DeLay and Abramoff’s ‘Made in the USA’: Shame, Shame, Shame
Listen to an excellent NPR Weekend Edition story revisiting the Jack Abramoff-Tom DeLay connection to the slave trade, forced abortions, forced prostitution happening in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. DeLay called industry on the islands a "shining light of the Republican Party" during one of many "fact-finding missions" to the region.Listen to an excellent NPR Weekend Edition story revisiting the Jack Abramoff-Tom DeLay connection to the slave trade, forced abortions, forced prostitution happening in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands. DeLay called industry on the islands a “shining light of the Republican Party” during one of many “fact-finding missions” to the region.
WAIT BEFORE YOU GO...NPR: The Abramoff-DeLay-Mariana Islands Connection
Listen to this story… by John Ydstie Weekend Edition – Saturday, June 17, 2006 · The paths of retired Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) and disgraced lobbyist Jack Ambramoff intersect not just in Washington, D.C., but in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a chain of 17 small islands in the North Pacific.
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