Including Karl Rove, John Ashcroft and Ralph Reid. Was in business in Florida with one of Pat Robertson's buddies.
Abramoff was a high roller who scammed and rammed among the dope runners, the Mob and the casinos here in Florida.
He was also lobbying in Washington to get GUAM deregulated. A government audit found that the DOJ there was paying out nine grand a month for the lobbying, of which Abramoff got one third.
>"Guam audit finds wrongdoing in hiring of Abramoff
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
The public auditor in Guam released a report on Monday that concluded the Guam Superior Court improperly hired disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The court was writing $9,000 checks every month to an attorney. The money was then passed on to Abramoff so he could block legislation in Washington, D.C.
The audit found that the secret arrangement violated bidding requirements. A total of $479,000 was eventually paid to the attorney, $324,000 of which was transferred to Abramoff.
Abramoff lobbied for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. The two U.S. territories are overseen by the Interior Department in a manner similar to tribes.
http://indianz.com/News/2005/011807.asp
AND, not only THAT......but this is how it works:
>"Fred Black, the U.S. Attorney for the territory of Guam, was investigating Abramoff as part of a wide-ranging corruption probe.
Black issued a subpoena seeking documents related to the arrangement on November 18, 2002. A day later, Black was demoted and President Bush nominated a replacement .
That's one way of clearing your tracks by changing out the federal prosecutors and putting in one that works for your <interests>. And Larry J, this site is LOADED with all of Abramoff's inside business dealings.......... The day the inquiry started, the
Current Events » in reply to And about half of the money Abramoff went to Democrats like Patrck Kennedy and Harry Reid...
Abramoff has some pretty heavy duty connections
The whole thread (35 posts)
- Democrats driving off another cliff?
- re: Nah... Just diving into a dumpster.
- I think the NSA actions are justified
- Nah, just straw men
- Why didn't they ask
- re More of your straw people. We also support legal use of wiretaps. (n/t)
- Abramoff is Republican. So are Frist, DeLay, Lay, etc.
- And about half of the money Abramoff went to Democrats like Patrck Kennedy and Harry Reid...
- Abramoff has some pretty heavy duty connections
- Story is not about campaign contributions.
- How is a campaign contribution different from a bribe?
- It's Abramoff's connections to the Office of the President, money laundering of international drug smuggling and it's connections with the Mob
- The law attempts to delineate between that which is ok, from that which is punishably bad.
- Just for you, the Abramoff primer
- Its the same old story.
- How is a campaign contribution different from a bribe?
- And about half of the money Abramoff went to Democrats like Patrck Kennedy and Harry Reid...
- re: Democrats driving off another cliff?
