Fall guy abramoff takes one for the team.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to four years in federal prison Thursday for his corrupt lobbying activities, which led to the downfalls of a congressman and several other Washington officials. Choking back tears, Abramoff delivered a highly emotional plea for the judge to exercise leniency, but readily admitted he had done wrong. "I stand before you a broken man," he said during the two-hour sentencing hearing. "I am not the same man." Abramoff has served 22 months in prison on a separate conviction involving casinos in Florida. The judge said that the new four-year term will run concurrently with the remainder of that sentence. -I'm sure he wasn't a saint, but he is only a patsy for a much larger scandal.