Convicted lobbyist Abramoff set to leave jail this week or next

[deminks]

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0607/convicted-lobbyist-abramoff-set-leave-jail-week/

And what timing: Documentary on scandal begins Friday

Three and a half years has passed since the incarceration of onetime Washington power-broker Jack Abramoff.

And as soon as this week, or next, Abramoff will he on his way out the doors of a federal prison and into a halfway house, where he will reside until he's formally released.

Abramoff, 51, pled guilty to corrupting public officials and tax evasion in January 2006 and was sentenced to four years in jail. He bilked nearly $25 million from Indian tribes who sought influence with federal officials. Peter Stone, a veteran investigative journalist at National Journal, who has covered the scandal extensively, asserted in a little-noticed post late Friday that Abramoff was set to leave prison soon.

Abramoff is "expected to be transferred in the next week or two to a halfway house in the Baltimore area where he will stay for about six months, according to two sources familiar with his plans," Stone wrote.

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[4lbs]

1. He'll get back into the game in no time.

[Flubadubya]

2. Too few and too soon...

There should have been a whole lot more of the Bushie crooks there along with him and they should all still be there... until at least 2035! :grr:

[Frustratedlady]

3. That makes room for Tom DeLay, Right?

I don't think I'm going to live long enough to see him in court. It's been so long, I can't remember what he was charged with.

[global1]

4. Where Do You Think Abramoff Will Show Up Next ?.......

Will he be a lobbyist? Will he be a talking head on Fox? Will he run for office? Will he work for a Repug think tank?

Just curious where the betting money is on him.

Oh - he probably can't run for office because of his incarceration. Sorry.

[jmowreader]

5. He'll go back into lobbying--that's where the money is

Abramoff was a HUGE player in the Indian-casino business. I think he'll just go back to it.

[Hawkeye-X]

7. Not if Obama is still the Prez....

He'll order all departments no contact with Assholeoff permanently (blackballed) - and he lost his license to practice law.

Frankly, I'm guessing that Faux will hire him on for lieathon of some sort later.

Hawkeye-X

[jmowreader]

8. I'm going to disagree with you on the Obama thing

President Obama always wants to look forward, not back. This is nice, I guess, but if our president would look back every once in a while the First Squatter would wind up as a footnote in the Guinness Book of World Records: "Most Executions by a Sitting US Governor: 134, by George W. Bush who was himself executed at Federal Correctional Institution Terre Haute, IN, on December 25, 2013. The headlines in the papers read, 'The Antichrist died on Christmas Day.'"

On edit: I was so worked up with being able to put a Nicolae Ceaucescu reference into a rant on George W. Bush, I forgot to say what I was going to say about Jack Abramoff. Correction made: Because Obama likes to look forward rather than back, the federal government will not blackball Abramoff--he "paid his debt to society" and should be given all the rights and privileges of any other citizen. The only way that slimy fucker could possibly pay his debt to society is to commit seppuku, but I digress: he'll walk out of prison and go right back to representing Indian casinos.

I'm not sure about the Fox News gig. Fox News is the employer of choice for most fallen Repukes, but this guy is a lobbyist--who even Republicans think are slimeballs.

[Hawkeye-X]

6. Ah, I was just checking ol' Jack's release date.

He must have gotten early release - he's not scheduled to be released from Cumberland FCI where he probably bunked with Madoff, until December.