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Capitol punishment : the hard truth about Washington corruption from America's most notorious lobbyist / Jack Abramoff.

By: Abramoff, Jack.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, DC : WND Books, c2011Edition: 1st ed.General Notes: Includes index.Description: iii, 303 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781936488445; 1936488442.Subject(s): Abramoff, Jack | Lobbyists -- United States | Political corruption -- United States | United States -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 324.40973
Contents:
You don't know Jack! -- Ronald Reagan and the Rebbe -- Backroom bribery -- What's wrong with this picture? -- K Street confidential -- New territory -- Million dollar bet -- Political golf -- In bad company -- The favor factory -- Tribal influence -- Fire up the jet, baby! -- Nightmare on K Street -- Double judgment -- Cumberland Correctional.
Summary: He's a perfect bundle of contradictions: an Orthodox Jew and upstanding family man with a staunch moral streak, caught in multiple scandals of bribery and corruption with an undercurrent of murder. Sentenced to prison in the largest scandal in Washington, Abramoff pulls back the curtain on K Street and shows the dirty underbelly of America's government-- and what steps must be taken to reform it.
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Includes index.

You don't know Jack! -- Ronald Reagan and the Rebbe -- Backroom bribery -- What's wrong with this picture? -- K Street confidential -- New territory -- Million dollar bet -- Political golf -- In bad company -- The favor factory -- Tribal influence -- Fire up the jet, baby! -- Nightmare on K Street -- Double judgment -- Cumberland Correctional.

He's a perfect bundle of contradictions: an Orthodox Jew and upstanding family man with a staunch moral streak, caught in multiple scandals of bribery and corruption with an undercurrent of murder. Sentenced to prison in the largest scandal in Washington, Abramoff pulls back the curtain on K Street and shows the dirty underbelly of America's government-- and what steps must be taken to reform it.

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