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...that deadline comes this weekend, and there is much speculation among those who follow the corruption scandal that the first Abramoff-related indictment of a sitting Congressman may be around the corner. And everyone is holding their breath to see if Tom DeLay's former Chief of Staff, Ed Buckham, is indicted - which could ultimately bring another two or three Republican congressmen into...
...more amenable to the arrangement than Abramoff, who also showered DeLay's staff with sports and concert tickets. After Buckham left, Abramoff developed a close relationship with deputy chief of staff Tony Rudy. "For all intents and purposes, Tony worked for Jack," contends a former Abramoff associate, who tells TIME that Abramoff even bought Rudy a text-messaging pager so that they would never be out of touch. Prosecutors allege that Abramoff also funneled payments to Rudy's wife?10 monthly payments totaling $50,000?through a nonprofit. When Rudy left DeLay's staff in 2000, he joined Abramoff...
...those numbers look trivial compared with what Abramoff's clients apparently were pouring into a little-known public-advocacy group, the U.S. Family Network, which Buckham organized in 1996 for the ostensible purpose of promoting conservative values and "moral fitness." Last month the Washington Post reported that nearly all its funding came from corporations linked to Abramoff?including a million-dollar payment that may well have come indirectly from corrupt Russian oil interests, which have never expressed much interest in moral fitness; half a million dollars from textile companies in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific that are known...
...more than one full-time employee and spent little on public advocacy. But the U.S. Family Network did run ads attacking vulnerable Democratic lawmakers, and it owned the town house where DeLay's political-action committee rented its offices. The entity also paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to Buckham and his firm Alexander Strategy Group, which at the time was paying DeLay's wife Christine $3,200 a month to make lists of lawmakers' favorite charities?information that an intern could probably dig up in a week...
...knew that when you start seeing little signs of trouble?a few admonishments from the ethics committee, a gift or a trip that a Congressman shouldn't have taken?you start looking for a pattern. We were the first to reveal aspects of the crucial role that Ed Buckham (Tom DeLay's former chief of staff and pastor) played hooking up Abramoff with Tom DeLay's office. We found out that, in arranging a questionable junket to London, DeLay staff members were demanding that Abramoff produce Lion King tickets, rooms at the Four Seasons and other lavish accommodations. And?with...