The list is long. Weinberg worked from February to July 1978 without headquarters approval, and the one written application was vague. When the target changed to political corruption in the autumn of 1978, nobody at headquarters approved the change. Nobody reviewed Weinberg’s informant file. [1]
Weinberg got a bonus by misrepresentation, took gifts, lied about them under oath and, by the weight of the evidence, shared in a $100,000 bribe the operation paid Errichetti. He devised the asylum scenario himself. There were unrecorded meetings with Errichetti on three dates, and tapes were not numbered or logged. [1][2]
And on selection: every approved target but one came from a middleman’s claim, the agents went looking for Republicans and non-local officials without any factual basis, and “at least one (and apparently more) clearly innocent public official was brought before the hidden cameras.” [3]
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