Word: counterfeiter
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...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...
...sold them to the unsuspecting West German manufacturer Siemens. Authorities say that other equipment stolen from the Silicon Valley has wound up in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Laments John O'Loughlin, manager of security for Intel: "Tracing the products is difficult. Markings can be erased and counterfeit identification can be stamped on them...
Inevitably, the popularity of Rubik's Cube has encouraged rip-offs as well as spinoffs. Counterfeit versions are available on street corners in some American cities for far less than the normal $5 to $10 price. Ideal Toy Corp., which holds the U.S. distribution rights of Rubik's brainteaser, has sued more than 20 American companies for importing fake cubes from such places as Taiwan and Hong Kong...