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The Jack Abramoff tour continues, on XM

When Jack Abramoff emerged from prison in 2010, the disgraced Washington lobbyist went on a mission to expose the corruption of Washington lobbying. In November 2011, he published Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America’s Most Notorious Lobbyist, and made the rounds on television and talk radio circuits. He made those rounds again this year after suggesting that he had enough dirt to put certain individuals in jail, but wouldn't do so because he didn't want to cause anyone the pain he himself had endured.

But no media tour lasts forever, and since Winter we've heard little from the man who describes himself as "one of the world’s most famous lobbyists and former Washington power players" -- occasional cable TV spots notwithstanding.

Premiere Networks emails today to announce that Abramoff now has his own XM Radio show, which debuted to little fanfair on June 24, and airs Sundays from 5 to 8 p.m.

“I may very well be the nation’s most controversial radio host because, unlike others, I was actually involved in the things we talk about on the show,” Abramoff says in a statement for the press release. “Radio gives me an opportunity to share secrets I couldn’t include in my book, and reveal some of the underbelly of politics other hosts can only imagine. The show is informative and, at times, emotional, passionate and downright outrageous.”

I'm not sure this is where Abramoff expected to land when he launched his post-scandal, post-incarceration media tour, but it's something.