just broke on AP: Capito linked to Abramoff!!!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Robb and Callahan had better play this for all its worth

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WASHINGTON - Three members of Congress have been linked to efforts by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a former General Services Administration official to secure leases of government property for Abramoff's clients, according to court filings by federal prosecutors on Friday.

The filings in U.S. District Court do not allege any wrongdoing by the elected officials but list them in documents portraying David Safavian, a former GSA chief of staff, as an active adviser to Abramoff, giving the lobbyists tips on how to use members of Congress to navigate the agency's bureaucracy.

Abramoff is cooperating with federal investigators in a wide-ranging probe of corruption on Capitol Hill that threatens several powerful members of Congress and their staff members. Last month, he pleaded guilty to federal charges of conspiracy, tax evasion and mail fraud.

Safavian is charged with lying to a GSA ethics officer when he said Abramoff was not seeking business with the agency at the time the lobbyist paid for Safavian and several others to go on a golf outing to Scotland in August 2002.

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060211/ap_on_go_co/lobbyis...

[prankster]

1. between this and her delay

money, if she's not toast come November, I will lose all faith in the fine folks of WV-2.

Cheers,

Prankster

[Moonshine Mike]

5. Problem are the crossover Dems

The problem is she may still win because there are many democrats including the party committee folks who will vote for her because she brings home the pork.

[AlecBGreen]

6. Hey Mike

Welcome to DU! :hi: :toast: :party:

[Staph]

2. Like father, like daughter!

Is anyone actually surprised?

[Hokie]

3. You stole my line!

Bye, bye Shelley Moore. Happy life as a lobbyist.

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Maybe she can get her daddy's old room at the crossbar hotel.

They could put her away for life if ugly was against the law!

[Homer Wells]

7. Certainly does prove the old adage

regarding the proximity of the acorn to the tree,doesn't it :sarcasm: :party: