Professor Abramoff?Defense attorneys for the disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff last night filed 95 letters from friends and supporters in an effort to get the former GOP power-broker out of jail early. In the words of the Associated Press, the letters “describe him as a humbled, changed man whose family is suffering and nearly broke after his first 18 months in prison.”
Apparently Abramoff has turned himself into something of a professor while in prison. His lawyers say that he has taught classes entitled “Parenting from a Distance,” “Modern Marvels,” “Cinema Studies,” and “The Holocaust in Films,” and is currently teaching a film theory class.
As we told you this morning, prosecutors have asked for leniency for Abramoff because he has already spent over 3000 hours helping them with their ongoing federal corruption probe, which implicates a number of other Washington players.