{"id":6999,"date":"2006-03-29T14:18:11","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T19:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6999"},"modified":"2006-03-29T14:18:11","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T19:18:11","slug":"abramoff-sentenced-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/abramoff-sentenced-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Abramoff sentenced in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[tag]Jack Abramoff[\/tag] is going to jail, but thanks to his cooperation in the federal [tag]corruption[\/tag] investigation, his sentence in Florida was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/03\/29\/AR2006032900387.html\">the minimum penalty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jack A. Abramoff, the once-powerful Republican lobbyist at the center of a major corruption scandal, was sentenced in Miami today to five years and 10 months in prison for his role in the fraudulent purchase of a fleet of casino cruise ships. An associate received the same sentence.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck sentenced [tag]Abramoff[\/tag], 47, and his former partner, Adam R. [tag]Kidan[\/tag], 41, after considering their pleas for the shortest possible prison terms. Each laid most of the blame on the other for the scam, in which they faked a $23 million wire transfer to obtain financing for the 2000 purchase of SunCruz Casinos from an owner who was later shot to death in a gangland-style hit.<\/p>\n<p>Abramoff and Kidan pleaded guilty to conspiracy and wire fraud in the case. Each had faced a minimum of five years and 10 months in federal prison and a maximum of seven years and three months under sentencing guidelines associated with their plea agreements.<\/p>\n<p>The judge opted today for the minimum. But Abramoff faces the prospect of at least a few additional years in prison when he is sentenced in a separate case in Washington, D.C.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The DC case is, for political purposes, the more compelling controversy, particularly as we wait to see a) who all is implicated; and b) what happens to them. Abramoff will face up to 11 years in prison in DC, but, as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/03\/29\/AR2006032900387.html\">WaPo noted<\/a>, &#8220;Abramoff&#8217;s attorneys and federal prosecutors agreed that his eventual sentence from that case would run concurrently with the sentence handed down in Miami.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[tag]Jack Abramoff[\/tag] is going to jail, but thanks to his cooperation in the federal [tag]corruption[\/tag] investigation, his sentence in Florida was the minimum penalty. Jack A. Abramoff, the once-powerful Republican lobbyist at the center of a major corruption scandal, was sentenced in Miami today to five years and 10 months in prison for his role [&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-6999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999","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=6999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}