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Louis Freeh
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FBI Director from 1993 to 2001. Personally intervened to shut down the FBI sting operation targeting Newt Gingrich that involved IASPS.
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Robert Loewenberg
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FBI Director Louis Freeh personally aborted a planned sting operation at an IASPS fundraiser in Miami on June 8, 1997. The operation — the culmination of a two-year FBI investigation — was designed to catch Newt Gingrich and associates accepting a bribe from arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian, with payments routed through IASPS's Washington office. Freeh's decision to shut down the probe prevented the investigation from reaching its conclusion. The reasons for his intervention are not publicly documented.
Since 1997