<sod>'''John Francis Good''' (June 17, 1936 &ndash; September 28, 2016) was an American agent of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) who created the [[Abscam]] [[sting operation]] in the late 1970s and early 1980s which led to the arrest and conviction of several elected officials at the local, state and federal level, including [[Mayor of Camden, New Jersey]] [[Angelo Errichetti]] and [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] [[Harrison Williams]], using a fictional Arab sheikh seeking political favors as bait. A Hollywood version of the events were portrayed in the 2013 film ''[[American Hustle]]''; in the movie, [[Bradley Cooper]] portrayed a character that was based on Good and two other agents.<eod>
<sod>'''John Francis Good''' (June 17, 1936 &ndash; September 28, 2016) was an American agent of the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) who created the [[Abscam]] [[sting operation]] in the late 1970s and early 1980s which led to the arrest and conviction of several elected officials at the local, state and federal level, including [[Mayor of Camden, New Jersey]] [[Angelo Errichetti]] and [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] [[Harrison Williams]], using a fictional Arab sheikh seeking political favors as bait. A Hollywood version of the events were depicted in the 2013 film ''[[American Hustle]]''; in the movie, [[Bradley Cooper]] portrayed a [[composite character]] that was based on Good and two other FBI agents who worked on the case during the two-year-long operation.<eod>