Check out this FBI video and Transcript of John Murtha (below). The "Abscam" investigation is just the tip of the iceburg.
Here is a teaser:
MURTHA [12:06:07]: A business commitment that makes it imperative for me to help him. Just, let me tell you something. I'm sure if -- and there's a lot of things I've done up here, with environmental regulations, with all kinds of waivers of laws and regulations. If it weren't for being in the district, people would say... "Well that son of a *****, I'm gonna tell you something....This guy is, uh, you know, on the take." Well once they say that, what happens? Then they start going around looking for the goddamn money. So I want to avoid that by having some tie to the district. That's all. That's the secret to the whole thing.
WEINBERG: You give us your banks where you want the money deposited.
MURTHA: How much money are we talking about?
AMOROSO: Well, you tell me, how many do you want?
MURTHA: Well let me find out what is a reasonable figure that will get their attention, because there's a couple of banks have really done me some favors in the past, that I'd like to put some money in. And one guy in particular, a savings bank, solid -- all three of them of course solid banks. Maybe I only want to go to one, I don't know, I have to think about this a little bit, and I'll get back to you with what I think would make an impression. You know I'm not gonna go out of hand, but I want to let these guys know that uh that I did it and that they'll be appreciative of it and it will be helpful to me.
Video:
http://video.yahoo.com/video/play?p=murtha+abscam&toggl...gle%3D1%26ei%3DUTF-8
Transcript:
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=10426
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