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I have detailed Bush's (and Rove's and the white house) ties to Jack Abramoff, before, here: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...on#post1896327

In the interest of making the following more like a sound byte, I'll keeo it brief and we'll start with a question?

What does it indicate, in the categories of integrity and judgment, if a POTUS and his deputy chief of staff (along with the congressional majority leader, and an as yet unknown number of congressmen and senators, christian right, (Ralph Reed) and republican conservative activists (Ie Norquist) develop and maintain close ties with a prominent lobbyist and republican party operator
(president of young republicans at Brandeis U.), such as Jack Abramoff?

I'm asking because I have learned the following about Abramoff's own judgment and integrity. (Look up each point, if you are curious, it's all available on the internet):

Abramoff chose Adam Kidan to be his partner in the purchase of Suncruz Casino Ships. As an attorney, Abramoff has access to <a href="http://www.lexisnexis.com/productsandservices/">Lexis-Nexus</a> and should know how to conduct a background check. If you are partnering with someone in a $147 million purchase, you should know their background.

I've learned that Suncruz majority partners were Abramoff and Kidan. Another friend at the Preston Gates lobbying firm, Ben Waldman, owned ten percent of Suncruz and served as president in the new partnership. Waldman has been a close aid to Pat Robertson during his 1988 campaign for president:
http://newtimesbpb.com/Issues/2001-02-22/news.html

Suncruz hired Michael Scanlon as it's spokesman in 2000. Scanlon had influenced congressman Bob Ney of Ohio to publish unflattering remarks (at least twice) about original Suncruz owner, Gus Boulis, to impress Boulis as to the Abramoff & partners' clout when they needed to pressure Boulis into agreeing to the sale.

Adam Kidan's mother Judy Shemtov, was murdered; shot in the face in her Staten Island home in 1993. Brooklyn thug, with mafia ties, Chris Paciello drove the getaway car in that robbery of Kadin's stepfather's safe. (Sami Shemtov, former Israeli soldier who grew rich in the pornography business).

Sami Shemtov had suspicions that Adam Kidan was involved in the botched robbery and murder of his wife, and he sued his stepson, Adam Kidan for $250,000. Kidan lost the lawsuit and his license to practice law in New York.

Chris Paciello was not arrested until 1998, and by that time he was the owner of two flashy South Beach, Fl. nightclubs, and had briefly dated Madonna and became friends with numerous other celebrities. Paciello retained criminal lawyer Roy Black, and managed to parlay info that he had about a major NYC mob boss, into a slot for himself in the federal witness protection program, where he is reported to currently be participating.

Abramoff should have known all this when he agreed to partner with Kidan.
Kidan filed papers for Suncruz loans where he claimed to have personal assets at the time, of more than $25 million, while the truth was that he had almost no assets.

It seems that an appetite for power and money eclipsed the judgment, of Abramoff, Scanlon, Bush, Rove, Delay, Ney, Safavian, and....we'll see who else, won't we?

Ponder that fundamentalist muslims, (at least three) a week before they attacked with four hijacked airliners on 9/11, were reported by the SPTimes and the AP, in late sept., 2001 newspaper articles, to have visisted a Suncruz casino ship.