Obama Took Money From Abramoff Firm? The Hell You Say!

by William Teach — published on April 14th, 2008

Via Hot Air

(Newsday) Last fall, Barack Obama quietly slipped into the Miami headquarters of a major law firm scarred by the scandals of Jack Abramoff, its once-powerful Washington lobbyist who now sits in jail.

Arriving a little after 10 a.m. on Oct. 1, Obama spent the next three hours schmoozing, speaking in a video conference to branch offices and raising money at Greenberg Traurig, a billion-dollar firm with one of the biggest lobby shops here.

Obama has now raised about $125,000 from Greenberg Traurig employees — nearly half of it at the time of the event — more than from any of the other top law and lobby firms.

Two points

  1. Even though Abramoff is no longer with Greebverg Traurig, why is it now OK to take money from the same firm?
  2. Didn’t Obama rail about him not taking money from lobbyists?


Sounds like he is the same old type of politician.


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