OT: Former DeLay Aide Pleads Guilty
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- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 13:56:23 -0600
Former DeLay Aide Pleads Guilty
By MARK SHERMAN
(Associated Press)
A former top aide to Rep. Tom DeLay pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy
and promised to cooperate with a federal investigation of bribery and
lobbying fraud that has so far netted three convictions and prompted
calls for ethics reform in Congress.
Tony Rudy, DeLay's former deputy chief of staff, admitted to conspiring
with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff both while Rudy worked for DeLay
and after he left the lawmaker's staff to become a lobbyist himself.
He faces up to five years in prison, but could receive much less based
on the extent of his help with the investigation, U.S. District Judge
Ellen Segal Huvelle told Rudy at a court hearing in Washington.
As a top aide to DeLay in his role as House majority leader, Rudy took
payments from Abramoff in 2000, then helped stop an Internet gambling
bill opposed by Abramoff's clients, according to court papers.
Later, while working as a lobbyist, Rudy also was extensively involved
in arranging a golf trip to Scotland for Rep. Bob Ney, described as
Representative 1, and congressional staffers, the court papers said.
Rudy, who resigned as DeLay's deputy chief of staff in 2001, is the
first person to plead guilty in the case since Abramoff pleaded guilty
to fraud charges in January. Michael Scanlon, a former DeLay press
secretary who later became a lobbying partner with Abramoff, pleaded
guilty in November to conspiring to bribe public officials.
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