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'Broken man' Abramoff gets 4 years in prison (AP)

<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/politics/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080905/ap_on_go_ot/abramoff_sentencing"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20080905/capt.54a07d79c09443b8bac61e452973cdc8.abramoff_sentencing_wx101.jpg?x=76&y=130&q=85&sig=cfzsc7jLQY4Bq0aCTV5Ytw--" align="left" height="130" width="76" alt="In this Jan. 3, 2006 file photo, lobbyist Jack Abramoff leaves Federal Court in Washington. From the time Jack Abramoff began cooperating with the FBI, the once powerful lobbyist knew the day would come when he would have to answer for a lifestyle of trading expensive gifts for political favors. 'I have been thinking about this moment literally for years,' the disgraced power broker wrote a federal judge Wednesday about his sentencing. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)" border="0" /></a>AP - Broken and disgraced, lobbyist Jack Abramoff will spend four years in prison for his role in a corruption scandal that upended Washington politics and contributed to the Republicans' loss of Congress in 2006.</p><br clear="all"/>