More Abramoff notes

Just a couple of quick things I found interesting.

Interesting post on the possible conflicts of recess appointment and Abramoff prosecutor Alice Fisher, over at Firedoglake. Talk Left has a bit of one, too. And Digby shows her close to Delay's defense team. Don't know enough about it, but these are some of the better mainstream legal bloggers, so take note.

Ronnie Earle, the Texas DA prosecuting the Delay case down here, has issued subpoenas for information from Abramoff's records "looking for links between lobbyist Jack Abramoff and fundraising by the former majority leader."

It looks to me, reading all the stories, that Abramoff's deal is for roughly 11 years in prison, with the congress bribing and the Sun Cruz fraud out of Miami to be served concurrently and pay 25 million in fines. The possibility of lengthier penalties was left open by the federal prosecutors contingent upon the degree of cooperation and value of the information Abramoff offers.

Also, Dick Deguerin, Delay's lead defense attorney and one hell of a lawyer from down here in Texas, is already spinning. "Dick: There's no question that they are friends and Tom Delay's not the kind of person that's going to turn his back on a friend that's in trouble---Tom Delay is not going to abandon Jack Abramoff just because Abramoff has done some illegal things..."

Today is shock, by tomorrow morning the talking points will be out in full organized force. The question to me is the conviction with which they will be uttered. Who really wants to be out front in defending this.

And on a personal note, regular readers know that I am rooting hard for my Senator, Crazy Christian Cornyn. to get swept up in this. Not too likely as his questionably legal actions seem to have taken place when he was Texas' Attorney General, but here's hoping.