowell, said. According to people involved in the case, all of whom spoke on condition of anonymity because the broader investigation is continuing, Mr. Abramoff at times offered guidance to investigators as they pursued other targets.

According to participants in the case, he has shared information about David H. Safavian, a former Bush administration official indicted last year, and Tim Flanigan, the Tyco executive who withdrew his nomination as the second-in-command at the Justice Department after his ties to Mr. Abramoff came into question.

Tyco is also mentioned, although not by name, in the plea agreement. According to the court document, Mr. Abramoff sent a business proposal to "Company A," a manufacturing and services company identified by participants as Tyco. Mr. Abramoff "falsely advised" the company about the grass-roots company that he suggested they hire, and which in turn kicked back huge sums to Mr. Abramoff.

Mr. Abramoff told Tyco "that he was negotiating on their behalf" to try to save them money "when in fact he was simply setting a high price on services that he controlled and from which he would profit."

The publicly released court documents, followed by the Justice Department's news conference about the case, were designed as a "shot across the bow" to other potential suspects in the inquiry, a person involved said.

"With most cases, the plea is the end, but with Abramoff, the plea is just the beginning," said an FBI official who spoke on condition of anonymity, adding, "This one has legs."

 http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/010406Q.shtml

[one of the Bush-Abramoff related pictures connects with Indian reservations fraud: a picture of the Kickapoo chief/chairman Garza (NOW under federal indictment for allegedly embezzling more than $300,000 from his tribe!), who says that Abramoff helped arrange the meeting with him and Bush, a group meet).]


More Bush direct lies, Bush often met with, and praised, guilty-plea 'West Bank terrorist' lobbyist-briber-money launderer-Mafia connected Abramoff



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Bush often met with, and praised, corrupt lobbyist
By DOUG THOMPSON
Publisher, Capitol Hill Blue
Jan 18, 2006, 07:24

Although White House spokesliar Scott McClellan claims lobbyist/crook du jour Jack Abramoff only met with administration staff two or three times, the scandal ridden buyer of influence enjoyed frequent private meetings with President George W. Bush, who referred to Abramoff as "one of this administration's greatest friends."

In a town where money buys influence and access, it would have been highly unusual for one of the top fundraisers for the Bush White House to not have had meetings with the President.

McClellan, in a carefully-worded response to reporters Tuesday, said his personal investigation into the matter revealed that Abramoff may have had two "private staff level meetings" at the White House. This is the same Scott McClellan who claimed he investigated the Valerie Plame leak and told reporters that neither Vice President Dick Cheney nor anyone on his staff had any involvement in that scandal. Then Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, got slapped with an indictment for giving the info to the press.

McClellan, as skilled a liar as anyone who has stood before the press and misled reporters on behalf of a President, fails to mention Abramoff's frequent visits to the President's ranch in Crawford, Texas, the private meetings that the lobbyist arranged with the President on the 2004 campaign trail and at the Republican National Convention that year.

White House visitor logs are not public record and the Bush administration keeps separate logs of visitors to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and other locations like Camp David or the President's home. In addition, logs can - and often are - revised when scandal erupts.

But Abramoff, who raised more than $100,000 for Bush in the last campaign, promised big time donors face time with the President and delivered on those promises during the convention. In addition, he traveled to Bush's ranch in Texas with his co-conspirator in crime, former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

A former DeLay staffer who is cooperating with the investigation into both Abramoff and the disgraced GOP leader's activities, has told investigators that Abramoff and DeLay visited Bush at his ranch on at least four occasions in 2003 and 2004.

It is common for big money contributors to get personal meetings with the President. At the GOP's annual Presidential Dinner in Washington, those who pony up at least $25,000 are hustled into a room before the dinner for time and photo ops with the President.

Abramoff kept a photo of himself with Bush, shot at the Crawford ranch, in his office in Washington. The autograph from Bush said "to my great friend Jack."

Dale Knally, a campaign worker in the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign, recalls a meeting between Bush and Abramoff during a campaign stop in Florida.

