| Jack Abramoff AKA Jack A. Abramoff Born: 28-Feb-1958
Birthplace: Atlantic City, NJ
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Government
Party Affiliation: Republican Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Lobbyist, incarcerated "It is not our job to seek peaceful coexistence with the Left. Our job is to remove them from power permanently."
Before becoming one of Washington's most influential lobbyists, Jack Abramoff had been national chairman of the College Republicans. Which is where he hired Grover Norquist and Ralph Reed to help him run things over there.
On 25 May 2000, Republican House leader Tom DeLay took off on a weeklong vacation to Britain with his family. The trip was being funded by the nonprofit National Center for Public Policy Research. It just so happens that on that very same day two of Jack Abramoff's clients, eLottery Inc. and the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, had coughed up $50,000 in contributions to the National Center for Public Policy Research. Two months later, DeLay killed some pending legislation that eLottery and the Choctaws had opposed.
On another trip, this time to the Marianas islands, DeLay reportedly told local officials there:
"When one of my closest and dearest friends, Jack Abramoff, your most able representative in Washington, D.C., invited me to the islands, I wanted to see firsthand the free-market success and the progress and reform you have made."
Father: Franklin Abramoff ("Frank", chairman of Arnold Palmer Enterprises, Diners Club executive)
Brother: Robert (entertainment lawyer)
Wife: Pamela C. Abramoff (five children)
High School: Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, CA
University: BA, Brandeis University (1981)
Law School: JD, Georgetown University (1986)
Greenberg Traurig Lobbyist (2001-04)
Americans for a Republican Majority
Americans for Tax Reform Board Member
Bob Ney for Congress
Bush-Cheney '04
Citizens for America
College Republicans National Committee Chairman (1981-85)
Council for National Policy
Elizabeth Dole Committee
George W. Bush for President
Fund for a Free Market America
Helen's List
Keep Our Mission PAC
Rely on Your Beliefs Fund
Rich PAC
Tom Delay Congressional Committee
Bush Pioneer 2004
Conspiracy Washington, DC (2005), pled guilty 3-Jan-2006
Mail Fraud Washington, DC (2005), pled guilty 3-Jan-2006
Tax Evasion Washington, DC (2005), pled guilty 3-Jan-2006
Wire Fraud Washington, DC (2005), charge dropped
Conspiracy Miami, FL (11-Aug-2005), pled guilty 4-Jan-2006
Fraud Miami, FL (11-Aug-2005), pled guilty 4-Jan-2006
Took the Fifth
Abramoff Scandal
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