The Sting Man: Inside Abscam
- ISBN-10
- 0525209859
- ISBN-13
- 9780525209850
- Series
- The Sting Man
- Category
- Abscam Bribery Scandal, 1980-
- Pages
- 268
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1981
- Publisher
- E P Dutton
- Author
- Robert William Greene
Description
Profiles the ABSCAM sting man, Mel Weinberg, who sold the FBI on the idea of setting himself up as a business representative of a wealthy Arab sheik and who personally handled almost every contact and payoff
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