Another JACKabramOFF-ette bites the proverbial dust. David Safavian, another ethically challenged crony-appointment to the GSA is going away for 18 months in another Abramoff conviction. Geez, these guys can start their own white-collar prison gang...

A federal judge yesterday sentenced David H. Safavian, a former top Bush administration official, to 18 months in prison for lying and concealing unethical dealings with lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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"Did he believe in public service? I guess he did," Friedman said. "But he also wanted someday to join Mr. Abramoff in that lucrative lobbying business."
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Safavian, 39, a former chief of staff for the General Services Administration, wept as he told Friedman that he knows now he never should have given Abramoff inside information about government-owned real estate that the lobbyist wanted to acquire. At the time, Safavian said, he thought what he was doing was innocuous. "I didn't see anything wrong in helping Jack," he said.
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Barbara Van Gelder, Safavian's attorney, urged leniency, telling Friedman that Safavian exhibited an ethical "blind spot" in his dealings with the brazen and flashy Abramoff. "He may have been blinded, dazzled," she said, but his wrongdoing with Abramoff was "isolated, not a man beginning a life of crime."

Not a drop of sympathy for this man from me. Had he not gotten caught, he'd have continued to play the game, and moved on to being in the same league as his buddy, Jack. Buying and Selling CongressCriminals and their favors for fun and mostly profit.

I just want to know how stupid he thought the judge was to testify that paying $3,100 dollars for a week at St. Andrews in Scotland was "fair market value". Incredible.