Word: burnette
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adelaide Stiles, 60, left her home in Fort Lauderdale one day eleven years ago to take a vacation with her boyfriend Michael Burnett. She was never seen again. Ever since, Burnett, 57, a swindler with a long record, has been suspected of killing the wealthy divorcee after embezzling her money. But police were unable to tie him to the disappearance until Vernon Frazier, an inmate in a San Diego jail, learned that Burnett had become a protected FBI informant playing a crucial part in municipal bribery investigations in New York City and Chicago...
...composition. But in general, the exemplary pictures of the . camera-reporting tradition have bowed to pictorial convention, treating the edges of the frame like a proscenium arch around a quickly readable image. Anyone who doubts that this time-honored method can still be affecting need only look to David Burnett's elegant and straightforward pictures of minor league baseball. But Burnett is the odd man out in this show, where the prevailing tone is more hectic or quizzical...
...arrest, in July 1984, came just six months after Burnett's parole from a federal prison on charges of currency manipulation and possession of stolen stocks, and the con man seemed a sure bet for a return stretch. But he was no run-of-the-mill criminal. For 30 years Burnett had negotiated light sentences for fraud and other crimes by informing for the FBI. Now he again offered to trade, telling the FBI that while working for Systematic Recovery Service, a collection agency trying to secure municipal contracts in New York and Chicago, he had stumbled into widespread political...
...enlisted as an informant, Burnett was granted a deferred sentencing on his parole violation, and went back to work for S.R.S.--and the bureau. To keep their man available, the FBI even stonewalled South Florida investigators inquiring into the suspected murders of two women and a man who had engaged in financial dealings with Burnett...
...York and Chicago, Burnett was monitored by the FBI on a 24-hour basis. He continued trying, unsuccessfully, to win a contract for S.R.S. to collect payment on $300 million worth of Chicago parking tickets, a process that involved alleged payoffs to four aldermen and a city administrator. S.R.S. Owner Bernard Sandow boasted to Burnett that the company had also bribed important New York City officials. The FBI was listening in: Sandow's bragging may have resulted in last week's indictment against Geoffrey Lindenauer, a former New York parking-violations-bureau official accused of extorting some $313,000 from...