Criminality as a governing strategy

with a bare minimum of research consisting of glancing at the white house for sale database, emptywheel at the next hurrah, significantly augments frank rich's column in today's nyt (times select subscription only)...

• Jack Abramoff, for everything and the kitchen sink
• Katharine Armstrong, Anne Armstrong, covering up Dick's drunken hunting accident (Katharine also seems to be present every time George and Tony get together to plan illegal wars)
• Haley Barbour, for funding GOP Marketplace, the NH phone jamming firm
• Randy Best, benefitted from Reading First corruption
• Neil Bush, received donations earmarked from his mommy's Katrina donation
• (Uncle) Jonathan Bush, executive of the former Riggs Bank, money launderer for (among others) Augusto Pinochet and the Saudis
• Joseph Canizaro, largely responsible for the Katrina profitable non-recovery
• Tom Craddick, implicated in DeLay's TRMPAC money laundering
• Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, for alleged stock manipulation
• Lanny Griffith, for funding GOP Marketplace, the NH phone jamming firm, also involved in New Bridge Strategies, arranging business deals in Iraq
• Richard Hohlt, helped broker leak of Valerie Plame's identity
• Larry Householder, accused of accepting kickbacks from state contracts
• Nicholas Hurtgen, for extortion related to state contracts
• Alphonso Jackson, claims to have refused HUD contracts for Bush non-supporters
• Ken "Kenny Boy" Lay, for the mother of all business fraud
• James Miller, tied to Abramoff through Greenberg Traurig
• Tom Noe, indicted for 53 counts including theft, money laundering, and tampering with records; some money laundered to Bush-Cheney 04
• Wally O'Dell, for allegations of fraud (former CEO of Diebold)
• John Price, his firm was found guilty of bilking former business partners but he retains close ties to HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt
• Ralph Reed, implicated in Abramoff's scandals
• Pete Secchia, intervened with Rove--and possibly Abramoff--to stop a local casino application
• Manuel Stamatakis, for suspect insurance contracts negotiated for the Philadelphia port authority
• James Tobin, guilty of conspiracy for jamming the Democrats phones in NH in 2002
• William Weld, for fraud related to Decker College
• Brent Wilkes, indicted for bribing Randy Cunningham and Dusty Foggo, possibly with hookers
• Charles Wyly, for tax evasion (also funded the anti-McCain black baby ads and the Swift Boat campaign)

truly staggering, ain't it...?

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