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Having gone through what I went through, watching my family be torn to shreds and my children suffer immensely, I can't be the agent of doing that to someone else. I can't be the agent of causing someone to go to prison.

Jack Abramoff

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Jack Abramoff
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: February 28
Film Producer
Lawyer
Lobbyist
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Children
Prison
Watching
Shreds
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Immensely
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Family
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