Ney acknowledged accepting all-expense-paid and reduced-price trips to play golf in Scotland in August 2002, to gamble and vacation in New Orleans in May 2003 and to vacation in New York in August 2003. The total cost of all the trips — in which others, including some aides, participated — exceeded $170,000, prosecutors said.Ney also admitted accepting meals and sports and concert tickets for himself and his staff."
Friday, October 13, 2006
Bob Ney pleads guilty
Another corrupt, greedy, dishonest GOP congressperson bites the dust....Bob Ney, Republican congressman, will be gone in no time (Rove will see to that!)
AP: "...Ney confessed his wrongdoing in a federal courthouse a few blocks distant from the Capitol, where until recently he wielded a chairman's gavel. The first charge accused Ney of conspiring to commit "honest services" fraud, a combination of mail and wire fraud often used in public corruption cases. The second count charges Ney with not revealing his gifts from Abramoff on financial disclosure forms.
