More bad news for Republicans. This courtesy of the Associated Press Scanlon Charged With Conspiracy to Defraud By PETE YOST, Associated Press Michael Scanlon, partner of lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was charged Friday with conspiring to defraud Indian tribes the two were representing of millions of dollars. In a one-count criminal information filed by the government, […]
Roy Blunt is now involved in the legal problems of Tom Delay as reported in today’s New York Times: Prosecutors Seek More of DeLay’s Records By THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 – Texas prosecutors in the criminal case against Representative Tom DeLay issued a subpoena on Wednesday for records of transactions between his […]
By WILL LESTER, Associated Press Writer The recent indictment of Vice President Cheney’s top aide has struck a nerve with the American public. Four in five, 79 percent, said the indictment of former Cheney aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on perjury and other charges is important to the nation, according to a poll by the […]
Keeping with talking about Delay (after all he is so much fun to talk about), here is an interesting little piece of news fromPolitical Money Line: Rep. Tom DeLay filed a report with the Clerk of the House of Representatives indicating he received free travel valued at $13,998.55 from Fox News Sunday for “officially connected […]
Tom Delay vowed his innocence and his desire to a speedy trial to clear his “good” name after his indictment. Well the first delay was caused by him when his attorney complained that the judge assigned to the case was partisan. Judge Perkins had given to the Kerry campaign last year and also donated money […]
Patrick Fitzgerald has met with attorney’s of Matt Cooper to discuss Rove’s involvement with the leak case even more. Washington Post is reporting that Fitzgerald is considering charging Rove with making false statements during the investigation. This could happen in the next few weeks. It may not take an indictment in the leak case to […]
Harry Reid and the Democrats have made a strong stand today in the halls of Senate and the Senate has now gone to closed door meetings to discuss the indictment of Scooter Libby and the failure of intelligence for the war in Iraq. Reid, speaking to Senate prior to this late afternoon development barked at […]
It took some time, but Ken Mehlman,Republican National Committeechairman, issued a typical statement on today’s indictment. RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman On Today’s Announcement By Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald Contact: Tracey Schmitt WASHINGTON -RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman issued the following statement regarding today’s announcement by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. “Scooter Libby is a good and capable […]
Heres an update on my previous postRove = Offical ‘a’. This is the Associated Presses report on this issue: ‘Official A’ Stands Out in Indictment By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer In a sign of the trouble lingering for the Bush administration, the indictment handed up Friday in the CIA leak probe refers to someone […]
Fitzgerald gave one of the longest press conferences I think I have ever witnessed. Saying that, it was also very interesting. He could not get into many details of the case and left many of us wondering what is still to come but he did let us in on what is known. He started off […]