From thestir.cafemom.com:
Abramoff, now 51, an Orthodox Jew, started a brand-new job this week at Tov Pizza, “Baltimore’s Best Kosher Pizza,” according to the website. His four-year sentence isn’t up till December, but he left his minimum-security prison and moved to a halfway house in the beginning of June. Now he’s living at home under “confinement,” according to an agreement with the Bureau of Prisons.
There have been so many political scandals since Abramoff was sentenced in 2008 that you may not remember him as well as others fresh on the page. Abramoff was accused and eventually convicted of bribing numerous Republican lawmakers and White House officials. He gave them meals, gifts, trips, and sports tickets in exchange for political sway that helped him secure millions in federal grants and funding for his interests. He also confessed to defrauding wealthy Indian casino owners out of millions in another scheme.
Read the full story at thestir.cafemom.com.
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