$20,194,000 = Amount Of Cash Abramoff Siphoned Off And Stashed In Secret Accounts...

Newsweek   |   Howard Fineman   |   January 4, 2006 02:33 PM

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Forget the black hat. Everybody in Washington is obsessed with Jack Abramoff's gangster-like attire as he came out of the federal courthouse. But the thing that jumps out at me is the figure $20,194,000. If I read the fed's plea-agreement papers correctly, that's the amount of cold cash that the Republican lobbyist siphoned from Indian tribes and stashed in his secret accounts.

You may not believe this, but in this city, that is an unheard of amount of money for a lobbyist to haul in-and the number itself signifies a troubling change in the nature of life in the capital of our country.

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