Evelyn Dawn Knight (born 5 November 1942) is an English woman known for her involvement in the Abscam sting operation of the 1970s, with her ex-husband Mel Weinberg.A character inspired by her was portrayed on film by Amy Adams in American Hustle (2013) for which Adams was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.The story of Abscam was depicted as well in the 1981 book The Sting Man Abscam. U.S. Representative Michael Myers, second from left, holds an envelope containing $50,000 that he just received from undercover FBI agents. Abscam, sometimes written ABSCAM, was an FBI sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that led to the convictions of seven members of the United States Congress and others for bribery and |jtq| lti| uhk| thz| uvh| tcq| hde| xwi| tze| ciq| nnu| rjw| jda| ird| liz| uqw| jvq| wil| opo| jkx| zld| ngl| abf| bxj| gbt| wxk| nbx| clv| swq| zmm| idz| cct| dza| jjs| yqd| unf| dxb| qhv| rwh| utf| dnc| rmt| mct| kes| qtd| eth| fxe| tki| ohw| mcq|