Jack Abramoff

"Bribes, you say?"

A guide to U.S. Politics

Hail to the Chief?

REAL ID Act Entitlement program Nepotism president Dan Quayle Mary Fallin Republican Party George H. W. Bush

Persons of interest

Greg Abbott John Adams Dwight D. Eisenhower E. W. Jackson Jon Kyl Franklin D. Roosevelt v - t - e

Jack Abramoff (1959–) is a Republican lobbyist and good friend of Tom DeLay,^[1] until he was caught taking bribes from both sides in a case of two Native American tribes that were each fighting to get the other's casino shut down.^[2]

In 2002, there was also a grand jury investigation into some money he received. Strangely, a day after this investigation was announced, the chief prosecutor for the case and instigator of the investigation was unexpectedly demoted by Dubya after which the whole thing fizzled out.^[3]

He was also the producer of an '80s anti-commie action movie that got in serious trouble for using South African army units as extras, in direct violation of the anti-apartheid rules set up by the SAG. Pro-freedom indeed.

Now a high-powered, minimum-wage pizza man.^[4]

Prison success story?[edit]

Since being released from prison, he has (ostensibly) become a campaigner against the legalized bribery that is the US's lobbying system. Old joke; a crooked politician can be bribed ten different ways, and an honest one a hundred. He has written a book detailing his crimes and what, as an insider, he thinks should be done to fix the system, painting himself as a fallen knight seeking redemption.

See also[edit]

• Northern Mariana Islands - Abramoff lobbied on behalf of them for years, and one of their governors was impeached for, among other things, his connection to Abramoff.^[5]

External links[edit]

• SourceWatch has a more detailed page on his shenanigans

References[edit]