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Heist:, October 2006
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Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, His Republican Allies, and the Buying of Washington
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2006
On Sale: October 3, 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 0374299315
EAN: 9780374299316
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The Indian-casino scandal has torn the veil off the
Republican Party’s conservative power base, revealing parts
of the Washington lobbying community and GOP establishment
where greed, arrogance, and corruption seem to have run amok.
At the center of this drama is the larger-than-life
super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, onetime B-movie producer, with
deep ties to Republican heavyweights like the embattled
Republican power broker Tom DeLay, Congressman Bob Ney,
former head of the Christian Coalition Ralph Reed,
influential anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, and others
with links to the Bush administration. Abramoff, working
with public relations whiz Michael Scanlon, a former DeLay
aid, bilked several Indian tribes of tens of millions of
dollars in fees and bought influence in Congress. The
federal corruption probe into Abramoff's lobbying has
already produced indictments and seperate guilty pleas by
Abramoff and Scanlon to charges that they conspired to bribe
public officials and defrauded four Indian tribes. More
charges are expected to follow in a scandal that has tarred
many powerful Washington insiders, and which the New York
Times has called "potentially one of the most explosive in
Congressional history."
The scandal is front-page news and will continue to be as
the midterm election campaigns of 2006 heat up. But Stone
digs behind the headlines to capture fully a riveting tale
of our time: an inside-Washington drama driven by outsized
personalities and the toxic mix of money and power.
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