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RALEIGH (AP) — Disgraced Washington influence-peddler Jack Abramoff is telling a North Carolina audience about the Capitol Hill corruption in which he played a role.The once powerful and notorious lobbyist suggests ways to reform the political system when he speaks Thursday at William Peace University in Raleigh.read more  

Republic Report has hired convicted felon and former corruptor Jack Abramoff to be part of their team, which includes Matt Stoller. It just launched and the content is already excellent. I’m definitely keeping an eye on Republic Report.  

Disgraced former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who says he once made $20 million in a year before going to federal prison on public corruption charges, wants to produce movies and a reality television show. And he would like to help reform the political system he exploited for years. Abramoff, at the ...  

Updated at 4:14 p.m. With $44 million in restitution to pay off, former influence peddler Jack Abramoff may return to show business. Speaking at a Public Citizen forum in Washington on Monday, Abramoff, who pleaded guilty in 2006 to corruption...  

Holy Indian reservation roulette wheels Batman!  The newly launched Republic Report, an anti-corruption blog focusing on how self-interested dollars are warping the public-interest responsibilities of America's democratic institutions has actually hired convicted felon Jack Abramoff to be one of its...  

WASHINGTON -- I got a chance to ask former lobbyist Jack Abramoff yesterday whether he was expecting to testify in the public corruption trial getting underway in Montgomery. Here is Kim Chandler's full story, including the comment from Abramoff.  

I just came across this, which actually happened a month ago: Larry Lessig, who is focused entirely on figuring out ways to stop systematic corruption in Washington DC, interviewing disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, widely considered the perfect example of corruption in DC. The 1.5 hour discussion is an attempt to not just go over Abramoff's history, but to educate how the Congressional system works. It's worth watching in its entirety...  

WASHINGTON (AP) - Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff spent two hours dispensing advice in one of Washington's temples of good government Monday, telling soldiers in the cause of cleaning up corruption they have a lot of work ahead of them.  

Before he went to prison on fraud, corruption, and conspiracy charges ... “I’m not against lobbying,” Abramoff said. “The problem with lobbying is when the money gets involved.” Lots of money was involved when it came to Abramoff ...  

Update: On February 3, 2012, the Republic Report, an anti-corruption/campaign-finance reform blog has hired disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff to, in his words "add my insights and experience...to reveal to our nation the way Washington really works.  

Yes, that Jack Abramoff, “Casino Jack”, as profiled in the Alex Gibney film, Casino Jack and the United States of Money. The Republic Report may be “pulling a Joe Kennedy” here — and I think it’s provocative, bold, will attract a huge heaping ...  

The newly launched Republic Report, an anti-corruption blog focusing on how self-interested dollars are ... than getting Ambramoff back out there advising the bad guys how to cash in on the system. Thacker the exception -- the rest are real progressives ...  

And now, the latest manifestation of Abramoff's ethics push: his debut Friday on Republic Report, a newly launched blog dedicated to exposing corruption in politics. "The people who were attacking me while I was a lobbyist -- I don't hold that ...  

His new blog, Republic Report, carries the slogan “Investigating ... Republic Report currently features stories such as Matt Stoller’s “Agribusiness Fights to Allow Children to Work in Manure Pits” and “Koch Brothers Convene Ultra ...  

Once Washington’s most notorious lobbyist, Jack Abramoff is now a repentant campaigner for cleaning up corruption in Washington, and he gives some of the credit for his turnaround to talk radio host Michael Savage. In an interview on “The Savage Nation” last night, Savage noted that Abramoff wrote in his book “Capitol Punishment” of having a revelation during his 43 months in prison in which he came to acknowledge he had lost perspective and...