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Another sentencing for Jack Abramoff

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in articles from the New York Times and the AP, Jack Abramoff is due to be sentenced on another set of corruption charges on Thursday.  Here are a few details from the Times story:Jack Abramoff, the once high-flying lobbyist who pleaded guilty to a scheme to corrupt Congress, asked a federal judge for mercy on Wednesday, saying he was ?not a bad man? although he acknowledged he ?did many bad things.? In a letter sent to Judge Ellen S. Huvelle, the day before she was to sentence him in a Washington courtroom, Mr. Abramoff wrote: ?So much that happens in Washington stretches the envelope, skirts the spirit of the law and lives in the loopholes. But even by those standards, I blundered farther than even those excesses would allow...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 04, 2008 (boomark / email).