Leniency Letters Offer New Abramoff View

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON -- Fallen lobbyist Jack Abramoff may be persona non grata in official Washington, but plenty of his friends in the outside world are singing his praises in an effort to spare him prison time.

More than 260 people _ including rabbis, military officers, a professional hockey referee, a congressman and a U.S. territorial governor _ all wrote letters asking a federal judge for leniency when Abramoff is sentenced on fraud charges Wednesday in Florida.

Their letters, obtained by The Associated Press, put a new spin on the foibles and crimes of a man who became the face of Washington's latest corruption scandal.
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Once nearly omnipresent on Capitol Hill, where he doled out political donations and lent his restaurant to lawmakers for fundraisers, Abramoff got just a single letter of support from a member of Congress _ his longtime friend Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/27/AR2006032701228_2.html

[movonne]

1. I don't care it 500,000 wrote leniency letter, why should he get

a break...he is a crook..

[0007]

5. Jack Abramoff is a crook in a crooked country.

[Bobbieo]

2. Leniency for Abramoff

Tell that to all of the Native Americans he scammed and belittled with names like "monkeys and troglodytes".

[mod mom]

3. Did they write the letters so Abramoff would be lenient in spilling

the beans on them?

[MSgt213]

4. Most con men are personable people. They get people to like them and steal

from them. It should not be a surprise or a "new spin" to find out that a conman is well liked by people he or she comes in contact with. Haven't the authors of this article ever watched America's Most Wanted? Get a clue.

[Ian David]

6. Oh, we want THE WHOLE LIST and THE ENTIRE LETTERS!

Oh, what a grand gift this is in time for the 2006 mid-terms, no less!

[Ian David]

7. Why are our military officers unable to find housing...

unless they have a lobbyist's help?

<snip>

Air Force Capt. Andrew Cohen, a chaplain, wrote the court about Abramoff's generosity in taking in Cohen's family of seven for several weeks last year when the military family couldn't find housing.

[banana republican]

8. I would like to write a letter.

Who is the Judge

&

What is the address

[Ian David]

9. Why is Abramoff delivering children to a man's dressing room?

Dave Jackson... any relation to MICHAEL Jackson?

Hmm??

<snip>
...Dave Jackson wrote, describing the time Abramoff brought 14 kids to his dressing room before a game.


See also:



The Franklin Coverup Scandal
The Child sex ring that reached Bush/Reagan Whitehouse
http://www.thelawparty.com/FranklinCoverup/franklin.htm

[louis-t]

10. Said it before, I'll say it again....

Abramoff is who Repugs want to be when they grow up.

[cantstandbush]

11. Understandable about the Rabbis. A lot of his "shakedown" money

went to Israel. And the rest we all know are crooks in their own right.