Our alert colleague, John Fritze, just noticed this -- excuse the all-too-intentional pun -- delicious item about disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff in Baltimore's Jewish Times.

Abramoff, released earlier this month from prison to a halfway house, will be working at Tov Pizza, the Jewish Times reports. The restaurant boasts that it serves Charm City's finest kosher pies.

It's not Abramoff's first foray into the restaurant business, although this stint is considerably different from his first one:

Back before he was jailed for trying to buy influence in Congress, Abramoff ran Signatures, a swanky downtown DC watering hole that probably was named for the John Hancocks on all the expense accounts that ate there. In an interview with the Washington Post earlier this year, former Abramoff sidekick Neil Volz described how the eatery's soignee ambience became "a huge tool in my lobbying toolbox."

Tov owner Ron Rosenbluth told the Jewish Times that Abramoff is working in almost all areas of the restaurant,including marketing.

Hey, you want extra earmarks with that?

(Posted by Kathy Kiely)