Then-Congressman Jim Gibbons, seated, toasts with Dennis Montgomery during a March 2005 cruise. Montgomery has now accused Gibbons of accepting cash on the trip.
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.
...There also is a paper trail showing Gibbons helped Trepp's company, eTreppid, get government contracts.
In a 2003 e-mail, an eTreppid executive tells Trepp that Gibbons helped secure a contract and "we need to take care of him like we discussed." Two years later, the same executive writes, "He [Gibbons] has always been really good to us." -msnbc
And
this week's
[drumroll please] double-dealing and corrupt Republican, being either investigated, indicted, or outed, is Governor, and not so long ago, Congressman, Jim Gibbons.
Then-Congressman Jim Gibbons, seated, toasts with Dennis Montgomery during a March 2005 cruise. Montgomery has now accused Gibbons of accepting cash on the trip.