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You Don't Know Jack (But I Did): Notes on Sleazy Lobbyist Jack Abramoff's Guilty Plea
Debbie Schlussel ^ | Jan. 3, 2005 | Debbie Schlussel

Posted on 01/04/2006 2:06:29 PM PST by radar101

Today, indicted uber-whore-lobbyist Jack Abramoff pled guilty to several of many counts in two separate federal indictments against him.

I knew Abramoff, not well, but met him and immediately thought him to be a huge sleazebag. Those were my instincts, and that was back in the mid-'90s. I warned prominent friends of mine, in Congress and the private sector, not to do business with him. Some listened and recently thanked me for my warnings. Others did not, and--although they had no connection to his unethical, criminal enterprises--are hoping they escape public scrutiny.

I told others of my suspicions that he was tied to organized crime and had something to do with the gangland style murder of Gus Boulis, from whom he bought SunCruz casinos. I said there was no way he'd have the money to pay even the small amount down on the multi-millions required for that deal. That was back in 2001. They didn't believe me. But I was right.

Now, however, a guilty plea by Casino Jack makes it official that he is a criminal and sleaze-bucket. So on this, I am not Cassandra any more.

Abramoff and Norquist: Islamo-fascist Sleazebag-a-palooza What needs to be emphasized here is that Abramoff was a professional slut--not of the conservatives--but of the Islamo-fascists. He was a lobbyist for terror-state Sudan, for Malaysia (at the time its then-Prime Minister Mahathir Muhammad encouraged homicide bombings against Casino Jack's fellow Jews), for a Saudi Islamic banking organization tied to funding the Al-Qaeda bombings of the two U.S. embassies in Africa, Pakistan's army--tightly woven with the brutal, pro-Bin Laden I.S.I., etc.

Then, there are his tight, sleazy dealings with Grover Norquist, a trusted Bush and Rove adviser who is Islamo-fascism's chief cheerleader in the halls of power. Norquist eagerly served as Casino Jack's personal money-launderer using his Arabs for Tax Reform . . . er, Americans for Tax Reform, as the conduit--with Norquist taking his usurious cut. I guess they didn't teach Jihad Grover at Harvard Business School that money laundering is generally illegal.

Abramoff and Norquist secretly hired Islamo-fascist Khaled Saffuri, an admitted funder of Palestinian homicide bombers, through a secret Abramoff limited liability company to get more Islamic money and do lobbying for such un-American causes. Too bad they weren't ripped off by him, instead of American Indians.

Plus, Norquist hooked Abramoff up with his Muslim co-indictee, David Safavian, who used his influence inside the Government Services Administration to help Abramoff's sleazy money-grubbing--in exchange for free trips. Safavian and Norquist (whose "wife" is a Palestinian Muslim) co-founded and sat on the board of the Islamic Free Market Institute (the Islamo-fascist Lobby) together.

It's time for Norquist to be indicted. And for federal prosecutors to look very closely at Abramoff's and Norquist's chief defender in Congress, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher--also a friend of Islamo-fascism, the Taliban, and anything anti-Israel (and you thought he represented Orange County, California, not Riyadh). Rohrabacher was still defending Abramoff in The Washington Post, as late as last week. Norquist still claims he doesn't see that Casino Jack did anything untoward. Of course, he doesn't, since he was a co-conspirator in the money laundering trail.

I communicated everything I knew about their sleazy ways with Sen. John McCain's investigators a couple of years ago. We'll see what happens when Casino Jack "helps" prosecutors per his agreement.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abramoff; bribes; fraud; grovernorquist; norquist
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1 posted on 01/04/2006 2:06:32 PM PST by radar101
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To: radar101

Wow! This one should leave a mark!


2 posted on 01/04/2006 2:10:14 PM PST by Dems_R_Losers (The Kerry/Lehane/Wilson/Grunwald/Cooper plot to destroy Karl Rove has failed!)
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To: radar101

This is the first I am hearing about Grover Norquist and Rohrabacher. Very disturbing. Thanks for posting this.


3 posted on 01/04/2006 2:11:00 PM PST by yellowdoghunter (I sometimes only vote for Republicans because they are not Democrats. by Thomas Sowell)
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To: radar101

Time for Republicans to take out their trash.

