Word: cons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly as lame. The problems start with the casting. As Spicoli, the spaced-out surfer played hilariously in the film by Sean Penn, Dean Cameron projects nothing more than a 5-o'clock shadow; a baby-faced Sean Penn lookalike, Patrick Dempsey, plays Damone, the school's cool con artist. Bummer...
...unidentified man posing as a former Harvard student, who may have duped a Harvard tutor into giving him money last week, apparently tried yesterday to con money from a dean at the University of Denver...
...weeks ago at Harvard, someone used a similar story to con a Lowell House tutor out of $75. Using the name Chris Bailey, the con artist lured Andrew M. Sullivan, resident tutor in government and drama, into lending him money for travel to New York in order to catch a flight to his home in London...
...Nashville shopping mall was an odd place for the skein of corruption scandals that have ensnarled New York City and Chicago to begin unraveling. But that was where police picked up Michael Burnett, a corpulent ex-con, swindler and murder suspect who was to provide important evidence in corruption investigations in both cities. Burnett, police said later, had stopped at the mall to make last-minute preparations for a burglary. Inside his van, officers found a submachine gun, ammunition and an automatic pistol...
...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...