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8 Tab eaahingtoa beet Bhpanoa/ Deter S80 | ABSCAM'S CON MAN PROVIDES DETAILS OF FEDERAL STING copy of a book proposal atour bis tafe, J+" Weinberg has mats a babit of double dealing, beck-stebbing’ and bustling, beginaing. with bis Brons hoyioad whan be stole gold stars from His taash- at's desk to phow June wether whet» Fine etudent he waa. When Weinbery’s futher went inte the Wintlow glass business, fox urumpis. his elpfal ne drove around town is & Cedilec, shooting out windows with « For. thy lant three decades, Weinherg ben taben bis taleote around the weekd, buildizg ‘© reputation thet only became generally known oben the Abscan-ef- fair became public knowkndge aarly thik yoar, 5 , “Mel Weinberg’y touch in the Ab acam (nventigation was a2 apparent ax & ‘yj aink,” cain the proposal for in au thorized biography of Weinbere that a Nowaday Puligar: Pryste-winmlng adi- publiaher BLP. Dutton, “Phe budget-- conscious govenniuent Investigator van. Wot thisk in terms of Dou Perk eofies brauke, authentic: Logis XV ied tewads mare to Sear, Roebuck Sails, dinner meetings at Schntit's end him, Weinberg elaine, Justion aunt officials reportedly ordered thang. fot bo gurmce leads that might have ied fe hribe ‘alley: ce ae tionk against Howse Rep. Fisdline {0-N.5), SRSC) and vera | Bother congressmen, discount eeotay at the Dixie Hadad. Weinberg muide the differeana.” Weinkerg mportediy walter, Atlantic City parting aad, of heir middionen. . Welnburg: mdicate sail be inchaded’ i the book: w Some politicinny were got ty. be touched ‘Te the tmsiration. of Wein: ~ | | j i Weinderg promipes. ad how be brought apn- | ® R the ashy 28809 with I Tigurte to sunday dirt theft con for the FBI fn whet 1 -| teshange a million dolla in atolen ari | these gangsters 6 for $800,000 in cask. The exchange was t9 dollow a ride dts the gargtior’s psi. vate plane to on airport whose whens. shouts ‘wad known only to the mob. mer, The FEL however, followed the plone, hecoverad the art and arrested he moheigrs. sine there ascribed {ni thy book put. FBI e-fayor. leaticted for fraud in 1977, plang seith ‘a-gitliriend, Weinberg i probation after ‘promising to work for Be oie ubordty thereafter, dohn Goods, as FBI aycut newly aaugried to Suffolk County, New. Fork, recruited ‘einbarg. Weinberg told the agent, You potte go with clans, We need a big-front, of: Som, limousines, & private. plana something « [tie diferent” Pidel- Castro has the federal goveramuint Worked with ¢ con. Teseed crook on guch & wide-reaching? __ Wit fom mobster had hed his waya Few guare age, there would hove boon dows Weisbarg to mastermind anything. mins—-inte the open ts. exept on af feast dincumy bribes ue -goveramant carneree recurdad them, o* He slag tolls the avaiy of o frat. asiphia ale female FRY agent working with Weinberg thot elnost mined the erucial Pesneylvanis portion of the Ab Kr At the same tine be wes working Abocani, Weinberg ran an elated ypanygpiter's nephew, ¢ Miami beyor, gut of BR.000. Only Wainberg's deapernts savecation of 4. higheraanking mab- tler's Rome saved kim from daath Att Teast a couple of eongresunan probably sayt a couple of chapters of the Wein berg bingraphy—ehich the proposal kaye gil mabey the exclusive soopera- Booof the FBI with Weinberg~—are in hand: and scald De be bookstores as early as DExk spring. agents wha worked | Teper meenennnne