Look if you want to read the actual Abramoff and Scalon (Tom Delay's press sec.) EMAILS...these are why they pleaded guilty!
Go to John McCains website, there is a pdf with them all.

The scam was couched under the name of yet another Republican family values phoney balony "interest group" which was under Tom Delay's control. God and faith was their credo as usual but in this case it was to promote Indian gambling houses and Mississippi gambling barges. The money raised was praised by the White House when they got there's.