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Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook

November 6, 2011 4:02 PM

Crooked lobbyist Jack Abramoff explains how he asserted his influence in Congress for years, and how such corruption continues today despite ethics reform. Lesley Stahl reports.

Jack Abramoff: The lobbyist's playbook

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by Lionhart40 September 26, 2012 3:57 PM EDT
No one besides Ron Paul will ever mention this. Lobbyists get thrown out of his office and that's the way it should be!
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by mbd55 July 8, 2012 9:27 PM EDT
"Lobbying" should be illegal and any lawmaker or public official who takes these bribes should be shot.

Americans need to wake up and get rid of all these people the whole system is rotten to the core.
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by piratesignal March 20, 2012 6:47 PM EDT
What, has Leslie been living on Mars for the last 20 years? Did she become a Jouralist yesterday? What a total joke. I knew about this stuff back when it was happening. Leslie faines shock! Shock that something like this could happen!! Same stuff happens today, just different names and much, much worse. 60 Minutes... what a total joke. You need to hire some serious people, and dump these Leslie characters. I will never watch 60 Minutes again. 15 years too late, and clueless.
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by BriK5 January 31, 2012 4:59 AM EST
http://www.whale.to/b/rappoport_i.html
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by JohnCfromMD December 5, 2011 4:52 PM EST
I've worked in Washington for more than 35 years, for Democratic and Republican leaning interest group representatives, and I'm surpised at the naivete of reaction to this piece.

While Leslie's wide-eyed indignation may have been piqued by the revelations of what a lobbyist has done, it is paralled by many of the public interest and industry organizations in town.
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by JohnRandolph November 25, 2011 1:51 PM EST
The cops need to be pepper spraying lobbyist's like this thief. OWS!
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by mbsfca November 22, 2011 5:50 PM EST
Abramoff was doing what all DC Lobbyists aspire to achieve (deceive) and he got pinched. The former, and more importantly, current DC Lobbyists along with a large majority of the US Congress are now pinching the American people, and will take a hard fall as America spirals farther and farther down the Global economic abyss. Everyone and everything has its breaking point. Real effective change will come only when America reaches its breaking point. There is too much power in Washington, DC and that absolute power, that is now corrupted, will be be absolutely corrupted and absolved in the near future. The Great Recession (Depression 2) is only the beginning. I hate to see what the end will become.
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by sidnamshe1 November 21, 2011 12:45 AM EST
Use Abramoff brand toilet tissue.
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by fuwtbs November 20, 2011 9:02 PM EST
If socialism comes to this country it will be our corrupt government and the masters they serve who will open the door.
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by Cathy_LA November 20, 2011 6:22 AM EST
This is just one of the reasons nothing positive for the public gets accomplished. How many of the "super committee" have conflicts of interest; are beholden to their backers?

I'm thoroughly disgusted with Washington. Perhaps it's time for a benevolent dictatorship.
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