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ABSCAM

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ABSCAMAbdul-Scam (1980s FBI investigation)


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Harrison Williams in 1982 (the Abscam bribery scandal), stepped aside before their colleagues could give them the boot.
Endowment godfather Frank Thompson, the New Jersey congressman later imprisoned for his role in the Abscam sting, called it "a program of selling our culture to the uncommitted people of the world," while President Kennedy lauded music as "part of our arsenal in the Cold War.
 
 
 
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