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Abramoff sentenced to 4 years

Jack Abramoff, the once powerful lobbyist who had represented the CNMI's government and was later at the epicenter of a landmark corruption scandal, was sentenced Friday to four years in prison, a decision that prompted a mix of reactions locally.In a Washington, D.C., court, Abramoff fought back tears as he declared himself a broken man and appeared crestfallen as the judge handed down a sentence lengthier than prosecutors had sought.“I’m not the same man who happily and arrogantly engaged in a lifestyle of political and business corruption,” he said before U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle. “My name is the butt of a joke, the source of a laugh and the title of a scandal.”Abramoff, 49, already has served nearly two years for his conviction in a related Florida fraud case. The sentence Thursday by U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle means that the former Republican lobbyist will likely remain in prison until 2012.At the height of his influence, Abramof...
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