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...crime committed by William Blount of Tennessee: inciting Indians to attack the Spanish colonies of Florida and Louisiana. Since then another 14 Senators have been ousted, all for their treasonous support of the South in the Civil War. By comparison, Harrison Williams' involvement in the Abscam bribery scandal seems rather prosaic. But last week all six members of the Senate Ethics Committee recommended that Williams, 61, become the 16th Senator in history-and the first in 119 years-to get the heave...
These matters may not impress Judge Pratt. Four of the six U.S. Representatives stung by Abscam made similar appeals in his court and lost. Of the six, only one, Michael Myers of Philadelphia, has been expelled from the House. Two others resigned and three lost their seats in elections. Williams believes that his case is the strongest: tapes show that he refused a bribe from FBI agents and that a bureau informant coached him to "tell anything" to the sheik. Should his appeal fail, Williams will probably resign. Expulsion, as the Senator glumly admits, would mean an unwanted "note...
...defense lawyer decried the "mass condemnation proceedings," but New York Federal District Court Judge George Pratt was unmoved. Pratt ordered jail terms for six former elected officials convicted of bribery and conspiracy, the first sentences handed down in the Justice Department's Abscam operation...
...perhaps, the last of the Abscam cases, and it involved the biggest name of all: New Jersey Democrat Harrison A. Williams Jr., a 22-year veteran of the Senate and former chairman of its Labor and Human Resources Committee. After three days of deliberation, a federal jury last week convicted Williams and a coconspirator, New Jersey Lawyer Alexander Feinberg. The Senator was found guilty of bribery, conspiracy, conflict of interest and receiving a criminal gratuity. Williams, 61, was the seventh member of Congress to be convicted in the scandal...
Wearing a gray suit and an even grayer expression, New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams Jr., 61, made his way into Brooklyn's U.S. District Court last week. He is the last suspect to be brought to trial on bribery and corruption charges in the Government's Abscam (for "Arab scam") case. A 22-year veteran of the Senate, he is also the most important figure to face a jury as a result of the FBI sting operation. Like the six U.S. Congressmen already tried and convicted on Abscam charges, Williams faces a barrage of electronic evidence...