A Lobbyist Comes to Call
The curious and the sentimental rushed to Hong Kong in the spring of 1997 for a last look at the fabled free port before the British lowered the Union Jack and turned over control to China.
But why did hardboiled, former anti-communist action-movie producer Jack Abramoff come?
Abramoff, then just beginning his ascent as a high flying partisan peddler of i…
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