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VI. SPECIFIC DISCUSSION OF DEFENDANTS’ CLAIMS We turn now to a discussion of the merits of Lo the defendants' claims. For discussion purposes: the claims will be divided into four groups: A, General Nature of Abscam. . Specific Operations of Abscam. , B @ C. Weinberg and His Conduct. D. Miscellaneous Arguments. A.. General Nature of Abscam. F ( 1. Objective Entrapment and Entrapment as a Matter of , Law. Ald defendants urge, as a primary contention, | : that’ the indictment should be dismissed because the Abscam | investigation did not uncover criminal conduct, but. instead created and instigated it. This argument challenges the ao , -essential nature of the government's "sting" operation, 7 which presented to defendants a false and fictitious but = -convincing "scenario" of a wealthy sheik willing to pay cash for promises of assistance in his immigration to the United States. Defendants argue that this scenario induced . them to participate in criminal events they otherwise would “not have engaged in, simply because absent the government's