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you can buy a US senator for a few thousand bucks.
by fnord77 6y ago
you can buy a US senator for a few thousand bucks.
- willcipriano 6y agoThis has been tested experimentally in a way and nearly everyone offered accepted a bribe, one that didn't said "not at this point" and only one reported it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam
- sumedh 6y agoWhy doesnt the FBI do such sting operations these days?
- nappy-doo 6y agoprobably because it worked so well last time.
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- willcipriano 6y ago"In the wake of Abscam, Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti issued "The Attorney General Guidelines for FBI Undercover Operations" ("Civiletti Undercover Guidelines") on January 5, 1981." Short answer: The AG made it much harder to do that sort of thing.
- MarkSweep 6y agohttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/fbi-entrapment https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/fbi-entrap... They do something similar with “terrorists”. They find someone, tell them “push this button to blow up everyone”, and then charge them with terrorism.