As I emailed a friend some time ago, the prospect of 108+ months in the Federal Penitentiary means that he is most likely going to start off behind the fence. This means spending some time in a "low security" facility that probably houses 1000+ inmates who are serving anywhere from 30 to 180 months. Sure, he may work his way down to a Federal Prison Camp after a year or two. Life behind the fence is going to be quite an adjustment for Mr. Abramoff.

It will be interesting to see if he gets a 5k1 departure on his sentencing.

Sorry I missed your AirAm visit, but posting my Random 10 at Norbizness is a solemn duty.

No matter how much Abramoff cooperates, that murder in Miami is gonna stink up every courtroom he's in, so no judge who wants to keep his or her job is going to start him in Club Fed. Having said that, I wouldn't be surprised if a significantly shortened sentence for good behavior kicks in after 12-24 months.

Funny thing about the Fed is, there really is no good behavior reduction. Well, for non-violent offenders, there's effectively 10% reduction due to good behavior. So, by the book, he's looking at a 10-month reduction over 9 years... so he'll serve a minimum, unadjusted sentence of just over eight years, with good behavior; that's a best case scenario with zero cooperation on Jack's behalf.

Ha, ha. Let's not forget "presidential pardons". None of these guys are going to do their full times. Not the Enron types, the lobby types, the fund raiser types, the presidential advisor types - none of them.

Sad.

Yeah, and if someone complains about Bush giving them pardon's we will hear no end of "Clinton did it, too."

Of course Bush denies ever meeting Abramoff, but Jack has pictures that show otherwise. The press is trying to help Bush cover up the ties. Unfortunately, Kim Eisler shared his emails with Think Progress and what do you know, They reported!!!

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/02/08/exclusive-abramoff-emails/

So why has the press had all this information that they have been holding? Why has it taken 5 years for people to see the corruption oozing out of the Bush administration.

The link to bopnews is "broken"; it just grinds away & times out

Site down or ?

"The age of the mass media is just that -- an age. It doesn't have to last forever." - Jay Rosen

Clinton did pardon some questionable choices. No doubt Bush will too.

Bush does not deny meeting Abramoff. He has said, in fact, that he has his picture taken with a lot of people. What President doesn't?

On the Abramoff sentence, frankly I'm amazed that he got 9 years. I thought it would be much shorter.

Well, you try serving at least 7 1/2 years in prison, which is my read of 85% of 108 months.

Prison sucks. I've represented people who stabbed people, even child molesters that got less than that on a plea.

Even Club Fed is no vacation. Read Joe Timilty's "Prison Diary" or Rober Mason's "Chickenhawk: Back in the World" on that point.

At his age, he's gotta worry a little, will he be getting out alive?

I have no brief for Abramoff, but a little perspective is necessary.

If he is implicated in that murder, of course it's a different story for a different sentencing court.

hey steve.

caught you on the majority report. nice job man.

i would like to see you doing more work on the tube as well.