# What happened to the ABSCAM Yacht? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 20, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-abscam-yacht/1015883 "2025-03-20T18:11:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![EnolaStraight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@EnolaStraight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnolaStraight)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-abscam-yacht/1015883/1 "2025-03-20T18:11:12Z")
[Abscam - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam) In the late 70s-early 80s the FBI ran a sting operation in which several politicians accepted bribes. The setting was aboard an expensive yacht (earlier confiscated from a drug dealer). What happened to the yacht? ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2025, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-abscam-yacht/1015883/2 "2025-03-20T19:02:23Z")
According to [this article from last year](https://mississippitoday.org/2024/11/08/fbi-yacht-sting-operation-jackson-officials/), the yacht, named _The Left Hand_ back in the day, is now called _Corsair_. I don’t see any information about how that’s known or where it is, but that’s a start. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2025, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-the-abscam-yacht/1015883/3 "2025-03-22T20:34:14Z")
The ABSCAM boat was a key plot device in the movie Donny Brasco