It’s the law that Jack built. That is, Jack Abramoff, the one-time high-flying lobbyist who bought congressional action with sports tickets and golf outings to Scotland.
The Honest Leadership and Open Government Act was supposed to end all that by placing additional reporting requirements on lobbyists and tightening travel and gift restrictions. The act increased potential civil fines steeply to six figures and, for the first time, created the possibility of jail sentences for lobbyists who violate it.
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