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‘. a ed codefendants; destroyed evidence; withheld prior statements ‘o£ Amoroso and Weinberg; violated the principles of Brady to the civic duty of targets to involve them in Abscam; improperly used "middle men": attempted to mislead the court and jury about the creation of the "asylum scenario"; a permitted an FBI agent, the government prosecutor and Wein- . berg to separately contract to write books about Abscam; | failed to safeguard against entrapment; trapped Lederer into giving a false statement to the FBI; withheld evidence of Weinberg's criminal record; leaked untruthful stories to the press in order to interfere with cooperation among v. Maryland, 373 US 83 (1973); and instructed agents to testify falsely and to withhold information at the trial. Lederer further argues that he was entrapped as a matter of Law. E. Claims of the Government, The- government argues that the Abscam investigation in its totality was both appropriate and constitutional, that the rights of none of the defendants were violated by the investigation and that there was no exculpatory . evidence withheld from the defense. In the government's view, all of the defendants' "due process" contentions. basically fall into two categories, neither of which has validity: governmental "over-involvement" in the creation of criminal activity, and the government's failure to take