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ABSCAM — Part 4
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120460788205 07/23/80 ICS IPMMTZZ CSP WSHA
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FEDERAL. BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
ATTN ABSCAM
WASHINGTON DC 20535
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RE CONGRESSMAN RICHARD KELLY
GENTLEMEN
FOLLOWING STORY SEEMS LOGICAL AND POSSIBLY TRUE HOWEVER, THE NAMES
WERE NOT CHANGED IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT
IT'S NOT HARD TO VISUALIZE HOW ABSCAM STARTED, ONE DAY A TOP FBI
EXECUTIVE, DEDICATED TO HIS JOB, CAME TO WORK ONE MORNING AND SAW &
FEW CRIME INVESTIGATORS (CI'S) LOAFING AROUND ON TAX DOLLARS, AND
ASKED» "DON'T YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO DO?" AND THE CI'S REPLIED "NO*,.
AND aS QUICK AS THE CRACK OF A WHIP THE TOP EXECUTIVE SAID "WELL: THEN:
FIND SOMETHING", SO THE CI'S SAW THERE WAS PLENTY OF MONEY IN THE
BUDGET AND DECIDED THEY WOULD TRY TO ENTRAP AND ROT A FEW .
SHINY*APPLE=CONGRESSMEN, SO OFF THEY WENT TO SOME DARK ALLEY WITH
THETR BRIEFCASE FULL OF CASH... A FEW WEEKS OR MAYBE MONTHS WENT BY
AND THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD DONE A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF MAKING .
SHINING*APPLE=CONGRESSMEN TAKE BAD MONEY CAND OF COURSE, WHO 18 TO
SAY THEY DION'T GET A LITTLE FOR THEMSELVES)
TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT Z 3-/75l/- 4 I)
THE ABSCAM DEAL LEAKED OUT AND ONE OF THE SHINING@APPLE@CONGRESSMEN
CRICHARD KELLY) HAD A REALLY CRAZY EXCUSE FOR WHY HE WENT ALONG WITH
ABSCAM, HE SAID "IY WAS DOING MY OWN INVESTIGATION. coe”
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HE (aA CONGRESSMAN OF OUR GREAT NATION) WANTED TO FIND OUT WHO"WAgS =
BEHIND SUCH A CRIMINAL OFFENSE TO OUR GREAT COUNTRY
B2 JUL 81 1980
WELL, IF YOU DO NOT KNOW RICHARD KELLY YOU WOULD PROBABLY THINK HE
WAS CRAZED AND OUT OF HIS MIND, BUT IF YOU KNOW RICKARD KELCY~YoOU
WOULD KNOW HE IS ABOUT THE ONLY CONGRESSMAN THAT STILL BELIEVES IN
"THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM", THAT KE TAKES CARE OF HIS PEOPLE
(FLORIDIANS), THAT HE MEANS WHAT HE SAYS, AND SAYS WHAT HE MEANS aN
jars A WONDER CHRYSLER DIDN'T HAVE HIM BUMPED OFF) ae
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CERTAINLY DOESN'T SEEM FAIR THAT ABSCAM DIDNIT LAST A LITTLELGSONGER
8 $0 CONGRESSMAN KELLY COULD COMPLETE HIS INVESTIGATION AND INDICT THE
XN FBI FOR BRIBING CONGRESSMAN
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1 CAS DE Aa THE FRLSS REPLY TO THE INDICTMENT NOW... “WE WERE DOING
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