WATCH Mel Weinberg Abscam InterviewIn this January 21, 1982 interview segment
from 20/20, Mel Weinberg defends
himself against accusations made by his
estranged wife that he accepted
inappropriate gifts during the Abscam
operation, including three gold watches
that he says he turned over to the
government. His wife Marie shows a
reporter a microwave that she claims Mel
filed the serial number off of. |
WATCH John Murtha's Abscam Meeting FootageThe entire footage of Pennsylvania
Representative John Murtha's controversial
Abscam meeting on January 7, 1980. Decide
for yourself. Did Murtha intend to take
the FBI's bribe money? FBI agent Anthony
Amoroso, who is the real-life counterpart
to Bradley Cooper's Richie DiMaso
character in the American Hustle
movie, attempts to bribe Murtha. The
congressman turns down the bribe but seems
to indicate that he might be interested in
the future. "We do business for a while,
maybe I'll be interested and maybe I
won't," Murtha says in the video. |
WATCH Mel Weinberg InterviewWatch an April 12, 1981 interview with Mel
Weinberg about his role in the FBI's
Abscam operation. The con man opens up
about his past as a swindler and his role
in the controversial FBI sting operation
known as Abscam. Weinberg talks about
which corrupt politicians were his
favorites and casually lights up a cigar
during the interview. |
WATCH American Hustle TrailerThe American Hustle movie trailer
for the film directed by David O. Russell
and starring Christian Bale, Bradley
Cooper, Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence,
Jeremy Renner and Robert De Niro. Bale
plays a con man recruited by an FBI agent
(Cooper) and eventually assists in taking
down corrupt U.S. Congressmen and
government officials. The movie is a
fictionalized account of the FBI Abscam
operation executed in the late 1970s and
early 1980s that led to the convictions of
a U.S. Senator, six members of the House
of Representatives, and other government
officials. |