Jack Abramoff, “super-lobbyist,” will plead guilty, his attorney says, to two of six charges in his federal indictment. This will probably get him a decade in prison, and he’ll have to open his trap and rat out… I’ve run out of expressions already.
Abramoff is a skunk, and he will undoubtedly drag several additional skunks down with him.
Mike Krempasky writes at RedState.com:
It’s going to be a long year for people who took money from Abramoff. But at the same time - congratulations are in order for one R. Alex Acosta. Mr. Acosta is serving as the interim US Attorney for South Florida - having taken that post only weeks before securing the indictment in this case. Just goes to show what sort of investigation you can do if you’re not grandstanding for the cameras along the way.
If we were dealing with Ronnie Earle, playing a political game, Abramoff might have been able to plea bargain only if he promised to say something bad about Tom DeLay. Acosta is a different kind of man. If the Hammer didn’t break the law, he should be safe.
January 3rd, 2006 at 12:31 pm
“If the Hammer didn’t break the law, he should be safe.”
The implication is that in some jurisdictions he would be in trouble if he didn’t break the law. Come on, this is the USA where the innocent always go free and the guilty get elected president.
January 3rd, 2006 at 3:16 pm
This guy needs to be up under the jail but he willdo good time in a nice place and we all know it
January 3rd, 2006 at 3:53 pm
“If the Hammer didn’t break the law, he should be safe.”
Do you honestly believe Delay has not broken ANY laws on his trip to power?
January 3rd, 2006 at 4:02 pm
unfortunately what will be revealed is just the tip of the biggest iceberg afloat. Small frys will fall but the empire builders will stay and the corrupt political machine that runs this country will continue its’ moral decline. All civilizations that have gone before self destructed for the very same reasons our wonderful democracy will decay and crumble. I am so sad.
January 3rd, 2006 at 4:36 pm
This is not about Abramoff or Delay or Ney et al. This is about money. We all covet it, we all want more and we’ll do damn near anything to get it. That’s our society and these guys are no different than the rest of us. They just got caught. Capitalism at its best. Don’t you just love it.
January 3rd, 2006 at 4:41 pm
“Doing time in a nice place….”
Abramoff should be sent to prison “as punishment” not “for punishment.” Removing his right of freedom of association in open society is sufficient. He should be put at a prison commensurate with the risk to society that he presents. I’m sure there are quite a number of politicians sitting on a razor’s edge right now. Fortunately, or unfortunately,Corruption is a very democratic disease as it spreads itself evenly across the gamut. I would expect that even the odd vegan is susceptible.
January 3rd, 2006 at 5:15 pm
THEY GOT CAUGHT AND THEY MUST PAY THE PRICE. BUSH, CHENEY SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES FOR TAKING THIS MONIES. THEY KNOW AND THEY KNEW WHERE THE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE ELECTIONS WAS COMING FROM. THEY TOO LIKE PAST PRESIDENT NIXON MUST GO !! MANY AMERICANS BELIEVED IN THEM WHAT CROOKS.
January 3rd, 2006 at 6:52 pm
Unless we get rid of Bush, none of this will make any difference. Bush will simply pardon all the criminals and the people who have trusted will again get the shaft. Presidential pardons, like lifelong appointments to the Supreme Court, have outlived their usefulness and the Constitution needs to be ammended by demand from the people to eliminate the abilities of the corrupt to put aside the wishes of the public.
January 3rd, 2006 at 7:39 pm
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January 3rd, 2006 at 9:54 pm
I want to hear how the apologists stick up for Abramoff and Delay now? Many good Republicans have been besmirched by the association of this man (Abramoff) to their party.
Raymond B
www.voteswagon.com
January 4th, 2006 at 12:23 am
nothing will be done to bush or cheney. they lie about everything especially the war in iraq. if i had my way i would impeach them both! look at how many innocent soldiers have been killed and here they take money under the table.
it’s sick
January 4th, 2006 at 12:18 pm
How come they have stopped mentioning that the owner of SunCruz who was refusing to sell to Abromov and his cohorts appeared to have been the victim of a mob hit???? Sadly, the rule, not the exception in big business big politics in the “land of the free”
January 4th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
greedy lawmakers, should we be surprised, I think not. Absolute power corrupts “absolutely”.
January 4th, 2006 at 2:01 pm
When the Democrats began to seriously go after DeLay they had little by way of substantive evidence against the guy. The leader of the pack of accusers, Nancy Pelosi, has her own dirty laundry a-plenty. She raised $3 million for a non-profit organization - WeStart-CALSTART - and the President of that organization funneled cash into her political action committee - not to mention into euro junkets.
Corruption cuts right across party lines, and it should be addressed as such - a non-partisan issue that threatens to poison democracy.
Here in Canada the federal Liberals were syphoning cash to various interests in Quebec, and this Adscam mess ended up in the Gomery Enquiry, which has done little to put the chief culprits behind bars.
People who betray the public trust, irrespective of political stripe, should be rooted out and exposed.
How else can we hope to maintain integrity in our corporations and political institutions!
January 4th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Why are all these politicans GIVING the money to charities? Who are they trying to kid,they just want to be able to DEDUCT it from their TAXES!
January 5th, 2006 at 10:04 am
Temptation,what can be expected ,when every one is funneling money to lobbiest’s. This practice should be stopped immediatly! You cannot put corn in front of a hog and expect him not to eat it.
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:37 am
Ritalin….
Ritalin….