posted 04.23.07 at 
Former Aide to GOP Rep To Plead Guilty
Yet another shoe drops in the Jack Abramoff investigation. A former aide to Rep. Don Young (R-AK), Mark Zachares, looks set to plead guilty to corruption charges.
The Justice Department filed a criminal information today on Zachares, laying out the facts to which he'll be pleading guilty. You can read it here. A plea hearing has been scheduled for tomorrow.
The document does not implicate Rep. Young, but it does mention that in 2002, Abramoff "assisted Zachares in obtaining his position as a staffer on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee," which Young chaired. And Young has come up often in the course of the Abramoff scandal.
Though Rep. Don Young (R-AK) has claimed that he's had "no personal or professional relationship" with Jack Abramoff, there is a multitude of evidence reflecting a relationship between the two.
Since 1973, Don Young has served as Alaska's only House Representative. He chaired the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (currently a senior member) and was vice chair (& the former chairman) of the House Resources Committee (currently ranking member). The Resources Committee was very important to Abramoff's clients, since it oversees tribal affairs and the U.S. territories.
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