http://www.madcowprod.com/Jack Abramoff and the Republican Black Hand
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Because whatever else Abramoff is remembered for, he is sure to go down in history as the man who gambled the reputation and prestige of the national Republican Party on the uncertain outcome of a murder trial that Court TV's Nancy Grace should really sink her teeth into, placing the GOP squarely in the middle of somebody's deadly earnest Mob War.
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Nothing less than the future of the GOP rides on the uncertain outcome of a murder trial in Florida this Spring of three men accused of the gangland style slaying of the one man who stood in the way of Jack Abramoff's ascension into, if not heaven, then at least the realm of the Titans: Sun Cruz gambling czar Gus Boulis.
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Millions of words have been written decrying Abramoff’s ruthless greed and utter corruption. But what has gone almost unmentioned, except in passing, is the looming presence hovering on the fringes of all three major story lines in the Abramoff Scandal—the Indian gambling, the Republican slave plantations in the Mariana’s, and the completely unregulated and therefore to-die-for (literally!)casino cruises in Florida--of Organized Crime, or, as it is referred to colloquially, The Mob.
Take Indian gambling, for example. The subject of the Mob and Indian gambling could fill a book. A big book… Senator John McCain deserves credit for bringing to light the vast sums being trucked into Washington D.C. as if our nation's capital were a giant landfill.
The Mob didn’t need to infiltrate the breathtakingly-huge $40 billion a year slush fund known as the Indian gaming industry...
Mob money created it.
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Jack Abramoff’s intense preoccupation with a tiny string of islands 7000 miles from Washington D.C. was no laughing matter... It wasn’t because he wanted easy access to Tahiti, either. Evidence indicates that Abramoff’s clients, who ran the Mariana’s Islands as if they were a sugar plantation in Haiti circa 1700, were also in business with Chinese Tongs, the Yakuza, and the Russian Mafia.
This is, almost by definition, serious business.
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read on.....
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