Washington Whispers reports:
After a little more than a year in prison, defrocked K Street lobbyist Jack Abramoff appears to be settling into his cramped, no-frills lifestyle. Sources with inside info report that the lobbyist who once plied lawmakers with goodies has acclimated to life inside a minimum-security Maryland prison 130 miles from Washington. We’re told that he’s “not down in the dumps” and has maintained a steady composure despite his five-year, 10-month sentence in a Florida fraud case and his upcoming sentencing for fraud, tax evasion, and conspiracy to bribe public officials. … Still, he frets that the one call he’s waiting for hasn’t come through. “He thinks somebody’s going to write the great biography on him,” says a friendly source.
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This is one person who’ll for sure be pardoned on Bush’s way out of the White House. So, he’s really only got a little over 13 months to go.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:25 amYeah, it can be the amazing tale of how a purportedly god-fearing christian got other god-fearing christians to endorse sweat shops and sex slavery in US territories and continue to use and abuse native americans. Yup, Jack continues a long tradition of great americans. i can hardly wait to hear all about it.
Perhaps he’d get more offers if he’d deliver the goods on the real players. Oh, but he probably has, they just deleted those files.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:25 amYeah, Jack Abramoff is way off my radar. Sheesh. Are you serious, TP?
December 7th, 2007 at 11:25 amLeave Abraham Jackoff alone!
-GSD
December 7th, 2007 at 11:26 amI hope this corrupt scumbag rottens in hell! Together with his White House criminal friends!
December 7th, 2007 at 11:30 amThe “forthcoming” conviction cases will continue to be slow-rolled by DOJ untill 1/20/2009 – at which point “W” will pre-emtively pardon Abramoff.
No coincedence that any and all possible Abramoff convictions (money laundering, gifts, bribery, etc) that connect to either the WH or the GOP are still “being investigated” and Jack is “still cooperating.”
The only thing he was convicted for this far was the SunCruz deal, which was his own shady thing that had nothing to do with the GOP.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:34 amI don’t give a shit if he’s skipping on the prison yard — it’s prison. He’ll carry that around for a lifetime, which isn’t nearly what he deserves.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:38 amI believe that the autobiography is a GREAT idea!
Just like Charlie Wilison’s War book opened the eyes of those that read it about what the USA “democracy” stands for and how it really works.
Whores, coke, parties, egos and Israelis ruling from behind the scenes.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:43 amOh great! Another book for the George Walker Bush Presidential Library. It can gather dust on the shelf next to Geoargie’s copy of “My Pet Goat”.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:45 am#2 – not to quibble, but just for clarification, Jack Abramoff is Jewish.
If Bush pardons Abramoff, when he leaves office, it would be so much worse than Clinton’s pardon of Marc Rich. I guess that’s the pattern of this Administration – crucifying Clinton for relatively minor infractions, while getting away with destroying the country.
I’m a supporter of Obama because I truly love his message of change and hope, but sometimes I feel that there’s nothing that could clean up this partisanship and corruption. I hope I’m wrong about that.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:47 amSomebody Photoshop that photo to put Dubya in there? They never met did they? Oh, wait, that would compromise Secret Serviice means and methods to say.
December 7th, 2007 at 11:55 amGuess he likes being a sperm receptacle in prison.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:12 pmwhats wrong with being a sperm receptacle? none of us would exsist if not for sperm receptacles.
He’s in a federal prison. Hes playing golf and talking on an iphone. its a joke. basically a caged resort. sorta like the zoo.
wonder how the natives that him and Tom Delay stole hundreds of millions of dollars from are doing…?
December 7th, 2007 at 12:27 pmBush can pardon him for what he’s been convicted for, but not for what he’s not been indicted for, right? Can some Dem administration (it is, of course, purely theoretical that our Dems would do this) go after Abramoff for crimes he hasn’t been in court for?
December 7th, 2007 at 12:34 pmHow could he be depressed? I’m sure he has lots of “friends” in prison!
December 7th, 2007 at 12:40 pmback to work!…more LICENSE PLATES!
December 7th, 2007 at 12:40 pmNoOneYouKnow- a person does not even have to be indicted to be pardoned. See Gerry Ford’s pardon of Nixon, 1974.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:40 pmBush would be in a pickle if he pardoned Jack of all Trades Abramoff. And that would pissed off his buddies such as Rove and DeLay since DeLay is still indicted and Rove is being investigated for his crimes. Bush is in the pickle to choose who will pardon before he leaves office and that is an “if.” We don’t what else will be exposed between now and the end of the idiot’s term in office that could alter his plans. Tomorrow is a promissory note.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:50 pmI think he’ll find “the dumps”, somewhere in the middle of year two of his richly deserved incarceration, after it dawns on him that no one ever really cared how awesome he thought he was, and that no biography will be written.
December 7th, 2007 at 12:55 pmAwww, now, isn’t that just ….special?
December 7th, 2007 at 1:10 pmA biography?
ha ha
Neocon delusions of grandeur…sure, Richard Mellon Scaife will order up a ghost-writer for Abramoff, toot sweet, baby.
ha ha
December 7th, 2007 at 3:40 pmsp biloxi, Bush has already pardoned himself; Cheney signed it when Bush was having his posterior probed.
And Bush pardoned Cheney already, too. Cheney keeps BOTH of them in his man-sized safe, in Cheney’s White House office.
Just to make sure.
December 7th, 2007 at 3:42 pm