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Article: Abscam senator ends 2-year term
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 31, 1986
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NEWARK, N.J. Harrison A. Williams Jr., who became the first U.S.
senator to be jailed in 80 years when he was imprisoned more than two
years ago for his bribery conviction in the FBI's Abscam probe, was
released today from a halfway house.
Williams, 65, slipped out the back door of a Newark halfway
house about 1 a.m., said Katherine Morse, spokeswoman for the federal
Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C. He avoided about 15 reporters
and photographers who were waiting near the front entrance.
Williams was sentenced to three years in prison for his May 1,
1981, ...