The story that won't die ... Lots of us are watching the story about indictments against Bush and top people in the administration. There was an additional rumor which I haven't seen picked up by anyone that John Paul Stevens was talking to the people involved in the investigation about trying to quash the indictments. I hope that that is not true. The best I can get from anyone is that the story could well be bad guessing ... So there doesn't seem to be anything that should be sent around, so far as I can tell.

Subpoena calls for documents related to the Carlyle Group and Robert Kjellander

Investment firm's payments to Republican fundraiser under scrutiny MIKE ROBINSON

Associated Press Posted on Tue, Aug. 09, 2005

CHICAGO - Federal prosecutors investigating corruption at a state pension fund have subpoenaed records concerning $4.5 million in fees a Washington-based investment firm is paying the new treasurer of the Republican National Committee, government sources confirmed Tuesday.

The subpoena calls for documents related to the fund, the Carlyle Group and Robert Kjellander, said sources familiar with the investigation who spoke only on condition of anonymity, saying prosecutors want details of the probe kept secret.

Kjellander, a Springfield-based lobbyist who headed President Bush's re-election campaign in three states, was named the RNC's treasurer over the weekend. [...] Read the rest at: http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/12341191.htm


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