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IV. DEFENDANTS' CLAIMS A. Claims of The Myers Defendants. The four defendants in Myers have filed joint briefs in support of all post-trial motions and thus their arguments are referred to collectively. The Myers defendants essentially claim that the Abscam investigation did not uncover criminal conduct, but instead created or instigated any criminality that may be present, and that improper . delegation of authority, lack of supervision, inadequate documentation and the reward system used by the government 31 created such doubt as to the truth, reliability and integrity - of the verdict as to require dismissal of the indictments. The Myers defendants urge, in effect, that notwithstanding their failure to claim entrapment at the trial, they are _ not precluded from now asserting a defense of "entrapment as a matter of law", or "objective entrapment". They urge that many states have recognized and legislatively adopted objective entrapment and that the federal courts should’ —~ ~ constitutionalize that trend.. More particularly, the Myers defendants argue that the government did not infiltrate or uncover ongoing criminal activity, but instead created such -activity; that the government offered overwhelming inducements to the Myers defendants; that Abscam was conducted without adequate