Operation ABSCAM began in 1978 as an FBI investigation into stolen artwork and fake securities before unexpectedly expanding ...

ABSCAM began as an absurd FBI undercover operation involving fake Arab sheiks, fake bank accounts, Abdul Enterprises Ltd., ...

The Oscar contender is loosely based on the Abscam sting, which nailed a senator and six House members on corruption charges. The FBI videotaped some Hollywood-worthy scenes. One of the frontrunners ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Rep. Michael Myers, second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 he just received from undercover FBI Agent ...

John W. Jenrette Jr., a flamboyant congressman who was convicted of taking a $50,000 bribe in the Abscam sting operation of the late 1970s, and who gained further notoriety after his wife told Playboy ...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A former FBI agent and a former senator remember the ABSCAM public corruption scandal that led to the arrest of several government officials in the late 1970s, and ...

WASHINGTON - Thomas P. Puccio - who as a US Justice Department prosecutor led the Abscam political corruption investigation in the late 1970s that ended with the convictions of seven US lawmakers - ...

At the center of an FBI corruption investigation that employed fake Middle Eastern sheikhs, a 65-foot yacht, plush hotel suites and paper bags of cash was a convicted con artist, a cigar-chomping ...

Former FBI agents who worked the notorious 1970s sting operation known as ABSCAM have written FBI Director James Comey to warn that nothing less than the bureau's "reputation" is on the line as the ...

PHILADELPHIA — A former congressman from Philadelphia who went to prison over the 1970s-era Abscam scandal was sent back to prison Tuesday at age 79 in a ballot stuffing case. Former Democratic U.S.