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Jack Abramoff Released From Maryland Prison to Half-Way House |
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Thursday, 10 June 2010 |
Jack Abramoff Released From Maryland Prison to Half-Way House
By Beth
June 9th, 2010
The Federal Bureau of Prisons has confirmed that Jack Abramoff, 51-years-old, has been released from prison and moved to a mid-Atlantic region halfway-house to complete his sentence for fraud, corruption and conspiracy. He had been serving time in a minimum-security federal prison camp in western Maryland since November 2006. His scheduled release date is December 4, 2010.
Abramoff is the disgraced lobbyist who was sentenced in January 3, 2006 for wheeling and dealing a fraudulent Florida casino deal. He was sentenced to six-years. In 2008, he was sentenced to an additional 4-years in a separate case for conspiring to defraud the United States, corrupting public officials and defrauding his clients. The two sentences were to run concurrently, so that he doesn’t have to serve extra prison time for the second conviction.
In his first conviction he was accused of and plead guilty to defrauding American Indian tribes of tens of millions of dollars of casino gaming money through fraudulent dealings with SunCruz Casinos. The tribes he conned include Michigan’s Saginaw Chippewas, California’s Agua Caliente, the Mississippi Choctaws, and the Louisiana Coushattas.
Abramoff received a plea deal in which he cooperated in Justice Department investigations against former Ohio Representative Bob Ney, former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles, former White House official David Safavian as well as some other top Capitol Hill aides and lobbyists.
Since his incarceration, Abramoff has cooperated with Boston journalist Gary Chafetz in writing a book titled, ‘The Perfect Villain: John McCain and the Demonization of Lobbyist Jack Abramoff’. In the book, he claims to have been set up as the fall guy by Senator John McCain. He said the scandal required someone go down and he was selected as the one to be hung out to dry.
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