Abramoff Figure Spared Prison Sentence (Federici)

Source: Associated Press

Abramoff Figure Spared Prison Sentence

Friday December 14, 2007 6:01 PM

By MATT APUZZO

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - An environmental advocate who provided
Jack Abramoff's entree into the Interior Department was
sentenced Friday to two months in a halfway house and four
years probation.

Italia Federici, who pleaded guilty in June to tax evasion
and obstructing a Senate investigation, was spared prison
only because she has become a key witness in the Justice
Department's ongoing corruption investigation.

Federici has admitted acting as a link between Abramoff and
Griles J. Steven Griles, the former deputy Interior Department
secretary who for five years was her boyfriend. Griles provided
Abramoff with advice and internal agency information, sometimes
directly and sometimes through Federici.

Defense attorney Jonathan N. Rosen characterized Federici as
an idealistic and sometimes naive woman who was manipulated
by the two powerful men.

“Each man had his own agenda and each man used her for their
own pleasure and gain,” Rosen said.


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-7153611,00.html

More like a shill for the corporate pollution business. Her big thing was pushing for voluntary environmental laws.

So this could have been worse.

Usually they're "lobbyists" or "aides".

Abramoff Figure Spared Prison Sentence

By By MATT APUZZO
December 14, 2007






Italia Federici


All the President's women

let her skate. There are bigger fish to fry, and other metaphors to mangle.