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The conscience of the senate
That's really worth a read. Some eye-opening stuff in there. So Murtha has been corrupt from the start in Congress. And he knew how to avoid getting stung. Looks like he already had experience. I think ABSCAM needs another airing. Thank you very much!
Good job!
Whoa!
SBD:
You need to send this to Diana Irey's campaign so she can cook Murtha's goose once and for all.
Please bump and ping this.
Why isn't that guy in jail?
Time for another search warrant. I wonder how many shredders Murtha has in his office now.
Time to give Murtha his Pink Slip. We issued Condit his pink slip in 2002 and now he's selling ice cream in Arizona.
Chillicothe (Missouri) Constitution-Tribune, Wednesday, August 6, 1980
Jack Anderson
Washington - Rep John Murtha, D-Pa, came out of the Korean and Vietnam Wars a Marine Corps hero, with the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. He was the first Vietnam veteran elected to Congress, a symbol of the voters' ire over the Watergate scandal, back in 1974.
Perhaps the saddest scene on the secret ABSCAM videotapes is the spectacle of Murth, with hair untamed and assertive manner, dickering for financial favors with the supposed bagman for a fictitious Arab sheik.
The bagmen, who were really undercover agents engaged in the FBI's most celebrated "sting" operation, had $50,000 stacked in five neat piles in a desk drawer ready to hand over to Murtha. He refused to take the money, but his reason was hardly noble.
"I want to deal with you guys a while before I make any transactions at all, period," he told them. "After we've done some business, well, then I might change my mind."
Still he wanted them to understand that he was the best man in Congress the sheik could acquire. "I'm going to tell you this. If anybody can do it, I'm not B S-ing you fellows, I can get it done my way," he boasted. "There's no question about it."
But the FBI's undercover con men were eager to complete the payoff. "I've never backed down on a deal," press hawk nosed Anthony Amoroso, who identified himself as Tony De Vito. "That's why I said to you a little while ago, I said to you that when I knew you were coming over, I assumed that I was going to give you the money."
But the reluctant Murtha would touch the $50,000. Here on secret videotape was this all-American hero, tall and dignified in a disheveled way, explaing why he wasn't quite ready to accept the cash.
"All at once," he said, "some dome (expletive deleted) would to start talking eight years from now about the whole thing and say (expletive deleted), this happened. Then in order to get immunity so he doesn't go to jail, he starts talking and fingering peopls. So the (S O B) falls apart."
Murtha suggested that the sheik start by investing in his district. "I'm talking about having a business connection" the congressman explained, "a business commitment that makes it imperative for me to help him."
"You give us the banks where you want the money deposited," offered one of the bagmen.
"All right," aggreed Murtha. "How much money we talking about?"
"Well, you tell me."
"Well, let me find out what is a reasonable figure that will get their attention," said Murtha, "because there are a couple of banks that have really dome me some favors in the past, and I'd like to put some money in."
The dialogue continued as follows:
AMOROSO: Let me ask you now that we're together. I was under the impression, OK, and I told Howard (middleman Howard Criden) that we were willing to pay, and I went out, I got the $50,000 OK. So what you're telling me, OK, you're tellimg me that that's not what you know.
MURTHA: I'm not interested.
AMOROSO: OK.
MURTHA: At this point, you know, we do business together for a while. Maybe I'll be interested and maybe I won't. Rightnow, I'm not interested in those other things. Now, I won't say that some day, you know, I, if you made an offer, it may be I would change my mind some day."
Later Murtha asked again how much the sheik might be willing to deposit in a bank the congressman would designate.
"Oh," said Amoroso, "I think a million dollars."
The figure aroused new enthusiasm in Murtha. He told the bagman about a bank president who was a friend of his. "This guy, over the years I've been in business myself, he's loaned me a lot of money and boy. They've been good to me, I mean good to me."
"And you think, I mean, this guy has really a little bank, any (expletive deleted) Congress with the leadership and the White House as anybody in Congress. I went to the ball game with the president. There were three of us, me, Tip (House Speaker Thomas P O'Neill) and that was it. So I've got as much influence, and I know as much about the (expletive deleted) working - you're not going to have any trouble."
Footnote: The Murtha episode was just a small, sad segment in the hours of ABSCAM videotapes, which my associate Gary Cohn has reviewed. The secret videotapes show that middleman Howard Criden later told undercover operatives that "Murtha's ready to go." This meant, according to government sources, that hea had agreed to accept a cash payoff. But just hours later, the ABSCAM story broke wide open - including mention that Murtha had been caught in the net. He responded with righteous indignation that the undercover agents "didn't offer me any money and I didn't take any." He has not been indicted but has been named a co-conspirator in the ABSCAM case.
OFF LIMITS: The CIA has warned members of Congress that visition the Israeli-occupied West Bank could be dangerous to their health. "The situation in the West Bank is volatile from a personal safety point of view," a secret cable from the CIA station chief warned.
The warning was seconded by similar reports from diplomatic sources in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
You sure do good work! Thanks for this post!
BTTT
Murtha take down marked for history. ZZAAAAAAPP.
I love this site.
Well, here we are again...it had already been posted.
This .pdf file will come in handy.
http://chicagoray.com/anderson.pdf
Ping - there's a .pdf copy of the article that was retyped in this post. Helpful for uploading to websites, as well as using in districts where Murtha shows up to campaign - there was an article claiming he plans to campaign 41 districts.