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the Abscam investigation and the government's handling “of it was both necessary and désirable. As a result of the foregoing, the court has before _ it, and has considered in making this decision, all of the testimony developed in four weeks of the Myers trial, three weeks of the Thompson trial, one week of the Lederer trial, five weeks of the Williams trial, three weeks of the first due process hearing, and one week of the second due process hearing, making altogether approximately 17 weeks of trial presided over by this court represented in approximately 20,000 pages. of transcripts. In addition, the court has reviewed all of the testimony in the due process hearings before Judge Fullam, and those selected portions of the trials before Judges Fullam, Bryant and Penn, as well as the due process hearing before Judge Penn, that counsel have focused upon. The many volumes of the FBI's Abscam files from both headquarters in Washington and the Brooklyn-Queens office were reviewed im camera, _ resulting in directions to the government to produce all or parts of many documents. The court has also reviewed and considered the government's pre-prosecution riemoranda, the so-called "Del. Tufo memorandum", the "Blumenthal report" | “on publicity leaks, a large number of video and audio tapes and transcripts, and hundreds of other exhibits.