DeLay Office E-Mails Prove Helpful to Feds
Newsweek reports the feds obtained 1,000 emails from Tom DeLay's lawyers around Christmas. Along with Tony Rudy's guilty plea and cooperation agreement, could DeLay be in trouble?
Although court papers filed by prosecutors with the plea contain no direct allegations against DeLay, the documents for the first time refer to an unnamed "Representative No. 2" (who is DeLay) whose office repeatedly assisted Abramoff and his clients. The papers allege that Rudy, while still working for DeLay, arranged for the congressman to sign a letter opposing a postal-rate increase to aid an Abramoff client and helped kill an antigambling bill opposed by another Abramoff client. At the same time, Abramoff arranged for $86,000 in consulting payments to be made to Rudy's wife, Lisa, according to the documents. (She was not charged.)
And here's a revelation: None were from DeLay himself because he doesn't e-mail.