"He put his arm around Abramoff and told us that 'this man is one of this administration's greatest friends,'" Knally recalls. Knally declined a job in the Bush administration and returned to school after the election and remembers some in the campaign privately calling Abramoff a "sleazeball."

"That campaign taught me that I never wanted anything to do with the Bush administration or politics again," Knally said. "No matter how many showers I took, I couldn't wash away the stench."

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 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8013.shtml


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Sunday, Jan. 22, 2006

When George Met Jack [Abramoff]
White House aides deny [lie] the President knew lobbyist Abramoff, but unpublished photos shown to TIME suggest there's more to the story
By ADAM ZAGORIN, MIKE ALLEN

As details poured out about the illegal and unseemly activities of Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, White House officials sought to portray the scandal as a Capitol Hill affair with little relevance to them. Peppered for days with questions about Abramoff's visits to the White House, press secretary Scott McClellan said the now disgraced lobbyist had attended two huge holiday receptions and a few "staff-level meetings" that were not worth describing further. "The President does not know him, nor does the President recall ever meeting him," McClellan said.

The President's memory may soon be unhappily refreshed. TIME has seen five photographs of Abramoff and the President that suggest a level of contact between them that Bush's aides have downplayed. While TIME's source refused to provide the pictures for publication, they are likely to see the light of day eventually because celebrity tabloids are on the prowl for them. And that has been a fear of the Bush team's for the past several months: that a picture of the President with the admitted felon could become the iconic image of direct presidential involvement in a burgeoning corruption scandal like the shots of President Bill Clinton at White House coffees for campaign contributors in the mid-1990s.

In one shot that TIME saw, Bush appears with Abramoff, several unidentified people and Raul Garza Sr., a Texan Abramoff represented who was then chairman of the Kickapoo Indians, which owned a casino in southern Texas. Garza, who is wearing jeans and a bolo tie in the picture, told TIME that Bush greeted him as "Jefe," or "chief" in Spanish. Another photo shows Bush shaking hands with Abramoff in front of a window and a blue drape. The shot bears Bush's signature, perhaps made by a machine. Three other photos are of Bush, Abramoff and, in each view, one of the lobbyist's sons (three of his five children are boys). A sixth picture shows several Abramoff children with Bush and House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who is now pushing to tighten lobbying laws after declining to do so last year when the scandal was in its early stages.

Most of the pictures have the formal look of photos taken at presidential receptions. The images of Bush, Abramoff and one of his sons appear to be the rapid-fire shots--known in White House parlance as clicks-- that the President snaps with top supporters before taking the podium at fund-raising receptions. Over five years, Bush has posed for tens of thousands of such shots--many with people he does not know. Last month 9,500 people attended holiday receptions at the White House, and most went two by two through a line for a photo with the President and the First Lady. The White House is generous about providing copies--in some cases, signed by the President--that become centerpieces for "walls of fame" throughout status-conscious Washington.

Abramoff knew the game. In a 2001 e-mail to a lawyer for tribal leader Lovelin Poncho, he crows about an upcoming meeting at the White House that he had arranged for Poncho and says it should be a priceless asset in his client's upcoming re-election campaign as chief of Louisiana's Coushatta Indians. "By all means mention [in the tribal newsletter] that the Chief is being asked to confer with the President and is coming to Washington for this purpose in May," Abramoff writes. "We'll definitely have a photo from the opportunity, which he can use." The lawyer had asked about attire, and Abramoff advises, "As to dress, probably suit and tie would work best."

The e-mail, now part of a wide-ranging federal investigation into lobbying practices and lobbyists' relationships with members of Congress, offers a window into Abramoff's willingness to trade on ties to the White House and to invoke Bush's name to impress clients who were spending tens of millions of dollars on Abramoff's advice.

