Topic: Trevor Blackann

Free World Series Tickets Lands Lobbyist in Prison for Five Hours

Sen. Kit Bond, whose former aide Trevor Blackann was sentenced on Tuesday
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A former lobbyist who pleaded guilty to corruption charges in the Jack Abramoff scandal received his sentence today: Five hours in prison for accepting a trip to the 2003 World Series in New York when he was an aide to Sen. Kit Bond.

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