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The Real Story and Lesson of the Abscam Sting in ‘American Hustle’

Sheikh Down

How much of the movie American Hustle actually happened, and what was the real legacy of the famous Abscam caper it’s based on?

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What is the American hustle? Is it quintessentially American to make wealth any way you can, to do it as quickly as possible, and to wheel and deal and bribe and con as if that’s the natural order of things? America, so it seems, was founded on swindling the natives,...

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