NYT's: Dept of Interior Undersecretary pleads guilty in Abramoff ...

[rasputin1952]

relationship:

WASHINGTON, March 23 — J. Steven Griles, the second-highest official at the Interior Department during President Bush’s first term, pleaded guilty today to lying to a Senate committee about his ties to Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist who obtained help from the Interior Department for his Indian tribal clients.

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Mr. Griles, 59, the Deputy Secretary of the Interior under Gale N. Norton from 2001 to 2004, was a high-profile lobbyist for oil and gas companies before joining the Bush administration. Once in office, he came under scrutiny for continuing contacts with his former industry clients, and then for his relationship with Mr. Abramoff. After leaving the Interior Department, he resumed his former career as a lobbyist.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/23/washington/23cnd-giles.html?ex=1332302400&en=8100ca0bcc77fe77&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss


Well...rack up another criminal from this administration...:eyes:

[Chimichurri]

1. Abramoff, the gift that keeps on giving.

[rasputin1952]

10. We might see his name crop up well into the next decade...

where is hiding these days?

Hope it is the Black Hole of Calcutta...:evilgrin:

[Skink]

2. Who will be the first W apointee to plead innocent?

[rasputin1952]

11. Who can? I don't think there's an honest person in the bunch...

If it weren't for permanent govt employees, those despised "Bureaucrats" we hear so much about...bush would have crowned himself Emperor and changed his name to Caligula.

[robinlynne]

3. please read my thread about this. people need to see that this man got off scott free.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3177751&mesg_id=3177751

Dems are celebrating when we should be calling for heads.

[rasputin1952]

5. I agree...he got no where near the 5 years possible for his plea.....

If that were you or I, we would not see daylight for years...:grr:

[robinlynne]

12. 10 years. but that is just for the perjury. he wasn't tried for corruption, racketeering,

using a government office fraudulently, etc.

[rasputin1952]

13. Thanks for the correction, I thought I had read 5...

:)

10 sounds a heck of a lot better, but that is gone...:(

[opihimoimoi]

4. He gets Homeward Bound for a Year??? That All?

[rasputin1952]

7. Hi opi!!!! Yep, can youbelieve this?

:hi:

Amazing....he should get some serious time, and he barely gets a slap on the wrist...:(

[opihimoimoi]

14. Bring back the STONING...lol

[rasputin1952]

15. As close as I can come...

:D

[opihimoimoi]

16. GOOD ONE...... ROTF

:toast:

[Double T]

6. Equal to a slap-on-the-hand as punishment..........

there is NO JUSTICE when it comes to the prosecution of rethugs.

[rasputin1952]

8. Yep...the GOP, "Party of Law and Order"...

amazing, the hypocrisy of these people...they have no souls.

[Double T]

9. Yes Sir!! It makes my blood boil!!!

[Disturbed]

17. He will probably serve six months in a "Country Club" facility

and get hired as a Lobbyist afterward.

[rasputin1952]

18. Already a lobyist...

to bad they didn't do a background check on this one...seems like everyone else has to go through that to get a MW job....Damn neo-cons anyway...I want to see HIS record!

[bobthedrummer]

19. Imho, Jennifer Farley and Lawrence B. Lindsey should be put under oath

and prosecuted along with a lot of other folks including Gale Norton et al.

Fwiw, Henry Waxman's House Oversight Committee had Jennifer Farley already down as a White House Jack Abramoff contact-along with Karl Rove, Susan Bonzon Ralston, Barry Jackson, Ken Mehlman, and Ruben Barrales.

In the past couple of days we've learned about the "special" e-mail servers used by Susan Bonzon Ralston and others-maybe the RNC's Ken Mehlman knows a bit about that too.

House Oversight Committee: The Abramoff Investigation
http://oversight.house.gov/abramoff/index2.asp