http://kirkcaraway.com/15/02/2007/gibbons_and_trepp_smoking_gun Comments for "Gibbons and Trepp: Smoking Gun?" en http://kirkcaraway.com/15/02/2007/gibbons_and_trepp_smoking_gun <p>Here in Nevada, we have a new governor who seems to have a scandal haunting him from his old job. Just before the November election, a story came out about Jim Gibbons receiving illegal gifts for helping local billionaire Warren Trepp snag some government contracts for one of his companies, eTreppid.</p> <p><a target="_blank" href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/N/NV_GIBBONS_FBI_NVOL-?SITE=NVCAP&amp;SECTION=STATE&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">the Wall Street Journal reports the FBI may have found a smoking gun email</a>:<br /> <blockquote>The Journal reported new evidence had emerged in a federal court lawsuit in Reno, including e-mails to Trepp discussing a payment or gifts to then-Rep. Gibbons. The e-mails also show Gibbons using his congressional office to help the firm seek classified military and civilian contracts.</p> <p>"Please don't forget to bring the money you promised Jim and Dawn," Trepp's wife, Jale Trepp, said in a March 22, 2005, e-mail days before Trepp and his wife embarked on the Caribbean cruise with Jim Gibbons and his wife, Dawn, a former Nevada state assemblywoman.</p> <p>Minutes later, Mr. Trepp responds, "Don't you ever send this kind of message to me! Erase this message from your computer right now!"</p></blockquote> <p>Guess Mrs. Trepp didn't get that bribing congressmen is a crime that Mr. Trepp didn't want documented in emails.</p> http://kirkcaraway.com/15/02/2007/gibbons_and_trepp_smoking_gun#comments Jim Gibbons Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:57:41 -0800 kc 178 at http://kirkcaraway.com