(AP) WASHINGTON - Lawyers for Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff are in discussions with the Justice Department about his possible cooperation in a congressional corruption probe, a person involved in the investigation said Tuesday night. The probe involves a number of members of Congress as well as staff. A former aide to ex-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, has already pleaded guilty.

This thing keeps spinning up into a bigger ball of legal fun time. The only constant seems to be Tom Delay in the middle of it all. Texas politics the Grand Old Party way, or just isolated cases of ambition over principle?