Has Italia Federici disappeared?

[ck4829]

Remember her? She was the head of CREA and was tied closely to the Jack Abramoff scandals.

According to this article, the Senate is finding more and more about her corrupt collusion with Jack Abramoff and she's nowhere to be found. Where did she go?

http://www.newwest.net/index.php/topic/article/trading_on_teddy_roosevelts_good_name/

[globalvillage]

1. Well, that would just break my heart.

There was far less disagreement about what Federici had done with the tribal money she collected from Abramoff's clients. CREA spent it on initiatives that had nothing to do with the Native American tribes, but much to do with furthering President Bush's agenda. In April 2002, for example, CREA ran a $40,000 full-page ad in the Washington Post praising the environmental merits of the president's plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

"We are also going to do something mean to Senator John Kerry," Federici wrote Abramoff, a few days before the ad ran. She then described a video CREA had packaged that showed Sen. Kerry leaving an Earth Day celebration and stepping into a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle. She sent the video to at least two television programs on the Fox News Network, "The O'Reilly Factor" and "Hannity and Colmes." "I am letting EVERYONE know that you are the only reason we have the funding to do this," she gushed to Abramoff in the same e-mail.

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/11/18/federici/index.html

[acmejack]

2. Who can forget her?

She had guts or lack of brains, most likely the latter! I couldn't believe how snotty she got with McCain at the hearing.

[aquart]

3. Paraguay getting crowded?

[MADem]

4. Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy (CREA). Why didn't they name it better?

I'd say that something along the lines of Council of Republican Advocates for the Planet (CRAP) is probably closer to the mark!!