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To: Kaslin

The FBI and Justice Department needs to set up another ABSCAM to get rid of corrupt Democrats in Congress.


8 posted on 11/30/2019 5:23:53 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: tired&retired
"The FBI and Justice Department needs to set up another ABSCAM to get rid of corrupt Democrats in Congress."

Abscam (sometimes written ABSCAM) was a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that led to the convictions of seven members of the United States Congress, among others. The two-year investigation initially targeted trafficking in stolen property and corruption of prestigious businessmen, but was later converted to a public corruption investigation. The FBI was aided by the Justice Department and a convicted con-man in videotaping politicians accepting bribes from a fictitious Arabian company in return for various political favors. More than 30 political figures were investigated, and six members of the House of Representatives and one senator were convicted. One member of the New Jersey State Senate, members of the Philadelphia City Council, the Mayor of Camden, New Jersey, and an inspector for the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service were also convicted. The operation was directed from the FBI's office in Hauppauge, New York and was under the supervision of Assistant Director Neil J. Welch, who headed the bureau's New York division, and Thomas P. Puccio, head of the Justice Department's Organized Crime Strike Force for the Eastern District of New York. "Abscam" was the FBI codename for the operation, which law enforcement authorities said was a contraction of "Arab scam". The American-Arab Relations Committee made complaints, so officials revised the contraction to "Abdul scam" after the name of its fictitious company. From Wikipeda.

Sounds like a great idea... If they did it again they would probably get half of DC in the net....

10 posted on 11/30/2019 5:38:23 AM PST by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
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