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Abscam, U.S. scandal resulting from an investigation begun in 1978 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI created a front (Abdul Enterprises, Ltd., hence, Abscam) for its agents, who, posing as associates of an Arab sheik, offered selected public officials money or other considerations in exchange for special favors. The videotaped meetings resulted in the indictments (1980) and convictions of one senator and four congressmen on charges including bribery and conspiracy; another congressman was convicted on lesser charges. The FBI's tactics raised questions about entrapment entrapment, in law, the instigation of a crime in the attempt to obtain cause for a criminal prosecution. Situations in which a government operative merely provides the occasion for the commission of a criminal act (e.g.
..... Click the link for more information. , and the conviction of Florida Rep. Richard Kelly was overturned (1982).

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Notable have been Teapot Dome, Abscam and the Keating Five savings and loan debacle.

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Bennett, a partner with the firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Florn, brings the perspective of a former outside counsel for the Senate Ethics Committee, working investigations such as Abscam and the Keating Five.

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Whey trace the slow, convoluted evolution of modern Congressional ethics scandals, from Joe McCarthy to Abscam and the Keating Five, to the various sex scandals of the last decade, to a 1995 case in which aides to Rep.

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