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...TIME that scores of US prosecutors and FBI agents continue to examine the activities of other sitting members of Congress and prominent individuals who could face prosecution, though not necessarily before the November 7 election. The source confirmed previous public reports that particular scrutiny is being paid to Sen. Conrad Burns, a Montana Republican who faces a tough campaign for reelection...
...conduct to which Ney has pleaded guilty is similar to the alleged conduct of Senator Conrad Burns and his staff," points out Melanie Sloan, Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a non-profit watchdog group. "Abramoff has said that Burns and his staff used Signatures [Abramoff's restaurant] like their cafeteria. And Burns took a number of legislative actions on Abramoff's behalf, even as members of his staff went on trip to the 2001 Super Bowl on private jet and visited Sun Cruise gambling ships, which were partly owned by Abramoff. "Abramoff himself said...
...There was no doubt he was a dangerous man, a murderer. He admitted it. But there was a glittering, reptilian brilliance to his madness. A line from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness kept running through my head. "Exterminate the brutes." He was Mr. Kurtz gone insane in the jungle. He was anxious to start the interview. His scouts had run down a band of leftist guerrillas, and Casta?o wanted to go and personally exterminate them. He had a blood debt to avenge...
...conference room in Singapore's Conrad hotel in early august, a gathering of Credit Suisse Group employees is in the throes of an intense role-playing exercise. As part of their training to become private bankers, the recruits take turns acting out the roles of bank "relationship managers" and their wealthy clients. Taped to the wall of the room are posters offering helpful tips on such challenges as "Resolving Skepticism" and "Resolving a Misunderstanding." Under the stern eye of Penny Radcliffe, head of Credit Suisse's in-house training program, their performances are carefully scrutinized and criticized. One stylish...
...reason to hope that their message about the G.O.P.'s "culture of corruption" is helping them toward their goal of taking back Congress in November. But that's wishful thinking. With the exception of those few candidates tied directly to Abramoff--Representative Bob Ney in Ohio and Senator Conrad Burns in Montana--it's unlikely that many Republicans will lose their seats over an issue Americans rank low on their list of concerns. If corruption were driving voters to the polls, Democrats should have won--or at least performed better in--the special election to fill the California House seat...