Abramoff released from Md. prison to halfway house

Lone_Star_Dem

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Wed Jun-09-10 09:45 AM
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Abramoff released from Md. prison to halfway house

Source: Associated Press

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The Federal Bureau of Prisons says disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been released from prison and is in a halfway house.

Spokesman Edmond Ross said Wednesday that Abramoff was released Tuesday from a minimum-security federal prison camp in western Maryland and is at a halfway house somewhere in the mid-Atlantic region.

Abramoff was sentenced in 2006 to nearly six years in prison for a fraudulent Florida casino deal. He got another four-year sentence in 2008 in a separate case.

Ross says Abramoff could spend the last few weeks of his sentence on home confinement before his scheduled release date of Dec. 4.

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Botany

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Wed Jun-09-10 09:48 AM
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1. I hope he has told all he knows

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No Elephants

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Wed Jun-09-10 09:53 AM
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3. Remember how he got off easy because he supposedly was going to implicate so many in Congress?

Edited on Wed Jun-09-10 09:59 AM by No Elephants

Yet another Bushco lie to America.

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tsuki

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Wed Jun-09-10 09:51 AM
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2. Isn't it odd? Defraud native Americans, a couple of years. Defraud

rich people, 150 years.

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aquart

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Wed Jun-09-10 10:38 AM
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5. Abramoff ratted out every single person he knew. Madoff didn't.

THAT's why Madoff got the maximum and Abramoff the minimum.

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liberation

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Wed Jun-09-10 11:20 AM
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6. So what prosecutions came from Abramoff's singing?

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Rosa Luxemburg

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Wed Jun-09-10 12:15 PM
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7. Abramoff hasn't told enough yet

how about Michelle Steele

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tsuki

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Wed Jun-09-10 10:38 PM
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8. Yeah, I have been following all the Abramoff prosecutions, not. nt

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elleng

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Wed Jun-09-10 10:22 AM
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4. Damn! Hope he's not near ME!

(I moved to Hagerstown some time ago! RAINING here now!)

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