Abramoff "flat broke" takes family on $40k FL vacation

[karlrschneider]

just on Wolfie...

"paid for by 'extended family'"

Hm

:eyes:

[DanCa]

Dont you hate it when bad things happen to slimey people? (nt)

[timber84]

1. When does he go to prison?

[sojourner]

2. oh my! waa-a-a-ahh!

Poor baby!

[Beausoir]

3. How can you spend 40K in FLORIDA???

What a waste.

[LSK]

8. by renting a mansion on the ocean or a yacht???

:shrug:

[nashville_brook]

11. my thought exactly

those are the people ruining florida with their freaking palaces.

[CottonBear]

4. How can one possibly spend 40K on a Florida vacation?

:eyes:

[karlrschneider]

9. Had a suite of rooms at Turnberry

a -very- pricey joint.

http://www.fairmont.com/turnberryisle/

[CottonBear]

15. Holy Cow! I checked out the rates for single occupancy.

It boggles the mind.

[karlrschneider]

16. Yup. Not el cheapo

thas fer sure.

[karlrschneider]

10. Here ya go

http://www.fairmont.com/turnberryisle/

[Divernan]

12. Traveling via private jet? Buying drugs locally? Chartering huge yacht?

There are mini Queen Mary's for charter with sharply uniformed crews of 10 or more. You see many of them at places like St. Barth's and the people who charter them look like Columbian drug lords. That's about Abramoff's speed and style. He's not allowed to leave the country, but could have had one of those floating palaces brought up to Miami. Just one possibility.

[napi21]

14. Well....it doesn't say how long the vacation is, or where they're staying.

It may not be as expensive as NYC, but I'm positive there are some very NICE hotels, very exclusive restaurants, and golf clubs in Fl!

I personally would never do that, but I remember reaming out one of our salesmen for spending $15,000 in ONE DAY to take a customer golfing in Palm Springs, and there wasn't even a hotel bill associated with that little escapade!

[redqueen]

5. Oh PLEASE.

If I'm flat broke my friends help with bills or something... not extravangant vacations.

How long will it take the average American to figure out we're living in a new Gilded Age? Or hell, to CARE?!

[ThomCat]

6. His vacation costs more than most families make in a year

and he's broke? Right.
:eyes:

But it's okay because the money was filtered through family members. Okay?

[nashville_brook]

18. it is a class war yet? (on US)

this shit has to stop. these people are theives. the bushies have had one vision from the start of the family and that is capitalistic warfare. they've been stealing our country right out from under us. it's a class war and we're the vanquished.

when you have people appealing to DU for crisis healthcare
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1050023

and on the same board, all sorts of discussion about felons on $40,000 VACATIONS -- and don't forget the CEO Pay calculator on the side. it's about the money, not the glory.

us plebes have been brought up to put up and shut up. it's uncooth to pick on people's paychecks. well, the pendulum swings the other way. these fuckers have got to go down.

(sorry for the rant -- been listening to the ken lay news)

[ThomCat]

23. We need some serious class warfare

fighting from the bottom upward. It seems to me that we have constant class warfare, but only in one direction. It comes from the top and pushes down.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. And Leslie reported this???

Sounds like someone (a double-crossed repug, perhaps) has it out for Jackamoff...:wow:

[KoKo]

20. He did it on Passover.....according to TPMuckraker site. Maybe

that was too much for even Wolfie to stomach. Abramoff's supposed to be a devout/orthodox Jew. :shrug:

[justice1]

13. Probably to cover a side-trip to the Cayman Islands. nt

[Ecumenist]

17. His uncle cheney and uncle bush

aunt condie and cousin rummy. That's who paid for this $40K vacation. Where does one go for $40K? Especially, when you consider that this is a convicted felon, pre-prison.

[Fridays Child]

19. Evidently, public assistance has a very different meaning...

...in the rarefied atmosphere of Republican lobbyists.

[Democrats_win]

21. OUTRAGEOUS! Americans can barely afford food and this criminal does this?

[shain from kane]

22. He spent his entire 401K on a vacation in Florida?

401K? No, 40K. Well, that's something completely different. Nevermind.