Jack Abramoff's Hollywood career- nasty, entwined with brutish African regimes, and short

In Salon, James Verini takes a long, interesting look at disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s dalliance in Hollywood, which resulted in the Dolph Lundgren-starring Cold War relic B-movie ‘Red Scorpion.’ Long story short, the movie (which Abramoff executive-produced with his brother Robert) was motivated by an odd mix of Abramoff’s Reagan-ite anti-Communist ideals and good old-fashioned profit, was shot per Abramoff’s dictum in Namibia– which was, at the time, occupied by apartheid South Africa– and featured South African Defense Force members as extras.