Disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison in a Florida fraud case, the minimum sentence allowed.
Abramoff and former partner Adam Kidan pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud stemming from the ill-fated purchase in 2000 of the SunCruz Casinos gambling fleet.
The sentence won’t start immediately so the pair can continue cooperating in a Washington corruption investigation and a Florida probe into the murder of former SunCruz owner Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis.
Before the hearing, more than 260 people _ including rabbis, military officers and even a professional hockey referee _ wrote letters on the men’s behalf asking the federal judge for leniency.
The letters, obtained by The Associated Press, put a new spin on the foibles and crimes of a man who became the face of Washington’s latest corruption scandal.
“Jack is a good person, who in his quest to be successful, lost sight of the rules,” National Hockey League referee Dave Jackson wrote, describing the time Abramoff brought 14 youngsters to his dressing room before a game.
Lost sight of the rules?
A republican scandal.
Public acknowledgment of Republican corruption will be a BIG part of your downfall in the next two years…
Goodbye, Mr. Abramoff. See you when you get pardoned by Bush in January of 09.
sure….
seems like we’ve been doing just fine on the first tuesday in November.
try registering some more cats, crackheads and felons (your target constituency)
Oh how Harry Reid and Debbie Stabenouw would love for that to be true SF, but I think the extent of this should be very interesting!
Mike Kilo, look at how your party is polling, and has been polling for the past year. You’ve done fine so far in November, but…
It’s not something I’m making up, but Democrats are polling better than republicans on every issue. Even national security!
Dems also have an average of a ten point lead on who Americans want to see control congress.
That’s huge! Repubs have been SMASHING the Dems for ten years now, and since the whole Iraq thing went down the tubes, and since Katrina revealed just how well Bush can protect us, and since Jack Abramoff got on the front pages of newspapers nationwide, things are looking up for Dems.
Now, I’m not saying the Dems will take control of one or both houses of congress, but for the first time in years: it’s possible they might.:!:
Unless, of course, Rove can whip up some fear of those evil gay folk like he did in `04…
to San Francisco, “hey guy of Mexico”, its all nothing but a system of total corruption and you should love bush he is helping Mexico and its people to take this non nation down the road of third world life.
but i also understand that Abramoff is a pig but he was also setup for his fall.
nothing new in the land of freedom and Mexican drug dealers( read business dealers ) inside the government if you know what i mean?:oops: watch Hillary next, its going to be fun.
I will go out on a limb here and guess that fred has been raped in prison:roll: