No, he's only been sentenced in the Florida case related to his purchase of SunCruz Casinos. He has yet to be sentenced for bribery etc., which is a totally seperate case.

Mike S. -- thanks for this. you are totally right. He still got a light sentence for the fraud -- but more sentencing no doubt on the way.

Thanks,

Steve Clemons

Still, 70 months means he'll spend some time behind the fence in a low security facility. That means controlled movement, population of ~1500+, lockdowns, crappy food and probably some number of Native American inmates who have hopefully heard about Jack's musings about Indians. No comfy Federal Prison Camps for our boy Abramoff.

I wonder if his bribery sentence will run concurrent to this... I also can't wait to see what he has to say regarding the murder of Gus Boulis. I'm insanely curious to hear what Daniel Hopsicker has to say about Mohammed Atta and others visiting SunCruz boats in the weeks leading up to 9/11/01.

The sentences will be concurrent, I understand.

On the other hand, he had a lot of help damaging democracy. Imagine if they were all in the net.

I figure Jack had to promise to come up with a lot of useful names and evidence to get the sentence he got.

dqueue >"...I'm insanely curious to hear what Daniel Hopsicker has to say about Mohammed Atta and others visiting SunCruz boats in the weeks leading up to 9/11/01."

And what are the odds of the truth being spoken in public ?

Very bad I`d say

I am certain that there is far more to all this ReThuglican mess than has been brought out so far

Keep digging folks & be sure to, as Deep Throat suggested, "...follow the money."; all the money all of the way, NO MATTER where it leads

Not likely but a fellow CAN hope...

"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." - Niccoló Machiavelli

Was Sibel Edmonds referring to Abramoff/Republicans and their connections to the 9/11 hijackers when she said this? Or perhaps she was referring to Hastert and the Turkish Council thing.

"The most significant information that we were receiving did not come from counter-terrorism investigations, and I want to emphasize this. It came from counter-intelligence, and certain criminal investigations, and issues that have to do with money laundering operations.

You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one. In certain points - and they [the intelligence community] are separating those portions from just the terrorist activities. And, as I said, they are citing "foreign relations" which is not the case, because we are not talking about only governmental levels. And I keep underlining semi-legit organizations and following the money. When you do that the picture gets grim. It gets really ugly."

Actually, according to the Washington Post's January 4 story, Abramoff already has a plea agreement for the Washington charges--3 felony convictins= 9 1/2 to 11 years in jail and $26.7 million to the IRS and the tribes he represented.

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