That makes it something like 60 Republicans and 10 Democrats since
2000, doesn't it?
You're still well ahead, don't worry.
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Summary
GOP officials* GOP assoc.** Dem officials Dem assoc. total
guilty 2 13 0 4 19
indicted/arrested 5 16 0 0 21
named investigation 4 4 3 0 11
invest./strong ties 10 6 3 0 19
total 21† 39†† 6 4 70
* Elected/national.
** Includes state-level appointed officials.
† Tom DeLay in two categories.
†† Ed Buckham in two categories.
Republicans
Fletcher/Kentucky
Ernie Fletcher, Kentucky governor (indicted for political corruption)
Jim Adams, Deputy Trans****tation Secretary (indicted & pardoned)
Darrell Brock Jr., Republican Party Chairman and former Commissioner
of the Office for Local Development (indicted & pardoned)
Dave Disponett, treasurer of the Kentucky Republican Party (indicted &
pardoned)
Dan Druen, Trans****tation Cabinet administrative services commissioner
(indicted & pardoned)
Vincent Fields, director of Local Initiatives for a New Kentucky, and
Chief of Staff of the Personnel Cabinet (indicted & pardoned)
Daniel Groves, Fletcher Chief of Staff (indicted & pardoned)
Tim Hazlette, Trans****tation Cabinet Personnel Director (indicted &
pardoned)
J. Marshall Hughes, unpaid volunteer advisor (indicted & pardoned)
Cory Meadows, Executive Director of Trans****tation Enhancement
Programs and Deputy Executive Director of Local Initiatives for a New
Kentucky (indicted & pardoned)
Richard Murgatroyd, Fletcher Deputy Chief of Staff and Deputy
Trans****tation Secretary (indicted & pardoned)
Bill Nighbert, Secretary for the Trans****tation Cabinet (indicted)
Basil Turbyfill, Director of the Office of Personnel and Efficiency
(indicted & pardoned)
Bob Wilson, Deputy Secretary of the Personnel Cabinet (indicted &
pardoned)
Noe/Ohio
Bob Taft, Ohio governor (guilty of accepting bribes)
Cherie Carroll, Taft's executive assistant (guilty of accepting
bribes)
Brian Hicks, Taft's chief of staff (guilty of accepting bribes)
Thomas Noe, fundraiser (indicted for embezzlement and guilty of money
laundering)
J. Douglas Moorman, Taft's executive assistant (guilty of accepting
bribes)
H. Douglas Talbott, aide to both Gov. Bob Taft and Gov. George
Voinovich (guilty of bribery)
Cunningham/Wade/Wilkes
Duke Cunningham, California Congressman (guilty of bribery)
Mitchell Wade, defense contractor (guilty of bribery)
Brent Wilkes, defense contractor (named investigation for bribery)
John T. Michael, owner of a mortgage company (named investigation for
bribery)
Thomas Kontogiannis, real estate mogul (named investigation for
bribery)
Robert From, program manager at the Army's National Ground
Intelligence Center (named investigation for bribery)
Dusty Foggo, executive director of the CIA (investigation for bribery)
Jerry Lewis, California Congressman (investigation for bribery)
John Lowery, former congressman and lobbyist
Letitia White, Lowery lobbyist and Lewis staffer
Jeff Shockey, Lowery lobbyist and Lewis staffer
Delay/ARMPAC
Tom Delay, Texas Congressman (indicted for money laundering, under
investigation for bribery)
Jim Ellis, ARMPAC (indicted for money laundering)
John Colyandro, TRMPAC (indicted for money laundering)
Warren RoBold ARMPAC/TRMPAC fundraiser (indicted for money laundering)
Ed Buckham, former DeLay aide & lobbyist (ARMPAC/TRMPAC)
Jim Ryun, Kansas Congressman (Tom Delay/ARMPAC)
Abramoff/Buckham
Jack Abramoff, lobbyist (guilty of bribery and money laundering)
Adam Kidan, lobbyist (guilty of bribery and money laundering)
Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari, hitman (arrested for murder)
James "Pudgy" Fiorillo, hitman (arrested for murder)
Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello, hitman (arrested for murder)
Ralph Reed, lobbyist (investigation for money laundering)
Grover Norquist, lobbyist (investigation for bribery and money
laundering)
Tom DeLay, Texas Congressman (under investigation for bribery and
money laundering)
Michael Scanlon, lobbyist & former Delay aide (guilty of bribery and
money laundering)
Tony Rudy, lobbyist & former Delay aide (guilty of bribery and money
laundering)
Ed Buckham, lobbyist & former Delay aide (named investigation for
bribery and money laundering)
Bob Ney, Ohio Congressman (named investigation for bribery)
Neil Volz, lobbyist & former Ney aide (guilty of bribery and money
laundering)
David Safavian, GSA adminsitrator (indicted for perjury and
obstruction of justice)
Conrad Burns, Montana Senator (investigation for bribery)
Will Brooke, Burns chief of staff and lobbyist (investigation for
bribery and money laundering)
John Doolittle, California Congressman (investigation for bribery)
John Lopez, Doolittle chief of staff (Abramoff Puerto Rico trip)
Kevin A. Ring, Doolittle legislative director & lobbyist
(investigation for bribery and money laundering)
Tom Feeney, Florida Congressman (Abramoff golf trip)
Don Young, Alaska Congressman (Abramoff Marshall Islands trip, favors)
Steve LaTourette, Ohio Congressman (Abramoff favors)
Dana Rohrabacher, California Congressman (investigation for bribery)
Plame
Scooter Libby, White House official (indicted for perjury and
obstruction of justice)
Karl Rove, White House official (named investigation for perjury and
obstruction of justice)
NH Phone Jamming
James Tobin, New England Regional Political Director for the Republian
National Committee (guilty of phone jamming conspiracy)
Chuck McGee, Executive Director of the New Hamp****re Republican State
Committee (guilty of phone jamming conspiracy)
Allen Raymond, president of GOP Marketplace (guilty of phone jamming
conspiracy)
Shaun Hansen, co-owner of Mylo Enterprises (indicted for phone jamming
conspiracy)
Earmarks
Dennis Hastert
Ken Calvert
Gary Miller
Other
Claude Allen, White House official (arrested for shoplifting)
Bill Frist, Tennessee Senator (named investigation for insider
trading)
Brian Doyle, deputy press secretary for the Department of Homeland
Security (arrested for soliciting a minor)
Democrats
William Jefferson, Louisiana Congressman (named investigation for
bribery)
Vernon Jackson, contractor (guilty of bribery)
Brent Pfeiffer, Jefferson aide (guilty of bribery)
Patrick Kennedy, Rhode Island Congressman (under treatment for drug
abuse)
Alan Mollohan, West Virginia Congressman (accused of bribery)
Dale R. McBride, contractor (earmarking/real estate connections)
Cynthia McKinney, Georgia Congresswoman (hit a policeman who accosted
her)
Don Siegelman, Fomer goveror of Alabama (bribery)
Lauren B. Weiner, researcher Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
(“DSCC”) (computer fraud - plead guilty)
Harry Reid, Nevada Senator (Abramoff investigation)
Byron Dorgan, North Dakota Senator (Abramoff investigation)
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