![]() Marie Weinberg's accusations that her husband lied about gifts he had taken from targets of the investigation first surfaced 10 days ago in Jack Anderson's syndicated column. ![]() (D-N.J.), despite defense claims the politicians were entrapped by the tricks of Weinberg, a convicted conman turned FBI informant. The investigation, in which undercover agents posed as representatives of an Arab sheik seeking immigration help for bribes, resulted in the conviction of six House members and Sen. Justice Department officials said it was possible the checks, which Dennis said were for $900 to Bruce Brady and $300 to Steve Bursey in February, 1980, could have been repayment of loans they had made to Melvin Weinberg. ![]() He also said he had just received from her a packet of material that included checks totaling $1,200 she had written to two FBI agents at her husband's direction. He was doing so, he said, because Duke had told him she was not suicidal, and in an affidavit she had contended that her husband was threatening her. Weinberg in divorce proceedings and was asking the local authorities to investigate the death as a possible homicide. Michael Dennis, a New York attorney who represented one of the Abscam defendants, said he also had represented Mrs. ![]() She was found at the bottom of the stairs. Weinberg apparently tied a rope to the top of the second-floor stairwell in the apartment and then threw herself down the steps. He said he found a rose, credit cards and a note by the body that said "she was sorry for what she was going to do, but she just couldn't take the harassment from her husband anymore."ĭuke said Mrs. Richard Duke, a Seventh Day Adventist pastor who lived next door, said in a phone interview that he and another man found the body about 4 p.m. The wife of Melvin Weinberg, a key government witness in the FBI's controversial Abscam political corruption investigation, was found hanged yesterday in a vacant condominium in her Tequesta, Fla., apartment complex, a week after she went on national television and charged her husband with lying at the trials.Ĭharles McCutcheon, the undersheriff of Palm Beach County, said the death of Cynthia Marie Weinberg, 51, was "an apparent suicide." Local authorities had been searching for her since her 16-year-old son, J.R., reported her missing shortly before midnight Tuesday.
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