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...ORLEANS—One was a lobbyist on Capitol Hill. Another once analyzed policy for the New York City Council. A third helped a candidate win a mayoral race in St. Paul, Minn...
...last week that lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to prison for fraud, the Senate passed a new ethics bill. The House will take up the issue next. Here's a look at reforms Congress seems willing to accept...
...Lampson has made a major issue of the lobbying scandal, and his campaign home page has a petition headed, "Tell Tom DeLay to Return the Dirty Money!," referring to contributions from he and his political action committees have received from disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a one-time DeLay ally who pleaded guilty in January to three felonies, including conspiring to defraud clients and bribe public officials...
...December. Obviously, [Travis County, Tex., District Attorney]Ronnie Earle's strategy is to drag it out past the November election. That's QUITE obvious now. You live it day by day and you fight it day by day. It didn't work out. The Abramoff stuff hit with [former lobbyist] Jack Abramoff's pleading guilty in January. It was obvious-more obvious than that, and not because of that, the [House] leadership had to be in place before we started this year. So I stepped down as Majority Leader [as required under caucus rules when a leader is indicted] because...
SENTENCED. JACK ABRAMOFF, 47, Washington lobbyist who pleaded guilty to offering bribes to members of Congress; to five years and 10 months in jail, in a separate fraud case; for using a fake $23 million wire transfer--intended to prove a down payment had been made--to qualify for a loan to buy a fleet of gambling ships; in Miami. Abramoff was allowed to remain free to assist the investigation into the congressional lobbying scandal...