Four More Years in Prison for Jack Abramoff

A federal judge has sentenced one-time Washington power broker Jack Abramoff to an additional four years in prison and ordered him to pay $23 million in restitution for his role in an influence-peddling scandal that rocked the political scene in the nation's capital. Describing himself as "a broken man," a despondent Abramoff, 49, asked U.S. District Court Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle for a lenient sentence as his wife and children looked on. "I've fallen into an abyss, your honor, and I don't...Full Story
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