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mikelewis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 01:49 PM
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What films has Abramoff produced?
In hunting for dirt on Abramoff, I came across this snippet...

"Company Vice Chairman Jack Abramoff, 41, is a government affairs counselor in the Washington, D.C. office of Preston Gates, the prominent, Seattle-based law firm. He has represented the Mississippi Choctaw Indians for their gaming interests. In addition, he has spent more than a decade as a producer of a number of feature motion pictures."
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2000_Sept_27/ai_65505548


What films has he produced? The only one I can find is Red Scorpion starring Dolph "Ivan Drago" Lungren.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098180/
"A Russian KGB agent is sent to Africa to kill an anti-Communist black revolutionary. However, he has a change of heart when he sees how the Russians and their Cuban allies are killing and repressing the locals, so he switches sides and helps the rebels."

It looks like he was involved in propaganda films.

"After college, Abramoff had a brief career as a movie producer in Hollywood. From 1986–94 he was president of Regency Entertainment Group, producing such movies as Red Scorpion, an anti-communist film made just after his term with the College Republicans ended."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jack_Abramoff:_Profiles

So what other gems has Abramoff supplied us with? There doesn't seem to be a list other than this Red Scorpion. If he served as the President of the company from 86-94, he would have had to have had a few more movies than one lame Lungren movie.

On a side note, isn't it odd that Abramoff was a propaganda filmaker and he and Armstrong Williams were affiliated with the National conservative campaign fund (NCCF)
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3827/is_200106/ai_n8961886

"NCCF has as its honorary chairman Reagan Atty. Gen. Ed Meese. Other famous conservative names associated with the fund include Jeane Kirkpatrick, Ken Cribb, Jack Abramoff, Don Hodel, Brad Reynolds, Bret Schunder, and Armstrong Williams. All the advisers, board members, and staff work for free. "No one gets paid for this," Hollingsworth said. Says NCCF's mission statement, "The NCCF-supported candidates will favor fidelity to our written Constitution and the ideals of the Declaration of Independence, a free enterprise system thriving within a free market, smaller government, lower taxes, reduced regulation of businesses and citizens, traditional cultural values, a strong national defense (the hallmark being the Reagan doctrine of `peace through strength'), and a foreign policy which secures the just and legitimate interests of the United States."


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Dudley_DUright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 01:54 PM
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1. Don't forget that classic film
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mikelewis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 01:57 PM
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2. I wonder if he had a hand in the even bigger smash hit...
Red Scorpion 4, the Revenge of Christ.
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-08-06 03:13 PM
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3. Arnold Wannabe - Dolph Lundgren


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