corruption scandal

Abramoff Gets 4 Years In Jail, Pens Memoir

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Fri, 09/05/2008 - 9:27am

Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist at the center of a Washington, D.C., corruption scandal, was sentenced Thursday to four years in prison.

According to the Washington Post, he told the judge he is no longer the person who "happily and arrogantly" engaged in a lifestyle of corruption.

In fact, he's now a writer.