Below you'll find entries to explain the involvement of the various players in the widening array of national corruption scandals. We've done our best to concisely explain, with little or no commentary, why certain names keep cropping up. It's just the facts.

The entries will be updated as the investigations, along with ours and others' muckraking, proceed. The list isn't exhaustive, and no doubt we'll be adding entries as readers request them. Does some name keep cropping up in these stories and you have no idea why? Let us know, and we'll explain.

The U.S. Attorney Firings Scandal:

      Kyle Sampson
      Monica Goodling
      Paul McNulty
      William Moschella
      Michael Elston
      J. Scott Jennings
      Harriet Miers
      William Kelley
      Bradley Schlozman

The Duke Cunningham Investigation:

      Duke Cunningham
      Brent Wilkes
      Kyle "Dusty" Foggo
      Mitchell Wade
      Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA)
      Thomas Kontogiannis
      Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
      Jeffrey Shockey

The Jack Abramoff Investigation:

      Jack Abramoff

      Inner Circle
      Michael Scanlon
      Alexander Strategy Group
      Tony Rudy
      Ed Buckham
      Grover Norquist
      Ralph Reed

      Members of the Administration
      David Safavian
      J. Steven Griles
      George W. Bush

      Key Lawmakers
      Ex-Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT)
      Ex-Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX)
      Ex-Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH)
      Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA)

      Other Figures Involved in Abramoff Scandal
      Italia Federici

      Key Members of Team Abramoff
      Neil Volz
      Kevin Ring

      Front Non-Profits, Shell Companies in Abramoff Scandal
      Capital Athletic Foundation
      Grassroots Interactive
      Eshkol Religious Academy
      U.S. Family Network
      American International Center
      National Center for Public Policy Research

      Other Companies
      Signatures
      Toward Tradition
      SunCruz

      Abramoff Clients
      Northern Mariana Islands
      Guam Superior Court

The New Hampshire Phone-Jamming Investigation:

      James Tobin
      Charles McGee
      Allen Raymond
      Shaun Hansen

The Alaska Investigations:

Other Investigations:

      Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA)