BREAKING AP Story directly links Delay-Abramoff & Indian Gaming- TRMPAC

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Wow,


Money from Abrahmoff cleints went to TRMPAC in exchange for Delay asking AShcroft to go after the client's competitors. This might even implicat Cornyn when he was Texas AG.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LOBBYIST_FRAUD_DELAY?SITE=CATOR&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-01-10-14-09-16


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay tried to pressure the Bush administration into shutting down an Indian-owned casino that lobbyist Jack Abramoff wanted closed - shortly after a tribal client of Abramoff's donated to a DeLay political action committee, The Associated Press has learned.

The Texas Republican demanded closure of the casino, owned by the Alabama-Coushatta tribe of Texas, in a Dec. 11, 2001 letter to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. The Associated Press obtained the letter from a source who did not want to be identified because of an ongoing federal investigation of Abramoff and members of Congress.

"We feel that the Department of Justice needs to step in and investigate the inappropriate and illegal actions by the tribe, its financial backers, if any, and the casino equipment vendors," said the letter, which was also signed by Texas Republican Reps. Pete Sessions, John Culberson and Kevin Brady.



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Ashcroft never took action on the request. The Texas casino was closed the following year by a federal court ruling in a 1999 lawsuit filed by the state's attorney general, John Cornyn, now a U.S. senator.



Looks like the DA has a link berween influence peddling, INdian Gaming, and the the PAC money laundering charge.

Delay can't be reelected as I see it... He is in way to deep. Cornyn and Ralph Reed are also connected THis thing has real legs.

Next step< is going to be calls for a independent prosecutor becauce a Republican AG can not be involved when the BGalance of power is at issue.[br />

Here is my techincal question, Can an IC be apponted by the executive when the investigation focuses on COngress?

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