An ex-Main Justice official last week was sentenced on a felony conflict of interest charge related to Jack Abramoff, while a former assistant U.S. attorney in New Jersey entered a not guilty plea to charges he was part of a crime syndicate.
According to Main Justice, Robert Coughlin II, a former deputy in the Justice Department’s Office of Intergovernmental and Public Liaison, was sentenced Nov. 24 to 30 days in a halfway house for accepting $5,000 in meals, drinks and tickets from a lobbyist that once worked for Jack Abramoff.
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