Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...East Coast port facilities and an American titanium mine. Along the way, the phony sheik and his aides sought to protect his investments by buying political influence in Congress, in New Jersey's Casino Control Commission, the New Jersey legislature and the Philadelphia city council. When the FBI sting ended, its supervisors alleged that the honey pot of Arab money had attracted one U.S. Senator, seven members of the House and two dozen state and local officials or their corrupt cronies-all stung by facing possible charges of accepting bribes or being caught in an illegal conflict of interest...
...bought some $42 million in hot goods, with 256 arrests, to Operation Lobster in Boston, where agents recovered 17 huge truckloads of stolen goods that were stuffed with $3 million in loot. As a result, Boston area hijackings dropped from about 50 a year to only two since this sting ended in March...