Selling Justice: Jack Abramoff

Well I’ve been working on a video about lobbying and bribery for quite a while now, and what do you know, it just keeps getting bigger. So I think before that video, it makes sense to look at Jack Abramoff, because his life is like a vertical slice of highly placed corruption. So this is Jack Abramoff’s story. Jack Abramoff: Thief. Coward. Traitor.

Things to Read:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/22/a-jackpot-from-indian-gaming-tribes/49f55401-be45-4e62-a068-2ef1e170f381/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-jan-04-na-lobbyist4-story.html
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1996/09/sin-emissions/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36653-2004Oct15.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/04/the-truth-about-the-republican-war-on-caterpillars/255522/
https://web.archive.org/web/20120410183846/http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/ref/cnmi.php
https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Investigation/story?id=647725&page=1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28252-2005Mar11.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010900952.html
https://www.congress.gov/109/crpt/srpt325/CRPT-109srpt325.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2004/02/27/think-tanks-directors-tied-to-pr-firm/314cb681-44a1-4115-abc2-b46d84c4409e/
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2001/0917/064.html?sh=2476a1b5aef1
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/mistrial-declared-for-big-tony-in-gus-boulis-murder-trial/
https://nypost.com/2006/01/05/lobby-mob-hit-link-abramoff-guilty-of-casino-boat-fraud-tied-to-tycoon-murder/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2006/01/15/getting-the-story-on-jack-abramoff/bf1ea4e7-9f28-4c9d-94f6-39a71a0e442f/
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/25/doj-charges-jack-abramoff-340434
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/25/us/politics/jack-abramoff-marijuana-cryptocurrency.html