Another Bush Administration Official To Plead Guilty In Abramoff Probe
Another Bush Administration Official To Plead Guilty In Abramoff Probe
The Legal Times reports that another Bush administration official is expected to plead guilty as a result of the ongoing Abramoff probe:
Roger Stillwell, the desk officer for the Mariana Islands at the U.S. Department of the Interior who dealt closely with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, is expected to plead guilty to a misdemeanor count of false certification, his attorney confirmed Wednesday.
Stillwell has previously acknowledged that he accepted dinners at Abramoff’s restaurant and tickets to Washington Redskins games. He also said he sent Abramoff copies of e-mails he sent to his boss, but he claimed that there was nothing “wrong with doing that.”
The guilty plea will come on the heels of a conviction handed down by a jury last week against former White House procurement chief David Safavian. “So far five people — Abramoff and former associates Michael Scanlon, Tony Rudy, Neil Volz, and Adam Kidan — have pleaded guilty.â€
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands was a major client of Abramoff, paying him over $1 million to stop legislation aimed at cracking down on sweatshops and sex shops in the American territory. (That legislation still hasn’t passed).
More at TPMmuckraker. Read about the Abramoff scandal HERE.
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For more on the Abramoff gang and a laundry list of other Banana Republicans, see:
June 28th, 2006 at 3:27 pm“The Republican Rap Sheet.”
And as usual the media will yawn and cover “StarJones-GATE”
June 28th, 2006 at 3:33 pmThe Mariana’s, home to America’s dirty little secret. Goods made there by essentially slave labor can be labeled made in USA. Nice dodge. Hope this is just another in the long line of arrests that ends at the White House.
June 28th, 2006 at 3:36 pmAbramoff is SOOOOO yesterday. While Congressional GOPers are will be using their subponea power to call Frank Rich and Bill Keller to the stand, we’ll laugh at point at your pseudo-scandal.
You far-left liberals don’t get it. Conservatives are smarter than you. You have NO IDEA what you are in for leading up to the November. You have no idea the kind of hate that’s going to get thrown your way. Actuallly - you do. It’s about the same level we’ve had to deal with for the last two years.
With Stevens pending retirement and the Times getting shut-down, the right-wing base will be ignited to actually GAIN seats for Republicans!!!
June 28th, 2006 at 3:41 pmAgain not the real me.
June 28th, 2006 at 3:44 pmWow. Abramoff is spawning indictments the way a puff ball mushroom spawns spores.
June 28th, 2006 at 3:57 pm#6 Krazny - they can’t help it, deceit is a core value with this crowd. Especially the ones who go nuts when the name Abramhoff comes up.
June 28th, 2006 at 3:58 pmJust another small GOP fish > when are they going to indict the big fat fish like Hastert?
June 28th, 2006 at 4:00 pmjay,
I want a copy of the Video of Bush being perped walked out of the white house.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:04 pmI don’t know Jay, I kinda like the drip-drip-drip aspect of the whole Abramhoff deal. You know it’s driving them crazy - wondering who’s flipped on who, whether or not all the relative documentation has been disposed of - you know, always wondering “am I next?” I’d prefer it if they’d wait to bag Denny & friends until we’re a bit closer to the election.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:05 pmThe ReichWing is letting this happen to their own party. Are they really this stupid?
So much for compassionate conservatism. So much for bringing integrity to Washington. So much for cleaning up the joint. The ReichWing is rotten to the core!
June 28th, 2006 at 4:11 pmPost 12 everybody would want a copy of that for sure > lol.
Post 13 I hope you are right about that, but I get the feeling the FBI is covering it up?!
June 28th, 2006 at 4:12 pmUsually, the big fish don’t believe that they can be caught, so they don’t rush up and confess. The Feds have to start at the bottom and get the little guy to turn on the bigger fish. They make a deal, get the data, move on the next guy… all the way up the food chain. Libby is an example of a little fish who is semi-sacrificing himself to protect the big fish. But my bet, and the position of the prosecutor, is that once he realizes he faces serious time in jail for lying to the grand jury, he’ll roll over and the hunt will continue. Everytime I hear of another plea, I rejoice, the system is still working.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:39 pmWow, Kranzy,
June 28th, 2006 at 4:43 pmMoonbat patrol or Herman must really have a thing for you!
This is the second time they have hijacked your name.
(Oops…. am I not supposed to say an inflammatory word such as “hijack” while the NSA is listening? Oh, shoot, I’m on the list for sure…! OH NO! There I go again, saying ’shoot’ instead of,…. well, you know……)
“Again not the real me.
Comment by Krazny”
“#6 Krazny - they can’t help it, deceit is a core value with this crowd.
Comment by Quadrajet ”
Actually, theres been the occasional person posting as me also, so hopefully by crowd your refering to crazy people in general, and not conservatives in general.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:44 pm14 trueblue
June 28th, 2006 at 4:48 pmCan’t be Moonbat Patrol. I’ve had a running battle with him/her all day and the postings from him/her have gotten increasingly hostile and filled with labelling. I doubt he/she could have calmed enough to have written the hijacked post which is pretty tame in comparison.
so hopefully by crowd your refering to crazy people in general, and not conservatives in general.
Comment by squegeeboo — June 28, 2006 @ 4:44 pm
Nope…conservatives!
