Word: counterfeiter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both right and left. In July 1979 Agca pleaded guilty to the murder of moderate Turkish Journalist Abdi Ipekci; he escaped from prison five months later. In July 1980 Agca appeared in Sofia, Bulgaria. According to NBC, he spent seven weeks in the best hotels there, received a counterfeit Turkish passport and mingled with members of the Turkish Mafia, which has long run a thriving drugs-for-guns trade with the cooperation of Bulgaria's hard-line Communist regime. It was in Bulgaria, Kalb speculates, that the Soviets may have indirectly recruited the young killer. Kalb reasons that Agca...
...industrious copycats of Asia have long churned out counterfeit or cut-rate versions of name-brand Western products, including Levi's jeans, Samsonite luggage, Johnnie Walker Scotch, Rolex watches and even Rubik's Cube. Now the me-too factories of the Pacific rim have a new target: the popular Apple personal computer...
...part of an FBI sting operation from 1977 until 1980, Livingston used the alias "Pat Salamone" while masquerading as a Miami pornography distributor. He hobnobbed with gangsters, buying their smut, counterfeit Hollywood films and even 50 submachine guns. The sting ended in 54 arrests, but for Livingston the charade had become muddled with reality. He kept bank accounts in his pseudonym and introduced himself regularly as Pat Salamone. According to Fred Schwartz, the Assistant U.S. Attorney prosecuting the sting defendants, Livingston has "psychiatric problems that make it difficult for him to distinguish between his real identity and his undercover identity...
...sassy mouth in a tough neighborhood. Pryor has minted much comic revenue from images of his youth: the whorehouse his grandmother ran, his father's satyric appetite, his own early awakening to the pleasures of the flesh, the sniper fire of racism. Some of this currency is counterfeit (his family, as he says in Sunset Strip, was not poor), but all is dross for his alchemist's mind...
...joined Hughes in 1925 and molded the wealthy scion's $10 million Hughes Tool Co. into a major corporation. Hughes fired Dietrich 32 years later in a dispute about money. In 1972 Dietrich co-wrote Howard: The Amazing Mr. Hughes, believed to be the principal source for a counterfeit Hughes autobiography written by Clifford Irving...