skippy the bush kangaroo

Sunday, November 27, 2005

more tom clancy than elmore leonard

josh over at talking points memo is having a tough time keeping up with the jack abramoff story...(like who isn't?) he seems to feel that it's straight from an elmore leonard book...i'm thinking more tom clancy. everytime i see a photo of jackie a, i'm picturing the character "robert ritter" in the movie version of clancy's "clear and present danger"

parts of the storyline....

gus boulis founds the casino boat line suncruz.

jack abramoff and adam kidan buy suncruz from boulis when he was pressure to sell.

suncruz, under the new ownership, pays the national republican congressional committee (the house gop election committee) $10,000 on behalf of rep. bob ney
(r-oh). that was in exchange for ney's putting anti-boulis remarks in the
congressional record that helped abramoff and kidan pressure boulis to sell them suncruz.

when the casino boat line suncruz was owned by jack abramoff and adam kidan, the company paid the men who blew away gus boulis (gangland style, mind you)

mike scanlon, who formerly worked for tom delay, was the go between guy between abramoff and ney. and, jackie a has a long "working" (aka golfing) history with delay...although tom can't seem to remember who jackie a is anymore.

scanlon also involved in the abramoff's indian gaming bilking schemes (remember when jackie a called the native american tribes as "monkeys", "idiots" and "troglodytes")

confused yet? hey...and i'm not even going into detail about how jackie a got $9mil for arranging a meeting with awol, his ties with ralph reed, grover norquist, rep. pombo, rep. doolittle, sen. burns, his golf expeditions, his connection to the mariana island sweatshops, etc.....

now...scanlon is ready to testify against everyone. can't wait for the movie....i'm sure that jackie a won't be "producing" this one.

posted by Cookie Jill at 8:17 PM |