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...ABSCAM it turns out, is not short for "Arab scam," as widely reported. At the request of the American-Arab Relations Committee, Judge George C. Pratt, presiding at the trial, announced that the acronym actually stands for "Abdul scam," after Abdul Enterprises Ltd., the bogus import-export firm that the agents used as their front...
Abscam and Brilab, those FBI "sting" operations that sound like computer-named detergents, last week produced more indictments and against the biggest names yet. The Abscam (short for Arab scam) investigation led a federal grand jury in Brooklyn to indict Democratic Congressmen Frank Thompson of New Jersey and John Murphy of New York on charges of bribery and conspiracy. Brilab (for bribery labor) resulted in a New Orleans grand jury naming Mafia Kingfish Carlos ("Little Man") Marcello on counts of racketeering, conspiracy and fraud. So far, Abscam has led to indictments of five Congressmen, all accused of accepting bribes from...
Thus began another session of what its adherents call the "business concept list," but what law-enforcement officials call the "pyramid club," an illegal and get-rich-quick variation, California-style, of the old chain-letter scam...
...with her other son Jon, and William's 14-year-old daughter Robin, who lives with her. The statement notes sarcastically that the three are pleased William "is going to retire early and live off religious money. We are happy when any atheist gets some of that Christian scam money." Puzzled, William responds that there is no money...
Hellman. The reports of her death may have been exaggerated. Evidence is presented that Sarah lives on, the beneficiary of a life-insurance scam. She is important to the author only because she survives in the mind, one ghost among many...