David Grosh was living the mellow life of an off-season lifeguard in Rehoboth Beach, Del., when his childhood friend Michael Scanlon called from Washington in 2001 with a proposition.
"Want to be head of an international corporation?" Mr. Grosh said Mr. Scanlon asked him, almost in jest.
"I was like, sure," Mr. Grosh said.
Collecting less than $2,500, he became director of the American International Center, which used his rental beach house as its official address. "I was not really taking it seriously."
This whole story is amazing, and displays a profound degree of greed corruption on part of both the lobbyist, and their friends in congress. In this story we see a pattern of fraud, and a pattern of shifting around money to both hide it origin, and expand the grasp and power of Tom Delay.
If the House Ethics Committee can get it's thumb out of it's ear and get down to business, we might be able to get a full picture of the corruption of Tom DeLay, and all those who have benefited in the web of contributions, trips and gifts.
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