AP: "Abramoff Reports to Prison" - no mention of ABC allegations re: Dems

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Abramoff-Prison.html?hp&ex=1163653200&en=f65f496b0ba44848&ei=5094&partner=homepage

Jack Abramoff Reports to Md. Prison

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 15, 2006
Filed at 9:11 a.m. ET

CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) --Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, convicted of federal charges after using expensive gifts, campaign donations and exotic trips to win access to the powerful in Washington, went to prison Wednesday.

Abramoff arrived at about 6:30 a.m. EST at a relatively secluded prison facility in western Maryland and began to serve a nearly six-year prison sentence for a fraudulent deal to buy a fleet of casino ships in Florida.

Abramoff was delivered out of sight of waiting reporters and camera crews and his arrival was announced in a two-paragraph statement by a prison representative.

The part of the camp where Abramoff will be kept is a 334-bed minimum security facility located near an industrial park along the north branch of the Potomac River.

The camp is all male. It consists of a number of two-story dormitories that are light red cinderblock structures. Each dormitory contains a number of six-bed cubicles, and Abramoff was being assigned to one of those. The prison is nearly surrounded by Appalachian Mountain ridges rising along either bank of the Potomac on the Maryland and West Virginia sides of the river.

Stephen Finger, executive assistant at the prison, said all inmates work while there. Incoming inmates such as Abramoff typically are assigned to menial jobs such as food service work. Finer said that inmates can work their way up from low-level jobs paying 12 cents an hour to better positions paying up to 40 cents an hour.

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[meegbear]

1. That bitch Mark Halperin at work ...

QED

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Wow, a go-getter like Jack should have himself up to

35 or 40 cents an hour in no time!!

"Incoming inmates such as Abramoff typically are assigned to menial jobs such as food service work. Finer said that inmates can work their way up from low-level jobs paying 12 cents an hour to better positions paying up to 40 cents an hour."

[Blackhatjack]

3. Now Why Would Abramoff Be Stopped From Outing Dems & Rove?

If there are 6 to 8 Democratic Senators who are corrupt according to Abramoff, it would stand to reason that there are at least that many Republican Senators who would fall in that same category.

So the senator question is a standoff.

However, why would Abramoff be prevented from giving more information about Rove's involvement?

One theory is that Rove avoided public indictment in the Plame matter by agreeing to cooperate with the investigation, and that included 'throwing Cheney under the bus' to save his sorry behind. Of course that agreement would not affect any other ongoing investigation of other matters that might net Rove. Allowing Rove to remain in the WH puts him in a position to eventually be called as a witness in any federal investigation, and he would have to testify truthfully about everything he knows to maintain the benefits of the agreement he entered into in the Plame investigation.

If I were the prosecutor, I would want Rove to be present in the WH listening and observing everything going on so that I could call him to testify later as a human tape recorder documenting further wrongful activity in the WH.

[emulatorloo]

4. No mention of Karl Rove receiving "things of value" from Abramoff either

Unless I missed something.

From that little ABC piece:



The sources say Abramoff was about to provide information about Bush administration officials, including Karl Rove, "accepting things of value" from Abramoff.



http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/11/abramoff_report.html

[jsamuel]

5. we already have seen the evidence of Rove receiving things of value from Abramoff

we have not, however, seen evidence of Dems being involved, at all

[emulatorloo]

8. Judge Judy - "If it doesn't make sense, it isn't true!"

Given that Dems had no power or influence the last few years it is kinda hard to believe Abramoff was buying "influence" from Dems.

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Need the NAMES of those Dems, otherwise I call bullshit.

n/t

[EST]

7. Abramoff is going to prison for the fraud he pulled re the

Florida floating casinos.

The cases involving corruption in public office are still on going and he has not even been tried on whatever charges are coming out of that mess.