Tom Noe & Abramoff together may bring down Bush & Co

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These guys were the money men, delivering the big payoffs, and scamming millions for themselves.

But now the prosecutors have ahold of 'em, and guess who is going to cut a deal? Ans: both of them! The only catch is they have to fully disclose everything they know about others in these rotten transactions, and tell the truth and testify against the others to get the benefit of their respective plea bargains.

If I were Gov Taft I would be plenty worried.
It is hard to fashion a plausible explanation of ignorance as to how he got himself in this position -- and he knows Noe must have made a deal with the prosecutor, and Taft knows what Noe can and will reveal. As long as Noe is alive and well, Taft's prospects are done for.

If I was Noe I would make sure my life insurance premiums were paid up.

Tom Delay is in as much trouble with Abramoff. Delay can manipulate the Repub controlled House to ward off ethics charges, but indictments are a different thing altogether. Delay is bound to know Abramoff will cut a deal -- and the costs of all deals is to bring evidence against and testify against a higher up, in this case Delay.

Abramoff is different in that his money relationships with just about every Repub in Washington means he not only knows who got what in the money game, but also means he knows what the money was ultimately used for and how Repubs are connected in this sordid affair.

I also get the impression he is plenty irritated with the Repubs who tried to publicly "chip him off the ice flow and watch him float away" after all the free meals he gave them at his restaurant, and after all the money deliveries he did for them. So there is no reason for him to hold back what he knows about them if it will help his case.

Delay, in my opinion, is going down hard -- and there are plenty of Repubs who will give him a helping shove out the door as soon as they are convinced he is really gone.