Word: abscam
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...attacks Evans for failing to vote to expel Michigan Democrat Charles Diggs from Congress last year, after Diggs was convicted of falsifying congressional payrolls, and then voting two weeks ago to expel Philadelphia Congressman Michael Myers, who was convicted of taking bribes in the FBI's Abscam investigation. Charges Crane: "Evans applied a double standard. Honesty in Government is perhaps the most important issue in this election...
Jenrette convicted in Abscam...
...backlash gathering against such attacks, and Culver is stimulating it by doing some loud Bible-thumping of his own. He ridicules the Christian Voice list of issues as a warped test of morality, pointing out that Florida Congressman Richard Kelly scored 100%-before being indicted for allegedly taking ABSCAM bribes. The list, thunders Culver, says nothing about such Christian concerns as helping the poor, hungry and sick...
...representative of a fictitious Arab sheik. Myers was heard promising hi return to sponsor special legislation that would enable the sheik to settle in the U.S. The tapes had been used by the Justice Department to convict Myers in August of bribery in the first of its series of ABSCAM prosecutions involving six Congressmen.* Said Myers at the time of his conviction: "The jury was confused. I may be guilty of being an ass, but I have done nothing criminal...
...usually spend half a day on each session (compared with an average of an hour in private industry). Tests given to Jeb Magruder and Gordon Strachan led to evidence of the Watergate coverup. Right now, Justice Department investigators are using polygraphs extensively in their search for the source of Abscam leaks. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti has ruled that an "adverse inference" may be drawn if an employee of the FBI or any other part of the Justice Department balks at submitting to the machines...