HAGERSTOWN, Md. — The Federal Bureau of Prisons said this morning disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff was released from prison and is in a halfway house.

Spokesman Edmond Ross said today Abramoff was released Tuesday from a minimum-security federal prison camp in western Maryland and is at a halfway house somewhere in the mid-Atlantic region.

Abramoff was sentenced in 2006 to nearly 6 years in prison for a fraudulent Florida casino deal. He got another four-year sentence in 2008 in a separate case.

Ross said Abramoff could spend the last few weeks of his sentence on home confinement before his scheduled release date of Dec. 4.

A long-running Abramoff corruption investigation led to the convictions of a former congressman, Republican Bob Ney and other lobbyists and officials.