I had read in Al Franken's book 'The Truth with Jokes' about Abramoff's fleecing of the Tigua Indians and DeLay's promotion of the Mariana Islands to hide the garment industry's sweatshops there.
Alex Gibney's documentary takes the same approach to its topic that his previous documentary 'Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room' does, looking at the roots of the main character, and how deregulation led to the culmination. But as 'Casino Jack and the United States of Money' shows, Abramoff and the individuals associated with him were just the tip of the iceberg. When mega-lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to jail in early 2006, he was seen as the personification of corruption, along with Tom DeLay and Bob Ney.
