Bush Pioneers - Jack Abramoff, Haley Barbour, Andrew Saul, Kenneth Lay, Brent R. Wilkes, James Tobin, Thomas Noe, Sam Fox, Bush Pionee (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Jack Abramoff, Haley Barbour, Andrew Saul, Kenneth Lay, Brent R. Wilkes, James Tobin, Thomas Noe, Sam Fox, Bush Pioneer, Richard Egan, Craig Roberts Stapleton, Robert Rowling, Francis Rooney, Alex Spanos, William H. T. Bush, William DeWitt, Jr.. Excerpt: Jack Abramoff (pronounced; born February 28, 1958) is an American former lobbyist and businessman. Convicted in 2006 of mail fraud and conspiracy, he was at the heart of an extensive corruption investigation that led to the conviction of White House officials J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, and nine other lobbyists and Congressional aides. He served three years, six months of a six-year sentence in federal prison before being released early to a Baltimore halfway house on June 8, 2010. Abramoff was College Republican National Committee National Chairman from 1981 to 1985, and a founding member of the International Freedom Foundation. He later became a top lobbyist for the Preston Gates & Ellis and Greenberg Traurig firms. He served as a director of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, and Toward Tradition. His wife Pam and their five children live in Maryland. Abramoff's lobbying and the surrounding scandals and investigation are the subject of two 2010 films: the documentary Casino Jack and the United States of Money, released in May 2010, and the feature film Casino Jack, released on December 17, 2010, starring Kevin Spacey as Abramoff. Jack Abramoff was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey into a wealthy and prominent Jewish family. His father, Franklin Abramoff, was president of the Franchises unit of Diners Club. In 1968, when Abramoff was 10, his family moved to Beverly Hills, California. Abramoff attended Beverly Hills High School. During his high school years, he managed both the Beverly...