Jack Abramoff Jack Abramoff is a former lobbyist and businessman. He was convicted of mail fraud, conspiracy, bribing of public officials and tax evasion. Jack plead guilty to charges that aligned him with embezzling over eighty millions dollars. An act, that marks it as one of the biggest white collar crimes to date. Schmidt and Grimaldi the authors of The Challenge of Democracy have deemed it “the biggest congressional corruption scandal in generations” (Schmidt and Grimaldi 2005, A01). Although he was indisputably guilty, the media’s propaganda of this scandal just like every other political scandal has negatively shaped how our society views politicians, lobbyist and large scale business men. Jack Abramoff is not worthy of the overhyped
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Jack Abramoff has a supreme ability to keep his true motives hidden. On the outside he appeared trustworthy and intelligent to potential clients. Abramoff was able to convince a numerous amount of people that their money was in safe hands. The case of the Coushatta tribe is no different. The Coushatta’s tribe just liked many others hired Jack Abramoff to help with rising debt and to gain political power among state legislators. He insisted on over charging his clients steep prices that allowed him to pocket millions of dollars. The money the tribe thought was going to help them, was really being shuttled to Capitol Hill. Some of the tribe’s currency was donated to campaign funds for thirty three percent of the total members of the House of Representatives. Abramoff also used funds to buy lavish gifts for representatives such as super bowl tickets, golf trips, and fancy dinners. All in return for political favors. The indictment of Jack Abramoff led to not only his personal demise but also the conviction of twenty one others including Republican Representative Bob Ney. (Best, Ladewig, Wong,2013) This overly popularized scandal has led to an out pour of disgust with the political system. Abramoff is one example of a bad man doing a criminal act, his indisputably inappropriate actions should not tarnish the entire rest of the political
Jack Abramoff has a supreme ability to keep his true motives hidden. On the outside he appeared trustworthy and intelligent to potential clients. Abramoff was able to convince a numerous amount of people that their money was in safe hands. The case of the Coushatta tribe is no different. The Coushatta’s tribe just liked many others hired Jack Abramoff to help with rising debt and to gain political power among state legislators. He insisted on over charging his clients steep prices that allowed him to pocket millions of dollars. The money the tribe thought was going to help them, was really being shuttled to Capitol Hill. Some of the tribe’s currency was donated to campaign funds for thirty three percent of the total members of the House of Representatives. Abramoff also used funds to buy lavish gifts for representatives such as super bowl tickets, golf trips, and fancy dinners. All in return for political favors. The indictment of Jack Abramoff led to not only his personal demise but also the conviction of twenty one others including Republican Representative Bob Ney. (Best, Ladewig, Wong,2013) This overly popularized scandal has led to an out pour of disgust with the political system. Abramoff is one example of a bad man doing a criminal act, his indisputably inappropriate actions should not tarnish the entire rest of the political