Word: abscam
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...CASH AND CARRY (1979) Abscam probers catch Rep. Richard Kelly lining his pockets...
...Still a Man's World. Men make war, run the government and maintain sole custody of the remote control. They also cause the most political trouble: the Keating Five, Abscam, Iran-contra. Martha Mitchell tried to insert herself into Watergate but got stuck with a hypodermic needle and put to bed before we could hear much from...
...years later when it captured on video members of Congress taking bribes from undercover agents posing as Arab businessmen. The public was outraged at the Congressmen, and juries ultimately convicted seven of them, but Congress was upset with the FBI and launched an inquiry into the bureau's Abscam investigation. And then the FBI got into trouble for investigating CISPES (the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), a group it believed was supporting leftist rebels in that country contrary to the U.S. backing of the legitimate government...
After Watergate and Abscam, the FBI sting operation that sent seven members of Congress to prison by 1981 for taking bribes to obtain various favors, Congress acted several times to clean up its practices. But each reform opened up fresh avenues of opportunity. New limits on political contributions from individuals led to the rise of political-action committees, which flooded Congress with money on behalf of organized special interests. "The system itself has become a form of legalized corruption," complains Fred Wertheimer, president of the public-interest lobbying group Common Cause...
...received in excess of allowable speaking fees and another $29,000 he pocketed by charging the government rent for staying in a . Minneapolis condominium that he owned. Only expulsion, which the ethics committee last recommended in 1981 for New Jersey Democrat Harrison Williams for his part in the Abscam scandal, would have been more severe...