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...young man of 17, he cruised around Long Island smashing windows with a slingshot to boost sales at his father's glass business. He told of swindling $30,000 from the Attorney General of Bolivia and, by age 50, becoming so adept at devising con games that he franchised them to other swindlers and earned the nickname "the McDonald's of con men." But in 1977, the FBI caught Melvin Weinberg, now 55, trying to fleece Singer Wayne Newton and several other people of $200,000. Faced with a possible three-year prison sentence, Weinberg agreed to carry...
...show that Weinberg leaned heavily on Williams, the defense lawyers are finding it hard to show that the same possibly improper pressure was applied to their clients. In cross-examining Weinberg, however, they did succeed in shaking his credibility as a witness by demonstrating that he is a con man with unsurpassed chutzpah. Asked if he swindled an uncle out of $50,000, Weinberg quickly denied it. He then added: "It was a cousin." He admitted he received $3,000 a month from the FBI for his services, plus perquisites like limousines and champagne. He said he had received...
...federal debt limit. The Democrats had the strength to beat back the tax cutters on a straight party-line vote, 58 to 38, but the prospect of more such votes was an embarrassment. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd denounced the Republican maneuvering as a "Tinkertoy economic solution" and "a con game with the American people." To head off more such votes, he called on the Senate Finance Committee to draw up its own tax-cutting measure by Labor Day. But since the Administration is due to produce a revision of the planned budget by July 15, some Democrats were urging...
...state of American prisons. "You don't put a duck in a sandbox to improve his swimming. You can't reform with this system. How is a prisoner supposed to learn democracy and decision-making in a totalitarian, fascist system? And then everyone's surprised when an ex-con fails and winds up back in prison...
...picture's best performance), his bride-to-be, soon after he arrives in town. Before long they are acting out a parody of western drama. Restless and feisty, she wants to become a bull rider too. Bud disapproves, just as he does of her flirtation with an ex-con named Wes (Scott Glenn, who looks tough enough for the part but does not act it). Wes is extraordinarily adept at staying on the bucking machine, and soon enough Sissy has moved in with him. Bud immediately takes up with Pam (Madolyn Smith), a rich man's bored daughter...