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...Jack Abramoff, a lobbyist and fraudster who rose to notoriety in the 1990s alongside a powerful conservative movement in Washington, is facing a return to prison after being charged in a criminal conspiracy...
...(FT) Jack Abramoff faces return to prison The lobbyist and fraudster who rose to notoriety in the 1990s alongside a powerful conservative movement in Washington is facing a return to prison after agreeing...
...Jack Abramoff, as his name is spelt, was a powerful conservative lobbyist in Washington who served more than three years in prison after pleading guilty in 2006 to federal charges arising from his work for...
...“We still have more work to do on that side,” says Mr Day, who prosecuted Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist, in a 2006 Washington corruption case. The legal challenges involved can be daunting....
...“I’ve only ever seen this kind of movement once before,” he said, adding that efforts to crack down on influence peddling “took off” in 2006 after the conviction of lobbyist Jack Abramoff....
...Mr Abramoff’s exploits were portrayed by actor Kevin Spacey in the Hollywood movie, Casino Jack, in which Mr Norquist’s character had a bit part....
...Tom DeLay, the corrupt former Republican majority leader who became ensnared in the scandal surrounding super lobbyist Jack Abramoff, was jailed for three years by a Texas judge on Monday....
...Abramoff, who previously served on the group’s board....
...The Department of Justice had earlier this year decided not to pursue a separate case against Mr DeLay linked to the charges of influence peddling against Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist....
...In the US, it remains mostly about money securing access to power, manifested by the scandals involving former Congressman and now jailbird Randy “Duke” Cunningham and Jack Abramoff, the free-spending corporate...
...With a few exceptions, such as Duke Cunningham and one or two congressmen roped into lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s schemes, US corruption does not involve cupidity; it involves power and prestige....
...Stephanie Kirchgaessner Abramoff back to haunt McCain Jack Abramoff wants everyone – especially the judge who was expected to sentence him on Thurday – to know that he is not a bad man....
...In the 2006 mid-term elections, the Democrats were thought to have been assisted by the whiff of corruption around the majority Republican party, in particular after the conviction of Jack Abramoff, the...
...He led the congressional investigation into Jack Abramoff, the high-profile lobbyist who was jailed for corruption in 2006, and pushed for campaign finance reforms to limit the influence of business in politics...
...A former congressional staffer and high-ranking official for the Northern Mariana Islands has been charged with using his political influence to help Jack Abramoff, the convicted Republican “super-lobbyist...
...It follows what reform groups describe as the most rapid growth in modern US history of “K Street” lobby group influence, which culminated last year in the imprisonment of Jack Abramoff, a lobbyist, on fraud...
...He helped investigate Jack Abramoff, the high-profile Republican lobbyist jailed for corruption, and championed restrictions on campaign fundraising to curb the influence of business in politics....
...Mr Jefferson’s indictment follows the jailing or federal investigation of a series of lawmakers, Capitol Hill staff and lobbyists over the past 18 months, including Jack Abramoff, the celebrated “K Street...
...The scandal surrounding Jack Abramoff claimed another political career on Friday after a former senior member of the Bush administration pleaded guilty to obstructing a Senate investigation into his relationship...
...In some cases uncovered in the probe involving Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist jailed for corruption, White House officials used the accounts to avoid creating a record of communication....
...Then he seized on the Jack Abramoff scandal in Washington to warn the fast-growing public affairs community that it needed to improve its accountability....
...The scandal over Jack Abramoff, the crooked superlobbyist, claimed its first congressional victim on Friday when Bob Ney, a six-term Ohio congressman, formally pleaded guilty to criminal corruption charges...
...Asked about the payment, PartyGaming said: “Jack Abramoff’s actions made the IIA one of his victims....
...The issue gained prominence after scandals involving corporate contributions such as those that engulfed Tom DeLay, the former House of Representatives leader, and Jack Abramoff, the “super-lobbyist”....
...Mehlman, the powerful chairman of the Republican National Committee, was on Sunday put on the defensive about his alleged role in the ousting of a State Department official in 2001 who was a political foe of Jack...
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