Jack Abramoff is apparently being very cooperative with federal prosecutors. They want to keep him close -- so they want him sentenced soon. Otherwise, Abramoff may end up far from the desk he now has at the FBI:
Federal prosecutors are pushing for Jack Abramoff to be sentenced as soon as next week on charges of bribery and fraud, fearing that he will stop cooperating with their corruption probes if he is forced to go to prison far from the capital as the result of a related case.
Abramoff’s lawyers and Justice Department counsels filed a motion last week in the U.S. District Court in Washington to advance Abramoff’s sentencing to Nov. 17, two days after he is to turn himself in on a separate guilty plea in Florida.
Abramoff was to begin his 70-month sentence in the Florida case in March, having received three delays so he could help the government’s investigation of influence-peddling on the Hill. But unless he is sentenced quickly in the Washington case, the federal Bureau of Prisons will recommend that he be housed in Loretto, Pa., instead of a nearby Maryland facility.
The FBI wants to keep Abramoff nearby and happy. There are several members of Congress who should be very concerned about Abramoff's cooperation.
http://blog.citizensforethics.org/node/258
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