FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

george abraira, palm bay, florida — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:27:07 GMT

Good people spend their lives working and struggling with the responsibilities of paying for our homes and food and raising children.And putting gas in our cars. All the filthy, greedy pigs that steal and lie and cheat at the expense of other's sacrifices, to have more and more money should burn in hell, in jail. They shoud rot for the remainder of their disgusting stinking existence in a black hole of filth. In other countries they would be tortured. In this country criminals watch t.v. and live out their
fantasies in jail.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Lois Freeman Augusta, GA — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:42:22 GMT

What was the real reason Cindy McCain would take off to the war zone in Georgia amidst her husband campaign? I know one of Mccain's top advisors is from Georgia. I need answers

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Kathy, Charlotte — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:44:42 GMT

Isn't this one of McCain's boys? Hmmm...Funny the media are making the link

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Joe Baker, Marin, CA — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:46:39 GMT

So much unprecedented dirt in our executive and legislative branches during these last 7 years. Work for both presidential candidates to deal with. Let us start by asking our "independent media" to announce which lobbyists work for both candidates and at least declare their potential influence before this next election.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

mjf_pdx@msn.com — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:53:27 GMT

Just one more "moral" Republican slimeball.

Apparently we like those types. What a loser of a country we've become..........and McCain say's "oops, we messed up" and everything "all better"???

Why don't we just say that conservatives are above reproach and can lie and cheat all they want and Democrats are too stupid?

After all, it's true. Only idiots could trail the biggest liars in the history of the country.

M.F.
Portland, OR

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

James, Saskatchewan, Canada — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:10:40 GMT

Just the tip of the iceberg, I'm sure... More arrests are SURE to follow.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

kenny Sarasota, FL — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:14:10 GMT

13 guilty pleas!!! could someone please tell me how many of them were Democrats? we need real change, not more of McSame and the most conservative VP in a long time.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Lia, San Diego — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:18:18 GMT

Republican operatives keep getting charged and arrested and yet we keep electing them to office. How sick is that>

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Joe F — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:18:43 GMT

I notice that most of the corrupt individuals are Republicans.......why am I not surprised

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

j vercell boston mass — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:20:52 GMT

small potatoes of a a million dollars.this compared to the several trillion the usa government has given to the elite thru tax havens,subsidies and shelters and phoney deregulation

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

David Rimer, Fredonia ,Pa — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:22:03 GMT

Sounds to me that we have a den of thieves that really need to do alot of jail time for taking our trust in the political positions they have held and making us not trust others.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

S. Engle, Washington, DC — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:23:52 GMT

When will Ralph Reed's # come up? What about Don Young and Ralph relative to the Marianas Islands - Abramoff's island paradise; complete with sweat shop slavery - forced prostitution, etc?

There's still a lot of stench out there - time to clean it up and sanitize the Congressional and executive branches with stringent laws that absolutely forbid "conflict of interest deals." We need REPRESENTATIVES that REPRESENT us!

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Warren Terch, Virginia, Mn. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:27:28 GMT

With all the corruption going in our Congressional People, how is it they wonder why the American voters take such a dim view of all politicians? So far as I cam concerned, the lobby people should be banned from even entering the offices of our Representatives and Senators period !

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Eric, Albany — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:37:21 GMT

Sad how these corrupt politicians get 10 - 30 months is jail for corruption charges, which are really crimes against democracy and all US citizens, and some guy in the 1300th block of some city with a gram of whatever gets 25 years...

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Sharon Jeffries- Grants Pass, OR — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:42:02 GMT

Figure in all the money they made, and the actual time they will spend in jail and the meager fines; it still a darn fine living. They spend more on junkets than they will ever pay in fines, way more time in luxury living than on probation. I want a job like that!

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

George, Orange County — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:48:09 GMT

I truly hope that some day the Bush administration gets indicted for their criminal activity realted to the invasion of Irak, the energy deregulation, the Valerie Palme case and the the firing of U.S. Attorneys.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Matthew, Tucson, AZ — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:56:09 GMT

This is only the tip of another Washington corruption iceberg a la "W". There's probably not one politician in DC who doesn't know about 'K' Street and how many palms are kept green there. Avarice, you know, plain old greed, is bringing this country down.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

NGisler — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:01:17 GMT

now,this the kind of Change the Party can talk about............not getting caught next time !!! re: new charges.............

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Debi Michigan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:01:30 GMT

Wow. these guys didn't know when to call it quits did they?
Hasn't this been going on since 1995-ish?

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Mark, Union, NJ — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:08:46 GMT

I wonder how McCain will clean up Washington when everyday another Republain get arrested for corruption. Not only that, his campaign is run by lobbyists. would it be nice for McCain to start cleaning up his campaign right now to demonstrate that he means what he says?

I know people will qualify me as part of a right ring. I am already sorry for you. I am an independant. I will always be an independant no matter what you think.

