Is there something ELSE that DeLay has done that we don't know about?

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Is he tied up with the Sun Cruz/Abramoff investigation? Will Jeb Bush be next for the chop?

[Trish1168]

1. Funny you should mention it.... I saw this today

From Wayne Madsen:

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

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April 4, 2006 -- DeLay implicated in Florida gangland hit of casino boats owner. Former GOP Majority Leader Tom DeLay's surprise announcement that he will resign from Congress in a few weeks and not stand for re-election after winning the GOP primary in his Houston area district came after a bombshell was dropped in the Broward County, Florida trial of former John Gotti hit man Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello for the February 2001 gangland slaying of Sun Cruz casino boat owner Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis. Moscatiello is on trial with Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari and James "Pudgy" Fiorillo in the murder of Boulis.

On April 1, the Miami Herald reported that Moscatiello was a long time informant for the FBI at the time of the murder of Boulis. Moscatiello quit his association with the the FBI shortly after the murder of Boulis. Recently convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his colleague Adam Kidan forced Boulis to sell Sun Cruz Casino Cruises to them in a scheme engineered by Gov. Jeb Bus to establish a GOP money launcering contrivance. The state pressured Boulis, a Greek national, to sell Sun Cruz to Abramoff because of an obscure state requirement that shipping companies be owned by U.S. citizens. Jeb Bush, using Florida's regulatory mechanisms behind the scenes, ensured Boulis was pressured to divest his interests in Sun Cruz to Abramoff.

WMR sources report that Broward County prosecutors are livid about the failure of the FBI to inform them that Moscatiello was an FBI informant at the time of the Boulis murder. They are convinced that the George W. and Jeb Bush administrations in Washington and Tallahassee, respectively, deliberately blocked the prosecution from linking Moscatiello to the criminal cases against Abramoff and Kidan. Kidan placed Moscatiello and Ferrari on the Sun Cruz payroll after Abramoff assumed control of the company. Abramoff and Kidan were sentenced to over 5 years in prison last week for lying to financers in their purchase of Sun Cruz from Boulis. The light sentences were the result of plea agreements in which they prmised to cooperate with federal prosecutors.

However, the Sun Cruz case goes far beyond Abramoff and involves DeLay, according to informed sources. The Broward County prosecutors believe that the FBI's written summaries (FD-302s) of their interviews with Moscatiello were withheld from the prosecution by the FBI in order to protect senior GOP officials. Had the prosecution known Moscatiello was an FBI informer, he could have been offered a plea bargain in return for his cooperation against Republican politicians in Florida and Washington, DC.



The story behind the story: DeLay's involvement with Florida gangland mobsters probed by prosecutors stymied by withheld FBI interview forms and obstruction from George W. and Jeb Bush.

Prosecutors and investigative reporters in Miami and Fort Lauderdale are focusing on the time line involving Sun Cruz, Boulis, Abramoff, and DeLay. In February 2000, Abramoff began negotiations with Boulis for the sale of Sun Cruz, which Boulis eventually sold to Abramoff for a mere $147 million. At the time, Abramoff was a lobbyist for the well-connected Preston Gates law firm. After the November 2000 election of George W. Bush, Boulis protested that he had been defrauded by Abramoff and Kidan in the sale of Sun Cruz. To avoid legal issues, Abramoff and Kidan began to make legal moves to move Sun Cruz's corporate headquarters from Florida to the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas.

On December 13, 2000, Abramoff's Sun Cruz paid $145,000 to Moscatiello for "consulting services." On January 19, 2001, one day prior to the inauguration of George W. Bush, Boulis filed court action to block Abramoff's and Kidan's involvement with Sun Cruz. On January 20, 2001, Kidan and former DeLay aide Michael Scanlon met in DeLay's congressional office in Washington to "officially" celebrate the Bush inauguration. Scanlon, former DeLay aide Tony Rudy, Abramoff, and Kidan are all cooperating with federal prosecutors after agreeing to plea agreements.

