Go ahead and add the ol' NRCC to the same list as Tom DeLay, Bob Ney, Jack Abramoff, Rick Renzi, John Doolittle and Jim Ryun.

Looks like a major accounting scandle has erupted in the shady halls of the NRCC, resulting in the firing of long-time, top GOP treasurer Christopher Ward and an investigation into hundreds of thousands of missing dollars dating back to 2004!

"Based on analysis conducted to date, it appears likely that over a period of several years Ward made several hundred thousand dollars in unauthorized transfers of NRCC funds to outside committees whose bank accounts he had access to, including joint fund-raising committees in which the NRCC participated," Cole said in a written statement.

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An official with the campaign committee said on condition of anonymity that "several" members of Congress are likely to have been affected as well.

 

The official said Ward was the "go-to guy" for candidates wishing to navigate complicated campaign finance regulations. He was an expert on the administrative side of fundraising, according to the official, and several candidates asked him to oversee their bank accounts.

Does anyone else get the feeling that things are about to get ugly...er...uglier?