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...Bought Washington TIME's investigative report on lobbyist Jack Abramoff's rise and fall as one of Washington's top influence peddlers drew mail from readers who were outraged by the man's brazen wrongdoing. Other readers condemned a political culture that accepts bribery as business as usual...
...shameful that lobbyist Jack Abramoff bought Washington, but it is reprehensible that members of Congress took part in the sale." PRISCILLA BROWN Cedar Falls, Iowa...
Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff didn't buy Washington, as your headline said; no one can raise enough money to do that [Jan. 16]. But it's quite possible he might have rented a few members of Congress for a while. GARY K. MADSON Lancaster...
...felt sick to my stomach when I read how Abramoff got the Coushatta Indians to trust him by suggesting that he knew the pain, loss and mistreatment of the tribe because of his birthright as an Orthodox Jew. And then the lobbyist scammed them for millions. I can tell you that Abramoff's actions in no way reflect the heritage, teachings, honor and dignity of the Jewish faith that I was raised in. Abramoff is a poseur, disgracing other Jews by his deceitful actions. SHARON ZEIDAN Los Angeles...
When Noel Hillman, head of the corruption probe surrounding lobbyist Jack Abramoff, stepped down last week after President Bush nominated him for a federal judgeship in New Jersey, some couldn't help wondering whether the appointment's timing was just coincidence or the calculated removal of an aggressive prosecutor from an explosive case. Sources at the Justice Department tell TIME it's the former--the nomination had been in the works for nearly a year. Hillman, chief of the Office of Public Integrity since 2003, says he asked to be replaced once the nomination was announced. "The chief of Public...