What a pleasure! To post about our favorite wannabe gangsta - Jack Abramoff. Seems like simpler times, no? When crooks are the kind of crooks you recognize. Anyway, the Jackster had to get rid of all of his season tix...awwww.
Abramoff out for the season
By Staff, The Hill
August 2, 2006
Jack Abramoff has sold his season tickets at Verizon Center, home of Washington’s professional basketball and hockey teams, the Wizards and the Capitals, where he used to schmooze lawmakers, staffers and other officials.“Mr. Abramoff doesn’t have any more of those tickets,” said Pamela Marple, one of Abramoff’s attorney’s at Chadbourne & Parke.
At $1,000 per game, the ticket sale won’t go far toward paying the disgraced lobbyist’s legal bills or the $26.7 million of restitution he’s likely to owe Indian tribes and the IRS.
His links to the arena, however, have not been entirely erased. A few days ago his name was still embossed on a wooden locker just off the arena floor, a perk reserved for courtside season-ticket holders, according to a Verizon Center official.Abramoff had reportedly renewed his 2005-2006 season tickets despite being at the epicenter of a scandal that has shaken Congress and K Street.Abramoff’s locker is next to that of Capitals owner Ted Leonsis and a few lockers down from Wizards owner Abe Pollin. Along with the locker, Abramoff had access to the Johnny Walker Coaches Club, an exclusive lounge a short walk from the court.
When asked in an e-mail about his locker-room neighbor, Leonsis replied about Abramoff: “I don’t know. I have never met him, nor do I use my locker — it is given to those who have courtside seats — but I don’t drink nor use the club.”
