Word: conviction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warm." Another doggedly uncommunicative witness was a sullen, gum-chewing ex-convict, Anthony Lopiparo, a pinball-machine entrepreneur. At first Tony wouldn't even tell the committee whether he had ever visited Tijuana, Mexico (where, rumor had it, the murder of Kansas City's Charles Binaggio was plotted). "I stand on my constitutional rights," he muttered. "Haven't I got a Constitution?" Finally, however, Tony broke down and confessed. "I like it down there," said he. "It's warm...
...Convict Joseph Holmes liked music. Every day from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., the loudspeakers in Maryland's State Penitentiary blared out radio programs for the prisoners' entertainment, and Holmes scraped away at his tunnel. The radio drowned out the noise...
...night last week, 70 ft. from his cell and ten years from completing his 20-year stretch for burglary, Convict Holmes broke through in a grassy plot outside the prison walls, hopped over a 7-ft. picket fence, and disappeared into the surrounding city of Baltimore. Nobody missed him until next morning, when a guard checked a motionless lump on Holmes' bunk. It was a wadded blanket and a pillow...
...Roman, Guard Al Roth. Arrested with them as "go-betweens" were Connie Schaff, a member of this year's New York University team, and Ed Gard, of last year's Long Island University team. Rounding out the little group was a hard-faced gambler and ex-convict (armed robbery) named Salvatore Tarto Sollazzo, 45, and his sidekick, Robert Sabbatini...
Back in 1936, an entrepreneur named Willie Moretti decided to go into the laundry business. For a mere $3,000 he bought the U.S. Linen Supply Co., Inc in Paterson, N.J. Willie had one handicap; he was an ex-convict. But he had assets to offset it: he had known Al Capone socially, and Frank Costello himself had been best man at Willie's wedding...