Susan Bradford
Investigative Journalist
 
 
Reporting the Truth about the Abramoff Investigation
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The nation's most scandalized lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, was set up for criminal prosecution on trumped up charges. As Lynched! documents, the scandal was conceived by a cabal of lobbyists close to Sen. John McCain, who conspired with tribal dissidents and the Washington Post to leak false allegations against him into the media, which were then promoted throughout the country with the assistance of PR firms. The scheme played out in the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, where McCain held all the levers of power. Abramoff was ultimately prosecuted under ambiguous honest services fraud statutes, which have since been declared unconstitutional. As the author reveals, Abramoff was innocent of the allegations which sparked the investigation. Full coverage of the scandal, how it was created and driven by special interests, along with the truth of what was going on behind the scenes, is provided in this groundbreaking book, which reveals how the criminal code has grown so extensive that it is now being used by special interests to drive commercial rivals out of the market. When the average law abiding citizen unwittingly commits two felonies a day, anyone can be convicted of anything -- even you.
Lynched! is based on over four years of research and interviews with over 400 key sources. Bradford lived on the Indian reservations and worked with tribal leaders and tribal members to exhume key documents which have enabled her to tell the story McCain and his cronies have tried to hide from the nation.
Among the topics highlightedin this book:
1.The scheme hatched among tribal dissidents, lobbyists, and the media to remove Abramoff and his chief legislative ally, Congressman Tom DeLay, from power through a contrived scandal.
2. What really happened (on both sides) during Abramoff's high profile lobbying campaigns.
3. The unethical, if not illegal, conduct of the conspirators who set up Abramoff.
4. How liberals are ushering socialism into the United States through the backdoor of Indian tribes.
5. The role of the Seminole Tribe of Florida in railroading Abramoff and DeLay.
6. How Abramoff's false accusers shook his clients down for money after dislodging him.
7. How corruption transpires at the highest echelons of power and why the media rarely reports on it.
8. How Sen. John McCain, far from being a maverick, is the best friend special interests ever had on Capitol Hill.
9.The deals McCain cut with witnesses who appeared in the Senate Indian Affairs Committee to lie about Abramoff
to remove him as lobbyist so they and their allies could cash in.
10. The utter hypocrisy of the accusations against Abramoff.