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...Oklahoma, who pockets $87,864 a year. Former Congressmen Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford are paid $30,816 and $64,800 respectively, in addition to their presidential pensions and perks. Even former New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams, who serving a three-year sentence for his role in the Abscam bribery scandal, collects $42,288 a year...
...million for undercover operations, excluding salaries and overheads; by fiscal year 1984, that figure had grown to $12.5 million. In the twelve months ending Sept. 30, 1983, FBI scams resulted in 1,328 indictments and 816 felony convictions. The notable FBI operation that triggered the committee study was Abscam, the bribery investigation begun in 1978 that led to the convictions of a U.S. Senator and six Congressmen...
Alvarado has started to pay off his debts, and hired a friend, former Abscam Prosecutor Thomas Puccio, to handle his defense at the department of investigation hearing. While Alvarado fights for his professional life, the board of education has named Nathan Quinones, 53, executive director of the city's high schools, as acting chancellor. Quinones, a conservative educator, has already announced that he will re-evaluate Alvarado's plans; many teachers fear that imaginative programs to improve education in the city's poorest areas will be dismantled. Says Luther Seabrook, superintendent of Harlem's District...
...legal arguments, sharply drawn in pretrial statements, are reminiscent of those heard in the Abscam cases. The lawyers for fallen Auto Magnate John Zachary De Lorean claim that he was a victim of entrapment when the FBI secretly filmed him fingering packets of cocaine in a Los Angeles hotel room nearly 17 months ago. The Government contends that its undercover sting was aimed at known drug smugglers and that De Lorean, to the astonishment of federal agents, walked right into the net. He is charged with conspiring to distribute $24 million worth of cocaine in a futile effort to raise...
SENTENCED. John Jenrette, 47, former Democratic Congressman from South Carolina; to two years in prison and a $20,000 fine; for accepting a $50,000 bribe from FBI agents posing as Arab sheiks in the 1978-80 Abscam operation; in Washington, D.C. The sixth of seven U.S. legislators to be sentenced in Abscam, Jenrette asked the judge for leniency with a bit of forced insouciance, saying he had "no desire to further burden the overcrowded prisons...