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Posted At : September 4, 2008 03:22 PM | Posted By : D McKee
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That's our guy, a class act to the end.
Washington's vilest lobbyist -- and that's going some -- got his due. Well, maybe not quite. Four years and (apparently) no forfeiture of assets is probably a more lenient sentence than "Casino Jack" Abramoff deserves, but it's more than prosecutors wanted, so it's all good.
Besides, as Abramoff wailed to the court, "My name is the butt of a joke, the source of a laugh and the title of a scandal." As well it should be, especially in light of the collateral damage Casino Jack's finaglings did to the image of Native American tribes lobbying Congress (not to mention the damage to the treasuries of the tribes he and co-conspirator Michael Scanlon bilked).
It's hard to muster much pity for someone who's just helped pen a book in which he's a martyr, the blameless victim of the evil, conniving Sen. John McCain and McCain's nefarious fellow-travelers, The Washington Post. (The WaPo did more than any other news organization to chronicle Abramoff's myriad crimes, so you can understand why he's not feeling any love right now.)
According to The Associated Press: "In The Perfect Villain: John McCain and the Demonization of Lobbyist Jack Abramoff, Boston journalist Gary Chafetz portrays Abramoff as an innocent man who excelled in an already corrupt system and was undone by biased prosecutors, reporters and political enemies."
I can review that book, sight unseen, in one word: Bullshit.
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