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Capitol Crimes, from Bill Moyers’s PBS series Moyers on America, reports on conservative Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff (b. 1959). In league with powerful individuals such as Ralph Reed, Grover Norquist, and former House speaker Tom DeLay, Abramoff endeavored to establish and maintain a Republican majority in Congress. A significant part of the plan revolved around finding new avenues for obtaining campaign funds, for example, by lobbying for Native American casinos, Chinese government–owned garment factories in the Mariana Islands, and Russian energy oligopol...Log In or Sign Up to Read More