KY3 News (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former legislative aide to two Missouri Republicans, Sen. Kit Bond and Rep. Roy Blunt, pleaded guilty Thursday to hiding thousands of dollars of gifts from lobbyists, the latest political figure to go down in the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal. Trevor L. Blackann, 34, pleaded guilty in federal court to not reporting more than $4,100 in illegal gifts from lobbyists on his 2003...
Show Me Progress - Front Page (Free subscription) | yesterday
Want more examples of how corrupt the past eight years have been? The Hill reports that Trevor Blackmann, former aide to Kit Bond and Roy Blunt, has pled guilty to accepting $$$ from Jack Abramoff in return for using his influence with his employers. What specifically did Abramoff get in return? Results, at least in regard to Senator Bond: In return, Blackann obtained a letter of... [[ This is a content...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
A former legislative aide to two Missouri Republicans, Sen. Kit Bond and Rep. Roy Blunt, pleaded guilty Thursday to hiding thousands of dollars of gifts from lobbyists, the latest political figure to go down in the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
WASHINGTON -- A former legislative aide to two Missouri Republicans, Sen. Kit Bond and Rep. Roy Blunt, pleaded guilty Thursday to hiding thousands of dollars of gifts from lobbyists, the latest political figure to go down in the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal.
Jude's Threshold (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Convicted political operative, gangsta, and big money man Jack Abramoff just keeps on giving…pleas and convictions on the Hill: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/11/trip_to_gentlemans_club_leads.php
Bradenton.com: Politics (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
A former legislative aide to Missouri Sen. Kit Bond and Rep. Roy Blunt pleaded guilty Thursday to hiding thousands of dollars of gifts from lobbyists, the latest political figure to go down in the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
WASHINGTON -- A former legislative aide to Missouri Sen. Kit Bond and Rep. Roy Blunt pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday to hiding thousands of dollars of gifts from lobbyists, the latest political figure to go down in the Jack Abramoff corruption scandal.
Instapundit.com (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
INDEED: “Say what you like about Jack Abramoff, but Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) shouldn’t come out of the Countrywide Scandal smelling like roses, either.”
Pardon Power (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Julian Zelizer , a professor of history at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, was interviewed by National Public Radio this afternoon . The broadcast began with speculation that President Bush might grant pardons to Jack Abramoff (whom we have never even thought to put on our Pardon Watch List ) and Scooter Libby - neither of whom have applied for clemency. When asked to identify "notable"...
Pensito Review (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Two other pieces of good news from Florida. U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney (R-East Central Florida) was soundly trounced by former state Rep. Suzanne Kosmas. Feeney was one of the poster children for the corrupt Tom DeLay/Jack Abramoff years, enjoying an infamous golfing excursion to Scotland on the lobbyist’s bankroll among many other gifts. Kosmas forced Feeney [...]
Evergreen Politics (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Sometimes I think we have had our senses severely dulled in the last many years of corportatist, war-mongering, science-denying, pandering Republicanism. We barely blinked as Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay and Ted Stevens and company robbed the treasury for personal gain, stepping on worker's rights and Indian tribes in the process . We watched as School Boards spent millions dealing with the question...
ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
It's the one you've been waiting for: Campaign Money Watch launched the following ad in Colorado to highlight U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer's (R-CO) ties to jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the money he's taken from Northern Mariana Islands sweatshop owners Abramoff's firm once represented. After a couple of flubbed attempts to highlight the Abramoff/Mariana Islands scandal by independent groups...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
A federal judge has rejected the Bush administration's attempt to shield records that might shed light on the White House visits of now-imprisoned lobbyist Jack Abramoff. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth sided with watchdog groups Judicial Watch and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, which are suing the Secret Service and Department of Homeland Security for access to White House visitor logs...
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical² (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
Democrats Crooks v. Republicans Slandered A lesson “ Speaker of Most Ethical Congress Ever Paid Husband With PAC Money Now the media and Democrats can lump in the disgraced Nancy Pelosi with Jack Abramoff and Tom DeLay Harry Reid . (Tom DeLay? WTF) Can't wait to see the endless litany of stories coming before she's driven from office. Oh wait, she's a Democrat. ( Jammie Wearing Fool ) ” Paul F. Pelosi...
Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
WASHINGTON -- A new ad from national Democrats attacks U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney for being "right in the middle" of the Jack Abramoff scandal just days after the third-term congressman launched his own TV ads to apologize for his ties...
