Prosecutors still in talks with Abramoff and former aides to Tom DeLay and Rep. Don Young

According to The Hill, there's still plenty of activity underway in the scandal surrounding Jack Abramoff.  Prosecutors are apparently still garnering information from key players:

Prosecutors are continuing to talk to Abramoff and Michael Scanlon, his close associate and a former top aide to former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas). In late August, the government postponed scheduled status hearings with Judge Ellen Huvelle for both men, giving them three more months to continue to spill information.

In late July, prosecutors also agreed to give Tony Rudy more time to cooperate, scheduling another status hearing for him Nov. 5.

Mark Zachares, who worked for the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and then for Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has a status conference hearing with the judge scheduled for Nov. 2.

Charges of Congress members offered plea deals will become worse

Every member of Congress apart of the Abramoff corruption probe who failed to accept a plea deal when it was offered, is to learn just how wrong a mistake that was! US DOJ has other investigations ongoing that link-up to these members of congress' earmarks. Such investigations include how the earmarks compromised foreign and domestic defense and US energy policy. Our economy heavily depends on Russian energy because of the policy Putin bribed members of Congress to have. Also, Abramoff had both Russian energy biz execs and other Russian biz execs as clients. No company does biz in Russia unless it makes its payoffs to Putin's crime gang and becomes apart of the network pushing Putin's agenda in nations such as the US, that makes Putin's institution an organized crime network!

By fighting in many cases since 2004, the damages done by these members of Congress are becoming widely known by US DOJ prosecutors in the linking investigations, and will become evidence in the trials of corrupt members of Congress linked to Abramoff. The more damage proven, the easier it is to get a conviction, and the longer the sentence.

Much of what these members of Congress were bribed to do, was to benefit a non-democracy: Russia. In fact, they're the leadership that set policy to be warm to Russia so that so many US companies including defense companies didn't pullout of Russia once Putin, a former KGB officer with a mission to formerly kill every American, stole the Russian presidency. A majority of the US companies with Russian exposure, are majority owned by Putin crime gang shareholders who benefited when the bribery extended beyond the setting of policy to violate the Hatch Act and Federal Acquisition Regulation as members of Congress had federal contracts awarded to Putin crime gang's investment companies.

For having failed to accept the plea deals previously offered by US DOJ, many of these members of Congress could find the most severe charge brought against them to be treason! In this country, treason carries the death penalty. As the linking investigations continue and eventually are made public, the members of Congress offered plea deals that wouldn't accept them are to discover they can't find a judge or jury unbiased in the US before the results from the other investigations even are used as evidence in these bribed members of Congress' trials!

Ultimately, it is to be discovered the US needs a Fourth Branch of government! The function of WH OMB and Congress' control of purse strings needs to be stripped from them both, and to become the Fourth Branch!

For anyone wondering why I blog at CREW's website...it is because I can get all this off of my chest by writing it out, and the lower readership has enabled me to not deal with the retribution of writing the truth where readership is high. All my communications were controlled until 1/06 where nothing I wrote was posted. Still! I kept trying! Later in 1/06 with my new found void of censorship I began posting blogs to he Washington Post's website under the penname Dawn the Doormat. The Washington Post website featured my blogs and although the public doesn't know me from Adam, congressional leadership did and they took revenge! They harassed my extended family and me on many fronts by abusing the federal resources they controlled.

Senator Craig

I find it interesting that this organization can be so steadfast with its mission to rid the legislature of individuals like Senator Craig when we still have people like Ted Kennedy acting as our countries moral compass.

CREW does good work and

CREW does good work and leads the effort against corrupt officials. But it is obvious that CREW had little to do with Craig's ejection from the Senate. That was the Republicans at work, which work, due to political considerations, they refrain from applying to Vitter or Stevens.

Ted Kennedy, the last of the illustrious Kennedy men, US Senator since 1962, has had a remarkable public career of unequaled longevity. For 38 years this man has served without reproach. This nation could use some more men like Senator Kennedy to help with the present cause.

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