Cooking the Books at the NRCC?

From the Politico...

Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas), a certified public accountant, had pushed for months for an internal audit of the National Republican Congressional Committee, according to GOP members, but the committee’s treasurer at the time was reluctant.

Finally, at a recent meeting, the now former NRCC treasurer, Christopher J. Ward, relented, giving Conaway what was supposed to be an official internal audit from 2006. That document was a fake, the GOP members said. Even the letterhead on which it was sent was a forgery.

Revelations about the falsified document touched off an unfolding scandal that has rocked the NRCC and spurred a criminal investigation by the FBI into the committee’s accounting procedures.

The Culture of Corruption just can't seem to elude the Republicans. Enron accounting practices at the Republican office that's supposed to help reelect its members is big news, especially during an election year. Now that the feds are involved, we'll see if Bush's DoJ will fire the investigators much like it did with the Duke Cunningham scandal. It will take a competent oversight from congress to see this one through.