caught, the inmates collected at least $100,000 from the irs. one inmate had checks sent to his brother s house. dozens of checks were going to one address and that didn t raise any red flags to the irs. apparently not. reporter: by 2007, ellsworth turned over wboxes of evidence o the irs. case closed, right? not so fast. they said we are working on it. we can t take your investigation. we have to do our own. reporter: earlier this year, nearly 3 1/2 years after the scheme was busted, federal indictments were finally brought against a couple of the ring leaders and family members. why so long? the irs wouldn t say. now, don t think this inmate get rich quick scheme started here at the monroe county detention center. oh, no. authorities tell us it s been going on for decades at state and federal prisons all across the country. one of the inmates i
diplomats will meet to discuss this matter. again, what the russian, what they want, is some kind of monitoring process so that the kids that are adopted and more than 50,000 russian children have been adopted by american families in the last 15 years so they can be better monitored after they re adopted. and they re pointing to a number of the cases, not only the case of artyom that has been shipped out, but at least 15 cases of russian children who have died after being adopted. we heard what the russian president medvedev said about all of this. he called it a monstrous act. what are we hearing from the russian people? reporter: well, there has been outrage. but it s interesting, the russian agency interfax did a poll, they said 68% of russians asked to would be a bad idea to completely ban foreign
their natural home is and always was the republican party. they are trying to move it to the right. reporter: for some tea partyers, a merge he would be too much too fast. if any one person thinks that they are going to get control of this whole movement, i think they don t really understand it. reporter: along the tea party bus tour, there were sceptics. the whole point is that we are americans, republicans, democrats, independents. reporter: a new cnn poll finds 80% of tea partyers plan to vote republican. democrats insist, they are not sweating it. check out this website mocking upcoming republican primaries as palin primaries. to the ex thaetent they move far to the right, they are going to lose the support of independent and moderate voters.
benefits of mergering the tea party with the gop. it s really merging into one single, solitary units. reporter: some tea party organizers say that s fine, so long as they first cleanse the gop of its moderates. what some conservatives call rinos, or republicans in name only. the republicans are in place as the party of the people. after we re done chasing the rinos out, it will again be the party of the people. if that s what people mean by merging with the republican party, great. i ll take that. reporter: cnn political contributor, john avlon points out many tea partiers are conservatives who felt abandoned under george w. bush. right now, it s important to understand that the tea partiers form a popular wing. reporter: but for some tea partiers, a merger would be too much too fast. if any one person think as
in 14 months, no question about that. reporter: they have, absolutely. thanks so much. coming up, at 7:10, we will be talking with darla dawald. she will be speaking at the tea party rally in d.c. does she think they will be able to speak with one voice come november? also developing, a volcano beneath a glacier in iceland. more than 250 flights into and out of london s heathrow airport has been canceled because of the drifting ash. airports in scotland also completely shut down. when is the last time your flight was delayed by a volcano. let s get a quick check of the morning s headlines with rob marciano. interesting thing. we will tuchl we will touch on this ash deal. jetstream doing a curve and driving the ash down across parts of the u.k. and europe.