Yeah baby!!! … weeez gonna be rich!!!

As I posted earlier, Michael Scanlon (partner-in-crime to indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and indicted Congressman Tom Delay) plead guilty to conspiracy for his role in defrauding Indian gambling tribes and manipulating Congress. A disturbing, yet amusing, aspect of this saga are the email exchanges between Abramoff and Scanlon that were uncovered. By the way, if interested, Al Franken has a really in-depth chapter on the Abramoff/Delay scandals in his new book- 'The Truth'. Really good read.

The email highlights:

#1

Abramoff: "'The [expletive] troglodytes didn't vote on you today.'

Scanlon: 'What's a troglodyte?'

Abramoff: 'What am I, a dictionary? :) It's a lower form of existence, basically.'

#2

Scanlon: Coushatta is an absolute cake walk. Your cut on the project as proposed is at least 800k. The next wire we get from choctaw you have another 350
- which should be in this week, then if they send the final payment which should come around october 1- your cut will be 400. Totals still ou there for you are 800-
coushataa
350- choctaw 2
400- choctaw 3
Total 1.5 mil on top of the 660. For a total of 2.1. Not bad :) :)!

Abramoff: How can I say this strongly enough: YOU IZ DA MAN

Scanlon: Ill take the man title for now- but not tomorrow, you return to being the man at midnight!
Let's grow that 2.1 to 5!!! We need the true give me five!

Abramoff: Amen!!

#3

Scanlon to Abramoff: “Yeah baby!!! … weeez gonna be rich!!!”

And here's an oldie email Scanlon sent to colleague during the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal:

Scanlon: "[I disagree with] this whole thing about not kicking someone when they're down. You kick him until he passes out. Then beat him over the head with a baseball bat, then roll him up in an old rug and throw him off a cliff into the pound surf below!!!!!"

Was this type of villainy planned for in Newt Gingrich's Contract With America?

Sources:
-George Bush's Wise Guys: Noe, Abramoff, Reed, and the Wyly Brothers
-Abramoff Emails Show Greed, Corruption
-Senate Uncovers More Abramoff-Cornyn Connections
-G.O.P. Operative Mixed Charm and Ruthlessness