Friend Of Tom Headed To The Pokie

2:08 pm EST August 11th, 2005 | Politics | 2 Comments

Prominent lobbyist, N.Y. businessman indicted on fraud charges

FBI agents were seeking to arrest a once-powerful Washington, D.C., lobbyist on Thursday after a Fort Lauderdale federal grand jury charged him and a New York businessman with scheming to defraud two lenders in a $147.5 million purchase of SunCruz Casinos.

Agents were to take Republican insider Jack Abramoff into custody on Thursday afternoon in the Baltimore area. His partner in the controversial 2000 SunCruz acquisition, Adam Kidan, was expected to surrender to authorities, according to sources familiar with the probe.

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2 Responses to “Friend Of Tom Headed To The Pokie”

  1. mr.curmudgeon says:
    August 11, 2005 at 2:08 pm

    These guys make the Sopranos look like their running a crooked lemonade stand.

    The GOP knows how to breed REAL criminals! (Enron, Halliburton, WorldCom, et al)

  2. Zappa says:
    August 11, 2005 at 4:08 pm

    Seems like this might be just the start of some these guys going to the clink.