Delay sought for Abramoff sentencing in Florida fraud case

[kpete]

Delay sought for Abramoff sentencing in Florida fraud case


By CURT ANDERSON
AP Legal Affairs Writer
February 17. 2006 3:18PM

The U.S. Justice Department and defense lawyers asked a federal judge Friday to delay the scheduled March sentencing of lobbyist Jack Abramoff in a Florida fraud case to allow him more time to cooperate in a broader government corruption investigation.

Abbe Lowell, Abramoff's lawyer in Washington, D.C., said in a telephone conference with U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck that if sentencing went forward as scheduled on March 16 it would be "upsetting to what's happening behind the scenes."

"It's based solely on the sensitivities of cooperation," Lowell said of the request.

Abramoff pleaded guilty Jan. 4 to charges that he and a former partner, Adam Kidan, concocted a fake wire transfer to make it appear they were putting a sizable stake of their own money into the $147.5 million purchase in 2000 of the SunCruz Casinos gambling fleet. Kidan also pleaded guilty.

http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060217/APN/602170897

[Catherine Vincent]

1. I think he's a bit busy trying to prove his innocence in a different case.

Snicker!

[wryter2000]

2. Dang

I thought the Delay was Tom Delay.

[Rageneau]

3. Will Abramoff be sought for Delay's sentencing?