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...dinner with hors d'oeuvres and dessert and finishing with a Chateaubriand and vegetables." 1980: Life with a Congressman need not be dull, especially if the Congressman is Democrat John Jenrette, who lost his House seat in the November election after being convicted of bribery in the FBI Abscam investigation. Writing in last weekend's Washington Post magazine, Rita Jenrette, 30, confesses: "I knew the honeymoon was over when I rolled over one morning to find John's side of the bed unruffled. I found him drunk, undressed and lying on the floor in the arms...
Recalls a Government official ordered to submit to a polygraph during the Abscam investigation of congressional bribes and shown to be telling the truth: "It was the most humiliating experience of my entire Government career...
Since the early 1970s, law-enforcement officers have used video cameras to tape drunk-driving suspects, for crowd surveillance and to record "sting" operations. (By far the most famous use: the Abscam investigations that led to the convictions of former New Jersey Senator Harrison Williams and six Congressmen...
...purportedly a California consulting firm, to collect IBM documents giving crucial details of the company's newest computer technology. Hitachi had made payments totaling $622,000 to get the information. To Hayashi's surprise, he was confronted by a gaggle of FBI agents, who had set an Abscam-like trap to catch Hayashi and his friends...
Inevitably, the way in which De Lorean met with undercover agents posing as drug distributors while clandestine cameras and microphones recorded both sight and sound was reminiscent of the FBI's controversial Abscam operation. But, well aware of possible claims of entrapment, Justice Department officials stoutly insisted that the operation that netted De Lorean was carefully designed to meet all court standards. Moreover, they said De Lorean could not have been entrapped because the operation had not been aimed at him. Declared one FBI agent: "Hetrick was the original target. He was Mr. Big. De Lorean just walked into...