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In reply to the discussion: Ralph Reed: Making divorce harder for women is a ‘better solution’ than food stamps [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)...To recap, Ralph Reed worked for team Abramoff by mobilizing Christians opposed to gambling to shutter casinos. The only hitch: Reed was usually paid by other casinos who had a financial interest in eliminating their competitors. Therefore, Abramoff needed to find a way to make Reed comfortable, and to protect him against critics and the likely fury of his own Christian followers--who might have been upset if they had discovered that Reed was being paid by gamblers to do their bidding. The solution: Abramoff laundered the Indian casino payoffs to Reed by routing them through other organizations, including Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform and a phony "think tank" in Rehoboth Beach, MD, run by a life guard and a yoga instructor who were friends of Abramoff's pal, Mike Scanlon. Details of this can be found in my film, Casino Jack and the United States of Money...
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/09/the-deceptions-of-ralph-reed/63568/
But, no. Instead the Democratic guy who opposed him -- Don Siegelman -- is in prison.