Abramoff Arrives at Fed Pen in MD.

Jack Abramoff was expected to Head to the slammer todayas noted in LieparDestin's diary and reported by  Susan Schmidt in todays Washington Post

The Guardian Reports now reports it here that he has in fact arrived at the prison .:

The Hill said a quick deal to get Jack in the Big House may signal compromised cooperation with feds though with no details on why or the timing  now.

Abramoff is at the The Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Cumberland MD, located 130 miles northwest of Washington, DC. It should make for a nice day trip given that Mr. Abramoff can expect more visits from the FBI and Congressional  investigators in the weeks and months to come... Follow troughout the day...

•  Cigarettes?

  by Robert Davies on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:00:57 AM PDT

•  what was that article on the conservate

  ABCnews.com website that Abramoff was now saying he could start naming 6 dirty dems?  Interesting that ABC would focus on that?  Inuendo from a man going to prison?

  by NorthlandLiberal on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:04:30 AM PDT

  •  Need Info on Alice Fisher's hand in this..

    by Robert Davies on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:07:02 AM PDT

    •  here's the link

      http://blogs.abcnews.com/...

      by NorthlandLiberal on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:19:38 AM PDT

      •  Total hit Piece

        Yeh 20% of the Dem caucus involved now that they lost the election..This is going to be ugly. It is the other half of the same coin. The Opportunistic War in Iraq made possible by leveraging Republican corruption on an EPIC Scale at Home...

        by Robert Davies on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:28:20 AM PDT

  •  ABC's Halperin might someday

    be his cell-mate.

    Probably trying to keep harmony in the Family.

    by ROGNM on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:07:10 AM PDT

    •  Kidan is in the slammer in NJ

      expected to testify in Boulis murder case coming up in the early part of '07.

      The grist mill of late, whether the Democrats would come on too strong against Bush or not, has missed a key factor lurking below the surface. lurking in fact below the surface of "the investigations".  The public, while  aware of the scandals: Abramoff, Libby, Foley etc reacted in a most extrordinary way this past election. They didn't buy that the Democrats "were also involved" nor did they accept that these were trumping up charges for political gain. It's not that voters see us as "pure" but they know that we're "clean". That said, its  a good starting point  for a Democratic Congress intent on Reform while the Leadership struggles to herd the Administration towards reality in Iraq. 2007 has already been called a Year of Transition for the "War". In this regard the Public will see whole cadres of dissenters in the Pentagon coming forth early in '07.

      A similar dynamic will unfold with the scandals.The challenge for Democrats is to allow it to unfold in a manner that is seen as "honest brokers" regardless of how delightful sweet Justice may be...
      What is interesting is that these and other scandals coming to light have heretofore been driven by hidden hands within the Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government, the very stakeholders  Cheney sought to destroy with his reach into the Bureaucracy.
      Alas, "what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" must be the mantra of those holdouts, the  insurgents in Bushes own Bureacracy who have been fighting what some call The War on Error. Thus, Cheney and Bush now have a newly invigorated bureaucracy to contend with. What's up with Jack, the Bureaucracy and  "What's Good for the Country" works for Democrats  - sorry, Uncle Dick.....

      They'll have to tread lightly on these landmines.
      Problem is they're in the middle of a field-full...

      by Robert Davies on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:20:07 AM PDT

      •  Culling the herd-

        Doesn't discriminate.

        by Clzwld on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 08:45:56 AM PDT

  •  My first thought, too...

    Yesterday when I saw the news that Abramoff was going name 6 dirty Dems, I thought, "Wow, he must be scraping the bottom of the barrel now, nothing more to offer the feds to keep his *ss out of jail."

    Bet you dollars-to-donuts that any so-called dirty Dems are those whose natural constituencies include Native American tribes that Abramoff scammed.  He'll allege they're dirty -- and they will merely have taken larger sums of money from constituents in their own backyards. No there there.

    by Rayne on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:18:39 AM PDT

    •  the other thing they're missing is the counts

      how many republicans implicated/indicted, including the number of visits he made to the white house and cheney's office.  
      and maybe 6 dems implicated.  
      yet ABCnews trys to make it sound like both parties are equally corrupt.

      by NorthlandLiberal on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:21:55 AM PDT

      •  More Herky Jerky on the story..

        just like the "will he or won't he" Media manipulation Re New Direction in Iraq.

        ABC Web page says cooperation will continue from prison..dated of course after evening news..

        More of the Jack Jerk Around can be expected...

        by Robert Davies on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:38:35 AM PDT

      •  You know what they say about facts...

        Facts and the truth to which they belong have a well-known liberal bias.

        Naturally they won't say 65+ Republican legislators, senior administration officials and junior staff members are implicated by their financial relationships with Abramoff-DeLay-ARMPAC-TRMPAC and false charities.

        No.  Heck no.  They have to shed that "liberal media" label, be "Fair and Balanced [TM]" like the Republican mouthpiece against which they compete, and point only to the "six dirty Dems".

        Where's my Xanax and my Soma?  Gah.

        by Rayne on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 06:28:57 AM PDT

    •  6 dirty Democrats, probably 40 dirty Republicans

      If you look at some of the insane bills that get support from a small number of Democrats -- bankruptcy bill, Medicare drugs, etc. -- is it really such a stretch to think that there could be a few crooked Democrats?

      We need to clean up Congress, period.  I have no doubt that there are a lot more dirty Republicans than Democrats (based on the fact that "every man for himself" is pretty much the basis of modern conservative philosophy) but we won't be doing our job if we say "hands off our guys" just because they are our guys.

      Here are the priorities, as I see them:

      1. Identify, prosecute and remove corrupt politicians, regardless of party affiliation.

      2. Support clean politicians with no-strings-attached Netroots money.

      3. Support tougher ethics rules regarding gifts, contributions, revolving door hiring, etc.

      4. Create new media for shedding light on the role of money in politics -- on-line databases, for example.

      5. Make the media cover corruption fairly -- equal air time for equal amount and degree of corruption, and a clear distinction between Drudge-sourced allegations and reality.

      by xebecs on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 07:49:49 AM PDT

•  Does the cell come with...

  a desk and laptop so that he can continue his work with federal prosecutors?

  by lalo456987 on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:12:40 AM PDT

•  It's oddly fitting that Jack the lobbyist

  would arrive earlier to stake out ground, before King George and the Quail Hunter don the orange.

  by Republic Not Empire on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:16:40 AM PDT

•  Well,

  He'd better kick someone's ass or become someone's bitch on his first day inside.

  Oh, wait -- this is America. We don't send powerful people to prisons like those.

  If there was ever a case to ship someone off to a Federal Pound-Me-In-The-Ass prison, I could think of a lot worse ones than this man, who abused the public trust for fun and profit.

  by droogie6655321 on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 05:46:54 AM PDT

  •  Cue the "prison rape is not a joke" responses....

    They're right, of course.  A prison sentence should not be a death sentence (AIDS) or cruel and unusual punishment via a torn orifice and permanent psychological damage.

    We know Jack is guilty, but plenty of innocent folks have been thrown in jail and suffered at the hand (and other body parts) of cellmates.

    I'd like to know if this particular penitentiary is a white collar country club or is it hard time with murderers and rapists.

    by Dem In VA on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 06:19:01 AM PDT

    •  Yeah, I know.

      But the lowest circle of hell is reserved for the betrayers. If Dante were writing today, Abramoff would be right there in between Judas and Brutus.

      by droogie6655321 on Wed Nov 15, 2006 at 06:29:17 AM PDT