Like everyone else being investigated for their dealings with Abramoff, Bob Ney is no different. He has taken the same stance of “not remembering” key events like this one:
Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Ney didn’t recall meeting with members of the Tigua tribe of Texas when Senate investigators questioned him during a probe of rogue lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
But leaders of the El Paso tribe who lost $4.2 million to Abramoff remember small details of their get-together in Ney’s Capitol Hill office and even took pictures with Ney.
The meeting with Ney occurred on August 14, 2002, a few days after the congressman and two of his aides returned from a golf trip in Scotland with Abramoff, former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed, a pair of lobbyists at Abramoff’s firm, and former White House official David Safavian, who was convicted last week of lying to investigators about the trip.
And here is the picture:
So is Ney just lying to the public, or is he also lying to investigators? That is the big question and could land him in Scooter trouble. Can we get him locked up before November?