At the height of the Tom DeLay-era, Jack Abramoff was probably Washington’s most influential and lucratively paid lobbyist. He was brash and brazen, displaying a Hollywood swagger long before they made a movie about him. Then Abramoff was exposed as a fraud, a liar and a creep of the first order–someone who effectively stole millions of dollars from Native American tribes and fueled corruption of Congress. Having recently finished a prison sentence for these actions, Abramoff is now embarking on a penitence tour, featuring a memoir which, I gather, also serves as a kind of manifesto for how to stamp out corruption in Washington. Once I get my hands on the book this week I’ll have more to say about it. But for now I’d recommend watching last night’s “60 Minutes” segment on the man, which was an unintentional testament to his wicked brilliance.
After six years, a Grand Jury and a thousand pages of documents including staff emails, the Justice Department last week dropped its investigation into former Majority Leader Tom Delay’s ties with disgraced GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff. “I think they’d just reached a dead end. They certainly were very thorough – they talked to everybody,” says [...]
Baltimore’s Jewish Times tracks down Jack Abramoff, the convicted felon who was once among the most powerful lobbyists in Washington. He is now working a local pizza joint, Tov Pizza, which claims to be “Baltimore’s Best Kosher Pizza.” Not clear if Tov will start offering “YOU IZ DA MAN” slices, but Abramoff has also brushing [...]
CBN’s David Brody has the scoop that Ralph Reed, the master Republican strategist who TIME once called “The Right Hand of God” in a cover story, is looking at a congressional run this fall in a safe Republican district. Now Reed is not much of a gambler, but I would not bet against him. Before [...]
