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19 members of the House of Representatives® to be itidicted in the Eastern District of New York. The facts and charges against. them were more complex and subtle than those against >: Myers and Lederer. Their codefendants, Criden and Joseph | Silvestri, were severed. See note Z, supra. . 4k Although Thompson had received a $50,000 payment + r from the undercover agents in Washington in connection . with his own promise to provide immigration assistance to the sheik, the charges against him under this indictment grew out of a payment made to Congressman Murphy in a hotel — ( near Kennedy Airport. The government's evidence showed | that Thompson had approached two other congressmen, John Py Murtha and defendant Murphy, encouraging them to meet with the sheik's representatives in return for "walking around money" that would be shared with Thompson. The Thompson-Murphy trial was complicated by an involved transac- ‘tion wherein Murphy and a business partner sought from the sheik financing for the acquisition of a shipping company -. -in Puerto Rico. Murtha refused to accept the money, and no indict- ment was returned against him. The jury. found that Murphy ‘did accept the money offered to him, and while the jury found Murphy not guilty of bribery, apparently because they were not satisfied that he had fully committed himself 'to use his influence on the sheik's behalf, they did find