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	<title><![CDATA[Abramoff Scandal Turns a Spotlight on the Charitable Foundation Dodge]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/abramoff-scandal-turns-a-_b_13374.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Like a bad meal endlessly repeating, the gaseous belch of the Abramoff scandal keeps offering up odiferous reminders of the sorry state of our politics.</p>

<p>It's now clear that this is the political equivalent of the corporate corruption I wrote about in <em><a href="http://www.ariannaonline.com/books/pigs/index.php">Pigs at the Trough</a></em>. Bill Frist and Tom DeLay are the Beltway incarnations of <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2005/06/20/news/newsmakers/rigas_sentencing/">John Rigas</a> and <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/story/18669p-17595c.html">Dennis Kozlowski</a>, the Adelphia and Tyco CEOs who used their companies as their personal piggy banks -- and have...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:46:00-04:00</date_published>
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