Oops: In Slip, Delay Implicates THIRD Aide

[kpete]

In Slip, DeLay Says Third Former Aide Guilty
By Paul Kiel - April 5, 2006, 10:54 AM

Paul Kane makes a hell of a catch in his piece today in Roll Call. He points out that during his interview with Time, Tom DeLay let the cat out of the bag and admitted that a third former aide of his will be found guilty:

TIME: Were there any instances where you failed to adequately supervise people who worked in your office?

DeLay: No, no. Look: I have had hundreds of people work for me. Unfortunately, there's three - one that we let go, Scanlon - that I don't yet, I'll wait until they're found guilty. But it looks like they have violated the trust of my office..

Only two of DeLay's former aides have already pled guilty: Tony Rudy and Michael Scanlon. Ed Buckham would be the third, and as we pointed out last week, he was recently implicated in Tony Rudy's guilty plea. So it already looked like he was likely to go down, but DeLay does us all the service of confirming it here.

DeLay says he'll "wait until they're found guilty." Whether he's talking about a forthcoming guilty plea from Buckham is not clear.

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000288.php
http://www.time.com/time/nation/printout/0,8816,1179857,00.html

[stop the bleeding]

1. Oops - Nominated -

this is great!

[babylonsister]

2. "But it looks like they have violated the trust of my office"-bailing

on his buddies. Speaks volumes about his character, though I'm sure it's just trying to get as far away from them as he can. Boo hoo; you're next, bugman!

[stop the bleeding]

3. More on Buckham here - they say he could bring Delay down...

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000249.php

On Friday, Paul noted how the guilty plea by ex-DeLay aide Tony Rudy is bad news for a man named Ed Buckham. Buckham's fall -- and what he could tell prosecutors -- would be even worse news for a lot of other people, including many elected officials, Paul pointed out.

Well, recent news reports tell us more about the man who's increasingly looking like the Grand Central Station of recent Congressional scandals, and what prosecutors might know

[wordpix]

10. was Buckham the chief of insider trading in the office?

[stop the bleeding]

13. good question - I don't know

KICK!

[myrna minx]

4. Heh. All of those plates that he's been spinning are all crashing down.

Heh.

[kpete]

5. Delay

On Hillary Clinton: “Nothing Worse Than A Woman Know-It-All”...
http://images.cf.huffingtonpost.com/video/delay.mov

[UTUSN]

6. Keep insulting them boys, Tom, that's the ticket n/t

[berni_mccoy]

7. BWAHAHAHA!!! OOOOOPS... the WHEELS have COME OFF!!!

:woohoo:

[underpants]

8. Too funny

What an idiot

[wicket]

9. He's losing it

And I love it! :D

:rofl:

[wordpix]

11. 'my 3 aides all engaged in illegal activities in my Congress'l office but

I didn't know anything about what they were doing.'

LOL, sure, Bugman, THAT's believable. NOT

[TahitiNut]

12. Tommy "Show Me The Money" DeLay is near the center of a "target-rich"

... horde of cronies whose allegiance to wealth and power seems unparalleled in American history. The cabal includes Christine DeLay, Tony Rudy, Michael Scanlon, The Reverend Ed Buchman (aka "Lobbyist B"), Wendy Buchman, Jim Ellis, Jack Abramoff, William J. Olson, Karl Gallant, Brent Wilkes, 'Duke' Cunningham, Mike Mihalke, Terry Haines, Ed Stewart, Robert G. Mills, and dozens if not hundreds of other corrupt Repukelickers.

The list of corrupt organizations formed at least partly if not solely to launder money and peddle influence is similarly extensive and includes Enron, U.S. Family Network, Republican Majority Issues Committee, Americans for a Republican Majority Political Action Committee, Americans For Economic Growth, Alexander Strategy Group, Texans for a Republican Majority PAC, Center on Regulation and Economic Growth, Retain Our Majority Program, Triad Management Services, Alliance for Quality Nursing Home Care, Ariel Center for Policy Research, and others. The crimnal cabal is virtually boundless.

[Disturbed]

14. I suspect that Delay was offered a carrot and took it.

The Rethug Party most likely pressured him to opt out of his run to stop the bleeding and offered him a lot of future money in the party machine.

[TahitiNut]

15. I suspect Tommy has more than enough Swiss karats and Cayman carats.

I doubt that any 'pressure' was carrot-like ... probably more stick-like. After all, anyone who thinks 'the goods' aren't safely stored for all contingencies must've been recent cargo on the turnip truck during its latest drive-by.

[Canuckistanian]

16. Those damned aides - they're always acting independently

And they never tell me what they're doing in my name.