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...Plead Guilty Congressman faces prison G.O.P. Representative Bob Ney, accused of taking bribes and lying to Congress, is expected to be the first lawmaker to admit guilt in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal when he appears in court...
After months of defiant protestations of innocence about his role in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, has pleaded guilty to making false statements, conspiracy to commit fraud and violating post-employment restrictions for former congressional aides. But the probe into the lobbying scandal is far from wrapped...
...Democrats ruled Texas at the time, so much so that Republicans, the joke went, met in a phone booth. Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock was the king of the corner table, the master of legislative budget matters. One night Bullock went on a roach-shooting rampage in the Quorum Club basement. By the next night, everyone had holstered their sidearms and recovered from their hangovers. And so it went night after night - until 1980 when Richards's family confronted her with her alcoholism and she went into rehab. One year later, Bullock went off, as he put it, to "drunk school...
When I logged on to my Facebook account early Tuesday morning, I was pretty sure I was hallucinating. My home screen was filled with odd factoids about my friends’ comings and goings. Mary had just broken up with her boyfriend. Bob was no longer single. Evan had written on Jill’s wall, “I hate you and your...
...against Cardin, and the veteran congressman is a heavy favorite in a Democratic state like Maryland. The other African-American Senate candidate is Harold Ford in Tennessee, a conservative state that hasn't elected a Democrat since Al Gore represented it. And Ford, facing a millionaire opponent named Bob Corker, couldn't have been happy seeing Chafee win; now the Democrats will have to spend money that could have gone to Ford's campaign trying to give Chafee the knockout blow that Laffey couldn?t deliver...