Coming attractions in the Abramoff investigation:
If Scanlon keeps singing, there could be a lot of “victims” in Washington soon. Sources close to the federal investigation tell the Washington Post that investigators “are looking at half a dozen members of Congress, current and former senior Hill aides, a former deputy secretary of the interior, and Abramoff’s former lobbying colleagues.”
With the possibility of five years in prison and a $19.7 million restitution order hanging over his head, Scanlon has every incentive to help prosecutors bring down Abramoff, DeLay, Ney and others. The most frightening part for the men who may soon be targets? As the Post notes, Scanlon almost seems to be enjoying his role. As he left a press conference yesterday after his plea hearing, Scanlon turned to the reporters there and said, “Thanks, guys. I’ll be in touch.”
Scanlon is 35 - a young man who probably lost his way, in a big way. He must know that he must do them, what they would do to him, where the shoe on the other foot.
Thought unrelated, we cannot help but associate this scandal with Fitzgerald’s investigation:
On First Looking Into Fitzgerald’s Indictment
A Pre-Emptive Poem
From A Keats Ghost To Gothamimage:
Much have I witnessed the Scandal of Bush
And many awful lies and outrages seen;
Round many breaches have I been
Which bards in fealty to Republic hold.
Oft of one great Injury had I been told
That worried the Founders in repose;
Yet did I never see it so clear
Till I heard Fitzgerald speak out loud and bold:
Then I felt like some Justice on High
When a pure Truth comes into his view:
Or like Honest Abe when with wise eyes
He saved the Union - and all his men
Look’d at each other with great relief -
Silent, upon a stillness at Appomattox.
10-26-05