Orlando Sentinel has some fresh details and Politico has some observations on the papers filed yesterday by the FBI concerning the guilty plea by Mark Zachares in the Abramoff affair, as we discussed yesterday in our item covering the FBI interview of the corrupt Rep. Tom Feeney (R-FL).
In addition to what looks like trouble in the case for at least two other GOP Congressmen, it looks like Feeney is being fingered as “Representative #3” in yesterday’s filing…
That can’t be seen as good news for Feeney who, we’ll remind readers, is a very close friend of the Bush family, having run (unsuccessfully) as Jeb’s Lieutenant Governor during his first run in Florida in ’98, serving as point man in the FL House during the 2000 Election Debacle (when he promised to give the state’s Electors to GWB no matter what the Supreme Court ended up deciding), and much, much more.
We’ll also remind readers that the imprisoned Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) was once designated as “Representative #1” before being indicted in the Abramoff affair himself….
Orlando Sentinel adds a few details in their report on Feeney today:
The former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives would not say how recently Justice officials contacted him or what they asked.
“The Justice Department is wrapping up its investigation and they want to talk to everyone who has been mentioned in a newspaper article,” Feeney said.
Yes, that’s it. Just talking to everyone who has been mentioned in a newspaper article. 🙂
In his Sentinel blog item on the matter, reporter Scott Maxwell — who has been asked for Feeney-related documents by the FBI — writes today:
While the Feds are “not targeting” Feeney in his connection to Abramoff as the only unindicted/unconvicted Congressman (so far) who went on the now-infamous “VIP GOP Players Tour” golf junkets to Scotland with Jack, might we also recommend the also “not” look into:
- Feeney’s efforts in covering up for his former colleague at Yang Enterprises Inc. (YEI), Hai Lin “Henry” Nee, an “illegal alien” who pled guilty to espionage charges related to illegally shipping Hellfire anti-tank missile chips to Communist China, as well as;
- Feeney’s lies about his relationship with the Yangs, his long time friends and campaign supporters, as well as;
- The lie-detector tested and Congressional testified and video-taped claims by computer programmer Clint Curtis who has alleged via sworn affidavit [PDF] that Feeney asked the company to create vote-rigging software when he was their general counsel and registered lobbyist and the Speaker of the Florida House all at the same time, along with;
- a litany of other alleged improprieties on behalf of Feeney’s very close friends the Yangs, including his alleged participation in offering Curtis $1 million to get the hell out of Tallahassee after he’d taken a job at the Florida Dept. of Transportation, where documents existed showing that YEI had over-billed on state contracts.
There’s more, but we don’t have time to repeat our more than two years of reporting in this one blog item. If the FBI would like to contact us, we’ll be happy to point them towards where the bodies are buried (literally, in at least one case.) Otherwise, you can peruse many more details and documents for yourself on our Clint Curtis/Tom Feeney/YEI Special Coverage page.
Feeney has spent more than $23k on legal expenses so far this year, according to his campaign finance disclosures, more than on any other expenditure. Does Feeney really think he’ll get away with it all? Or is he just crazy?
The Clint Curtis/Tom Feeney/Yang Enterprises Vote-Rigging Scandal series, please see:
– A Quick Summary of the story so far.
– An Index of all the Key Articles & Evidence in the series so far.
– Curtis eventually ended up running for U.S. Congress against Feeney in 2006.
For more info, see: www.ClintCurtis.com
So if Curtis said “If I’m elected Feeney is going to prison” and if instead Feeney goes to prison and Curtis is elected… how does that get counted on a prognosticative scorecard?
This may sound like a dumb question, but has anyone actually TOLD the FBI about all of this, or sent them the information, since the adults took charge of Congress and oversight has become a reality again? Just wondering…
How is our ol’ buddy Clint Curtis anyway? Haven’t heard from him awhile.
Hope to have some news from him soon, KBE…
And wouldn’t the investigation of Feeney be under a
U.S. Attorney?
Bob Ney was #1 Feeney was #3 Who all was doing seals with
Abramoff?
More important questions need to be asked as to how can such rampant corruption go on for so long, many congressmen are scared as shown by this study.
And there is an underlying theme as to why our Army is being broken, why the country is bankrupt, why we are continuing to believe that our government is broken, and why the borders to Mexico and Canada are vanishing.
Link was broken…sorry
And there is an underlying theme as to why our Army is being broken, why the country is bankrupt, why we are continuing to believe that our government is broken, and why the borders to Mexico and Canada are disappearing.
http://video.google.com/videopl...58020554799808
He’s getting his Albero “I can’t recall” defense ready.
How is the Clint vote reconstruction going?
Brad–
Check this out.
http://www.freepress.org/depart...y/19/2007/2553
Computer network that hosted Rove’s emails also hosted 2004 Ohio election results:
http://www.alternet.org/story/50941/
“””Privatizing elections and allowing known partisans to run a key presidential vote count is troubling enough. But the reason Congress must investigate these high-tech ties is there is abundant evidence that Republicans could have used this computing network to delay announcing the winner of Ohio’s 2004 election while tinkering with the results.”””
#6
I knew Al Gore left something out of that movie. What was it called??? Inconvenient Fascism. Oh, that’s right it was Inconvenient Truth. I guess I forgot the title… with all that jetsetting around the world I was in awe. Anyone know how many gallons on #1 Jet fuel it take to fly around the world?? If I did my math right
I don’t know what you drive but in my Civic that is 3,662 tanks of gas, enough for about 1,464,800 miles(and usually I get better mileage than that).
I think for America to be saving itself it aught to be recalling some representatives/developing sustainable agriculture/stop sucking the big oil tit/stop spending $ as a pass time… instead of playing cattle…the slaughter is the next election and if things don’t change in a huge way(no, I’m not talking Obama) were fucked…like dodo fucked. We shall see….
OT.
“Network Hosting Attorney Scandal E-Mails Also Hosted Ohio’s 2004 Election Results
By Steven Rosenfeld and Bob Fitrakis, Free Press. Posted April 23, 2007.”
Troll alert. Good sign when the trolls show up off the mark and off the wall.
Now let the cops show up and frog march Feeney and the other neoCons as they morph into neoConvicts during their periodic migrations.
I’ve got an idea, how bout we find out the special prosecutor’s email over at the “what house” that’s now investigating Pussyboy Rove and suggest he interview Brad; he has such a good head start on connecting the depth of the dots!
WOW! Open season on Cheney!
George McGovern:
“In the war of my youth, World War II, I volunteered for military service at the age of 19 and flew 35 combat missions, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross as the pilot of a B-24 bomber. By contrast, in the war of his youth, the Vietnam War, Cheney got five deferments and has never seen a day of combat “” a record matched by President Bush. […]
We, of course, already know that when Cheney endorses a war, he exempts himself from participation. On second thought, maybe it’s wise to keep Cheney off the battlefield “” he might end up shooting his comrades rather than the enemy.
Harry Reid:
“Reid: “I’m Not Going To Get Into A Name-Calling Match With Somebody Who Has A 9 Percent Approval Rating”
John Kerry: Building 7 Was Deliberately Demolished
Massachusetts Senator’s conclusion directly contradicts 9/11 official story, multi-billion dollar insurance lawsuit
http://www.propagandamatrix.com...7building7.htm