All posts tagged "Lobbyist Jack Abramoff"

Infamous former lobbyist Jack Abramoff told MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday night that the political system of the United States needed to be changed because it lured people into corruption. He served three and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to corrupting public officials and tax evasion in January 2006. Abramoff claimed he was now "trying to clean up the system."

Notorious former lobbyist Jack Abramoff is a free man again, after serving three and a half years in prison for corruption and fraud. In an interview aired by CBS on Sunday, he told correspondent Leslie Stahl about the tricks of his former trade.

WASHINGTON — A former US lobbyist was sentenced to 20 months behind bars Wednesday for his role in a multi-million-dollar inducements scandal that brought down disgraced Republican super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

Republican Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia on the House floor Tuesday attacked Grover Norquist and his anti-tax pledge, which has been signed by nearly every Republican in the House and Senate.