Truth by Al Franken

Author:Al Franken
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Politics
ISBN: 9780713998092
Publisher: Dutton / Penguin
Published: 2005-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

I’m on the phone with Tigua. Fire up the jet baby, we’re going to El Paso!

Scanlon replied,

I want all their money!!!

Abramoff felt good,

Yawzah!!

That’s how he spelled it. “Yawzah.”

Four days later, the jet was indeed fired up. Abramoff arrived in El Paso and presented the Tigua with an ingenious plan. Not ingenious because it would help them reopen their casino, but ingenious because it would get all their money. Promising to rectify the “gross indignity perpetrated by the Texas state authorities” (that he had engineered), Abramoff assured the Tigua that he had already lined up “a couple of Senators willing to ram this through.” Not only that, but Abramoff and his law firm would accept no fee and work pro bono.

Of course, the Tigua would need a good PR firm. Luckily for them, Abramoff knew the best guy in the business. A guy named Michael Scanlon. Scanlon was expensive, sure, but Abramoff had heard that he was worth every penny of the $4.2 million it would cost to retain him.

To the Tigua’s delight, Scanlon was indeed interested in taking on their case. It didn’t take long for him to come up with a plan for a PR blitz with the catchy name “Operation: Open Doors.”

On February 19, as the Tigua tribal council prepared to vote on O.O.D., the El Paso Times ran a story headlined “450 Casino Employees Officially Terminated.” Scanlon sent Abramoff the story, with the note:

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