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Editorial: Anything goes when it comes to scandal
Monday, November 28, 2005
"Thousands of young people head to Capitol Hill each year hoping to launch their careers, and when Michael Scanlon arrived in the mid-1990s, he was fairly typical: talented, ambitious, not particularly ideological but drawn to power.
But Mr. Scanlon, now 35, apparently was missing something: a moral compass that might have helped him better navigate an environment that fostered personal corruption.
This boyishly handsome and charming flim-flam man from Kensington, Md., is now at the center of an epic scandal - complete with mobsters, murder, defrauded millions, and women scorned. Mr. Scanlon and his partner, Jack Abramoff, made a private mockery of the Indian tribes that were their clients and the Christian conservatives they duped to serve their purposes. Half a dozen lawmakers or more could be ensnared in the federal investigation."
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