ABSCAM 1977 - FBI investigation and sting of Congress

This is a good time to do what we did before.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/30/the-real-life-fbistingbehindamericanhustle.html

Money plays a much bigger and more important role in Congress than in those days. It's become so egregiously escalated since Abscam that we are ripe for another scandal.

Craig Holman

government-affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen

This wasn't the way the government was supposed to work. I didn't realize it was this bad. Sometimes when you catch a murderer, for example, you are elated. This was different. I wished it wasn’t happening. There were tears in the room

Francis 'Bud' Mullen

former FBI assisant director