Shoes, It’s Raining Shoes
The first shoe to drop in the sordid (and wonderfully cinematic) tale of graft and corruption in the Congress was Michael Scanlon, Jack Abramoff’s sometimes business partner, occasional bagman and all-around useful guy. Mostly Indian casino shell-games it would seem, but the footprints of a useful guy can point almost any direction. Hey, who knew you could go to jail for this stuff? Not me. Kerplunk (the sound of a size 10 wingtip hitting the grand jury floor).
As regularly as “The Twelve Days of Christmas,” first one, then another of this cast of motley characters copped a plea. No Partridge in a Pear Tree as yet, but who knows? The next shoe to fall, name of Adam Kidan, was Abramoff’s partner in a neat little scheme to buy SunCruz Casino, a kind of floating crap-game. The inspiration for that particular venture into the world of nautical roulette must have been Abramoff’s and Scanlon’s fleecing of Indian casino operations. Kerplunk #2.
One guy who isn’t able to cop a plea (and thus be…