Back in 2004, Sir Allen Stanford’s company flew Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and an unidentified companion down to Antigua — home base for Stanford International Bank, which the SEC now says can’t account for $8 billion in holdings — for three days of “financial services industry fact-finding.”

Late Update: It only gets better. The House Caribbean Caucus (no, I didn’t know it existed either) takes an annual “fact-finding” trip down to the islands on Stanford’s planes. As recently as 2005, the caucus was chaired by now-disgraced Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH), who did jail time in the Abramoff scandal, and included such other Abramoff luminaries as Reps. Tom Feeney (R-FL) and John Sweeney (R-NY).

Later Update: It appears Cornyn’s companion on the junket was identified back in 2006 as his wife.

Only a few months back former Rep. Bob Schaffer (R-CO) was in the hunt to become the next senator from Colorado. Now he’s taken a gig as a Margarita mix pitchman.

See the rest of the report at KDVR.com.

(Via Josh Green.)

I’m wondering if Roland Burris’s senate career could end up being pretty short. Now he’s admitting that not only was he asked to raise money for Blago, he went ahead and did the best he could to raise money for him while he was trying to get the senate appointment.

Bank lobbyists hit up the Treasury for help gutting the executive compensation limits.