This once again shows how the Republican party is so corrupted. I hope the average American citizen takes lesson for the error we have made during the past two elections.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Greg Leisse, Phoenix, Arizona — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:11:39 GMT

Two interesting things things about this -
At the same time Abramoff and Ring were involved in their illegal actions while employed by the Greenberg Traurig law firm, other attorneys for that firm were ripping into and suing Cardinal Law and the Catholic Church for not knowing enough about the sexual conduct of Catholic priests.

Second thing is that John McCain was involved in investigating Amramoff. The only problem McCain had with Indian tribes using the revenue from their casinos (that McCain was instrumental in creating)to pay Abramoff and Ring to corrupt the legislatures of Texas and Louisiana was that the Indian tribes didn't get what they were paying for.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

T Allan, Alden IL — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:22:48 GMT

Just arrest them all. You can not get to DC and not be a crook. Clean up Washington DC and put real working people in charge of the country, as it was originally intended. Make all elected positions part-time and perk-free. End campaign financing. If one can not run on his/her record, he/she doesn't deserve to be there.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

mm@hotmail.com — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:28:17 GMT

This corruption is a world wide cancer and now it has entered our honest country. Could some wise film maker make a documentary on this cancer so that general public understands what it ends up with before it is all over.

Look at those countries sitting on oil all over and still people have no food or water, that is the end result. Mike, Louisville, KY

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Linda Walden, Houston, TX - deaudonnee@att.net — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:35:52 GMT

What we should really pay attention to is the way the middle class is being undermined by these lawless thugs. Who do they think pays the taxes that support their lifestyle? I am afraid that someday this country will be only the super rich and the extreme poor, kind of like Brazil. Won't that be fun.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

GNA, Champaign, IL — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:37:39 GMT

One simple question - Why doesn't the United States simply ban ALL PROFESSIONAL LOBBYING?

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Dan McCoy, Santa Fe, New Mexico — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:48:30 GMT

The big question we should be asking ...is Ralph Reed too "religious" to get their slap on the wrist ? The lesson here for anyone who is thinking of a criminal career is simple...get involved with politics and steal millions...not thousands and if you get caught just enjoy your time at the country club prison. When you get out you can work as an expert for Fox News.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Concerned First Nations citizen, Montana — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:55:28 GMT

It's the SAME old SAME old Washington D.C. Politics, as usual. Did you notice that most of these thieves only got Probation!
Yet another rip off of the Native American people and yet it appears to be O.K. with the rest of the country.
If that were you or I, the Average American, We
would see Jail Time Big Time! Where is all your Christian Values? When is America
going to Wake Up and Smell the Stench?

IT IS TIME FOR A CHANGE!

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Jode Porter, Magdalena, NM — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:10:49 GMT

For Lois of Augusta, Georgia: McCain's top advisor is a lobbyist for the country of Georgia. It's my understanding that Russia pushed into Georgia after Georgia drove residents of South Ossetia with the help of American operatives. We simply do not get the truth anymore from our media, even the ones professing to be unbiased. John McCain is no less attached to lobbyists than the other guy and his VP pick had dealings in Alaska that connect her to Abromoff as well. This country is on a downhill slide which is just what the global marketers want. Pretty soon the peso will be worth more than the American dollar and then the government will try to shove the North American Union down our throats.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Bunni McLaughlin — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:14:29 GMT

Wasn't Jack Abramoff named in some skull-drudgery of Sarah Palin's? Yeah, she lobbyed him for special interest mon ey or something.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Jim, Queen Creek, AZ — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:16:28 GMT

What these lobbyists have done is wrong and they deserve what they get. However, it takes two to tango! Why are we not seeing "perp" walks of the receivers of those bribes?

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

George Hartwell, Ione, CA — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:29:14 GMT

John Doolittle has another claim to infamy: his anti-environmental conservation efforts are legendary in northern California. If any congressional bill smelled like it might accord natural resource protection, Doolittle opposed it vigorously. He and former Congressman Richard Pombo, the anti-Christ of environmental conservation, fought strenuously to rewrite the Endangered Species Act and related laws. I'll open a bottle of fine wine when & if John Doolittle is indicted for corruption. I hope he's convicted and sent to a "gentleman's prison" where he might be required to perform physical labor that would help restore industrial wastelands. His wife, Julie, can keep running the family scam.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Los Angeles — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:29:30 GMT

Who's going to believe McCain's offer a change? Palin hired lobbyists for her tiny town in Alaska--these two are reformers. What a laugh!

