September 4, 2008 at 5:16pm

Former lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced today to four years in prison.

Abramoff could have been sentenced to as much as 11 years, but was given credit for helping authorities convict former U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Grile a nd others in the wide-reaching corruption investigation.

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Abramoff admitted that he gave lawmakers expensive trips, meals and tickets to sporting events in exchange for political favors.

“I come before you as a broken man,” Abramoff said in court. “I’m not the same man who happily and arrogantly engaged in a lifestyle of political and business corruption.”

He had earlier sent a letter to U.S. District Judge Ellen Huvelle, pleading:

I am not a bad man (although to read all the news articles one would think I was Osama Bin Laden), but I did many bad things. I lied to clients, even while working to get them the results they expected. I cheated my law firm and took advantage of public officials. And, while I gave millions of dollars to charities, I thought I could then skirt the rules in paying the right amount of money to the government in taxes.

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