Der findes mirakler. Det her er af den mere paradoksale art.

Abramoff spent 10 years in Hollywood writing and producing, with his brother Robert, the low-budget sensationalist film Red Scorpion in 1989. The film starred Dolph Lundgren playing the Spetznaz-like Soviet commando Nikolai, sent by the Soviets to assassinate an African revolutionary in a country similar to Angola, but soon Nikolai sees the evil of the Soviet]s and changes sides,and becomes a freedom-fighter for the African side[22][23][24]

The South African government financed the film via the International Freedom Foundation, a front-group chaired by Abramoff, as part of its efforts to undermine international sympathy for the African National Congress.[25] The filming location was in South-West Africa (now Namibia)[26][27]

Abramoff er ham her - dømt for at bestikke forskellige topfolk og for temmelig kreativ lobby virksomhed. Men før det lavede han altså film finansieret af den sydamerikanske regering og se det er kraftedme sjovt. Jeg elsker de bevægelser, de samme bevægelser som kan få forskellige radikalt højreorienterede folk, til at bruge ganske meget energi og tid på at benægte holocaust, samtidigt med at de faktisk mener jøder er et 'problem' og, og her kommer det sjoveste, anser Hitler for at være den mest fabelagtige mand nogensinde, alligevel, selvom han fejlede. Her er bevægelsen selvfølgelig af en anden art, men den er stadig sjov.

Abramoff pled guilty on January 3, 2006, to three criminal felony counts in a Washington, D.C., federal court related to the defrauding of American Indian tribes and corruption of public officials.[4] The four tribes Abramoff and his associates persuaded include: Michigan's Saginaw Chippewas, California's Agua Caliente, the Mississippi Choctaws, and the Louisiana Coushattas. Abramoff is accused of defrauding the tribes of tens of millions of dollars on issues associated with Indian gaming.[5] The following day he pleaded guilty to two criminal felony counts in a separate federal court, in Miami, related to his fraudulent dealings with SunCruz Casinos.[6] On September 4, 2008, a Washington court found Abramoff guilty of trading expensive gifts, meals and sports trips in exchange for political favors and he was sentenced to a four-year term in prison which will be served concurrently with his previous sentences.[7][8]

The extensive corruption investigation has led to the conviction of White House officials J. Steven Griles and David Safavian, U.S. Representative Bob Ney, and nine other lobbyists and Congressional aides.

Abramoff was a top lobbyist for the Preston Gates & Ellis and Greenberg Traurig firms and a director of the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank, and Toward Tradition. He was College Republican National Committee National Chairman from 1981 to 1985. He was a founding member of the International Freedom Foundation.