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...biggest corruption probes in U.S. history, possibly putting dozens of lawmakers in legal or political jeopardy. It has already netted Scanlon, 35, who pleaded guilty to similar charges in November and is also cooperating. In an internal e-mail obtained by TIME, the director of the FBI's Washington field office, Michael Mason, congratulated some 15 agents and 15 support staff members under him on the case for "a huge accomplishment" in squeezing Abramoff to make a deal after 18 months of investigation and negotiation, one that made "a huge contribution to ensuring the very integrity of our government...
Another official involved with the probe told TIME that investigators are viewing Abramoff as "the middle guy"?suggesting there are bigger targets in their sights. The FBI has 13 field offices across the country working on the case, with two dozen agents assigned to it full time and roughly the same number working part time. "We are going to chase down every lead," Chris Swecker, head of the FBI's criminal division, told TIME...
Sources close to the investigation have told TIME that the FBI has been particularly interested in a trip DeLay and some of his staff members took to London and Scotland in 2000. At the time, Congress was considering legislation that would have restricted Internet gambling, and with it the livelihoods of some of Abramoff arranged for two of them?a Choctaw Indian tribe and the gambling-services company eLottery Inc.?to each contribute $25,000 to the sponsor of the trip, the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative nonprofit foundation on whose board Abramoff sat. They wrote...
...patiently poured oil on Capote's roiled waters. She was skittish, slightly wounded but also discreetly sexy in The 40-Year-Old Virgin. She was tough, omnicompetent and smart-mouthed as an FBI agent in The Interpreter. And she did the best she could to assert the reality principle amid the general incompetence of The Ballad of Jack and Rose. In 2005 Catherine Keener was everywhere, in big pictures and small, in hits and flops, quietly but insistently asserting her claim to being possibly the best character actress working today...
...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 in the most sensational undercover operation it had ever conducted. When the FBI sting ended, its supervisors alleged that the ... money had attracted one U.S. Senator, seven members of the House and two dozen state and local officials...