Abramoff released from Md. prison to halfway house

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - The Federal Bureau of Prisons says disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff has been released from prison and is in a halfway house.

Spokesman Edmond Ross said Wednesday that Abramoff was released Tuesday from a minimum-security federal prison camp in western Maryland and is at a halfway house somewhere in the mid-Atlantic region.

Abramoff was sentenced in 2006 to nearly six years in prison for a fraudulent Florida casino deal. He got another four-year sentence in 2008 in a separate case.

Ross says Abramoff could spend the last few weeks of his sentence on home confinement before his scheduled release date of Dec. 4.

A long-running Abramoff corruption investigation led to the convictions of a former congressman, Republican Bob Ney and other lobbyists and officials.