{"id":1490,"date":"2007-04-28T00:23:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T06:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2017-06-06T08:05:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T14:05:53","slug":"abramoff-scandal-reaches-even-higher-closer-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/abramoff-scandal-reaches-even-higher-closer-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Abramoff Scandal Reaches Even Higher, Closer the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/abramoff11.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/abramoff1.thumbnail1.jpg\" alt=\"abramoff1.jpg\" align=\"left\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n Justice Dept official resigns over investigation connected with Abramoff<br \/>\n by Marisa Taylor and David Whitney<br \/>\n McClatchy Newspapers<br \/>\n WASHINGTON &#8211; A senior Justice Department official has resigned after coming under scrutiny in the Department&#8217;s expanding investigation of convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a Justice Department official with knowledge of the case.<\/p>\n<p>Making the situation more awkward for the embattled Department, the official, Robert E. Coughlin II, was deputy chief of staff for the criminal division, which is overseeing the Department&#8217;s probe of Abramoff.<\/p>\n<p>He stepped down effective April 6 as investigators in Coughlin&#8217;s own division ratcheted up their investigation of lobbyist Kevin Ring, Coughlin&#8217;s long-time friend and a key associate of Abramoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Dept official resigns over investigation connected with Abramoff by Marisa Taylor and David Whitney McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON &#8211; A senior Justice Department official has resigned after coming under scrutiny in the Department&#8217;s expanding investigation of convicted super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to a Justice Department official with knowledge of the case. 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