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Valentine Eben — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:52:18 GMT

At the same time it makes me proud of the justice department.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

ben mansfield, saint louis, mo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:57:12 GMT

hey joe baker, youre right, so much corruption unlike whitewater, travelgate, monica gate and all the corporate pension raiding that occured under Clinton
Tyco, worldcom, adelphia, enron all stole billions
youre right corruption is a new thing

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

ben, st peters, mo — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:08:19 GMT

hey mark from union, rangel with a 10 year interest free lease, more apartments than allowed in NYC, and rent controlled
chris dodd getting prefereed mortgage rates with the us suffering from a housing crisis
Obama has his rezko
then theres kwame kilpatrick and william jefferson
seems it might be wrong to sling mudd in just one direction

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Wayne, Tempe AZ. — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:44:48 GMT

John McCain won't have change Washington. The criminal courts are already doing that!

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

fredralston@sbcglobal.net — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:49:09 GMT

Just remember that lobbyists work with those in power, so DEMS as well as Republicans are crooked.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

mommadona — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:10:23 GMT

"He's Only a Bird...Inna Gilded Cage"

Sing, Abramoff, Sing!

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

J. Kane Latta, Sterling, VA — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:12:07 GMT

Just proves how crooked Washington really is. Both sides both Democrats and Republicans are on the take and corrupt up to their necks. Here's the fix, term limits, not pork and no ear marks whatsoever. Problem solved.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

elisabeth schneider Oregon — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:32:31 GMT

I would say.. Take all their assets and redistribute it to the people, and then see how many will dare getting involved with corruption!

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

mike san jose ca — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:36:47 GMT

par for the course

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

James Ft Worth, Texas — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:59:06 GMT

Lets see now, federal prison for these guys.
Will they get to keep their butlers and maids too.
Golf every day, tennis, handball and swiming pools both inside and out. Treated like a celeb even in jail!!!! This gotta be the life. Some dope dealer sells a gram and gets lif in a stink hole. These guys cheat the american public and get months... Why bother....

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Sampson Douche — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:18:16 GMT

The two party system is the greatest tool of all for the real crooks in our government.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Wishful Thinker, Austin, Texas — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:32:24 GMT

What a good example to make lobbying illegal. Oops, I forgot, it is these same lawmakers who will have to decide to make this a law. Well, so much for wishful thinking. However, if this keeps up, I am sure they will find a way to disban the FBI

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Jim Anderson, Shreveport, Louisiana — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 03:59:06 GMT

Will Rogers once said, "once a man aspires to hold political office he is not longer fit for honest work" is as true today as it was all those years ago.

Obama's wife gets her pay doubled and Obama gives a million dollar earmark to her employer. Members of Congress of both parties retire and become... you guessed it... Lobbiest. There is a stench coming from Washington. Perhaps we would do better by banning any lawyer from serving in Congress.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

bob cass, danvers, ma — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:03:03 GMT

What no one is saying...Why is it all happening now. Will GWB pardon all these slimeballs before he leaves office? Is this a little payback from the FBI for degrading their reputations? If you want to blame the press for being to partial, just remember Bush and Cheney have had their Justice Department chasing down reporters to make sure they give up their Inforements, A value the US Constitution has protected for over 2 hundred years.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Felix, Houston, Texas — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 05:21:47 GMT

It is too ashame that we- the American people do not get it! As we know it, Politics in this country is done on Party-line. When a party Messes up, they are sent packing. The Repubican Party has messed up so badly. How can we not understand this and allowed McCain into deceiving us to grant the Republican Party another four years in office? MacCain is part of the mess! He should retire just like many other Republicans intend to do. When you add all the mess committed by president Bush, you will agree that these guys should not be allowed in the Congress or the Whitehousse in many years to come. The CHANGE that Obama is talking about has started two years ago when we decided to sack the Republicans out of the Congress.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Steve Moore, Charlotte, N.C. — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:53:02 GMT

It is high time we the people of this country start taking back the country we once had. Hard work and paying taxes has been our existence, while the scumbags in Washington continue to thumb their noses at all levels of decency. Corporate people make millions, while those at the bottom barely make a living. And to top it off the welfare people live better than the rest of us who work to keep our families fed.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Owen A, Atlanta, Ga. — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:27:41 GMT

"Innocent until proven guilty". It's easy to throw Mr. Ring under the bus but this needs to play out in court.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Bob Madden, Cleveland, OH — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:33:09 GMT

When are they going to start investigating:

1) Joe Biden and his lobbyist son of which their is already tons of evidence of illicit dealings;

2) Harry Reid and his corrupt Nevada land deals;

3) Diane Feinstein and her husband, CEO of UBS, which was receiving government defense contracts while she was heading the subcommittee which was overseeing them;

4) Chris Dodd and his receipt of sweetheart mortgage deal from a company being investigated by his Senate Finance Committee;

5) Barak Obama who was able to acquire a mansion in Chicago for over $300,000 less than its value while his real estate racketeer buddy Tony Resko paid $625,000 for just the adjacent lot (no shady dealing there huh?);

etc., etc.

FBI arrests former lobbyist in growing Abramoff case

Abbe Buck, APR — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:30:51 GMT

This was supposed to be over.

Now the FAT LADY is singing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELvawdX04LI