Jack the Ripper linked to Bush crime family
The Raw Story
Rove aide called back to testify as inquiry into Rove's role wraps up, lawyers say
Jason Leopold and Larisa Alexandrovna
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will soon conclude his investigation into whether President Bush’s deputy chief of staff Karl Rove gave false statements to a grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA agent, attorneys close to the case say.
According to lawyers familiar with the case, Fitzgerald is trying to convince the grand jury that Rove made false statements during the three times he testified under oath and misleading statements to Justice Department and FBI investigators when he was first interviewed about his role in the leak in October 2003.
The attorneys told RAW STORY that Fitzgerald has called Rove’s former personal assistant, Susan B. Ralston -- who was also a special assistant to President Bush -- to testify before the grand jury for a third time, perhaps as early as Monday. She is not said to be in legal jeopardy…
And who did Susan Ralston work for at one time?
Daily Kos
Susan Ralston Controls Abramoff's access to Rove
by EasyRider
Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 11:02:13 AM PDT
Susan Ralston appears to have helped Reed and Norquist (and Rove?) put the squeeze on Abramoff for access to Karl Rove, TIME Online Edition. Now these guys have been working together for years and involved in each other's successes. Are we seeing in this article evidence that Reed and Norquist are controlling access to Rove so they can game Abramoff just as he was gaming them in his scam with his clients? Susan is involved up to her chin and we just have to make some waves to find out if she can swim.
An Unholy Alliance?
A TIME investigation shows the lobbyist now at the center of a federal probe had a good friend eager to open doors at the White House: former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed.
Abramoff was not without his own ties inside the White House--including his former executive assistant Susan Ralston, who now works in that capacity for Rove…
The New York Times
Lobbyist Sought $9 Million to Set Bush Meeting
By PHILIP SHENON
Published: November 10, 2005
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 - The lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked for $9 million in 2003 from the president of a West African nation to arrange a meeting with President Bush and directed his fees to a Maryland company now under federal scrutiny, according to newly disclosed documents.
The African leader, President Omar Bongo of Gabon, met with President Bush in the Oval Office on May 26, 2004, 10 months after Mr. Abramoff made the offer. There has been no evidence in the public record that Mr. Abramoff had any role in organizing the meeting or that he received any money or had a signed contract with Gabon. ..
A document from Mr. Abramoff's files that was released last week by a Senate committee shows that in the summer of 2003 he pushed to sign President Bongo as a client, even offering to travel to Gabon immediately after an August golfing vacation to Scotland "with the congressmen and senators I take there each year."
The documents also show that Mr. Abramoff and his colleagues drew up a draft contract that called for $9 million in fees to be paid to GrassRoots Interactive, the small Maryland lobbying company that his former colleagues say he controlled.
Documents, including copies of canceled checks, show that millions of dollars flowed through the company's accounts in 2003, the year it was created, including at least $2.3 million to a California consulting firm that used the same address as the law office of Mr. Abramoff's brother, Robert. A separate check for $400,000 was made out to Kay Gold, another Abramoff family company.
Mr. Abramoff, a Republican fund-raiser who once was one of the most powerful lobbyists in Washington, has been indicted in Florida on federal fraud charges. He is also under investigation by a federal grand jury in Washington and two Senate committees…
Rove aide called back to testify as inquiry into Rove's role wraps up, lawyers say
Jason Leopold and Larisa Alexandrovna
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will soon conclude his investigation into whether President Bush’s deputy chief of staff Karl Rove gave false statements to a grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA agent, attorneys close to the case say.
According to lawyers familiar with the case, Fitzgerald is trying to convince the grand jury that Rove made false statements during the three times he testified under oath and misleading statements to Justice Department and FBI investigators when he was first interviewed about his role in the leak in October 2003.
The attorneys told RAW STORY that Fitzgerald has called Rove’s former personal assistant, Susan B. Ralston -- who was also a special assistant to President Bush -- to testify before the grand jury for a third time, perhaps as early as Monday. She is not said to be in legal jeopardy…
And who did Susan Ralston work for at one time?
Daily Kos
Susan Ralston Controls Abramoff's access to Rove
by EasyRider
Sun Oct 23, 2005 at 11:02:13 AM PDT
Susan Ralston appears to have helped Reed and Norquist (and Rove?) put the squeeze on Abramoff for access to Karl Rove, TIME Online Edition. Now these guys have been working together for years and involved in each other's successes. Are we seeing in this article evidence that Reed and Norquist are controlling access to Rove so they can game Abramoff just as he was gaming them in his scam with his clients? Susan is involved up to her chin and we just have to make some waves to find out if she can swim.
An Unholy Alliance?
A TIME investigation shows the lobbyist now at the center of a federal probe had a good friend eager to open doors at the White House: former Christian Coalition chief Ralph Reed.
Abramoff was not without his own ties inside the White House--including his former executive assistant Susan Ralston, who now works in that capacity for Rove…
The New York Times
Lobbyist Sought $9 Million to Set Bush Meeting
By PHILIP SHENON
Published: November 10, 2005
WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 - The lobbyist Jack Abramoff asked for $9 million in 2003 from the president of a West African nation to arrange a meeting with President Bush and directed his fees to a Maryland company now under federal scrutiny, according to newly disclosed documents.
The African leader, President Omar Bongo of Gabon, met with President Bush in the Oval Office on May 26, 2004, 10 months after Mr. Abramoff made the offer. There has been no evidence in the public record that Mr. Abramoff had any role in organizing the meeting or that he received any money or had a signed contract with Gabon. ..
A document from Mr. Abramoff's files that was released last week by a Senate committee shows that in the summer of 2003 he pushed to sign President Bongo as a client, even offering to travel to Gabon immediately after an August golfing vacation to Scotland "with the congressmen and senators I take there each year."
The documents also show that Mr. Abramoff and his colleagues drew up a draft contract that called for $9 million in fees to be paid to GrassRoots Interactive, the small Maryland lobbying company that his former colleagues say he controlled.
Documents, including copies of canceled checks, show that millions of dollars flowed through the company's accounts in 2003, the year it was created, including at least $2.3 million to a California consulting firm that used the same address as the law office of Mr. Abramoff's brother, Robert. A separate check for $400,000 was made out to Kay Gold, another Abramoff family company.
Mr. Abramoff, a Republican fund-raiser who once was one of the most powerful lobbyists in Washington, has been indicted in Florida on federal fraud charges. He is also under investigation by a federal grand jury in Washington and two Senate committees…
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