Scanlon Legend Grows

I know that convicted lobbyist and former Riley aide Michael Scanlon has an …umm… unusual sense of propriety: he used what he called the “wackos” of the Christian right for his own personal and political gain, he and his partner Jack Abramoff defrauded Indian tribes of $80 million plus, and after the two managed to shut down a tribal casino on behalf of other gambling interests/clients, they tried to recruit that tribe as a client whose gambling interests they could revive.

But here’s a new one for us. In one case, their “client was the Tigua tribe of Southwest Texas” and they “were so brazen as to charge $4.2 million while al­­­so on retainer with a rival Louisiana-based tribe, the Coushattas, and pursuing the express aim of shutting the Tiguas’ casino down.” (Emphasis in original.)

Wow… take $4.2 million from one client’s gambling interest while pursuing for another client the aim of shutting that first client down.

That’s pretty audacious.