DeLay, Successor Blunt Swapped Donations

And they swapped donations with everyone they swapped donations with, and everyone they swapped donations with.....

Key Events in DeLay-Blunt Donation Swaps

By The Associated Press

October 5, 2005, 5:52 PM EDT

Key events in the exchange of donations in 2000 between Tom DeLay's political groups and a group belonging to Roy Blunt, the new House majority leader.

* March 31: DeLay's unregulated ARMPAC convention fund donates $50,000 to the Missouri arm of Blunt's ROYB Fund.


* April 7: Blunt's ROYB Fund donates $10,000 to the DeLay Foundation.

* April 7 - May 1: Blunt's ROYBPAC pays $40,000 to Alexander Strategy Group Inc., run by DeLay's former chief of staff Ed Buckham and employing DeLay's wife, Christine.

* April 14: Northern Mariana Islands-based Concorde Garment Manufacturing, part of the island coalition that hired Jack Abramoff as a lobbyist, contributes $3,000 to Blunt's ROYB Fund. Concorde was sued and fined in the 1990s for alleged sweatshop practices.

* May 9:Blunt's ROYB Fund donates $1,000 to the Cancer Research Foundation of America through Jim Ellis, a DeLay fundraiser.

* May 19: Blunt's ROYB Fund pays $968.03 to Ellis' company.

* May 24: ARMPAC convention fund contributes $100,000 more to Blunt's ROYB Fund.

* May 25-June 3: DeLay takes trip to Scotland and England arranged by Abramoff and partly funded by Abramoff's clients.

* June 15: Blunt's ROYBPAC contributes $100,000 to Missouri Republican Party.

* July 25: Missouri GOP spends $11,174 on behalf of Matt Blunt's successful secretary of state campaign in Missouri. It's the first of more than $160,000 the state GOP gives Blunt's son after his father's donation.

* Aug. 2: Jennifer Calvert, a member of Abramoff's Marianas lobbying team, attends ARMPAC event at Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

* Sept. 11: Abramoff has discussion with Alexander Strategy Group's Buckham.

* Sept. 12: Abramoff lobbying team member talks with the press secretary to then-Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan about news stories related to the Mariana Islands.

* Sept. 15: Abramoff has another discussion with Alexander Strategy Group's Buckham.

* Sept. 19: Abramoff colleague has e-mail discussion with Abramoff re "Missouri press issue related to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands."

* Sept. 22: Abramoff has discussion with Alexander Strategy Group's Buckham. Same day, Abramoff talks to Michael Scanlon and to Tony Rudy, two aides in DeLay's office.

* Oct. 26: DeLay's ARMPAC non-federal account contributes $50,000 to Missouri Republican Party.

* Nov. 7: Matt Blunt wins election for Missouri secretary of state.

* Nov.28-Dec. 31: Missouri Republican Party contributes $50,000 back to DeLay's ARMPAC non-federal account, according to DeLay's group's tax filing.

* Nov. 27: Abramoff's firm charges its Marianas client for a meeting between its Marianas lobbying team and Blunt congressional aide Trevor Blackann.

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* Sept. 5, 2001: Abramoff Marianas lobbying team member meets with Blunt staffer to discuss strategy on legislation that would impose the minimum wage on Marianas employers.

* Sept. 9: A member of Abramoff's Marianas lobbying team has discussion with Blunt regarding minimum wage legislation and a bill regarding the Marianas sponsored by Democratic Rep. George Miller. Williams discusses Miller legislation with DeLay staffer D. Flynn the same day.

* Sept. 30, 2001: Abramoff lobbying team member meets with a Blunt staffer to discuss client issues including minimum wage legislation.

FEC Fines Pelosi Committees as Result ot NLPC Complaint;
Hypocrisy of "Reformer" Exposed

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has fined two leadership PACs associated with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in response to a Complaint filed by the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) on October 25, 2002. The FEC also has fined three campaigns that failed to return excessive contributions from Pelosi's PACs within 60 days, as required by law.

http://www.nlpc.org/view.asp?action=viewArticle&aid=456

"Paul has filed a civil suit charging Sen. Clinton and her husband, former President Clinton, with fraud, coercion and conspiracy. California courts so far have denied the Clintons' motions to dismiss, and Paul expects the case to proceed at the beginning of the year, just as Hillary Clinton prepares to defend her Senate seat. "

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45885

"Democratic fund-raiser Johnny Chung, who delivered a $50,000 campaign contribution to the White House and escorted Chinese businessmen to a presidential radio address, has agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department's investigation of finance abuses in the 1996 campaign.

As part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors, Chung was charged yesterday in Los Angeles with funneling illegal contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign by asking friends and employees of his office technology firm to make donations for which they were later reimbursed. He also is charged with engaging in a similar "straw donor" scheme to assist the 1996 reelection bid of Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.)."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/campfin/stories/cf030698.htm

I could go on and on.

Gee, what a surprise, Politicians involved in campaign finance fraud.

My position is this. Any politician directly or indirectly involved in any fraudshould be immediately impeached and removed from office.

That includes Delay, Clinton, Kerry...ANY OF THEM!!!

Republicans do not own the "fraud market". Democrats are knee deep also. The only difference is the liberal media reports only republican "mishaps" more aggressively then they report democrats.

Abramoff Indictment Makes
Bush Regime a Fat Target
by Anton Chaitkin

Following a Federal indictment by the Florida U.S. Attorney on Aug. 11, the FBI arrested and jailed lobbyist Jack Abramoff, the financial godfather for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.). Now released on bail, Abramoff will face trial for fraud and conspiracy in the takeover and looting of the Florida-based SunCruz gambling casino cruise-ship line. SunCruz's former owner Gus Boulis was murdered in a mob-style killing on Feb. 6, 2001.

Abramoff has been an architect of the power cartel behind DeLay, feeding the Congressman money siphoned from the multi-billion-dollar empire of Indian gambling casinos and Pacific island sweatshops under Abramoff's sway.

Abramoff and his two behind-the-scenes career partners, Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed, organized the rise of "DeLay, Inc.," by coercing corporations and their lobbyists (the "K Street Project") and whipping up religious fanatics (the Christian Coalition) for the money and muscle that bought DeLay his dictatorship over Congress.

These same arrangements are at the heart of the political system sustaining the Bush-Cheney Administration. With multiple criminal and Congressional investigations now pursuing DeLay, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and their cohorts, Abramoff's fall opens a new window on the criminal underpinnings of the entire Bush regime.

Jack, Grover, and Ralph http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:8kWUBtQ_0LMJ:www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3233abramoff_indict.html+jack+abramoff+indicted&hl=en&ie=UTF-8