The Justice Department is prosecuting the legendary lobbyist Jack Abramoff on felony conspiracy charges — again
The prosecution drags Abramoff back into the headlines more than a decade after he got out of prison, where he served three and a half years after pleading guilty in 2006 to felony counts of fraud corruption and conspiracy as part of wide-ranging lobbying scandal.
Robert Kelner, a lawyer who advises clients on lobbying laws, said it was tough to say whether the prosecution of Abramoff was exceptional or whether “this is the first shot in a new and unprecedented effort to actually enforce the largely unenforced Lobbying Disclosure Act.” “The fact that it involves probably the most infamous lobbyist of all time, Jack Abramoff, makes it that much more sensational,” he added.
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