She also has covered cases involving political corruption, most notably Abscam in 1981.
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John W. Jenrette Jr. of South Carolina was enmeshed in the Abscam corruption scandal, resigned in 1980 and subsequently went to prison.
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Abscam is one that sticks in my mind but the age of that particular scandal and that I recall it tends towards a proof of the contention that it is rarer.
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