Abramoff's sticky web has already been mentioned, along with VP Dick Cheney, LA Senator Vitter, Bush AIDS Czar Randall Tobias, ABC anchor Sam Donaldson, a law partner of Rudy Giuliani and many more Pentagon, DC and corporate insiders on a list of 10,000 calls. 

by Gustav Wynn (77 articles, 65 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 421 comments [34 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, May 5, 2008 at 10:36:07 PM

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We face tremendous challenges in addressing the corrupting by Team Abramoff. The former associates and firms, deals and scams in which Abramoff is/was involved are not necessarily his creations. And so the extent of his influence is sometimes not apparent.

 Throughout his 'career' he has made use of corrupt systems and individuals.

 There have been rumblings about how our government is involved in slipping a noose on the world's oil. A must-read article on this is "Their men in Washington: Undercover with D.C.'s lobbyists for hire" by Ken Silverstein of Harper's.

In the case of my family, after years of experiences with al qaeda in South Florida, including  experience in a "school program" with Jack Abramoff as one of its BODs (attacks on my family were integral with that 'school' experience), we experienced many further predations which can be as clearly tied to al qaeda as to the caging by Team Abramoff/Team Education. In fact, the US Attorney and US Marshal brought mirrored prosecutions in 1997 which should have been further pursued. Scooter Libby required the US Marshal to stand down from further investigations and prosecutions in Miami relating to the Team Ed.

 When my mother died, it was discovered that our family trust advisor was a Team member. He advised us that our trust was hopelessly constructed; then commenced attempts to turn family members against each other, perhaps to further reinforce the notion that no one would ultimately profit. This Team member then told us that if we signed powers of attorney, he could have his fellow team member, who was an officer of a Coral Gables trust company, get a judge to look the other way regarding trust requirements, and could place out trust with the Coral Gables trust company he recommended.

 In researching the matter, I learned his associate was not an officer of the Coral Gables trust company recommended. BUT, one of the officers of an apparent funding company related to that trust company was an officer of the company in Texas involved in the Ghanian pipeline and storage depot deal; a deal which committed the Ghanian government to a revolving credit deal which could have been developed by Africans for Africa. And so Team Abramoff has participated not just in the caging of schoolchildren in various locations throughout the world, in the caging of immigrants in sweat shops in the Mariannas, not just caging of justice in the United States through Griles et al, etc.

The article I recommended discusses well the need to define United States foreign policy and the need to remove dirty tricksters from our government.

At some future time I will post, discussing the nature of our experiences. This will give insight into how federal employees in most-high places exercised their Constitutional abilites to thwart federal prosecutions. While these folks had the right to act, they had the responsibility to act in support of lawfulness. Perhaps more importantly, this discussion will include how lobbyists used their abilities to coordinate federal non-response...and the results of their actions.

 The dots connect. We are not dealing with ethical violations, we are dealing with organized crime involving our government.

by A- (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Wednesday, May 7, 2008 at 8:55:36 AM

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