The Abramoff Scandal is not over -- It's Kevin Ring's turn at bat

it's like baseball -- many, many innings -- way over nine....and they all know Mr. McCain....* so John or Barack better reform fast!

ah, my google alert!

Google News Alert for: Jack Abramoff
Road project played a role in lobbyist’s arrest Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USAWASHINGTON — A rural road in southeastern Montana has become entangled in the long-running Jack Abramoff scandal, factoring into the arrest of a Washington ...See all stories on this topic

Editorial: Exhibit A in the case for change Sacramento Bee - CA, USAJohn Doolittle, R-Roseville, who went to work for über-lobbyist Jack Abramoff. (See the ProPublica Web site: s3.amazonaws.com/ propublica/assets/docs/ring_ ...See all stories on this topic

Montana road project figured into lobbyist's arrest... KXNet.com ... KXMC - Minot,ND,USAAP WASHINGTON (AP) A rural road in southeastern Montana has become entangled in the long-running Jack Abramoff scandal, factoring into the arrest of a ...See all stories on this topic

*from Wikipedia

Kevin A. Ring
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Kevin A. Ring was a lobbyist and Republican Congressional staffer. After leaving Team Abramoff at Greenberg Traurig in 2005, he joined Barnes & Thornburg LLP law firm in Washington, DC. He resigned from Barnes and Thornburg on April 13, 2007, the same day the FBI raided John Doolittle's home, for whom he had been a staffer.[1][2] On September 5, 2008 "a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. returned a ten-count public-corruption indictment"[3] against Ring.

On June 28, 2005, Jon Kamman reported in The Arizona Republic that Ring no longer represented the Hopi Tribe following "harsh questioning" by Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) on Ring's "dealings with now-disgraced lobbyist" Jack Abramoff. Ring resigned and Barnes & Thornburg, the "lobbying firm he works for also pulled out, the Hopis announced. ... Neither the tribe nor the Barnes & Thornburg firm in Washington would comment on whether the split was entirely voluntary."[4]

One of "more than a dozen lobbyists who were members of Team Abramoff, the tight-knit group who worked under Abramoff when he was at the lobbying helm of the Washington office of Greenberg Traurig and, before that, Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds LLP," Ring was asked to resign from Greenberg Traurig. [5][6]

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New book: "The Perfect Villain: John McCain and the Demonization of Lobbyist Jack Abramoff"

AP: Abramoff gets 4 years prison in corruption scandal
Email this Story Sep 4, 6:18 PM (ET)By MATT APUZZO

The whole story is here: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080904/D9305V402.html

EXCERPT:

Although Abramoff expressed remorse Thursday, he also has spent his time in prison cooperating with a book that portrays him much differently: as a victim of Washington politics.

The book, set for publication later this month and obtained by The Associated Press, says Abramoff was pressured to plead guilty. The book blames The Washington Post and Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee whose Senate committee investigated Abramoff, for making him the fall guy.

"I never expected that I would have to go to prison," Abramoff says in the book, "until it became clear that the media could not allow this play to close without the hanging of the villain."

In "The Perfect Villain: John McCain and the Demonization of Lobbyist Jack Abramoff," Boston journalist Gary Chafetz portrays Abramoff as an innocent man who excelled in an already corrupt system and was undone by biased prosecutors, reporters and political enemies.

McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

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"L' is for Lobbyist, "K' is for Kickback, "A" is for Adulteress, HP is for Hewl---Heather Podesta? UH - HUH! ---WSJ tells the story

WSJ's Washington Wire tells the story why Heather Podesta is wearing this patch - good for Heather! All lobbyists, those with causes (( and there are those who truly did try to assist the tribes! )) should not be ostracized by either side of the aisle. This is something that needs to be said. Thank you, Wall Street Journal, thank you, CNN! --abpr

Lobbyist Heather Podesta Draws a Parallel to Hester Prynne

(((((WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
What did ol' John McCain have to do with it?
How am I (LITTLE ME?) connected?)))*

Published 3 hours ago at WSJ.com: Washington Wire - WSJ.com
August 28, 2008, 7:00 am

Lobbyist Heather Podesta Draws a Parallel to Hester Prynne
Brody Mullins reports from Denver on the Democratic convention.

Barack Obama has waged war against Washington lobbyists. Now one big-time Democratic lobbyist is fighting back in Denver.

Heather Podesta, a politically plugged-in lobbyist who represents a range of corporate giants, is sporting a patch with a scarlet letter “L” on her lapel as she makes the rounds of cocktail parties and receptions at this week’s convention.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic, the scarlet letter “A” marked an adulterer in 17th century Puritan Boston. Podesta’s “L” refers to something just as ignominious in present-day Washington: a lobbyist.

“It’s my little act of civil disobedience,” says Podesta outside a book party she helped throw this evening for her brother-in-law, John Podesta, who was President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff.

Podesta is one of hundreds of Democratic lobbyists who feel frustrated by Obama’s constant attack on their profession and refusal to accept their support for his campaign. But she is one of the few who is willing to talk about it openly. “I feel a bit liked a marked person,” she says. “You can’t volunteer, you can’t give money, you can’t even buy a $12 Obama T-shirt on the campaign’s Web site.”

Podesta and her husband, Tony Podesta, who is also a lobbyist, are among the top Democratic lobbyists in Washington. Their separate practices bring in well more than $1 million a year from A-list clients such as Boeing, CIGNA Corp., Eli Lilly & Co., and U.S. Steel.

Together, the Podestas raised more than $500,000 for the 2004 presidential campaign of Democratic Sen. John Kerry. Mrs. Podesta says the couple help raise about $3 million a year for Democratic candidates for president, House and Senate.

Podesta supported Sen. Hillary Clinton in the primary campaign, but when Clinton dropped out, she switched her backing to Obama. But she quickly became frustrated that, as a lobbyist, she couldn’t do anything to help the Democratic presidential candidate. Unable to donate the $2,300 that she wanted, she came up with the idea for the “L” patch. “We all thought this would be a way to have fun with an awkward situation,” she says.

She hired a graphic designer and went about developing the perfect patch. “In the first couple, the “L” looked a little too ‘Laverne & Shirley,” she says. She wanted something embroidered and “more goth.”

When she settled on a design, she paid about $500 to make one hundred patches to hand out to lobbyists willing to take a humorous stand against Obama.

She says she’s handed out about two-dozen. “I can’t tell you how many people want them, they are the hottest commodity in town,” she says.

At a book party for her brother-in-law, only a few lobbyists had them on display, including her husband.

Podesta says that the patches are all in good fun, but she doesn’t hide her frustration with Obama’s antilobbying stance. “There’s no spite at all, but a real frustration,” she says. “You don’t want to be told that your time and money aren’t wanted.”

As for the patch, she says, “the last time I saw, free speech is protected.”

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* six degrees = heather podesta (see comments)

more? Of course. Always.

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AP: Police: Woman believed to be 'D.C. madam' kills herself

This is just too sad, to take her own life. Sad, sad, sad. And I understand that she said she would.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1736687,00.html

I miss Jack Abramoff. I want to write him a letter. Wonder how he is doing in Cumnerland, MD.

Speaking of Washington dirt, And I have found that I was a lobbyist who had power! LOL! Don't make me laugh!

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/the_daily_muck_514.php (scroll to bottom of page)

The Rick Renzi land swaps at Ft Huachuca seem to get more intesting considering the Abramoff paid subordinates at the Interior Department.

The Abramoff young guns worked for lobbyist Abbe Buck and pushed HubZones for retired military officers & others at Ft Huachua and other Indian owned property.

Additionally, Mantech employed the government procurement software that came out of Guam.

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