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technological sophistication of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and federal prosecutors since the 1980 Abscam inves- tigation. In Mississippi, for example, 60 county supervisors went to jail recently for taking kickbacks after the FBI mounted a sophisticated "sting" operation. The FBI used high-tech "body wires" to build air- tight cases-the supervisors' own words- on tape.
Still, Witt concedes, new laws and tech- nology are not entirely to blame. Corrup-...