Letters, Mar. 10, 1980

Abscam Scandal

To the Editors:

What concerns me most about the Abscam revelations [Feb. 18] is not so much that some of our elected representatives were caught scrambling to get their hands into the cookie jar. It is far more disturbing that I no longer feel a sense of shock at their clownish, unethical antics.

Helen M. Emery Granby, Mass.

What gives the FBI the right to bribe Congressmen with the taxpayers' money?

Martin J. Rimm Longport, N.J.

Your excellent story states: "The judge was tipped by the FBI before he was approached by the...

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