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.
Now you begin to understand why Riley denied getting any money from him as long as he could. He’d still be denying it if he thought he could get away with it.
Comment by Anonymous — September 29, 2006 @ 7:37 am