{"id":6232,"date":"2006-01-03T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2006-01-03T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6232"},"modified":"2006-01-03T09:55:07","modified_gmt":"2006-01-03T14:55:07","slug":"abramoff-strikes-a-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/abramoff-strikes-a-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Abramoff strikes a deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over night, the <a href=\"http:\/\/chron.com\/disp\/story.mpl\/front\/3560998.html\">Houston Chronicle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=10000087&#038;sid=amdn73iOlYaE&#038;refer=top_world_news\">Bloomberg News<\/a> reported that Jack Abramoff&#8217;s plea bargain deal is <i>this close<\/i> to being complete. This morning, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/\">CNN<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/nytimes.com\/2006\/01\/03\/politics\/03cnd-abramoff.html?hp&#038;ex=1136350800&#038;en=7c71b0ec003f73a8&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage\">the NYT<\/a> are reporting it&#8217;s a done deal.<\/p>\n<p>Details are still a little sketchy, but Abramoff will reportedly plead guilty to charges of fraud, public corruption, and tax evasion, accept a reduced sentence, and spill the beans on enough members of Congress to make the NRCC staff cry. As Bloomberg reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To get a reduced prison sentence, Abramoff would have to implicate lawmakers in a related probe of his lobbying activities, said Melanie Sloan, a former federal prosecutor and head of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe he has to be giving up members of Congress,&#8221; Sloan said. &#8220;Otherwise, Abramoff is as high as you go.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And the race among Republican lawmakers to secure the very best defense attorneys is on&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over night, the Houston Chronicle and Bloomberg News reported that Jack Abramoff&#8217;s plea bargain deal is this close to being complete. This morning, CNN and the NYT are reporting it&#8217;s a done deal. Details are still a little sketchy, but Abramoff will reportedly plead guilty to charges of fraud, public corruption, and tax evasion, accept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}