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...trio-made up of Granberg, a retired New York state investigator; Salvatore Rignola, a New York City fire marshal; and Julian Farriel, a house painter-were buffeted by bruising ocean tides. Rignola and Farriel would later tell the authorities that Granberg, 6 ft. 4 in. and 275 lbs., offered to change places with Rignola, who was perched precariously in the middle. As Granberg stood up, his friends said, his foot slipped on the wet seat, and he vanished overboard...
...frantic search with another fishing boat and a Coast Guard launch and helicopter turned up not a trace. Rignola and Farriel were left to break the news to Bob's wife and their two children, Lisa and Eric, then...
Piecing together the scam, the investigators speculate that the scenario unfolded this way: Rignola and Farriel let Granberg off the boat shortly after they left shore, where he was picked up by his wife and driven to the airport to board a flight to London, using his brother's passport. He had friends and contacts in London, where he sometimes used his brother's name and sometimes used the name James Kelly. Six months later, Judy Granberg met her husband in London and stayed with him at an elegant hotel. Then Granberg, investigators believe, returned to New York...
...state police and federal inspectors for an arrest, and when Granberg walked unsuspectingly out of his motel room, they pounced. Granberg was indicted the following week by a federal grand jury on four counts of fraud and is now in jail in Manhattan, awaiting trial. Judy Granberg, Rignola and Farriel were also arrested on charges of fraud. Says Marr: "The Granbergs were just trying to beat the system, and they almost made...
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