More on the Sweeney CNMI story

Talking points memo fills in the details about what Abramoff was trying to accomplish for the sweatshop owerns. Sweeney is no friend of workers given his compliance and his comments in CNMI.

The AP says that Sweeney's:

... financial forms were reviewed last year by the Department of Justice, and at the time staffers said he had no idea why.

On the day Sweeney's records were examined, the same justice department staffer also examined the records for Ney, Rudy, Rep. Earl Pomeroy, D-N.D. and two Capitol Hill staffers. ...