Scanlon Guilty Plea Holds Nothing But Bad News For MO GOP

According to the Washington Post story on the guilty plea of former DeLay staffer and Abramoff partner, Michael Scanlon:

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, according to
sources familiar with the probe who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Majority Leader Roy Blunt (R-K Street) was the beneficiary of thousands in contributions from Abramoff's Marianas Island based clients. Abramoff's work for the Islands appears to be of particular interest to prosecutors.

And Blunt's work on behalf of Abramoff's tribal clients has been well documented. Though the contributions were never formally disclosed, according to news reports at the time, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw, an Abramoff tribal client, was a major benefactor of the activities of the Blunt-DeLay team at the 2000 Convention.

Because DeLay never revealed the amounts given by various entities to his ARMPAC Convention account, it is impossible to determine just how much tribal money Blunt ended up with as a result of the $150,000 transfer from ARMPAC Convention to Blunt's ROYB Fund. A Texas prosecutor is now looking at these records.

The Blunt-DeLay scheme to hide the source of the funds obscured the fact that tens of thousands of dollars from Abramoff bilked tribes may have ended up in the campaign of various Missouri Republican politicians including the campaigns of Governor Matt Blunt and Senator Jim Talent.

Sources tell Fired Up! that current and former Blunt aides in Washington are in near panic mode as they watch and wait to see if the next time they answer a knock at their door there will be an FBI agent standing there.