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Evelyn Dawn Knight (born 5 November 1942) [1] is an English woman known for her involvement in the Abscam sting operation of the 1970s, with her then-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.
Evelyn Knight (m. 1982; ... Melvin Weinberg (December 4, 1924 – May 30, 2018) was an American con artist, charlatan and federal government informant who is known ...
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 a Federal Bureau of Investigation sting operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s that led to the convictions of seven members from both chambers of the United States Congress and others for bribery and corruption. [1]
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Evelyn Knight, Weinberg's mistress on whom the character of Sydney Prosser is based, was involved in Weinberg's scams, though to a lesser extent than shown in the film, and she was not involved in Abscam. Also, she was English, not an American impersonating an English woman, as shown in the film.
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TODAY's Craig Melvin is a proud dad to two kids, Delano, 10, and Sybil, 7, whom he shares with his wife, sports broadcaster Lindsay Czarniak.. Craig, who published a children's book about ...
Max Weinberg’s Jukebox was the house band in 2018 for the outdoor New Year’s Day game between the Rangers and the Buffalo Sabres at Citi Field in New York City.. Springsteen and the E Street ...