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...culminated a cloak-and-data caper extraordinaire, the FBI's most ambitious sting since Operation Abscam netted seven Congressmen for taking bribes two years ago. Glenmar was an FBI front operation set up to deal with the problem of industrial espionage in the fast-track microelectronics industry. Winding up investigations that lasted eight months...
...Jersey, Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick defeated Jeffrey Bell, and will be the Republican nominee for the Senate seat vacated by the resignation of Democrat Harrison Williams after his Abscam conviction. Bell, 38, a onetime Reagan speechwriter who defeated four-term Senator Clifford Case in the 1978 primary only to lose the general election to Bill Bradley, spent nearly three times as much as Fenwick ($2 million, vs. $700,000) and accused her of being too liberal. Fenwick, 72, a pipe-smoking four-termer who has never lost an election, is an old-line Republican whose TV ads insisted that she "stands...
Richard Ben-Veniste, 39, assistant special prosecutor whose tart questioning about missing tapes frequently rattled White House staff in court hearings. Still feisty, he is founding partner of Washington law firm. Was attorney for Abscam Defendant Howard Criden, Philadelphia lawyer. Filed suit on behalf of several clients against Air Florida after last winter's crash of Boeing 737 in Potomac River...
Politicians can prove they are unafraid of exposure by encouraging the FBI to follow leads that connect the underworld to the political arena. For all the unseemly whining about Abscam in Congress, one fact is irrefutable "We haven't" as FBI chief William H. Webster said before Congress last week, "arrested anyone innocent...
...Abscam has led to the conviction on corruption charges of 16 persons, including seven members of Congress and one senator. All of them, despite abundant and expensive legal counsel, have failed to prove they were entrapped. His pious rambling on the Senate floor notwithstanding. Harrison A. Williams remained a man convicted on nine counts of bribery, conspiracy, receiving an unlawful gratuity, contact of interest and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. To waste time and sympathy on crooks and bums like Williams opens liberal up to charges of caring only about their own and undermines the effectiveness of the government...