WP/AP: Republican Officials Convicted in the Abramoff Case

[PhilipShore]

By The Associated Press
The Associated Press
February 26, 2007


-- Lawmakers, lobbyists and Bush administration officials convicted so far in the Jack Abramoff public corruption cases:

_Former Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, sentenced in January to 2 1/2 years in prison, acknowledged taking bribes from Republican influence peddler Jack Abramoff. Ney was listed as Representative No. 1 in the agreements in which Abramoff and the others pleaded guilty over the past year. Ney was in the traveling party on the golfing trip to Scotland that was at the heart of the case against former Bush administration official David Safavian.

_Abramoff is serving six years in prison on a criminal case out of Florida, where he pleaded guilty in January 2006 to charges of conspiracy, honest services fraud and tax evasion. He has not yet been sentenced on charges of mail fraud, conspiracy and tax evasion stemming from the influence-peddling scandal in Washington. A Texas Indian tribe filed a federal lawsuit in July against Abramoff and several of his colleagues, alleging that they engaged in fraud and racketeering. Abramoff is cooperating in a bribery investigation involving lawmakers, their aides and members of the Bush administration.

_Tony Rudy, lobbyist and onetime aide to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, pleaded guilty in March 2006 to conspiring with Abramoff. He is cooperating with investigators.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/26/AR2007022600975.html

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1. Nemmine that!

Anna Nicole Smith is still dead, and that's what has to be covered 24-7!

[KKKarl is an idiot]

2. Not exactly 24/7

Every now & then they go to Britney Spears new hairstyle.