Posted on 06/09/2010 1:11:12 PM PDT by JoeProBono
HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- Disgraced Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been released from prison to a halfway house in the mid-Atlantic region, the Federal Bureau of Prisons said Wednesday.
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Why? This is crap. Would a poor person get this deal?????
Ummm, maybe Prez BamBam will appoint him to a post, sec of theft, sec of being dumb, sec of whatever.
For the most part Abramoff didn’t do anything that ought to be a crime. We would hope that all people unjustly convicted of supposedly violating what are unjust laws would be turned loose early. Don’t you?
I just read (really skimmed) the Wikipedia article and it sure makes it seem like he did lots of bad stuff.
If it’s not too much trouble, in your opinion, what’s the story on him?
You'll notice he's getting out of jail. If he'd fought every issue, every charge, every nonsense thing thrown at him he'd still be fighting and would be totally bankrupt and physically exhausted.
Instead, he's out of jail.
Odds are good that the DOJ career guys wasted valuable promotion time working on Abramoff and missed out on some deputy director positions.
Busting guys like Abramoff is not a way to get ahead. After all, the guys at the very top have friends just like him ~ last thing they want is a crime buster getting too high in the ranks where he or she might threaten the big boys.
Aha. I should have guessed. Thanks for your insight.
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