Jack Allan Abramoff (; born February 28, 1959) is an American lobbyist, businessman, film producer, writer, and convicted criminal. He was at the center of an extensive federal corruption investigation, which resulted in his conviction and 21 others either pleading guilty or being found guilty, including White House officials J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, and nine other lobbyists and congressional aides.
Abramoff was national chairman of the College Republican National Committee from 1981 to 1985, a founding member of the International Freedom Foundation, allegedly financed by the apartheid-era government of South Africa, and served on the board of directors of National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank. From 1994 through 2001, he was a top lobbyist for the firm of Preston Gates & Ellis then for Greenberg Traurig until March 2004.
After a guilty plea in the Jack Abramoff Native American lobbying scandal and his dealings with SunCruz Casinos in January 2006, he was sentenced to six years in federal prison for mail fraud, conspiracy to bribe public officials and tax evasion. He served 43 months before getting released on December 3, 2010. After his release from prison, he wrote the autobiographical book Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist which was published in November 2011.
Abramoff's lobbying and the scandals and investigation associated with it have been the subject of two films, Casino Jack and the United States of Money, released in May 2010, and Casino Jack, released on December 17, 2010, with Kevin Spacey starring as Abramoff.
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Date: 01 March 1959
Special to The New York Times
publisher and ed writer of Opposition paper Kyung Hyang Shinmum charged with instigation of rebellion and libel against Assembly Speaker; tightening of press control seen
Date: 01 March 1959
Missouri U 1st World Press Cong set; Eisenhower message says free press is needed for truth to flourish; cong execs are: Eisenhower hon pres, Vice Pres Nixon hon vp, J W Brown hon chmn, C Nutter acting chmn, B Price dir gen
Date: 01 March 1959
Special to The New York Times
Press protests new curbs on news about pending criminal cases
Date: 28 February 1959
St Louis Post-Dispatch buys bldg and printing equipment; will move into Globe bldg, print both papers; 2 papers will remain separate
Date: 01 March 1959
publisher blames ANG strike for sale; ANG comments
Date: 01 March 1959
Educ Office puts number of teachers at 1,301,000, up 47,000, with substandard ctfs at 92,300, up 800; puts shortage at 132,200
Date: 01 March 1959
By IRA HENRY FREEMAN
Ira FREEMAN
chairs Natl Probation and Parole Assn conf on publicity in juvenile ct cases; illus
Date: 28 February 1959
Date: 01 March 1959
By WERNER WISKARI
Werner WISKARI
K Suomalinen pol cartoons irk Kekkonen and Khrushchev, and reptdly strain USSR-Finnish relations; Kekkonen warns cartoonists and newsmen