Zack Roth looks at the cast of characters in the orbit of Sir Allen Stanford and finds familiar names from other recent scandals popping up again and again — from Abramoff to Blagojevich.

We’ve also dug up photographs from a 2005 congressional junket to the islands sponsored by the Inter-American Economic Council, which Stanford backed financially. Here’s Sir Allen and former Florida Secretary of State and then-congresswoman Katherine Harris:

The rest of the photos are here.

Shorter Politico: Citizens increasingly out of touch with Beltway Media.

Murray Waas has been digging into just how many Bush officials in the waning days of the administration refused to cooperate with the various internal investigations into the politicization of the Justice Department. He’s up to at least nine — not including the GOPers on the Hill who stonewalled, too. In his exclusive report at TPMmuckraker, Waas also gets us up to speed on who may or may not be cooperating with the subsequent criminal probes those investigations spawned.