THE FBI DOES MORE THAN JUST INVESTIGATE CROOKED REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN

Gibbons is the (male) party animal in the back row

The FBI also investigates crooked Republican ex-congressmen who are now governors... of Nevada. It was just 6 weeks ago last time we checked in on the loony and corrupt Jim Gibbons. He certainly seemed destined for the pokey then. And today... well his next home seems to be beckoning more loudly. Today MSNBC is reporting more bad news for Governor Gibbons.

The new governor of Nevada, Jim Gibbons, is being investigated by the FBI because of alleged gifts and payments from Warren Trepp, a defense contractor whose Nevada firm received tens of millions of dollars in federal contracts.

The FBI wants to know if Gibbons, while a member of Congress, improperly used his influence to help Trepp get those contracts.

On one "lavish week-long Caribbean cruise" in 2005 Trepp bribed Gibbons with $60,000 worth of goodies-- plus an undisclosed amount of cash and casino chips "close to $100,000." And then Trepp got a very lucrative government contract with Gibbons kind assistance. I'm sure it was a coincidence. "Gibbons, a Republican, says he would help any Nevada company, and strongly denies all wrongdoing." Would you call stating that someone is "a Republican" and in the very same sentence stating that they "strongly deny all wrongdoing" somewhat redundant?

NBC News says that there is some evidence and some testimony-- from Trepp's ex-partner, Dennis Montgomery (also a Republican) -- that doesn't quote fit with Gibbons' account:

Montgomery: He took a hundred thousand out of his desk, two $50,000 bundles, and asked me to get a briefcase, which I did. 15 minutes later, Jim came in, picked it up and left.
NBC: Did you see the Congressman with the briefcase?
Montgomery: Yes.
NBC: And you're sure the money was in there?
Montgomery: Yes
NBC: Why didn't you go to the police?
Montgomery: Because I've been informed, because of the nature of the work that we do, this is the only person I am to go to.
NBC: Because you do classified work for the government?
Montgomery: We do work for the government.
NBC: Did you raise the possibility that this was improper?
Montgomery: Yes.
NBC: And he said?
Montgomery: Stay out of it.
NBC: Some people are going to look at this and say, "'This is just one angry, disgruntled man.  Why should we believe him?'"
Montgomery: Because I know what happened for the last five years and I can prove it.

Even before this broke today, there had been discussion in Nevada about impeaching the hapless, drunken and unpopular Gibbons.