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August 12, 2005
Jack Abramoff Indicted with Mattress Man
To the mattresses ...
Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a business partner were indicted by a federal grand jury in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday, charged with five counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy in their purchase of a fleet of Florida gambling boats from a businessman who was later killed in a gangland-style hit.Abramoff, 46, was arrested in Los Angeles in the late afternoon and was expected to be taken before a U.S. magistrate there on Friday. He was indicted along with Adam Kidan, the former owner of the Dial-a-Mattress franchise in Washington. Kidan, 41, of New York City, will surrender to the FBI here by Friday morning, his attorney, Martin I. Jaffe, said in a written statement.
"Abramoff Indicted in Casino Boat Purchase," by James V. Grimaldi, The Washington Post, August 11, 2005
Update: Jonah Goldebrg at NRO said, "Assuming he's guilty -- a pretty easy assumption, but give the courts a chance to work, blah, blah, blah -- I'm delighted about the Abramoff indictment. My prediction is that he will have almost no defenders in the conservative media whatsoever. And whatever voices you do hear in his defense will come from a three-square-block area around K-Street."
Posted at August 12, 2005 08:37 AM | Categories: Crime , Politics
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