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Vote: | As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. |
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Vote: | Can you smell money?!?!?! |
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Vote: | I did this within a philosophical framework, and a moral and legal framework. And I have been turned into a cartoon of the greatest villain in the history of lobbying. |
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Vote: | I regret that in the heat of the locker room atmosphere of the lobbying world, I sometimes, rarely - but sometimes - I resorted to language more common to a drill sergeant or a football coach. |
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Vote: | If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan. |
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Vote: | Many of my e-mails have been maliciously taken out of context, another effort by those assaulting my career. |
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Vote: | The return on investment for these tribes, and all my clients, is far better than anything they or we could have imagined. |
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Vote: | They realize that spending millions to save billions is just good business. |
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Vote: | This is really high on the priority list of tribal concerns.... This is a cash cow in many circumstances, and tribes are concerned about protection of tribal assets. |
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Jack Abramoff, a long-time Washington insider, has been a Republican lobbyist and fundraiser and was a Bush Pioneer. According to the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) web site, he was Senior Director of Government Affairs for the Greenberg Traurig law and lobbying firm and was CRNC National Chairman from 1981-85. He is also a Director of the National Center for Public Policy Research.
Abramoff is a graduate of Brandeis University and the Georgetown University Law Center.
In 2004, Abramoff resigned from Greenberg Traurig amid a scandal related to spending irregularities in his work as a lobbyist for Native American tribes involved in gambling. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians paid $15 million dollars to Abramoff and Scanlon's organizations.
An archive of Abramoff's biography from the Greenberg Traurig website describes him as follows:
In E-mails now made public by the FBI who is investigating him, Abramoff repeatedly refers to Native Americans as "monkeys" and "idiots."
Jack Abramoff is also founder and former chairman of the International Freedom Foundation (IFF). (http://www.seekgod.ca/cnp.a.htm#abramhoff)
References *The original version of this article is derived from material at Sourcewatch, and released to Wikipedia under the GFDL license
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