On January 25, 2001, Abramoff reportedly flew DeLay's senior staffer Tim Berry, named his chief of staff in 2002, to Tampa for the Super Bowl and a meeting on one of the Sun Cruz casino boats. Suspiciously, Berry did not report the trip on disclosure forms, something DeLay's office later called an "honest mistake."

On February 6, 2001, Boulis was shot to death in his car after leaving his Fort Lauderdale office. Florida prosecutors have uncovered preliminary evidence that Sun Cruz was wrested from Boulis to enable hundreds of millions of dollars in cash could be laundered into GOP campaigns, including the DeLay and Bush-Cheney 2004 campaigns, from the casino boats.

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2. seems that Abramoff opened a can of worms!

[formercia]

6. Just remember, the worms went in the can without duress.

They just never expected to get caught.

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8. Wasn't it Scanlon's former fiancee that

led them to these crooks?

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. They thought we would be a military state by now

and it wouldn't matter.

Fortunately, because of the internet and manics like us that didn't happen.

[Trish1168]

7. or Pandora's box. And I hope this thing blows up

so nobody can ignore it. I want the religious zealots to feel foolish for believing that someone who claims to be religious is also a good person. I've met plenty of people who are religious, and are terrible. I've also met religious people who are good people. I see no correlation between piety and decency. It all boils down to ability to empathize, which is entirely separate from religion.

Tom DeLay has zero empathy. Nobody with empathy could look at the enslaved women in the Mariana's (who are routinely sexually abused and forced to have abortions) and ignore their plight. Actually, he did worse than ignore it....he prevented anything at all from happening to help these women, and he did it for money.

Tom DeLay is an evil bastard.....and I want it to be widely known by the people who voted for him and gave him his power. I want the religious people to not make 'assumptions' about someone. In my opinion, people who advertise their piety are suspect (because all to often they hide behind it.....they use it to cover up how slimey they really are.....another example is GWB).

[Warpy]

3. All the investigations are tangled up together

and I know he's tied to the Cunningham scandals by Brent Wilkes and the suspicion that taxpayer dollars in the DOD budget were laundered by Wilkes and given to Cunningham and to the RNC and their supporting PACs. The whole web is becoming visible and eventually we'll find the big spider in the middle of it.

Scandals, state by state: http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/gopscorecard.htm

Bits and pieces on Wilkes: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00080.htm

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00080.htm

Have fun reading. The more you dig, the worse it gets.

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5. Politics in this country certainly needs to be cleaned up

not just cleaned but sterilized!

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. I've wondered about J. Clifford Baxter's "Suicide"

Enron’s former vice chairman. Baxter had been identified in the media as an internal critic of Enron’s accounting scams and was slated to testify before a congressional committee probing the Enron collapse when he was found dead in his car on January 25. He died of a gunshot wound to the head in DeLay's hometown of Sugarland.

It sure looks like he was murdered, but I really have no idea if DeLay was involved.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/feb2002/enro-f22.shtml

[Trish1168]

9. Anything seems possible with this crew

.....murders, bribes, money laundering.

And yes..I believe in the MIHOP theory for 9/11. I feel certain Cheney was involved, but if you listen to the hints from Sibel Edmonds....several prominent US politicians received laundered drug money from the same sources as the hijackers. Don't forget that Mohammed Atta visited one of those very same sun cruz gambling boats!!!!!! There's almost no regulation of gaming in Florida (very easy to launder money).

I do not know if DeLay knew anything about 9/11, but these people seem capable of anything.

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11. Atta

I have often wondered about Atta. Is he real? Who is he?

[GeorgeGist]

10. Well there is this which fits the pattern...

Interior Secretary (Gale Norton) resigns; Ties to Abramoff Indian deals March 10, 2005

snip > Former DeLay deputy chief of staff Tony Rudy helped Abramoff arrange a meeting with Norton, and within months, the lobbyist's clients were making huge contributions to the environmental group Norton started, the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy.


http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Interior_Secretary_to_resign_Ties_to_0310.html