Ralph Reed and Jack Abramoff
Monday, January 16, 2006
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/15/AR2006011500915_pf.html
Well little ole Ralph Reed has a bit of a problem, he was in bed with Jack Abramoff ripping people off to the tune of millions. What makes Ralph worse is that he used religion to get money from conservatives and they are not too happy about it. Ralph and Jack's friendship go back about 25 years when they met in college, the 2 hooked up again in the 90s and put their scheme in motion.
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Similarly damaging has been a torrent of e-mails revealed during the investigation that shows a side of Reed that some former supporters say cannot be reconciled with his professed Christian values.
"After reading the e-mail, it became pretty obvious he was putting money before God," said Phil Dacosta, a Georgia Christian Coalition member who had initially backed Reed. "We are righteously casting him out."
Among those e-mails was one from Reed to Abramoff in late 1998: "I need to start humping in corporate accounts! . . . I'm counting on you to help me with some contacts." Within months, Abramoff hired him to lobby on behalf of the Mississippi Band of Choctaws, who were seeking to prevent competitors from setting up facilities in nearby Alabama.
In 1999, Reed e-mailed Abramoff after submitting a bill for $120,000 and warning that he would need as much as $300,000 more: "We are opening the bomb bays and holding nothing back."
In 2004, when the casino payments to Reed were disclosed, Reed issued a statement declaring "no direct knowledge of their [Abramoff's law firm's] clients or interests." In 2005, however, Senate investigators released a 1999 e-mail from Abramoff to Reed explicitly citing the client: "It would be really helpful if you could get me invoices [for services performed] as soon as possible so I can get Choctaw to get us checks ASAP."
One of the most damaging e-mails was sent by Abramoff to partner Michael Scanlon, complaining about Reed's billing practices and expenditure claims: "He is a bad version of us! No more money for him." Scanlon and Abramoff have pleaded guilty to defrauding clients.
The best part of this is that we will get to knock Reed off the political track just when he is getting started, besides Delay and Rep Ney who just resigned his committee position this is the 3rd casuality from the Abramoff scandal. Don't worry there will be more......
Posted by mardenhill 1/16/2006 09:18:00 AM
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