[wvns] JACK ABRAMOFF AS A KID
JACK ABRAMOFF AS A KID
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RICHARD SILVERSTEIN - If only Jack Abramoff had known the kid he beat
up in high school was going to win a Pulitzer Prize and "out" him on
This American Life. . . The victim in this case was Jonathan Gold, who
won the Prize for his amazing food writing for the L.A. Times and L.A.
Weekly. . . Gold [recounts] his humiliation at Abramoff's hands and
the latter's pleasure in physical intimidation of his victims. . . The
child was father to the man:
Ira Glass: Jonathan remembers him [Abramoff] as a glad-hander, someone
who has lots of friends.
Gold: A jock, he hung out in the weight room. He squatted something
over 500 lbs. when he was in high school. . . He was the sort of
person who would walk across the street to be unpleasant to somebody
or in my most notable instance I was walking down the hall to history
class and he hip-checked me-I was carrying my cello-and I went sailing
down the stairs with my cello. You'd be surprised how many times a
cello and its case can bounce. It was a lot of money in repairs.
He was laughing about it to his friends. I suspect he forgot about it
five minutes later. I didn't. . .
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