The Washington Post has reported that in 2000, Abramoff and Buckham used their credit cards to pay for a trip to the United Kingdom for DeLay and his wife. Investigators are looking into Buckham's connection to DeLay's wife, Christine. She was paid $115,000 over three years by Alexander Strategy Group, a lobbying firm run by Buckham and Rudy, to identify the favorite charities of members of Congress.

Today, the New York Times reports that Jack Abramoff is learning what it means to become an overnight pariah.

After pleading guilty last week to federal corruption charges in Washington and Florida, Mr. Abramoff is now mocked by late-night comedians and editorial cartoonists.Television commentators are calling him a scoundrel, even "Satan." A fashion writer described him as a fat mobster in his black fedora and trench coat. His most diehard defenders have fled, and people he once counted as friends privately insist that they were never all that close.

Even if Mr. Abramoff wanted to escape the suburban home where he has hunkered down, the knee surgery he underwent Thursday has hobbled him. He sits at home, friends say, speculating about which of the people who no longer return his calls are making which anonymous snipes in the newspapers.

The Times further quotes sources who say that Abramoff may implicate up to 12 members of Congress and another 12 staffers-turned-lobbyists with his cooperation. That's not surprising, given that his cooperation sessions with the feds last up to 10 hours a day:

In 8- to-10-hour stretches since August, Mr. Abramoff, 46, has recounted in detail how he orchestrated kickbacks from unsuspecting tribes, arranged overseas travel for Mr. DeLay and others and lent his stadium suites to members of Congress.

Abramoff, according to sources, is far from repentent.

He continues spewing messages on his BlackBerry, even though his crimes were partly exposed by hundreds of brash e-mail messages chronicling his activities and contempt for his clients. "You can't stop him," a person close to him said.

He's also reportedly losing some religion:

An Orthodox Jew, Mr. Abramoff has been writing a commentary about the Torah. His home is within walking distance of his synagogue, but Mr. Pieprz said other members there had never embraced Mr. Abramoff. They considered him abrasive and initially resented his plans to start a Jewish school, now defunct. And he was a Republican at the synagogue when few others were. People close to Mr. Abramoff say he believes that he had fallen away from his faith, not praying or reading the Talmud as much as he should.

On top of all that, Abramoff says he's going broke.

As for who Abramoff is going to take down, I'll stand by what I predicted here, and reiterate, don't assume he's become George Washington reincarnated just because he's cooperating with the Government:

As for whether Abramoff will try to take down Democrats as well as Republicans, I'd look to whom he blames most for his current predicament. As he's now having his come-to-jesus moment with the all but inevitability of his spending the next several years in a federal prison, don't count out simple revenge. Who didn't help him when they should have, who let him crash and burn, who dropped him like a hot-potato and who tried to save their hide at his expense?

Memory is a tricky thing. It changes over time and becomes inflated. What Abramoff remembers now while under the prosecution's gun of 'cooperate or spend more time in jail' may or may not really have happened. There's plenty of opportunity to tar those he hates and spare others. I would view all of his future cooperation with a jaundiced eye, unless there's hard evidence in addition to his statements to back it up.

Regardless of whether a jury ultimately buys or rejects his new-found religious conversion to Government cooperator, it's getting clearer by the day that DeLay and Ney aren't the only ones sweating bullets.

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