Abramoff Scandal

Source: blog.washingtonpost.com --- 33 days ago
Just three days after former Washington GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to four years in prison for running a public corruption scheme, another political figure was indicted today in the Scandal. Former congressional aide Kevin A. Ring was arrested this morning at his home in the Maryland suburbs and charged with conspiracy, fraud and obstruction of justice for allegedly providing lawmakers and officials with gifts to win favors for lobbying clients. Ring, former legislative director for Rep. John T. Doolittle (R-Calif.), joined Abramoff's lobbying team after leaving Congress. Abramoff's firm hired a company operated by Doolittle's wife, Julie Doolittle, to raise funds for a charity he founded. Since 2005, a Justice Department task force has been looking into payments made by Abramoff and other lobbyists to Doolittle's wife and the spouses of other lawmakers. Julie Doolittle has denied wrongdoing. The Doolittles' house was raided by the FBI last year. ...

Source: voices.washingtonpost.com --- 2 days ago
In June, an appeals court overturned the conviction of former White House official David H. Safavian, one of the highest-ranking Washington figures caught up in the Jack Abramoff lobbying Scandal. Last month the government said it would retry Safavian in December. Now the government has refiled the indictment, Bloomberg News reports. The new indictment by a federal grand jury charges Safavian with one count of obstructing justice and four counts of making false statements to investigators and the U.S. Senate. Safavian, a former chief of staff of the General Services Administration, was originally convicted in 2006 in U.S. District Court of covering up his many efforts to assist Abramoff in acquiring two properties controlled by the GSA, and also of concealing facts about a lavish weeklong golf trip he took with Abramoff to Scotland and London in the summer of 2002. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, but ...

Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com --- 37 days ago
WASHINGTON -- Jack Abramoff, the once powerful lobbyist at the heart of a far-reaching political corruption Scandal, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday by a judge who said the case had shattered the public's confidence in government. ...

Source: www.chron.com --- 38 days ago
From the time Jack Abramoff began cooperating with the FBI, the once powerful lobbyist knew the day would come when he would have to answer for a lifestyle of trading expensive gifts for political favors. ...

Source: www.startribune.com --- 37 days ago
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Source: thinkprogress.org --- 24 days ago
Two former top Justice Department officials, former Solicitor General Paul Clement and former Ashcroft chief-of-staff David Ayres, “emerged Wednesday as figures in the Jack Abramoff lobbying Scandal,” the AP reports. Both Clement and Ayres were in e-mail correspondence with former Abramoff associate Kevin Ring, who is “facing trial on 10 counts of conspiracy, obstruction of [...] ...

Source: www.syracuse.com --- 37 days ago
WASHINGTON -- Broken and disgraced, lobbyist Jack Abramoff will spend four years in prison for his role in a corruption Scandal that upended Washington politics and contributed to the Republicans' loss of Congress in 2006. The once powerful Washington insider,... ...

Source: daily-journal.com --- 37 days ago
WASHINGTON — Jack Abramoff, the once powerful lobbyist at the heart of a far-reaching political corruption Scandal, was sentenced to four years in prison Thursday by a judge who said the case had shattered the public’s confidence in government. Read the rest of the story here. ...

Source: judicialwatch.org --- 32 days ago
Yet another prominent political figure got indicted this week for his role in the biggest public corruption Scandal to rock Congress, the Jack Abramoff lobbying fiasco. The massive scheme has already led to 13 convictions of lawmakers, lobbyists, congressional staffers and Bush Administration officials associated with the jailed lobbyist who pleaded guilty in 2006 to showering lawmakers and members of their staff with upscale European vacations, sports and entertainment tickets, expensive meals and other pricey gifts in exchange for special favors. The powerful Republican lobbyist raked in millions of dollars by selling his coveted Washington connections—both Democrat and Republican—to wealthy Native American groups seeking to gain influence in the capital. Abramoff also had regular access to the White House as illustrated in U.S. Secret Service visitor logs accessed by Judicial Watch. Among those already busted for taking bribes from Abramoff are a pair of high-ranking Justice Department officials (Deputy Chief of Staff Robert Coughlin and Sue Ellen Wooldridge, a top environmental prosecutor), a congressman (Bob Ney of Ohio) and a Deputy Interior Secretary (Steven Griles). A few months ago, a longtime senior staff member to Oklahoma Representative Ernest Istook (John Albaugh) pleaded guilty to federal conspiracy for accepting gifts—dinners, drinks, thousands of dollars worth of sporting event and concert tickets and campaign cont ...

Source: lawlib.lclark.edu --- 31 days ago
L&C Law’s Bob Miller on Tribes Still Giving Despite Abramoff Scandal :: To Appear at Panel on Relations Between American Indian Tribes and U.S. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 27 days ago
U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson says she knew nothing until Tuesday about e-mails that indicate that a former staffer in her office may have tried to influence Sandia Pueblo's decision on whether to extend a contract ... ...

Source: info.sjndnlaw.com --- 32 days ago
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Source: freddevan.com --- 33 days ago
By Susan Crabtree Kevin Ring, a former senior aide to Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.), who is retiring, has been indicted on charges relating to the wide-ranging corruption Scandal involving convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The 10-count indictment was unsealed Monday after Ring was arrested at his Maryland home. Ring, 37, who left Doolittle’s office and went [...] ...

Source: www.drudgereportarchives.com --- 36 days ago
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Source: www.topix.com --- 18 days ago
Florida Republican Congressman Tom Feeney, in the fight of his life to get elected to a fourth term in Florida's 24th Congressional District, yesterday made a pre-emptive strike by airing a television ad where ... ...

Source: www.annistonstar.com --- 30 days ago
The Republican lobbyist and the center of the decade's most notorious political corruption case was sentenced last week. Jack Abramoff got four years as punishment for his conviction in federal court. ...

Source: news.google.com --- 37 days ago
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