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qd 13-785 Washingt bet Magenta 36,500 ABSCAM’S GON MAN PROVIDES DETAILS OF FEDERAL STING Uf you're & congremman ensnated in the Abscam mandal, youll teve to stand in @ long line to depousee Melvin behind the episade. According to 4 sony of a book proposal shout bis fe, Weinberg bas rato a habit of double: eating, becd-ntabbing and bustling. deginning with bis Bronx boyhood ‘whea be stole gold atars from his teach- ‘sr's desk to show Als mother what.» fave sturlent he was. Things went Cownbill Som there, "| Beinbeng meioate will be included in | the book: . ‘When Weinberg’s father went inte the window glass business, for example, hie Belpta} sco drove around town is & Cadillac. shootisg ous windows with = slingehot. Dad's bunizess booed. And for the last three decaden. Weinberg. ‘bes taken bis talente around the worl generally known when the Abeoum af- fair became public knowledge early this your. “Mel Wainberg’s touch in the Ab- scam invertigation was as apparent as & harmerhend shack (9 the kitchen sink,” claims the proposd for an au- Shorined biography af Weinberg that s Newsday Pallter. Prite-winnlog edi- Yet, Robert W. Greens, ix writing for Publisher EP. Dutton. “Phe bedget- canacious governoitat investigator can vot think in terse of Dow Perignon ‘coffee breaks, authentic Leaie XVE fur- aniture and rented Lear jets as prope for an investigation “The goverument mind tends wore to Seare, Roebuck ‘S24, dinner meetinge at Schraff's and discount rooms at the Dixie Halal... ‘Weinberg made the difference.” Winters reportedly made about a 600,000 diffesence——the reported cont sf 0 sting that featured yachts, botel suites, Auantic City partice and, of sour, cuses of cau fos patiticiane and ‘heir middlemen. . Among the informustion Sreent ead { & Same politicians were net to be touched. Te the fnutration of Wein: dere and the FRI agoots working with | i ‘Weinberg, the self-described con man” building « reputation thet only became | ; RUDY MAKA’S © Weinberg promines to reveal detail of how he brought con- "{ * fleear. “Bat ifone mobster bad bed kis way a 7 vpaper photograph . | delphin af « fernale FBI agent working sresames—and_ sot just heir middie mues—inta the open to socept or at Joust disease bribes we government exmares recarded them. © He alan tolls the staty of 2 fant. age neway in Phila. with Weinberg that aluost ruined the ‘racial Pesnaylvanis partion of the Ab- Ko At the same tine he was working Abscas, Weinberg ran an unrelated ‘rate plane to an sirpart whore whens. abouts was knows anly to the mob- ster, The FHI, however, followed the pplaoe, recovered the art and arrested the wobetens. Le peecmerer stata ive as a “respy-vaicad, cigar: i indies from the Bron.” owed the ‘Weinberg told the agevt, “You gotta g0 with class, We need » big front, of. sonuuigeinieameene something ¢ little differen.” [Pee car et pas easly 1960s with coganized etims figures 40 murder Fide! Castro hes the federal government worked with # can- teased cruok on euch « wide-reaching | Few grate ago, there wosld have becs, 1 se Seintee fo asteonind saying According to Weinberg, « Florida gang. ater almost threw bim ut of « hotel window became he'd swindled the « Rengater's nephew, « Miami lawyer, out 4 ef $8060. Only Weinbery's desperate invocation of highet-renking mob- ter's Rome saved bim from Hot de east a coupte of congressmen prot wish the aggrieved mobster had sot Bocn so charitalte, Pootnote: An editor at E, P. Dutton ‘S299 & couple of chapters of the Wels Ddiography—which the propotal ays will enjoy the exclusive seopera: feo of the FEY agents whe worked ‘with Weinberg ~are in hen, and could ‘be in bookstores as early an next spring.