Insiders worked both sides of gaming issue (Roger Stone?)

[sofa king]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50258-2004Sep25.html

"Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and public relations consultant Michael Scanlon quietly worked with conservative religious activist Ralph Reed to help the state of Texas shut down an Indian tribe's casino in 2002, then the two quickly persuaded the tribe to pay $4.2 million to try to get Congress to reopen it."

This might be yet another tip-0-the-iceberg story (and it's not new at all, by the way). If the Village Voice is correct, the officials that Abramoff and Scanlon had to lobby were the guys hand-picked by none other than Roger Stone, the fellow suspected by DU of having fed those forged documents to Killian and CBS.

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0417/barrett.php

Stone himself has made a pretty penny in the Indian gaming arena, which I know from personal experience is very, very small. Abramoff unapologetically trumpeted his insider influence in the first years of the Bush administration, charging some of the poorest Americans $450 an hour for the privilege.

If I recall correctly, our Freeper friend Buckhead also can be connected with the firm of Greenberg & Traurig, but the association escapes me now.

Oh yes, that is the despicable Ralph Reed, of godhatesfags.com All true scumbags take a turn at ripping off the Indians sooner or later.

There's a full day's work ahead to tie all these loose strings together. Unfortunately, I have to look for a job, so I leave it to my fellow DUers to sniff around this one and see what it smells like. I smell day-old bait on the cutting table, myself.