Are feds examining Weldon’s ties to shady Russians?
By Ken SilversteinAs my colleague Scott Horton noted yesterday, former Congressman Curt Weldon appears to be in a heap of trouble. Yesterday, the Washington Post has reported, his ex-chief of staff, Russ Caso, copped a plea on charges that he allegedly helped “a consulting firm championed by Weldon obtain federal funds and for concealing money the firm paid his wife.” Caso was a powerful aide and he is almost surely cooperating with the feds. “When a chief of staff cuts a deal, the congressman is in deep trouble,” one Washington observer told me. “The last one to do so was Neil Volz and his boss [ex-congressman Bob Nye] went to jail.” The consulting firm that paid Caso’s wife was not named in legal papers but the AP reports that it was Solutions North America, a company run by Weldon’s daughter, Karen, and Charles Sexton Jr., Weldon’s former finance chairman. When I was at the Los Angeles Times, a colleague and I first reported the story of Weldon’s very helpful attitude towards his da
