As Abramoff Sinks, Other Officials Hold Their Breath
by TChris
The Washington Post reports that the Jack Abramoff inquiry has morphed into an investigation of corruption in Congress and the Bush administration. The most immediate target is Rep. Robert Ney. (TalkLeft background on the Ney investigation is collected here.)
Ney's lawyers have been denying that Ney is a target of the investigation, but the Post's sources disagree.
[T]he sources said that during the third week of October prosecutors told Ney and his former chief of staff, Neil Volz, that they were preparing a bribery case based in part on activities that occurred in October 2000. Abramoff and another business partner, Adam Kidan, were also told that they are targets in that case, the sources said.
The five-year statute of limitations for filing charges based on those events expired last month; the prosecutors sought and received a waiver of the deadline from all four men while they continue their investigation, the sources said. Prosecutors are often able to obtain such waivers by giving the targets a choice of being indicted right away or granting more time to see if information might surface that exonerates them.
Also under scrutiny are Tom DeLay (are you surprised?), Sen. Conrad Burns, and Rep. John Doolittle.
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