Word: conned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nine o'clock in the evening and the senator had a cafe con leche with a roll in his favorite cafe. At that moment two men entered, took out some enormous pistols and shot at the senator. Innocent or guilty, what is certain is that the senator was eating a roll when they killed him, staining his white linen suit with spilled blood and cafe con leche...
Fleeing to Europe, Grimes meets a Faustian figure (but a Faust with charm) named Fabian, who knows every banker, concierge and con man from Rome to Gstaad. He teaches Grimes, the back slid Protestant moralist, how to increase and enjoy his money. But just as Graham Greene knew, Shaw is aware that the piper must always be paid, that his heroes must eventually return home to separate fates. Although they used to worship at entirely different literary shrines (Hemingway on the one hand, Evelyn Waugh on the other), Shaw and Greene are bonded in contemporary let ters by their ability...
...federal prison halfway house in Raleigh, N.C., where he had been serving two consecutive five-year sentences for interstate transport of stolen vehicles before escaping two months ago. Said O'Keefe, awed at Medlin's ability to flimflam network executives: "If he's a con artist, he doesn't need to be in crime. He should be in Hollywood. He would be making a million dollars a year...
Last week federal officials reported that sources within Local 560 had accused three of Provenzano's New Jersey associates of committing the crime. The trio: Salvatore Briguglio, 47, an ex-con described by Government agents as an enforcer for Tony Pro in the rackets and union affairs; Gabriel Briguglio, his brother and a union underling; and Thomas Andretta, 38, a collector for loan sharks who was once imprisoned for threatening borrowers' lives...
...government will not compensate Irons for the time he spent in prison. But compensation doesn't seem to be that important to Irons. He can't retrieve the time he did in prison, he points out, adding, "I guess I'll still be the Law School's only ex-con...