I guess the choice of kippah might have been too telling. Kippah srugah, too zionist; black leather, too modern; black velvet, too chnoiky; any kippah–too Jewish?

ultra-orthodox looking black fedora
Well, no it wasn’t. The universal comment was that it made him look like a classic film noir gangster (which the guy probably is). The stereotypical hassidic headgear is the even older-fashioned wider brimmed thing that nobody wears but in movies. (Though it would be convenient for someone with a distorted view of the world to misremember attacks on Abramoff as attacks on Judaism.)