I'm glad to see the Abramoff mess back in the headlines

but what i REALLY want to see is ALL of the pieces put together...

Five conservative nonprofit organizations, including one run by prominent Republican Grover Norquist, "appear to have perpetrated a fraud" on taxpayers by selling their clout to lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Senate investigators said in a report issued yesterday.

The report includes previously unreleased e-mails between the now-disgraced lobbyist and officers of the nonprofit groups, showing that Abramoff funneled money from his clients to the groups. In exchange, the groups, among other things, produced ostensibly independent newspaper op-ed columns or news releases that favored the clients' positions.

Abramoff, the once-powerful lobbyist at the center of a wide-ranging public corruption investigation, was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison on March 29, after pleading guilty to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials in a deal that required him to provide evidence about members of Congress.

Officers of the groups "were generally available to carry out Mr. Abramoff's requests for help with his clients in exchange for cash payments," said the report, issued by the Senate Finance Committee.

let's see if we can lay out some of the bigger-name pieces... i'll probably miss some, but, what the hey...

abramoff
delay
cunningham
pombo
hastert
boehner
rove
ralston
foley
kolbe
foggo
goss
mcclellan
gannon
mehlman
norquist
ney
noe
burns
rubin

you just know, they've ALL got to fit together somehow... couldn't we see some REAL investigative reporting...? PLEASE...?

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