Writer Suspended for Taking Story Payments From Abramoff

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SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The Copley News Service is suspending syndicated columnist Doug Bandow while it investigates allegations he accepted payments from Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff to write positive stories about Abramoff's clients.

"We want to make sure we have all the facts before we take final action, but it has never been our policy to distribute work paid for by third parties whose role is not disclosed by the columnist," said Glenda Winders, vice president and editor of CNS.

On Thursday, Bandow resigned from the Cato Institute after confirming a report by BusinessWeek Online that said Abramoff paid him for writing between a dozen and 24 articles over nearly a decade. The Washington think-tank's Web site Friday referred to Bandow as a "former senior fellow."

BusinessWeek Online said Bandow acknowledged accepting payments from Abramoff, quoting him as saying, "It was a lapse of judgment on my part, and I take full responsibility for it."

and forgot that they wouldn't be in power for ever.

How many lives have been ruined by this admin's hubris? Some of them would have gone along with anything for the money anyway, but how many got swept up in the feeling of being "in with the in crowd", not realizing that the they were disposable?

They have ruined the trust we have in what used to be a very noble profession.

Go to this article from JABBS.

That's a CAREER, asshole!