Abramoff pleaded guilty in January 2006 to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials by showering them with gifts.Ībramoff had a direct pipeline to the Bush White House and influenced several key decisions, according to a bipartisan congressional report released in 2008. The Abramoff lobbying scandal helped the Democratic party regain Congress as Republicans were hit by accusations of sleaze. He is not a complete stranger to the business as he once owned a kosher restaurant in Washington. The restaurant owner has hired halfway house residents before.Īccording to one of his former fellow inmates, Abramoff, an Orthodox Jew, gave shirum – Torah lectures – to Jewish inmates on an almost daily basis. He was happy that Tov Pizza could provide Abramoff with that new beginning: 'We're all Jews, we're all on the same team.'Ībramoff reported to a halfway house run by a non-profit organisation, which arranged the job. The owner of Tov Pizza, Ron Rosenbluth, told the Baltimore Jewish Times that giving a fellow Jew a fresh start was part of what Judaism stood for.

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