FBI Investigating Hastert

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/05/federal_officia.html
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ABC News reports;

The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, is under investigation by the FBI, which is seeking to determine his role in an ongoing public corruption probe into members of Congress, ABC News has learned from high level official sources.

Federal officials say the information implicating Hastert was developed from convicted lobbyists who are now cooperating with the government.

Part of the investigation involves a letter Hastert wrote three years ago, urging the Secretary of the Interior to block a casino on an Indian reservation that would have competed with other tribes.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
looks clean as a hound's tooth to me

Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Looks like ABC was mistaken, according to DOJ.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Looks like ABC was mistaken, according to DOJ.


Why does this NOT surprise me?
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
this was just posted at abc.com's news blotter site:

ABC News Update on Hastert Story
May 24, 2006 10:21 PM

Brian Ross Reports:

Richard Esposito and Rhonda Schwartz contributed to this report.

Despite a flat denial from the Department of Justice, federal law enforcement sources tonight said ABC News accurately reported that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert is "in the mix" in the FBI investigation of corruption in Congress.

Speaker Hastert said tonight the story was "absolutely untrue" and has demanded ABC News retract its story.

Law enforcement sources told ABC News that convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff has provided information to the FBI about Hastert and a number of other members of Congress that have broadened the scope of the investigation. Sources would not divulge details of the Abramoff’s information.

"You guys wrote the story very carefully but they are not reading it very carefully," a senior official said.

One focus involves a letter Hastert wrote in 2003 urging the Secretary of the Interior to block an Indian casino that would have competed with tribes represented by Abramoff.

The letter was written within days of a fund-raiser held for Hastert at Abramoff’s restaurant in Washington. Federal campaign records show more than $26,000 was raised at the time from Abramoff and his clients.

Hastert has denied doing anything unlawful and says he has a long history of opposing certain types of Indian casinos.

ABC’s law enforcement sources said the Justice Department denial was meant only to deny that Hastert was a formal “target” or “subject” of the investigation.

"Whether they like it or not, members of Congress, including Hastert, are under investigation," one federal official said tonight.

The investigation of Hastert’s relationship with Abramoff is in the early stages, according to these officials, and could eventually conclude that Abramoff’s information was unfounded.

Officials said the next logical investigative step would be for the FBI to seek a wide range of documents from the members of Congress named by Abramoff, including letters and business documents.

A spokesman for Hastert said the office had received no subpoenas or requests for documents


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Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Why does this NOT surprise me?


like i'm gonna seriously consider tryin to fathom the unfathomable.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
says he has a long history of opposing certain types of Indian casinos.


so do i. the ones i leave without a lot more money than i had when i arrived.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Why does this NOT surprise me?


like i'm gonna seriously consider tryin to fathom the unfathomable.


So according to your #4 reply someone's lying their a** off! I think I'll put my money on ABC doing the lying!
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Quite the koinkidink that this "source" says this right in the middle of the Jefferson thing, huh? Can't let anyone think that "culture of corruption" is on both sides of the aisle, now can we?

Lol, Dems thank God every night for suckers like davad. This may or may not be true, the sad part is the people who allow such to perpetuate their dream world that their pet party is somehow better. If this ends up being true, I wonder if Pelosi will call this a "personal" issue...
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Another example of the media creating news instead of reporting it.