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By Nedra Pickler
Washington (AP) October 2010
A federal prosecutor opened arguments last week in the trial of a former associate of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff by using the defendant’s own e-mails about behind-the-scenes dealmaking in an attempt to show he corrupted government officials.
Lobbyist Kevin Ring wrote that “the ethics thing is a real turn off” and that his team preferred working with “amoral pond scum” in one e-mail, and Prosecutor Nathaniel Edmonds told jurors that the comments were evidence of Ring’s win-at-any-cost mentality.
Washington (AP) October 2010
A federal prosecutor opened arguments last week in the trial of a former associate of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff by using the defendant’s own e-mails about behind-the-scenes dealmaking in an attempt to show he corrupted government officials.
Lobbyist Kevin Ring wrote that “the ethics thing is a real turn off” and that his team preferred working with “amoral pond scum” in one e-mail, and Prosecutor Nathaniel Edmonds told jurors that the comments were evidence of Ring’s win-at-any-cost mentality.
