Former DeLay Aide Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy
"Michael Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to bribe public officials and agreed to cooperate in a widening criminal investigation of members of Congress.
... Scanlon entered the plea before U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle and was ordered to pay restitution totaling more than $19 million to Indian tribes that he admitted had been defrauded.
In an eight-page statement of facts, he agreed that he and an unidentified person referred to as Lobbyist A 'provided a stream of things of value to public officials in exchange for a series of official acts.'
The items to one unidentified congressman or his staff included all-expense-paid trips to the Northern Marianas Islands in 2000, a trip to the Super Bowl in Tampa., Fla., in 2001, and a golf trip to Scotland in 2002.
Based on information already placed on the public record by the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, Lobbyist A is Jack Abramoff and the congressman is Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio."
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