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...Another Abscam conviction
...tears would roll down your eyes." In a Washington, D.C., courtroom last week, the tears were streaming from his wife Judy's eyes as Kelly, who was voted out of office last year, became the sixth present or former Congressman - and first Republican - to be convicted in the Abscam sting...
...last Abscam trial, of Democratic Senator Harrison Williams of New Jersey, is scheduled to begin on March 30. Already, however, the FBI investigation itself is on trial before Federal Judge George Pratt, who is holding hearings in New York City on whether the agents went too far in trying to encourage Congressmen and others to commit illegal acts. Indeed, Judge William Bryant, who presided at Kelly's trial, has said that Abscam "has an odor to it that is absolutely repulsive." Nonetheless, Justice Department lawyers are confident that the defendants can not show enough evidence of Government overreaching...
Philip B. Heymann, a former professor of Law who left Harvard in 1978 to become assistant attorney general and played a leading role in directing the Justice Department's Abscam investigation, is expected to return here next fall with a joint appointment at the Law School and the Kennedy School of Government...
...telephone interview last week from his Arlington, Va., home, Heymann strongly defended the Abscam program against allegations of entrapment. Abscam has "undoubtedly had a major effect on corruption all across the country," Heymann said...