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...City of Abscam has a rough time...
...comes the biggest, and for the Government, perhaps the most difficult Abscam case. After examining its evidence for nine months, the Justice Department last week obtained an indictment against Democratic Senator Harrison ("Pete") Williams, 60, of New Jersey for allegedly offering to use his political influence to help a phony Arab sheik make profitable investments in the U.S. In return, the bribery indictment charges, Williams accepted shares in a defunct titanium mine in Virginia in which the sheik, who was actually an undercover FBI agent,' said he intended to invest $100 million...
Williams, who will plead not guilty ("I did nothing wrong"), is the only Senator who has been charged in Abscam. Two Congressmen have been tried and found guilty. Four others are awaiting trial. Unlike the convicted Congressmen, Democrats Michael Myers of Pennsylvania and John Jenrette Jr. of South Carolina, Williams is not accused of accepting cash. The mining company shares were of little value at the time, but the Government contends that Williams promised to help the titanium company get defense contracts, which would have made the shares valuable...
Unlike Talmadge, several House members were crushed by scandal. Indicated Abscam conspirators Reps. John Jenrette (D-S.C.), Frank Thompson (D-N.J.), John Murphy (D-N.Y.), and Michael Myers (D-Pa.) all lost, as did Rep. Robert Bauman (R-Md.), who had to answer to charges of alcoholism and homosexuality...
...Abscam schmabscam. Ozzie Myers is still the kind...