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December 08, 2005

Another one rolls over on DeLay

DeLay can't keep the rats from jumping ship.

From Pacific Magazine:

The Marianas Variety Online reports that Governor-elect Benigno R. Fitial says he will cooperate with federal authorities in the ongoing investigation of Rep. Tom Delay and former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whom he once described as his “close friends.”

House leadership spokesman Charles P. Reyes Jr. said Speaker Fitial “will comply with all the legal requirements asked of him.”

Not that he probably has any choice. Fitial may not be exactly clean himself:

In a separate news article, the AP reported that the 2001 donations to Burns, a Montana Republican, included money directly from Abramoff and Northern Marianas garment magnate Willie Tan’s company, Tan Holdings Corp.

In that same article, Eloy Inos, a corporate executive of Tan Holdings, was mentioned as donating $5,000 to Burns’ political action committee. Inos now serves on Fitial’s transition committee.

Fitial, a former executive of Tan’s, became speaker of the 12th Legislature largely through the help of DeLay’s aides. But Reyes said if Fitial was given help it was “not surprising” since at that time he was still with the local GOP.

These guys are all stained with the filth of DeLay.

And so we look to another Tom, perhaps our most eminent founding father, for the karma in it all:

"Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the same truth, they would spare to their own countries the penalties on their present wrongs which will be inflicted on them in future times. The seeds of hatred and revenge which they [sow] with a large hand will not fail to produce their fruits in time. Like their brother robbers on the highway, they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and future risk countervailed by present gain." —Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father and U.S. president (1743-1826), letter to Francois de Marbois, 1817

Posted by Carla at December 8, 2005 03:49 PM