Disgraced millionaire lobbyist Abramoff now works at pizzeria

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Disgraced millionaire lobbyist takes pizza job

Thu Jun 24, 2:24 AM


WASHINGTON (AFP) - Disgraced millionaire superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, newly released from prison, has taken a job at a kosher pizzeria for around 10 dollars an hour, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
 
Abramoff, once among Washington's most influential powerbrokers, started working this week at Tov Pizza in Baltimore, Maryland where he earns between seven and a half and 10 dollars an hour, according to the newspaper.


"He is not the monster he has been portrayed as," the pizzeria's owner, Ron Rosenbluth, told The Times.


Abramoff served three and a half years at a minimum security prison camp in Cumberland, Maryland outside Washington and now is living at a halfway house which arranged the pizzeria job, the daily wrote.


"People ask me, 'Why would you ever hire Jack Abramoff?' Rosenbluth said.


"I say, 'Why wouldn't I hire Jack Abramoff?' He's paying his debt to society, right?"


Abramoff became one of Washington's leading lobbyists during the Republican rise to power in Congress in the 1990s, and expanded his influence with George W. Bush's capture of the White House in December 2000.

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At least he has a job and is working.

 

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"It takes a rare kind of wisdom to accept change and redemption in another.  Many would refuse, seeing only what was, not what is."

(Bonus points to anyone who can identify the source of the quoet)

 

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"It takes a rare kind of wisdom to accept change and redemption in another.  Many would refuse, seeing only what was, not what is."

(Bonus points to anyone who can identify the source of the quoet)

G'Kar, Babylon 5

 

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G'Kar, Babylon 5

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And great quote

 

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G'Kar, Babylon 5

Correct for 100 points!


But which episode?

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Correct for 100 points!


But which episode?

The Hour of the Wolf

 

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The one where he said

"It takes a rare kind of wisdom to accept change and redemption in another.  Many would refuse, seeing only what was, not what is."  :nod:

 

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Season 4, Episode 1 The Hour of the Wolf

 

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The Hour of the Wolf

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