Abramoff's Greenberg Traurig Law Firm has exposed itself to possible legal troubles by defending Jack and not cutting him loose immediately.
Officials at the lawfirm that employed indicted conservative lobbyist Jack Abramoff lied about what they knew about his role in a massive lobbying scandal and when they knew it, former Abramoff associates say.
Greenberg Traurig's Connecticut Avenue offices in Washington provided the stables for a coterie of aggressive lobbyists who wooed members of Congress with lavish donations, skybox suites and Scottish golfing jaunts. The firm said they first learned of Abramoff's misadventures when they appeared in the pages of The Washington Post.
Those familiar with the sequence of events say this is a lie. They maintain the company's top executives learned of Abramoff's financial relationship with Rep. Tom DeLay's (R-TX) former aide Michael Scanlon when they represented Abramoff in a bankruptcy trial.
Greenberg Traurig attorneys took up Abramoff's defense when he was sued by lenders in after a fleet of riverboat casinos he purchased went bankrupt. As part of the SunCruz casino bankruptcy suit, lawyers at the firm obtained copies of Abramoff's tax returns, former associates tell RAW STORY. They say the returns showed he had received tens of millions of dollars from Scanlon--money investigators later said had been bilked from Indian tribes.
The firm took no public action. On Feb. 22, 2005, the Washington Post reported that Abramoff and Scanlon had received at least $45 million from Indian tribes.
Five days later, a Greenberg Traurig statement asserted Abramoff had resigned after he "disclosed to the firm for the first time personal transactions and related conduct which are unacceptable to the firm."
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Could Greenberg Traurig go the way of Enron and Arthur Andersen? That would be a good example to set for the rest of K Street!