Ethics Problems For Murtha as Early as 1980?
November 13, 2006
This video is from a 1980 sting by the FBI.Murtha did not take the money, but said he would later on.
This from the Abscam videos:
Award Winning Jack Anderson characterized the Pennsylvania Democrat’s interaction with the FBI as “perhaps the saddest scene on the secret Abscam videotapes. … He refused to take the money, but his reason was hardly noble.”
“I want to deal with you guys awhile before I make any transactions at all, period,” Murtha explained. “After we’ve done some business, well, then I might change my mind. … I’m going to tell you this. If anybody can do it – I’m not B.S.-ing you fellows – I can get it done my way. There’s no question about it.”
Murtha went from boasting about his ability to get things done in Congress to explaining his hesitation about taking money.
“All at once, some dumb [expletive deleted] would go start talking eight years from now about this whole thing and say [expletive deleted], this happened,” Murtha says, according to the transcript. “Then in order to get immunity so he doesn’t go to jail, he starts talking and fingering people. So the [S.O.B.] falls apart.”
The FBI undercover officer then suggests: “You give us the banks where you want the money deposited.”
“All right,” agreed Murtha. “How much money we talking about?”
“Well, you tell me,” says the FBI undercover operative.
“Well, let me find out what is a reasonable figure that will get their attention,” said Murtha, “because there are a couple of banks that have really done me some favors in the past, and I’d like to put some money in.”
See the sad interaction here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2131539854655700584&q=abscam+murtha+video&hl=en
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