Schlussel makes it clear that anyone with half a brain and a working sense of smell knew better than to do business with Jack.


4 posted on 01/04/2006 2:13:29 PM PST by sinanju
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To: Dems_R_Losers

dirt ball ping


5 posted on 01/04/2006 2:13:52 PM PST by chaos_5
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To: Peach

here's another one.


6 posted on 01/04/2006 2:16:23 PM PST by Iowa Granny (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: radar101

Just goes to show there are more whores in politics than in the general population, AND they're incestuous whores at that!


7 posted on 01/04/2006 2:16:50 PM PST by right wing (I BELIEVE CONGRESSMAN WELDON!)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

I was about to say.

Glad someone is speaking up against Grover Norquist and his Islamofascist ways.


8 posted on 01/04/2006 2:17:08 PM PST by Sometimes A River (Your hands and feet are mangoes, but you're gonna be a genius anyway)
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To: radar101

McMainiac has some of this cash in his pockets, too.

Don't expect anything from him.


9 posted on 01/04/2006 2:17:35 PM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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To: radar101
I knew Abramoff, not well, but met him and immediately thought him to be a huge sleazebag.

Yeah. That's what 99.9999 percent of Republicans in DC are now saying. The other 0.0001 percent are saying they never knew him at all.

10 posted on 01/04/2006 2:17:53 PM PST by Vladiator
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To: sinanju

Their sense of smell was overpowered by the smell of money. I hope everyone involved get what's coming to them Big Time and I don't care who they are. It is well past time to get these lobbyists and large campaign donors under control IMO.


11 posted on 01/04/2006 2:19:47 PM PST by TCats
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To: Iowa Granny
Abramoff and Norquist: Islamo-fascist Sleazebag-a-palooza What needs to be emphasized here is that Abramoff was a professional slut--not of the conservatives--but of the Islamo-fascists.

It especially interested me to read this this evening because today I picked up the book Infiltration by Paul Sperry.

The thrust of the book is that Muslim spies and subversives have penetrated Washington, including the FBI and Homeland Security, how they've influenced the political system with the help of both parties, how they've badgered corporate boards into Islamizing the workplace (aka Jesse Jackson), and infiltrated the chaplains program in state and federal prison systems.

12 posted on 01/04/2006 2:20:32 PM PST by Peach
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To: Acts 2:38
Glad someone is speaking up against Grover Norquist and his Islamofascist ways.

I won't argue with you about Norquist's Islamic ties, but I have to wonder whether Dana Rohrbacher's connections to Norquist has more to do with the latter's "Americans for Tax Reform" group, than it does with any Islamic sympathy on Rohrbacher's part.

13 posted on 01/04/2006 2:21:48 PM PST by r9etb
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To: prairiebreeze; Mo1

Ping to entire relatively short article and #12.


14 posted on 01/04/2006 2:23:22 PM PST by Peach
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To: Peach
If half of what Deb has written here about Abramhoff's contacts is true, there is no doubt he would have been caught in the Able Danger net.

Hmmmm.

15 posted on 01/04/2006 2:24:05 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (It is easy to call for a pi$$ing contest when you aren't going to be in the line of fire.)
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To: right wing
Just goes to show there are more whores in politics than in the general population...

P.J. O'Rourke had it nailed years ago!


16 posted on 01/04/2006 2:24:24 PM PST by Gritty ("Americans cannot escape the final showdown with Islam" - Barbara Stock)
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To: r9etb

I wish I had the articles handy that I had read in the past that detailed Rohr's sympathy with the Muzzies.

Bob Dornan, who many around here dismiss as a kook, detailed those sympathies in his primary campaign against him in 2004.

Although I was never aware of his connection to Norquist.


17 posted on 01/04/2006 2:24:59 PM PST by Sometimes A River (Your hands and feet are mangoes, but you're gonna be a genius anyway)
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To: Peach

It was easy for them, they simply followed the path made by the chinese.


18 posted on 01/04/2006 2:25:04 PM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Good thought!


19 posted on 01/04/2006 2:26:16 PM PST by Peach
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To: Peach
Lots of people should have known better than to get involved with this scum. (Well maybe not the Dems)
20 posted on 01/04/2006 2:28:52 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (It is easy to call for a pi$$ing contest when you aren't going to be in the line of fire.)
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