Opinion ID: 425171
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Abscam's Payoff to Weisz

Text: 57 On January 31, 1980, Rosenberg called Weisz and told him that Amoroso and Weinberg were in town and ready to pay them the balance of the $250,000. Rosenberg asked Weisz to call Weinberg because he wanted to know how the money should be split; according to Weisz, Rosenberg said that 58 the split should be fifty for ... Rosenberg, fifty for ... [Weisz], fifty for ... Ciuzio, and seventy-five for Ciuzio to give to Kelly. 53 59 Weisz called Weinberg the next day and told him that the balance of the $250,000 should be split fifty, fifty, fifty, seventy-five. 54 Weisz made it clear that Ciuzio should be given Kelly's share for delivery: 60 WEINBERG: Hey now who, well who gets ... Kelly's? 61 WEISZ: Let Gino [Ciuzio] take care of it. 62 WEINBERG: You want Gino to take care o' that? 63 WEISZ: Absolutely. 64 .... 65 WEINBERG: [S]end a hundred and ... twenty-five to Gino then. 66 WEISZ: Right. 67 WEINBERG: And he'll take care o' Kelly. WEISZ: That's the best way. 55 68 Weisz agreed to meet Amoroso and Weinberg the next day to pick up his share of the money. 56 69 On February 2, 1980, Weisz, accompanied by Rosenberg, drove to the Hilton Hotel at New York's Kennedy Airport to meet with Amoroso and Weinberg. 57 Amoroso told Weisz that the wealthy Arabs were pleased with the Kelly transaction and, indicating that they need[ed] a few [more] of these guys in our corner, asked Weisz if he had anybody else in mind at this particular time? 58 Weisz was agreeable to bringing additional people to the Abscam operatives: 70 WEISZ: There's other ones, yes. 71 AMOROSO: All right. How about the same arrangement? 72 WEISZ: I don't see why not. 73 AMOROSO: Okay. 74 WEISZ: Seems satisfactory. 75 .... 76 WEISZ: If you wanna do exactly the same thing, I'll get you somebody else to do exactly the same thing. 59 77 Weisz asked Weinberg to call Ciuzio and was surprised, but unconcerned, that Amoroso intended to deliver Kelly's $75,000 personally: 78 AMOROSO: I got fifty for you, fifty for Bill [Rosenberg], and then we got fifty for Gino [Ciuzio]. 79 WEISZ: And you're gonna ... deal direct with ... Kelly? 80 AMOROSO: Yeah. 81 WEISZ: Ok ... I see.... As long as he agrees ... [t]hat's perfectly okay. I couldn't care one way or the other. 60 82 At that point, Weisz received $50,000 and placed it in an attache case he had brought for that purpose. 61 83 As Weisz left the meeting, he was met by two FBI special agents, Daniel Melore and Raymond Raleigh. Weisz accompanied the two agents to another room and answered their questions for about twenty minutes. Weisz related how he had participated with Ciuzio and Rosenberg in arranging Kelly's introduction to Amoroso and Weinberg, and stated thathe knew full well that he was instrumental in bringing people together to be corrupted. 62 84 Thereafter Weisz called his attorney and, after he arrived, the agents retrieved the $50,000 from Weisz's attache case and allowed Weisz to leave. 63