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Biography: Jack Abramoff

POSTED: 10:17 am CST January 3, 2006
UPDATED: 5:56 pm CDT October 6, 2006

    AGE: 46

    BIRTH DATE: Feb. 28, 1959, in New Jersey

    EDUCATION: Beverly Hills High School, Brandeis graduate, Georgetown University law degree

    EXPERIENCE: Lobbyist with Greenberg Traurig, Jan. 2001-March 2004; founder of Eshkol Academy, a school for Orthodox Jews in Montgomery County, Md., 2001; lobbyist with Preston Gates Ellis & Rouvelas Meeds, 1994-2001; Hollywood film producer as president of Regency Entertainment Group, 1986-94; director, Citizens for America, pro-Reagan lobbying group, 1985; chairman of college Republicans and member of executive committee, Republican National Committee, early to mid-1980s

    FAMILY: Wife Pam; five children

    QUOTE: "I'd love us to get our mitts on that moolah." Abramoff, in an e-mail to an ally, about an American Indian tribe's contributions to Democrats.

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