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Abscam
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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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For example, Hubris goes far afield to imply that Rove was responsible for my column this year noting antiwar congressman John Murtha's connection with the Abscam scandal 26 years ago.
Who Said What When; The rise and fall of the Valerie Plame 'scandal.' by Novak, Robert D. / The Weekly Standard
, expelled from the House following his bribery conviction in the Abscam scandal in 1980.
HOUSE'S OPTIONS ON GINGRICH by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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