The latest Abramoff casualty.
The latest Abramoff casualty.
“The top aide to convicted former Rep. Bob Ney pleaded guilty Monday to federal conspiracy charges,” admitting he had accepted “a stream of things of value from Abramoff and his lobbyists, including overseas and domestic trips, meals and drinks, golf, tickets to professional sporting events and concerts, and monetary and in-kind campaign contributions from Abramoff.” TPM Muckraker digs through the charging documents, and finds nuggets like this one, on how Ney dangled lobbyist goodies over the head of his staff:
Ney controlled the receipt of things of value by his personal office staff and the House Administration Committee staff as a way to reward and punish staff by approving their receipt of things of value or by taking things of value and redistributing them to others.
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Unless you said AYE to Ney, he said NAY to giving you any of the lobbyist goodies! What a REPREHENSIBLE, UNSCRUPULOUS repugnant-repub–I AM SO GLAD HE GOT WHAT HE DESERVES–I ONLY WISH HE GOT A LONGER SENTENCE SO WHEN GOT OUT OF JAIL HE COULD WIPE HIS OWN LOATHESOME ASS WITH HIS LONG BEARD!!!!!
February 26th, 2007 at 9:48 pmNey dangled lobbyist goodies over the head of his staff….
Oh please, I don’t want to think about Ney’s dangling goodies. :P
February 26th, 2007 at 9:53 pmPerhaps Condi does her research using Conservapedia
February 26th, 2007 at 10:04 pmThe aide is a small GOPer fish. We want bigger GOPer fish to fry.
February 26th, 2007 at 11:01 pm#4 Jay Randal
Maybe the aide will squeal, and then you won’t get just get bigger fish, but some hefty chunks of bacon also.
February 26th, 2007 at 11:08 pmAshen > I want the big GOPer Tuna fish Cheney taken down and the GOPer Albacore Bush fried too.
February 26th, 2007 at 11:18 pmWhy so many **crickets** on this thread?
February 27th, 2007 at 1:08 amwhere’s pat? love to hear what he has to say on this. what a D!ck. He is such a paid agitator it is obvious.
February 27th, 2007 at 11:30 amWavelength.
February 28th, 2007 at 2:43 am