Abramoff Snares Doolittle

Someone here is going to talk. Either Doolittle will roll to protect his wife, or she'll talk when she finds out that Doolittle has thrown her under a bus.

I would bet on his wife rolling on him though, as he has already fingered her to the press about this entire thing.

Feds contact ex-Doolittle aide
By ERICA WERNER Associated Press Writer
© 2007 The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — California GOP Rep. John Doolittle's former chief of staff is providing documents to federal prosecutors investigating Doolittle and his wife in the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, the aide's attorney told The Associated Press on Monday.

The aide, David Lopez, who was Doolittle's longtime chief of staff until 2005 and continued to work for him as a campaign consultant for about a year after that, has turned over several hundred pages of campaign finance records to the Justice Department under subpoena, said his attorney, Bill Portanova.

A different former Doolittle staffer, Kevin Ring, who went on to work as a lobbyist with Abramoff, was already known to be under investigation in the wide-ranging probe. Portanova's comments marked the first public confirmation that prosecutors have sought to interview other former Doolittle aides.

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