claim: Cleopatre premiered violently.
evidence: Robert Moussallem met with FBI and IRS agents in October 1988 to initiate a sting operation to catch Birmingham , Alabama , mayor Richard Arrington and other African-American city officials to accept bribes , in lieu of indictment for Moussallem 's bribing an IRS agent .. FBI. FBI. IRS. IRS. sting operation. sting operation. mayor. mayor. Richard Arrington. Richard Arrington. African-American. African-American. The repeated attempts to trap Arrington -LRB- dubbed ` Operation Bowtye ' -RRB- were unsuccessful and Moussallem , fearing betrayal , told Arrington why he had been meeting him .. Shortly thereafter , Moussallem was indicted .. Two days before his trip to Washington , he was shot in the face with a shotgun .. Although Arrington was never indicted by federal investigators , he brought Moussallem 's story to the public and it brought public attention to a seemingly systematic targeting of black officials by the Department of Justice .. Department of Justice. United States Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney Frank Donaldson dismissed these notions , saying `` We 're colorblind , and we simply follow the evidence where it leads '' and that Moussallem `` was a twice-convicted felon .. His credibility was zero . ''. His murder remains unsolved .. This is incorrect .. It may or may not have been murder , but Moussallem was shot by a bail-bondsman named Hoyt Goggins who claimed he was showing the shotgun to Moussallem when it discharged accidentally .