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...Capitol Campaign Strategies: Scanlon's p.r. firm is where Abramoff routed much Indian-casino business without telling his clients that he was also sharing in its profits. Those kickbacks, from absurdly inflated fees, were the source of most of the $20 million Abramoff made by cheating the tribes...
...Abramoff scandal has already taken down the political player who invented the system that has helped keep Republicans in power for more than a decade. The once feared DeLay?whose office had been Abramoff's biggest claim to access and influence on Capitol Hill?announced he would resign as House majority leader. "I have always acted in an ethical manner within the rules of our body and the laws of our land," DeLay wrote in a letter to his G.O.P. colleagues, but added, "I cannot allow our adversaries to divide and distract our attention." Because of his tightfisted regime that...
...honest services mail fraud," for which they have to show only that a lawmaker has acted in his personal interest or that of another individual but not of his constituents in return for improper gain. That lowering of the bar for criminal-corruption cases is sending shudders from the Capitol to the lobbying corridor of K Street. And none of that even begins to address the question of whether those who dined, traveled and socialized with Abramoff might have violated Congress's own loophole-ridden rules that prohibit, for instance, lobbyists from paying for travel or taking gifts worth more...
...like guys coming out of the bush, saying, 'Hey, give me some of the money.' They'd pay one guy and the next day five guys would be calling them, guys they didn't know. The tapes are hilarious." So said a former federal prosecutor last week, but on Capitol Hill no one shared the amusement. Too many of "the guys" were members of Congress, and "the tapes" were both video and audio, catching the sight and sound of them accepting money to perform special favors ... [T]he FBI had lured the lawmakers into the focus of hidden television cameras...
...answer to that essay test suggests a paradox that may play out on Capitol Hill as the Judiciary Committee opens hearings for a Supreme Court nominee for the second time in five months?after nearly a dozen years with none at all. Supporters and former clerks affectionately describe Alito as nerdy?more academic but also less polished than John Roberts, who addressed the committee without notes on his way to confirmation in September as Chief Justice. Yet Administration officials say they are certain that Alito will attract fewer votes?in the committee and later in the Senate?than did Roberts...