This time, parties aren’t what brought former influence peddler Jack Abramoff to the Republican National Convention.

At what he jokingly called his “first post-incarceration convention,” Abramoff said he was in Tampa mostly to tell the media what happens at the private receptions he once frequented as a lobbyist at Greenberg Traurig and Preston Gates & Ellis (now K&L Gates) before he pleaded guilty in 2006 to bribery, fraud and tax evasion charges. The disgraced lobbyist said he was busy talking to ABC News, BBC News and Inside Edition, among other media outlets.