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om cn X. CONCLUSION In these three cases the congressional defendants. 267 were caught on videotape in flagrante delicto, accepting “money in relation to their official conduct as public ser- vants. By overwhelming evidence the other defendants were proven guilty of aiding and abetting the Myers bribery. None of the defendants was a "deprived" citizen... All of them occupied honored, well-rewarded, and highly respected positions in our society. Four of them sat in the highest legisiative body of the country. Another, a former state prosecutor, was a respected lawyer in a well-known law firm, serving in an ancient and honorable profession. Still another combined a legal career in the same firm with a political career in Philadelphia's local government. The seventh occupied a dual: position of public trust as mayor of a large city and state senator of New Jersey. Despite their respected and trusted positions, defendants' crass conduct here reveals only greed, dishonesty and corrup-. tion. Their major defense has been that they were tricked into committing the crime on videotape. The .government's need to unmask such conduct more than justifies the investigative techniques employed in these cases. Without: question these convictions were . -iil. . réliable, and no constitutional right of any defendant. mone oe we . carte wei gimme on At mpaamee eyenennnet mate ue ataniy aime jimmie sek meemrne oe temmeNe AMA oes | eR RE RRR Sa eerie Setennirt apmmmte seme