Abramoff tied to Guam election

[rumpel]

Crossposting from Election Reform, Fraud, & Related News Sunday, April 2
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=420476&mesg_id=420476

Pacific Daily News

Welcome to The Pacific Daily News on Guam. Chamorro Standard Time: 3:21 AM 4/3/2006
By Gene Park
Pacific Daily News
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Federally convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff was linked to Guam's 1998 gubernatorial election, according to an article published in The Wall Street Journal Saturday.

In e-mails reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Abramoff had asked Tony Rudy, Rep. Tom DeLay's deputy chief of staff, to see if he could garner any assistance in helping the 1998 gubernatorial candidacy of former Gov. Joseph Ada and then Sen. Felix Camacho, now the governor of Guam, who ran against incumbent Gov. Carl Gutierrez at the time.

The report makes no mention of whether Ada and Camacho sought assistance from Abramoff, or if they even knew him.

Calls to Ada's home yesterday were not answered. Gov. Camacho's spokesman Shawn Gumataotao said he would try to have a response from the governor yesterday, but as of press time, no response was given.
The e-mail from Abramoff, sent Oct. 26, 1998, stated, "We want to know if there is any way to get Tom to call for an investigation of the misuse of federal funds on Guam by this governor," referring to Gutierrez.

Abramoff then said he would draft a statement for DeLay and suggested that if Rudy could "issue a press release and letter requesting an Inspector General to investigate these matters, it should have a major impact on the election next week."

http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060403/NEWS01/604030302/1002

[acmavm]

1. Gee, and just coincidentally DeLay issues the press release that

Abramoff wants. Because you know old Tom wouldn't do anything like that for money now, don't you?

:sarcasm:

[Wilms]

2. K&R n/t

[Judi Lynn]

3. The article reminds us of the man who already lost his job over Abramoff!

From the article:

Concerns about government of Guam payments to Abramoff -- about $400,000 for lobbying against a judicial bill -- have resurfaced in the wake of the lobbyist's recent guilty plea in a criminal influence-peddling case in Washington.

The court payments to Abramoff have become a part of national scrutiny over whether the earlier FBI investigation into the payments to Abramoff had cost Guam's former acting U.S. Attorney, Frederick Black, his job.

It was under Black's leadership that local court documents showing the payments to Abramoff were subpoenaed.
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Thanks for this article, rumpel.

[rumpel]

4. welcome n/t

[WhiteTara]

5. this slime left a trail everywhere

so much corruption. Thanks for the post, it makes my day to see the ugliness exposed to the light of day.