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Nation: DeLay to Join Ohio Rep. Ney as part of criminal investigation.
For taking “things of value.” Linking Delay, known to Feds as “Representative #2” to Ney, “Representative #1, would just about explode the 2004 election campaign. The Post is not making this connection yet. I’ll send them an email or do it yourself. They’re logically challenged. But this is a great story. DeLay and Ney in a criminal conspiracy involving “ELECTION FRAUD.” We were right, we are right, we’ll continue to be right – it’s a rigged game, fix it or stop calling it democracy.

Federal Probe Has Edged Closer to Texan
Two Ex-Aides Convicted, Another Also Named in Lobbying Investigation

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/03/AR2006040302145.html?nav=rss_politics
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, April 4, 2006; Page A07

The pending resignation of former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), once one of the most powerful lawmakers in Washington, comes amid a federal criminal investigation that already has reached into his inner circle of longtime advisers.

DeLay faces a trial later this year on money-laundering charges in Texas that stems from an October 2005 indictment related to corporate contributions to state elections in 2001 and 2002. Since then, two former aides and one of his most prominent contributors have pleaded guilty in a separate federal probe to crimes including conspiracy; wire, tax and mail fraud; and corruption of public officials.

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The picture appeared to darken further last week with the guilty plea of Tony C. Rudy, DeLay's former deputy chief of staff. Edwin A. Buckham, the lawmaker's former chief of staff and his closest political and spiritual adviser, was described in court documents filed in the case as someone who collaborated with Rudy, Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former DeLay aide Michael Scanlon. They arranged payments; trips and favors that the department's investigators charged were part of an illegal conspiracy, according to the documents.

DeLay himself was formally designated as "Representative #2" in the documents, a title that cannot be considered a good omen. The lawmaker designated in the same documents as Representative #1 -- Rep. Robert W. Ney (R-Ohio) -- has been cited by the Justice Department as having received "things of value" for performing official acts.