Reply #18: WA POST: Investigating Abramoff -- Special Report = Pulitzer Prize Winners

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/06/22/LI2005062200936.html

2006 Pulitzer Prize Winners
Investigative Reporting | The Washington Post's Susan Schmidt, James V. Grimaldi and R. Jeffrey Smith
won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting for coverage of the Jack Abramoff scandal.

Former Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison on March 29, after pleading guilty to fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to bribe public officials in a deal that requires him to cooperate in an investigation into his relationshps with members of Congress. Sources familiar with the federal probe have told The Post that half a dozen lawmakers are under scrutiny, along with Hill aides, former business associates and government officials.

The scandal prompted Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) and Rep. Robert Ney (R-Ohio) to give up their leadership posts, and on Oct. 13, 2006, Ney pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the scandal. ..........