Readers of a certain age may remember an FBI sting known as ABSCAM. They made a movie about it and it was featured on 60 Minutes circa 1980. A Philadelphia Congressman was caught in the web and expelled from Congress - the first expulsion since the Civil War. Before they voted him out he spoke to his colleagues: "As you go to the voting machine, keep in mind when you hit that button that it will have the same effect.......as if I were strapped into an electric chair." Very dramatic - and very brazen. I read the NYT article with a touch of sadness as I knew and worked with his father. In south Philly parlance the son's mantra was "Money talks and Bull.... walks."
tjs
NYT 10/3/19
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