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A Short Biography of Jack Abramoff

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Jack Abramoff

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28 Feb 1958

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Lobbyist, Businessman, Republican, Orthodox Jew and Criminal                          
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff                          
Mother not known.
Father Franklin Abramoff, president of the Franchises unit of Diners Club credit card company
Wife Pam Alexander, five children.                          
College Republican National Committee National Chairman - 1981-1985
Founding member of the International Freedom Foundation
Lobbyist for the Preston Gates & Ellis and Greenberg Traurig firms
Member of the George W. Bush administration's 2001 Transition Advisory Team assigned to the Department of the Interior
Director of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, and Toward Tradition.                          
Fraud, conspiracy, tax evasion.
Penalty	5 years and 10 months imprisonment

Convicted in 2006 for mail fraud and conspiracy. Jack Abramoff was at the heart of an extensive corruption investigation that led to the conviction of White House officials J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, and nine other lobbyists and Congressional aides. He served most of a six-year sentence in federal prison before being released on December 3, 2010.