Breaking: Ex-DeLay Aide Reportedly to Plead Guilty

[kpete]

Ex-DeLay Aide Reportedly to Plead Guilty 9 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Tony Rudy, a former top aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, has agreed to plead guilty to charges in the widening federal investigation of lobbyist fraud, a law enforcement official said Friday.

A hearing was scheduled Friday in U.S. District Court in Washington, where Rudy was expected to enter his plea.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal has not yet been filed with the court.

Rudy would be the first person to plead guilty to charges in the case since Jack Abramoff, once a leading GOP lobbyist, pleaded guilty to fraud charges in January.

Rudy was referred to in court papers released in connection with Abramoff's plea. The documents referred to Rudy as Staffer A, and said that Abramoff, on behalf of clients who wanted to stop Internet gambling and postal rate legislation, paid $50,000 in 10 equal monthly payments beginning in June 2000 to Rudy's wife while Rudy was a top aide to DeLay

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060331/ap_on_go_co/lobbyist_fraud_rudy

[donco6]

1. Tick Tock Tommy. You be goin' down.

Won't it be great to see that smiling mug behind bars?

[wicket]

2. I'm throwing a party when that happens!

:D :7

[Tim4319]

3. I wonder if he regrets the re-districting of Texas?

[donco6]

4. I don't think that man can ever accept . . .

. . . that he's ever done anything wrong in his life. He has no personal ethic, no moral compass,

Y'know, they often use the term "animal" to describe a particularly violent criminal. But I think it fits Delay.

[Tim4319]

5. Yeah, if he were a blue collar criminal.

He'd be a serial killer!

[stop the bleeding]

6. Yeah Baby!!!! n/t

[Catrina]

7. Rudy was on the list of possible indictments ~ now that he made a deal

after Abramoff turned HIM in, he can start talking about his former boss ~

Poor Tom, he's got so many problems these days ~ what stuns me is that he won in the primary. What is wrong with those people?

I'd say he'll be indicted in the Abramoff affair before long ~ he was so involved with Jack ~ in the K Street project eg ~

I'll have to revise my list of indicted and convicted Republicans ~ there are so many more to add since I updated it a few months ago ~