Word: benjack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...television station, a warm-voiced announcer sold stock by posing an enticing question: "Does your money really work for you? Some of the luxuries of this world can be yours-a beach, a home, a boat, an airplane." Such were the latest come-ons of expatriate U.S. Swindlers Benjack Cage (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957) and Earl Belle (TIME, Aug. 4), and they seem to prove that good con men, like cats, land on their feet when they fall...
Control of another Guterma company, Western Financial Corp., was sold by Guterma to Benjack Cage, the Texas swindler (TIME, Feb. 18, 1957). From $2.50 a share, the sales price in a few months dropped...
...PROMOTER BENJACK CAGE, boss and founder of multimillion dollar ICT Insurance Co. that crashed and caused heavy losses to policyholders (TIME Feb. 18) was indicted for embezzling $500,000 from ICT. Dallas grand jury charged that Cage, who fled to Brazil, used funds to buy stock, which he later transferred to his own management company...
While driving along the Fort WorthDallas highway 18 months ago, Houston Insurance Man Benjack Cage jammed on his brakes as he saw a crowd of workers swarm on to the highway from...
Flash & Hustle. Benjack Cage, 35, amassed Texas-size wealth in a career as flashy as the loud sport coats and massive gold ring he wears. Born in Austin, he sold insurance while attending Rice Institute. After the war, in which Cage served in the Air Force, he went back into the insurance business. He also spread out into other lines, a salvage company, a 1,200-acre ranch, bought into a small oil refinery, and other ventures...
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