{"id":4718,"date":"2007-06-22T18:44:45","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T01:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2007-06-23T07:04:08","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T14:04:08","slug":"tom-feeney-creates-legal-defense-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4718","title":{"rendered":"Tom Feeney Creates Legal Defense Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Blogged by Brad from somewhere in Oklahoma (Shawnee&#8230;I think)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/TomFeeney_FeeneyWatch_Indictment.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\">Need to keep moving, but saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/orange\/orl-feeney2307jun23,0,6560834,full.story?coll=orl_tab01_layout\">this<\/a>, and had to stop long enough to let you know about it. Just in case you wanted to send a little something&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">WASHINGTON &#8212; U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney established a legal defense fund this week to defray costs relating to an ongoing federal inquiry into his ties with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Justice lawyers and our lawyers have been speaking. We will cooperate,&#8221; said the Oviedo Republican, who denied Friday that he is the target of a federal probe.<\/p>\n<p>When asked why he established the fund, Feeney said he was being cautious and that it would be used to &#8220;demonstrate conclusively that I always have acted with honesty and integrity.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Heheh&#8230;Irony becomes him.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re unfamiliar with the background for this story, a) Welcome to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG!<\/a>, b) See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/orange\/orl-feeney2307jun23,0,6560834,full.story?coll=orl_tab01_layout\"><i>Orlando Sentinel&#8217;s<\/i> article<\/a> and c) See a few of the stories listed at the bottom of the page at: <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/ClintCurtis\">http:\/\/www.Bradblog.com\/ClintCurtis<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 6\/23\/07:<\/b> After years of sniffing at &#8220;blogs&#8221;, Feeney has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.gov\/feeney\/wwwblog\/index.shtml\">opened his own<\/a>. And he welcomes your comments! Please give him our best regards, and be sure to give his readers a link to our <a href=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/ClintCurtis\">Clint Curtis \/ Tom Feeney Special Coverage page<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogged by Brad from somewhere in Oklahoma (Shawnee&#8230;I think) Need to keep moving, but saw this, and had to stop long enough to let you know about it. Just in case you wanted to send a little something&#8230; WASHINGTON &#8212; U.S. Rep. Tom Feeney established a legal defense fund this week to defray costs relating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,41,67],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida","category-jack-abramoff","category-tom-feeney"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}