"Virginia Tom" DeLay Still Whistling Past the Graveyard
-Thanks to Susan Bankston at Kiss My Big Blue Butt for tipping us
to this in today’s edition of The Hill:
"Abramoff, Scanlon and key former aides continue to talk"
By Susan Crabtree
September 04, 2007
"With a busy autumn ahead for the Jack Abramoff investigation, prosecutors may be trying to send former aides — and even Abramoff himself — a message: Play nice with us and we’ll play nicer with you.
In August, Justice Department prosecutors investigating Abramoff and his wide-ranging corruption schemes reduced Will Heaton’s sentence to probation and recommended only home confinement for Neil Volz. The two former aides to Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) played key roles in sending their former boss to jail for 30 months.
Prosecutors are continuing to talk to Abramoff and Michael Scanlon, his close associate and a former top aide to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas). In late August, the government postponed scheduled status hearings with Judge Ellen Huvelle for both men, giving them three more months to continue to spill information.
In late July, prosecutors also agreed to give Tony Rudy more time to cooperate, scheduling another status hearing for him Nov. 5."
-As I recall, some of the charges Scanlon and Rudy faced carried a possible life sentence. If you think that personel integrity and loyalty will keep these guys from singing about their dealings with DeLay Inc, you might also be interested in my new volunteer organization, "Adopt a Pit Viper."
posted by Julia B. @ 11:31 AM
2 Comments:
Hot dog! I've been thinking about old Tom and wondering how his God-called work to clean up government has been going.
You know, the MSM just aren't giving him enough publicity.
Funny thing, Lefty. It's been almost THREE YEARS since DeLay's "indictment," and no trial yet. No more stones overturned, no more "evidence."
Of course, once he resigned you guys were really kinda finished with your work, weren't you?
Because this has ALWAYS been about politics, and your pretense to want to rid the body politic of "scoundrels" like DeLay was always hypocrisy, wasn't it?
Meanwhile, what's Miz Hitlery gonna do about Norman Hsu (and all the other Hsus that will inevitably drop when you're dealing with one of the most corrupt political organizations in history, the Clintons)?
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