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Did Washington wives

benefit from Abramoff?

More might be affected by the latest Washington scandal

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Norah O'Donnell
Chief Washington Correspondent

That Abramoff scandal itself was possibly kicked off by a jilted fiancee, if the political blog Raw Story is to be believed. And now it seems, a group of Washington women who actually made it down the aisle may be in legal jeopardy because of it.

In addition to the luxury golf trips, the Super Bowl tickets, and the bundles of campaign cash, turns out Jack Abramoff was also compensating the wives of lawmakers handsomely for jobs requiring them to do not much.

Chief Washington correspondent, Norah O'Donnell, James Grimaldi of “The Washington Post” and Fred Wertheimer, campaign finance reform advocate discussed the recent allegations and reported on Countdown.

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