Lobbyist linked to DeLay investigated – Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit – MSNBC.com — Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better. Watch the rats jump from the sinking SS DeLay. Hilarious how this goes on and on.
Leaders of the Tigua tribe in Texas say they paid $4.2 million after Abramoff promised to help reopen a casino. They say they were later shocked to learn that Abramoff had been working with another tribe to shut down the Tigua casino.
In an exclusive interview with NBC, Abramoff insists that all the tribes were represented fairly and got their money’s worth.
“The benefit that we brought to these tribes was far in excess, by multiples of tens and hundreds, of the charges [and] of the costs of these efforts,” says Abramoff.
Abramoff used money from Indian tribes and other clients to entertain and influence members of Congress. And, government sources say, he kept meticulous notes, now in the hands of the FBI, of tickets and golf trips paid for and favors sought.
Tom DeLay is already in hot water. He traveled with Abramoff to Russia in 1997 and to Britain in 2000, playing golf in Scotland at legendary St. Andrews. The total cost of two trips was $127,000.
Abramoff si the guilty party here, with all sorts of illegal dealings. The story on Tom Delay has been the media dredging up old stories, repeating them over and over, and then calling him controversial when they’re the ones who pushed the controversy.