June 28th, 2006 at 4:50 pm14 — Whoa, there, trueblue, I would never, ever, ever take someone elses name. That is just plain wrong. If someone has a point to make, they should make it as themselves. (Or at least as a personal alter-ego.) Please do not accuse me of name stealing.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:51 pmSanto posted a couple on this thread and left when it didn’t ellicit a reaction. Whoever is using my name is using an anagram anyway. they put the n before the z. I still don’t see a point in taking anothers identity. I want the other posters to know it is me.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:54 pmOK, Herman.
I apologize.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:55 pmI do that, too K-R-A-Z-N-Y!!! :)
It’s my dyslexia kickin’ in, but I do it almost every time I talk to you.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:57 pmSorry about that.
No worries Trueblue,
you could pull an MA and drop the n all together. Of course that is par for the course for her.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:00 pm22 –out of character– So, Krazny that was really you saying you loved me on the other thread?
20 — Not a problem.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:04 pmSeems Quadrajet just got hijacked as well; thread below this one.
Someone’s acting like a two year old…………
June 28th, 2006 at 5:05 pmAye it was but really in a platonic jesus heterosexual sorta way. =)
June 28th, 2006 at 5:06 pm25 Of course…my rage would be incredible if that was not the case.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:07 pmMan behind anti-Clinton ad convicted
Found guilty of child molestation
Wednesday, June 28, 2006; Posted: 12:36 p.m. EDT (16:36 GMT)
EDINBURG, Texas (AP) — A political consultant whose company was behind a television ad accusing the Clinton-Gore administration of giving away nuclear technology was convicted of child molestation charges.
Here’s another upstanding Republican to add to the list of convicted criminals.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:11 pm“Someone’s acting like a two year old…………”
But I’ve barely been on today. But TP should really do a registration thing, would stop things like this.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:18 pmOK, that was funny, Squegeeboo!
June 28th, 2006 at 5:21 pmSomeone’s acting like a two year old…………
Comment by trueblue — June 28, 2006 @ 5:05 pm
Welcome to my world of being followed by crybabies in diapers :)
The far right is really desperate guys. They don’t come her eto debate. They come to divide and conquer when they cannot convert. Really pathetic.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:22 pm30–and to attack, and hurl playground insults, and to refuse to acknowledge when facts directly contradict their assertions, which are VERY rarely supported by real facts. there are some limited exceptions to this…limited
I still enjoy seeing what they have to say, though I could do without those who throw around socialist and communist as an insult
June 28th, 2006 at 5:33 pmIt just works better for both sides if everyone is up-front. It is an anonymous platform anyhow, so why pretend to be somone else. It is just as easy to change who you are.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:35 pmRoger Stillwell was working at the Dept of Interior WELL before Bush stole the election in 2000. To call him a “Bush Administration Official” is dishonest, but I expect nothing less from this festering fever swamp.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:45 pmI still enjoy seeing what they have to say, though I could do without those who throw around socialist and communist as an insult
Comment by eblair — June 28, 2006 @ 5:33 pm
Maybe I’ve been here long enough to become cynical on some levels. I think most of what they utter is garbage. But, it is amusing to watch them pitch temper tanturms when cornered. Seixon is one of the loudest. It is pretty hilarious.
They don’t even know what socialist or communist mean. We’re social beings who live in communities. They’re actually insulting their own human nature when they misuse those terms.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:47 pm33 — March on, Republican Army! Nothing like combining the military with political division. That has worked so very well in the past.
June 28th, 2006 at 5:48 pmKrazny, the name troll is using Kranzy, not Krazny. Maybe if TP sees Kranzy they can block it (I am a tech moron).
Trueblue, Herman wouldn’t name troll, he is a liberal in conservative drag; Check out his site…very funny.
June 28th, 2006 at 8:02 pmStillwell was a long time aide to Antonio Won Pat, Guam’s Delegate to Congress from 1972 until 1984.
His firm, Stillwell Communications is mentioned in the 2001 CNMI OPA lobbying audit. He is identified as a “Likely Lobbyist” on page 3 of the Report. The totals paid to him ($224,360) between 1994 and 1998 is listed on page 17. He would have worked with Abramoff on CNMI issues over those years. Here is the link to the PDF: http://www.opacnmi.com/archives/m0105.html. A Marianas Variety article from 2-13-98 pegs payments to Stillwell at $280,000 between 1994 and 1997.
Stillwell was with Samuel Aloot (a CNMI Attorney General in 1995 and a current DOL official) to counteract Senate hearings on human rights abuses in 1995
He was hired to be part of the DOI OIA team in 1998. Unlike most of the Clinton hires he was kept on in the Bush era. He was suspected as Abramoff’s inside man at the OIA, this plea seems to support that theory.
June 28th, 2006 at 9:45 pm33 RRS
June 29th, 2006 at 12:59 pmDo you just admit that Bush stole the election in 2000? Wouldn’t that make his cronies the featured landscape in a “festering fever swamp” (gotta give you style points for this one, at least)?
http://www.barryyeoman.com/articles/abramoff.html
“He called [them] a unique political experiment,” says Roger Stillwell, a former Democratic lobbyist who also worked for the commonwealth. ”
Is he yet another one of them or not?
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