ABSCAM
Abscam
Abscam was a United States Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation run from the FBI's Hauppauge, Long Island, office in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The operation initially targeted trafficking in stolen property but was converted to a public corruption investigation. The FBI had codenamed the operation "Abscam", a contraction of "Abdul scam", after the name of its fictitious front company.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Abscam
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