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exposed testifies to the agents' success in making all aspects of the bribe offers seem real. Moreover, there were several participants in each of these transactions, so the amount of bribe honey each congressman could expect to. actually receive varied from between $5,000 and $20,000. Furthermore, it is evident, that the inducements offered were not so great as to cause every official who appeared before the cameras to agree to commit a crime, because Senator Pressler, Congressman “Patten and Congressman Murtha all refused. Nor do we know how many congressmen, if any, were approached by the middle- men, offered the $50,000, and refused outright to even visit with. the sheik's representatives to. discuss the matter. Taken together, all these factors make it clear that the inducements offered were not overwhelming. The difference between those public officials who took bribes and those who refused cannot be found by examining the inducements offered. Honest congressmen would refuse a bribe offer; . dishonest ones took the money. ‘Judge Fullam, in his due process ruling in Jannotti, found the inducements offered by the government to be so ~ "attractive" and "exceedingly generous" that defendants’ acceptance of the money could not establish proof of predispo- sition, and he therefore held that the inducements resulted in entrapment as a matter of law. It may be that he reached 60