GOP's Santa: Abramoff's 2001 Holiday Shopping List...

[Virginia Dare]

Those pubbies must have been awfully good!

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These days he makes no more than 40 cents an hour for his labors at the federal prison camp at Cumberland, Md. But Christmas 2001 was a far more high-flying holiday for Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who then was paid as much as $500 an hour.

Back then -- before he pleaded guilty to defrauding banks in a deal to buy a casino cruise line -- Abramoff was a top rainmaker at Greenberg Traurig's Washington office and liked to be generous at this time of year, at least to those who could help him. He compiled a list of 45 people to whom his staff was supposed to send gifts such as a Baccarat crystal bowl and a platinum Tiffany clock.