Targets of the Abramoff investigation
I think everybody may be missing a key part of this story. Time magazine(via rawstory, I'm not paying the Time subscription fee) is reporting that they've obtained an email from Michael Mason director of the FBI's DC field office.
The wording that first jumps out is the reference to Abramoff as the "middle guy" in the investigation implying, for sure, that their targets are still to come. Probably as we expected, congressmen, maybe a senator, not too much of a surprise, really.
But what caught my eye was the metion that there were two dozen field agents in 13 field offices across the country working the case. So that begins to offer some kind of scope of the investigation thus far, the number of areas where the FBI and Justice are pursuing cases.
Figure that one of those field offices, and probably alot of those two dozen agents are in DC, and that leaves us with AT LEAST a dozen other individuals under pretty serious investigation. I want to add, "not limited to" to that dozen, as I would think that it's reasonably likely that some of the field offices, like the one here in Houston, may be looking at more than one individual. Delay and some of his staff for instance.
Not all of these may bear fruit, but this gives some idea of the current state of play in the investigation. I also wouldn't take this as a final number, as cases may be abandoned and others added as Abramoff talks, but this does offer something of a snapshot of the scope of the current investigation. In other words, it is probably going to net more than just Ney and Delay.
The wording that first jumps out is the reference to Abramoff as the "middle guy" in the investigation implying, for sure, that their targets are still to come. Probably as we expected, congressmen, maybe a senator, not too much of a surprise, really.
But what caught my eye was the metion that there were two dozen field agents in 13 field offices across the country working the case. So that begins to offer some kind of scope of the investigation thus far, the number of areas where the FBI and Justice are pursuing cases.
Figure that one of those field offices, and probably alot of those two dozen agents are in DC, and that leaves us with AT LEAST a dozen other individuals under pretty serious investigation. I want to add, "not limited to" to that dozen, as I would think that it's reasonably likely that some of the field offices, like the one here in Houston, may be looking at more than one individual. Delay and some of his staff for instance.
Not all of these may bear fruit, but this gives some idea of the current state of play in the investigation. I also wouldn't take this as a final number, as cases may be abandoned and others added as Abramoff talks, but this does offer something of a snapshot of the scope of the current investigation. In other words, it is probably going to net more than just Ney and Delay.
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