Word: criden
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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According to the latest charges, a New Jersey land developer named Joseph Silvestri introduced Thompson, 61, a 13-term Congressman and the influential chairman of the House Administration Committee, to Philadelphia Attorney Howard Criden...
Thompson, accompanied by Criden, then allegedly met with two FBI agents posing as representatives of Arab businessmen and accepted $50,000 in return for promising to introduce private immigration bills in Congress. Thompson was said to have split the bribe with Silvestri and Criden, both of whom were also indicted last week, and then referred Criden to Murphy...
...federal grand jury in Brooklyn handed down five, four of them involving Philadelphians. Two are Democratic Congressmen: Michael ("Ozzie") Myers and Raymond Lederer. The others: Philadelphia Councilman Louis Johanson, Attorney Howard Criden and Camden (N.J.) Mayor Angelo Errichetti. All are charged with conspiracy to commit bribery and defraud the U.S. They could receive prison terms of up to 25 years and fines of at least...
...return for private immigration bills that would allow the Arabs to stay in the U.S. The FBI said the other three were middlemen who helped set up the deal. More indictments are expected, but convictions of two other Congressmen may be harder to obtain, since the chief informant, Criden, refuses to cooperate any longer unless he is given total immunity...
...middleman expecting to be generously rewarded for his efforts by the sheik, Criden also brought Pennsylvania Democrat Raymond Lederer, 41, Pennsylvania Democrat Michael Myers, 36, and New York Democrat John Murphy, 53, into Abscam. Myers and Lederer were filmed accepting $50,000 each. Murphy, who has been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, was more wary. In an almost comic scene, he sparred with Criden over who would pick up the suitcase of bribe money in a Kennedy Airport hotel; Criden lost, and walked out with the cash. Pennsylvania Democrat John Murtha, 47, went to the Washington house...