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Memorandum to Mr. Mullen from W. D. Gow Re: ABSCAM 2. That if this request is approved, Administrative. Services Division forward $48,500 to the Brooklyn/Queens MRA. Adm. ServJU HRtegal Coun. APPROVED: Pian.& Insp Crim. inv. Fec. Wigrt. Director Ident. Toch. Sorvs. EC.AD-Inv. Inisl. Treining Exec. AD-Adm. Pubic Afis.Off Exec. AD-LES Laboratory DETAILS: ABscam is the code name for a uco which began. July 25, 1978 and is being conducted by the. Brooklyn/Queens MRA. It has targeted and developed prosecutable Federal cases against Angelo Errichetti, Mayor of Camden, New Jersey; Kenneth McDonald, Vice-Chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission; Harrison williams, U.S. Senator, New Jersey; Senator Williams' associates, Henry A.. Williams, III, Alex Feinberg, and George Katz; INs Investigator Al Alexandro; Michael Ozzie Myers, U.S. Congressman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Raymond F. Lederer, U.S. Congressman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Howard Criden,. Philadelphia attorney; Joseph Silvestri, a representative of a number of interests attempting to obtain financing for casino gambling projects, Atlantic City, New Jersey: Frank Thompson, Jr., U.S. Congressman, New Jersey; John M. Murphy, U.S.. Congressman, Staten Island, New York; George W. Jenrette, Jr., U.S. Congressman, South Carolina; Richard Kelly, U.s. Congressman, Holiday, Florida; John P. Murtha, U.s.. Congressman, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; and George A. Maressa, New Jersey State Senator.. Undercover Agents (ucA) of ABscAm through Criden are presently in the process of establishing Yassir Habib's, the Arab principal of the operation, business investments in south Philadelphia. Criden, according to Philadelphia, will; in all probability, produce his law partner who is previously. described as a Philadelphia City councilman who "can get things CONTINUED-OVER