Word: agent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case, a black city official has been indicted: Charles Beckham, 35, director of water and sewerage. A federal grand jury charged that Beckham, three businessmen and Darralyn Bowers, 40, a real estate agent and unofficial adviser to Young, conspired in a racketeering and bribery scheme to secure for Vista Disposal Co. a $5.6 million sludge-hauling contract from the city. According to the indictment, Bowers, who is black, and he businessmen, who are white, promised to pay Director Beckham $2,000 a month to land the lucrative contract. All pleaded not guilty to the charges last week...
...more than once and all without benefit of intervening divorces. A jury of eight men and four women, impressed with his stamina but not his style, last week convicted Vigliotto on charges of bigamy and fraud in his marriage to Patricia Ann Gardiner, 42, a Mesa, Ariz., real estate agent...
Vigliotto, who is in his early 50s, faces up to 34 years in prison. Although he conceded making the multiple marriages (and adopting some 50 aliases), he denied defrauding any of his wives. He claimed he worked as a contract agent for the Central Intelligence Agency in 1953 and 1954 before getting into the flea market business. During the five-week trial, boisterous crowds, often outfitted with bags of food and drinks in ice chests, waited in line for a seat in the small courtroom and a chance to hear the latest installment of Vigliotto's romantic adventures. After...
...they hear a most unusual reply: "Corruption hot line." It is not a wrong number, nor is the businesslike voice on the receiving end peddling tips on how much the local health inspector will take to overlook the roaches in a restaurant. The phone is manned by an alert agent of the FBI, who listens with poised pencil to any caller's allegation that local officials are crooks...
...agent does not sit around much hoping the phone will ring. The trouble with Hillsborough County is that all too many of its officials may indeed be crooks. The hot line was set up by the FBI after three of the five county commissioners were charged with conspiring to extort money from citizens seeking approval of a zoning application. After the arrests were announced, so many residents called the FBI's regular number to report that they knew of other bribes and corruption that the FBI decided to man a special telephone 24 hours...