Law firm hired by tribe linked to DeLay

[Judi Lynn]

March 16, 2005, 10:07PM

Law firm hired by tribe linked to DeLay
Attorney calls it a coincidence he's helping Indians while his partner is defending PAC
By R.G. RATCLIFFE
Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle Austin Bureau

AUSTIN - When a Senate committee started investigating whether U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's lobbyist friend and a former aide had misled Indian tribes into giving them millions of dollars in fees, the Coushatta Indians of Louisiana needed to replace the lobbyist with new legal representation.

They turned to Hance Scarborough Woodward & Weisbart LLP, the Austin law firm that is defending the DeLay-founded Texans for a Republican Majority in civil lawsuits brought by losing Democratic candidates.

Former Texas congressman Kent Hance said it is just coincidence that he is representing the Louisiana Coushattas while his partner, Terry Scarborough, represents Texans for a Republican Majority, or TRMPAC.

The latest round of connect-the-dots for DeLay, R-Sugar Land, began last year when it was revealed that his frequent golf partner, lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and his former chief of staff, Michael Scanlon, were being investigated by the Justice Department for possibly taking more than $60 million from their Indian tribal clients without actually providing services.

Two of their main clients were the Louisiana Coushattas and the Mississippi Band of Choctaws.
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[0007]

1. Connecting the dots could lead back to Ken Lay and some heavy-duty

hankypanky and bring something up on the Sugar Land death of Cliff Baxter. Which indeed doesn't look good according to this;

"Dr. Carter was the Medical Examiner that performed the autopsy so quickly after Cliff Baxter's death. She has been in the news many times before. She was fined and almost lost her license in 2001 for allowing an unlicensed pathologist to perform autopsies. In 1998 her office was accused of tampering with evidence in the murder of a 12-year old girl. That same year she admitted that bodies were sometimes stacked on top of each other at her morgue. She's been sued (and lost) twice by whistleblowers who were fired for trying to expose corruption in the Harris County Medical Examiner's office."

more....

http://www.hereinreality.com/autopsy.html

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Ken Lay, you say? Hey, I say, make him pay!

Make them all pay!

[Zan_of_Texas]

4. You got dots on that?

Baxter's house was down the boulevard from DeLay's house in Sugar Land, Texas. Hey, it's a high end development by the country club, and they both had lotsa bucks.

The Sheriff in Sugar Land was, shall we say, sure Baxter's death was a suicide.

But, if you've got more dots than that, out with them.

I know of no direct connection between Ken Lay's crap at Enron and Tom DeLay's crap everywhere, except that they both supported Republican agendas.

[robbedvoter]

3. But it's not Hillary's law firm, so...yawn....IOKIYAR.