TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Abramoff's Sentence Reduced by Two Years

Abramoff's Sentence Reduced by Two Years

By Kate Klonick - September 11, 2008, 10:06AM

From the AP:

A federal judge agreed yesterday to shave two years from former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff's prison sentence for a fraudulent Florida casino boat deal because of his extensive cooperation in that case and a wide-ranging political corruption probe that upended Washington politics.
The decision by US District Judge Paul Huck guarantees that Abramoff, 49, will serve no more than an additional four years in prison - the sentence imposed by a Washington, D.C., judge last week in the separate corruption case.

5 Comments

| Leave a comment

While I am happy that Jack's crap has tainted Heather Wilson, she is not yet serving time for her crimes. I want some delivery for my quid pro quo.

Posted by Richard L. Adlof
September 11, 2008 10:34 AM | Reply | Permalink

Still long enough for Jack to be some big man's wife for a while...but not long enough for what he deserves.

Posted by SOS ICEBERG
September 11, 2008 11:43 AM | Reply | Permalink

I wish I trusted this "cooperation" more, but I don't:

[from the AP story] Abramoff also assisted in the prosecution of the SunCruz Casinos case, in which he and former partner Adam Kidan pleaded guilty to fraud in 2006 for concocting fake documents indicating they had put $23 million of their own money into the gambling fleet purchase.

Kidan, 44, was rewarded with a one-half sentence reduction in June for his own cooperation, particularly in the investigation into the 2001 gangland-style slaying in Fort Lauderdale of former SunCruz owner Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis. Three men, one with ties to New York's Gambino crime family, are awaiting trial for that murder and Kidan is expected to testify.

At the moment, I am interested in the chance that this Robert Tiller of Havana Air knows what's he's talking about when he compares the Boulis murder to the murder of Donald Aronow and suggests that George H. W. Bush had some connection to both:

“Boulis was murdered in the exact same way as Don Aronow, Bush’s other partner,” he [Tiller] stated.

Bush’s other partner? The question hung in the air.

“Something is really going down bad here,” Tiller stated. “Don Aronow. Gus. Jim Shore…All tied in to Bush.”
http://www.madcowprod.com/06202005.html

Posted by TinFoil_Kid
September 11, 2008 3:22 PM | Reply | Permalink

As usual, my blockquoting is messed up.

Please assume all of it is supposed to be a blockquote except these parts:

* I wish I trusted this "cooperation" more, but I don't
--and--

* At the moment, I am interested in the chance that this Robert Tiller of Havana Air knows what's he's talking about when he compares the Boulis murder to the murder of Donald Aronow and suggests that George H. W. Bush had some connection to both:

Posted by TinFoil_Kid
September 11, 2008 3:25 PM | Reply | Permalink

The Abramoff scandal is far more complicated then i ever could have thought. I’ve been Youtubing a lot lately and found some videos starring Gary Chafetz
The main video is
http://www.youtube.com/watcAh?v=ps2LoEmyOZI

There’s a lot more if you just do a YouTube search for 'Gary Chafetz'

Posted by Daniel Smith
October 27, 2008 7:02 PM | Reply | Permalink