Ralph Reed helped orchestrate an effort to conceal payments he received from the gambling revenues of a Louisiana Indian tribe, according to a U.S. Senator speaking at a hearing in Washington.
Reed directed that his compensation from the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana be routed through "a variety of entities ... Because of his concern about being publicly associated with gambling money,"
Ralph Reid, one time head of the Christian collation, a man who professes a firm anti-gaming stand, not only accepted hundred of thousands of dollars from gambling groups, but worked to cover-up his acceptance of this money to protect his image.
I am not sure his actions are illegal, but they are sure immoral. This man, who at one time claimed to represent millions of Christians, has proven that he can be bought and sold, a true political prostitute.
Another sad example of what a modern Republican politician looks like. Cunningham, DeLay, Nay, Reid; on and on and on and on.
I must admit, the Abramoff investigation that the Senate Indian Affairs Committee are hosting are proving much more interesting that I had dared to hope.
It is quietly painting a truly disgusting picture of how the Amramoff corruption was totally interwoven into the Republican infrastructure. Yesterday another Bush administration official was implicated.
Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton's former legal counselor yesterday accused J. Steven Griles, the department's recently departed second in command, of improperly trying to meddle in decisions affecting tribal clients of lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Former legal counselor Michael G. Rossetti, seated beside Griles before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, said he repeatedly rebuffed Griles's efforts and, at one point, confronted him in front of other officials. He accused Griles of attempting to do Abramoff's bidding on an issue affecting the Coushatta tribe of Louisiana, an Abramoff gambling client.
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