Abramoff was once in better graces at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, having raised at least $100,000 for the President's re-election campaign. During 2001 and 2002, his support for Republicans and connections to the White House won him invitations to Hanukkah receptions, each attended by 400 to 500 people. McClellan has said Abramoff may have been present at "other widely attended" events. He was also admitted to the White House complex for meetings with several staff members, including one with presidential senior adviser Karl Rove, one of the most coveted invitations in Washington.

Michael Scanlon, who is Abramoff's former partner and has pleaded guilty to conspiring to bribe a Congressman, in 2001 told the New Times of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., that Abramoff had "a relationship" with the President. "He doesn't have a bat phone or anything, but if he wanted an appointment, he would have one," Scanlon said. Nonsense, say [scared] others. A former White House official [who is terrified to be found out lying] familiar with some Abramoff requests to the White House said Abramoff had some meetings with Administration officials in 2001 and 2002, but he was later frozen out because aides became suspicious of his funding sources and annoyed that the issues he raised did not mesh with their agenda. A top Republican official [who remained anonymous] said it was clear to him [who's him?] that Abramoff couldn't pick up the phone and reach Bush aides because Abramoff had asked the official to serve as an intermediary.

The White House describes the number of Abramoff's meetings with staff members only as "a few," even though senior Bush aides have precise data about them. McClellan will not give details, saying he doesn't "get into discussing staff-level meetings." During a televised briefing, he added, "We're not going to engage in a fishing expedition." [unless it's us who do it via nonFISA felon chargable prowls of everybody] . Pressed for particulars about Abramoff's White House contacts, McClellan said with brio, "People are insinuating things based on no evidence whatsoever." But he said he cannot "say with absolute certainty that [Abramoff] did not have any other visits" apart from those disclosed. Another White House official said, "The decision was made don't put out any additional information." That reticence has been eagerly seized upon by some Democrats. Senate minority leader Harry Reid of Nevada wrote to Bush last week to demand details, saying Abramoff "may have had undue and improper influence within your Administration."

Garza, the bolo-wearing former chairman of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, has fond memories of his session with Bush, which he said was held in 2001 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House. According to e-mails in the hands of investigators, the meeting was arranged with the help of Abramoff and [Al-Queda false flag operator connected with Al-Arian, already arrested with 911 connections] Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. In an April 18, 2001, e-mail to Abramoff, Norquist wrote that he would be "honored" if Abramoff "could come to the White House meeting."

Garza--known in his native Kickapoo language as Makateonenodua, or black buffalo--is under federal indictment for allegedly embezzling more than $300,000 from his tribe. Through his spokesman, Garza said that during the session, Bush talked about policy matters and thanked those present for supporting his agenda, then took questions from the audience of about two dozen people. Garza told TIME, "We were very happy that Jack Abramoff helped us to be with the President. Bush was in a very good [amphetamine] mood--very upbeat and positive." No evidence has [yet] emerged that the Bush Administration has done anything for the Kickapoo at Abramoff's behest. [though it shows perhaps a pattern, since a great deal of Abramoff fraud concerns money laundering, reservation or other off tax casinos, and bribery in one neocon breath).

Three attendees who spoke to TIME recall that Abramoff was present, and three of them say that's where the picture of Bush, Abramoff and the former Kickapoo chairman was taken. The White House has a different description of the event Garza attended. "The President stopped by a meeting with 21 state legislators and two tribal leaders," spokeswoman Erin Healy said. "Available records show that Mr. Abramoff was not in attendance." [lie that contradicts the Kickapoo statement]

With reporting by With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/ Washington

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 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1151784,00.html

[and with Boehner: GOP criminals wanted to put the same Abramoff Mafia-assassin linked drug-trade-money-laundering network back in place at the top of the GOP, after removing DeLay!]

The Abramoff-Boehmer-Rove link in the White House...

and

The Abramoff-DeLay to mere Abramoff-Bohnmer shell game...


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On March 15, 1996, two weeks before the Saipan trip, Abramoff's lobbying records show Safavian went over trip plans with [now Rove 'chief deputy' adviser] Jackson and Mimi Simoneaux, [the latter being] then spokeswoman for Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas.

