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Thursday, December 15, 2005

Guilty plea from Abramoff co-swindler

Another one bites the dust:

MIAMI (AP) -- A former business partner of Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty Thursday to fraud and conspiracy in the ill-fated 2000 purchase of a fleet of gambling boats.
Adam Kidan's plea bargain is likely to require that he cooperate in the case against Abramoff involving the SunCruz Casinos deal and perhaps even testify against his old partner.
Kidan pleaded guilty to conspiracy and fraud; two other felony counts were dropped. He could get up to 10 years in federal prison at sentencing March 1.


Perhaps he can shed some light on this:

Capital Athletic Foundation, a charity run by disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff now at the center of an influence-peddling investigation on Capitol Hill, told the IRS it gave away more than $330,000 in grants in 2002 to four other charities that say they never received the money.
The largest grant the foundation listed in its 2002 tax filing was for $300,000 to P'TACH of New York, a nonprofit that helps Jewish children with learning disabilities.

"We've never received a $300,000 gift, not in our 28 years," a surprised Rabbi Burton Jaffa, P'TACH's national director, told the Austin American-Statesman. "It would have been gone by now. I guess I would have been able to pay some teachers on time."
Federal investigators have not contacted P'TACH about the grant, Jaffa said. Representatives of three other nonprofits that supposedly received Capital Athletic money also said they have not been contacted.


The story strongly implies that about $200,000 of it may have gone to another "charity" created by Tom DeLay. Income tax evasion was what finally caught up with Al Capone.

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