Robert Moussallem

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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. The repeated attempts to trap Arrington (dubbed 'Operation Bowtye') 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.