Friday, March 31, 2006
Some headlines and summaries from JTA
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Eitan has Pollard document, spy´s wife says
The head of Israel’s Pensioner Party has a document that could win Jonathan Pollard’s release, according to the wife of the convicted spy.
Rafi Eitan “has in his personal possession a document, a major bargaining chip in negotiations for Jonathan’s release,” Esther Pollard wrote Thursday in the online version of Ma’ariv. “He has held the only copy of it for 21 years. The recovery of this document would be invaluable to the Americans, as it would permit them to finally wrap up the case once and for all.” Eitan was the Mossad official who handled Pollard 20 years ago, before the former U.S. Navy analyst pleaded guilty to spying for Israel and was sentenced to life.
Former U.S. intelligence officials who support Pollard’s life sentence cite as one justification Israel’s failure to return all the documents he stole, a charge Israel vehemently denies. Eitan shocked Israel by winning seven seats in this week’s elections, running on a pensioners’ rights platform.
Kosher deli appeal in Abramoff sentencing
One of the letters that successfully sought leniency for lobbyist Jack Abramoff noted that he ran a kosher deli, at a loss.
A letter from Nathan Lewin, a prominent Washington lawyer who is an Orthodox Jew, appealed to the Florida judge who sentenced Abramoff this week by saying that the disgraced lobbyists ran Stacks “at great personal sacrifice.”
Paul Huck, the federal judge, apparently took to heart 262 letters appealing for leniency, sentencing Abramoff to the minimum five years and 10 months for his role in a fraudulent scheme to purchase a casino boat. Stacks and another kosher enterprise Abramoff ran, Archives, closed last year as his role in a separate cash-for-legislation scandal in Washington emerged; he has yet to be sentenced in that case.
Washington Post columnist Al Kamen suggested that Abramoff’s friends avoid the kosher-restaurant argument, noting that Stacks food was not up to par: Knishes were “microwaved so much that the potato filling was liquefied,” he recalled. That could persuade a judge to order “summary execution, not leniency,” Kamen wrote.
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