Everyone, including Republicans, has been expecting that 2006 would be the year that a long line of corrupt lawmakers and other public officials would be walked off to jail after being convicted in the Abramoff scandals.
But thanks to a new court ruling, without clarification from Congress, this could just be the year that all those officials walk.
Today the Washington Post published a remarkable story about how the obscure prosecution of one dirty Washington, D.C. cop may just have eliminated the ability of federal prosecutors to convict lawmakers (not just Abramoff himself) of bribery in the Abramoff scandal and similar cases.
According to one of the judges involved, the case legalized "pay-offs."
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