Question: Who is Representative #1?

Talking points memo has posted the full plea deal from the Abramoff case. http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...

My question is who is Representative #1?

Representative #1 is all over this case. For pages his illegal connections are exposed... but not his(or hers I suppose) identity... so who is that masked man?

I don't have answers, I'm looking for them. It seems like it'd be Delay, but maybe that's too easy an answer. And is Rep #1 the only one going down with Abramoff?

Who is Representative #1?

•  Bob Ney (R-OH)

  Learn all about it on C-SPAN now and tomorrow night at 8pm EST.

  Gotta liveblog open thread on it a couple diaries below yours.

  by demondeac on Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 05:15:20 PM PDT

  •  Cspan is taking live calls...

    in a couple of minutes.

    by cosette on Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 05:25:16 PM PDT

•  Ney

  From the CNN article:

  Prosecutors also detailed a "stream of things of value" given to an unnamed congressman, identified in the court documents as Representative No. 1, and to members of his staff.

  The items listed include a "lavish" golf trip to Scotland, tickets to sporting events and other entertainment, meals at Abramoff's "upscale" Washington restaurant, and campaign contributions to the representative and his political action committee in exchange for a series of actions by that representative.

  The Justice Department would not identify the congressman. But government sources have said he is Rep. Bob Ney, a veteran Republican from Ohio who heads the House Administration Committee.

  
  

  by PatsBard on Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 05:15:24 PM PDT

•  Bob Ney

  It seems like he's the one who's going down first. It's either him or DeLay.

  by PsiFighter37 on Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 05:15:40 PM PDT

•  probably ney...

  Ney or Delay....Delay is fighting another case right now.. Its probably ney...so many to choose from...

  by bayside on Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 05:24:24 PM PDT

•  Is anyone else

  flashing back to "The Prisoner?"

  by Black Max on Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 05:24:32 PM PDT

  •  Is there going to be a big white balloon/bubble...

    ...that is going to come take a bunch of GOP criminal fucks away?

    Mitch Gore

    Wanna win in '08...?

    Put your money where your mouth is.

    by Lestatdelc on Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 05:37:19 PM PDT

    •  ROFL........

      by xrepub on Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 07:20:49 PM PDT

•  It's Ney

  According to all the comments on the evening news I saw

  by Reptile on Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 06:03:58 PM PDT

•  Fingers crossed that #2

  is Conrad Burns

  by AnthonySF on Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 06:55:46 PM PDT