SAYS FEDS COULDN'T TRACE $ TO MURPHY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404030077-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 31, 2010
• Sequence Number: 77
• Publication Date: November 19, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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By DANIEL BAYS ,of Murphy,- Criden and FBI agents- Camden, N.J., who was convicted in an
and STUABT MARQUES posing as frontmen for a phony Arab earlier Abscam case.
sheik. ; Meanwhlle,'the, jury heard a-taped."
Authorities tailed Rep. John 1Vlurphp MURPHY (D-STATELY Island) and conversation between. Criden and gov
to- a Washington antique ahop_in an ernment star witness Melvin Weinberg
attempt to trace someof?,-;Rep. Frank Thompson (D?~N.J.)--arei? g
the $50,000 payoff money the congress- -.charged with accepting $50,000 each in in which Cnden boasted that he "used
man' allegedly took-from undercover '-return* for their help in- arranging to be in the inEelIigeace business" and
Abscam -' agents,' Murphy's `,lawyer immigration favors for the bogus sheik. -had 'friends in the CIA.
charged today: -_ r x Both deny taking any cash On the Sept 18, 19IA tape, Crider =
Lawyer Michael Tiger said agents Prosecutors say they. have` traced.' showed Weinberg a copy of what ap
,followedMurphyto .a shop-.that..$2.O of..the money to .Philadelphia... Pew to be confidential government
specialized In. objects that appeal to - -lawyer Ellis Cook, Criden's former law rePort about the background of Florida '
Murphy's wife, Kathleen,. but?were un- ::partner. Cook returned the.money and lawyer!Alvin Malnik,. a reputed front
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.able to link my-money he might have has been cooperating with-authorities. . for mob financial wizard. Meyer
spent there to the Abscam cash. under a grant of immunity " . _ Lansky. Abscam agents eventually met
,Tigar tried't&.-persuade Brooklyn He testified yesterday that Crider with Malnik.'.
Federal Court Judge George' Pratt to told him that Thompson .received When Weinberg asked Cr:den where
order the release. of .government>re-x$30,000 and Murphy got $15,000. Cook he got the report, CTnden_i~plie,i;_"I.t_
ports- detailing - efforts,, to. traces the :said the rest of the money was divided comes from Langley." The CIA hasps'
money given to accused bagman How among various law era and business. h gisriers-in Li ar Va. ~
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