Jack Abramoff: Bringing Down the House Part 1 | 122

Scamfluencers

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Society & Culture

4.1 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Jack Abramoff got his start bending the rules while he was still in elementary school… and never stopped. At first, he works to advance right-wing causes he believes in. Jack’s principles start to fade once he finds his true calling: using pay-to-play politics to amass wealth and power for himself and his friends. Years before calls to drain the swamp, Jack Abramoff was The Swamp Thing.

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0:00.0	Hey, Scam Fluencers fans, Sarah here.
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0:24.8	Thank you. experience, sign up today. Sarah, do you know what a lobbyist is by chance?
0:28.4	You know, you'd be surprised to know that I do.
0:31.4	It's like a representative of a private interest, and their job is to push government
0:36.4	officials to pass laws, and they use money to push government officials to pass laws and they use money
0:40.2	to do it. They promise certain things. It's like an exchange so that whatever the representing
0:45.1	gets funded or legalized or whatever. I am actually surprised that you know what a lobbyist is,
0:52.1	and you knew so fast because it is one of those jobs that's like
0:55.6	distinctly American. Like you and I never heard really about lobbyists that much growing up.
1:00.7	It's like, what's a comptroller? What's a district attorney? I don't really know what these
1:04.5	words mean. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure we have some form of lobbying in Canada, but it is one of those
1:10.1	things that is a bit vague and I think
1:12.7	kind of on purpose, you know. Well, Sarah, here's the good news. Today, you're going to learn so
1:18.2	much about lobbying that you're going to wish that you could forget it.
1:27.3	It's June 2001, and Michael Scanlan is sweating hard as he runs across a fancy racquetball
1:32.6	cord in Washington, D.C. Michael is a fair-haired guy in his early 30s. He used to be a press
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