On April 1, 1996, the day these two then DeLay linked congressional aides flew to the Marianas, ***Safavian called Boehner's office*** "to ascertain the location of B. Jackson." Abramoff's employee called about Jackson again the following day. [i.e., "This is Abramoff's staff speaking. Where the hell is our paid agent Jackson, Mr. Boehner--you are his boss, where is he? Why didn't you forcibly send him on that plane trip that we arranged and paid for, that already left?"

[Jackson gives uncommittal answers, claims "doesn't reemember" why he first made verifications he would go, and then failed to go.]

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[Abramoff linked] Boehner [boss then of Abramoff linked Jackson] started campaigning early this year to replace DeLay as the No. 2-ranked House leader,....

[And secondly, after this top aid connection to Abramoff-Jackson found in the "Rove" section of the White House, Boehner directly gets money from Abramoff linked Indian tribes as well!] Boehner has declined to give up more than $30,000 he got from Abramoff's Indian tribe clients...He did not receive any money from the tribes until Abramoff [guided the money his way when Abramoff came to] represent...them.

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Ex-aide to House leader tied to Abramoff
Now adviser to Karl Rove, he helped plan trip to Mariana Islands
The Associated Press
Updated: 9:15 a.m. ET Feb. 8, 2006

WASHINGTON - A White House aide who was once chief of staff to House Majority Leader John Boehner helped plan a 1996 trip to the Northern Mariana Islands that was organized by fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff, billing records from Abramoff's firm show.

Barry Jackson, now chief deputy to White House adviser Karl Rove, accepted an invitation to travel to the island of Saipan in April 1996 but later decided not to go, White House spokeswoman Erin Healy said Tuesday.

The government of the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands extended the invitations to Jackson and other high-level GOP House leadership staff while Congress was considering legislation to control immigration and labor practices in the remote Pacific island territory.

Abramoff, the central figure in a wide-ranging Justice Department investigation of influence peddling in Congress, lobbied for the Marianas in Washington. The commonwealth's government was accused of permitting egregiously low wages and poor conditions for immigrants working in sweatshops.

Planning Marianas trip

According to bills from Abramoff's former lobbying firm to the Marianas government, Abramoff's staff contacted Boehner's office about island issues at least 10 times in the first four months of 1996. Copies of the billing records were obtained by The Associated Press through open-records requests to the territorial government.

Typically, the contact was made by David Safavian, who later became the Bush administration's chief procurement official in the Office of Management and Budget. Safavian recently was indicted on charges of obstructing investigations of his ties to Abramoff. Safavian was the first administration official indicted in the Abramoff scandal.

On March 15, 1996, two weeks before the Saipan trip, Abramoff's lobbying records show Safavian went over trip plans with Jackson and Mimi Simoneaux, then spokeswoman for Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas. On April 1, the day the congressional aides flew to the Marianas, Safavian called Boehner's office "to ascertain the location of B. Jackson." Abramoff's employee called about Jackson again the following day.

Jackson does not recall why he decided not to make the trip, given that it occurred 10 years ago, Healy said.

Since Boehner started campaigning early this year to replace DeLay as the No. 2-ranked House leader, he has denied having any relationship with Abramoff. Boehner has promised reforms to shake the GOP's Abramoff-related troubles.

Boehner did meet Abramoff

When asked about the contacts between his office and Abramoff's, including a dinner Boehner attended in May 1996, Boehner told NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday: "Some of his (Abramoff's) underlings worked with some low-level employees of my office. I'm telling you I never met the man."

Boehner spokesman Don Seymour said Tuesday that Boehner now does recall meeting Abramoff once, in "a brief, incidental conversation at a widely attended event that he estimates was about five years ago."

In an e-mail to the AP, Seymour also said Boehner did not intentionally downplay Jackson's role on his staff.

Boehner has declined to give up more than $30,000 he got from Abramoff's Indian tribe clients, saying his own work on tribal issues justifies the contributions. [However,...] He did not receive any money from the tribes until Abramoff represented them.

 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11233367/