Sen. Feinscam

“ The Two Faces of Elected Democrats  ... it's probably not a good idea to begin by asserting that virtually all elected Democrats are liars. But what the hell. Mr. Ron Metzger Which brings to mind— I naively thought Congress wanted to get rid of the bad apples. Boy, was I wrong. I thought we were doing a good thing here, but it turned out Congress didn't agree with that. They were angry Francis 'Bud' Mullen former FBI assistant director .While prosecutors won 19 Abscam convictions, Congress sought assurances that a similar investigation would never happen again. Then-U.S. Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti approved new guidelines in 1981 that governed "sensitive" undercover investigations involving politicians.  [Full] Of the thirty-one targeted officials, one US senator (Harrison A. Williams (D-NJ)) and six members of the US House of Representatives (John Jenrette (D-SC), Richard Kelly (R-FL), Raymond Lederer (D-PA), Michael "Ozzie" Myers (D-PA), Frank Thompson (D-NJ), and John M. Murphy (D-NY)) were convicted of bribery and conspiracy in separate trials in 1981. John Murtha (D-PA) was one of the Congressmen videotaped[16] in an encounter with undercover FBI operatives.[17] Although never indicted or prosecuted, he was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the scandal.[18] .... Murtha was given immunity and testified against his colleagues, and remained in Congress Until fairly recently, most discussions of Abscam misdirected his party affiliation with (Harrison A. Williams (R-NJ)   ”