Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...longer. After embezzling $1 million, the stockbroker splits (pun) with his secretary and runs off to save the circus. Back at the top, Maureen Bad--"the second thinnest woman in the world" (recurring joke)--schemes and connives to burst Natalie's balloon and steal the show. Throw in an FBI detective hot on the embezzler's trail, a magician reminiscent of Bullwinkle and a chorus of circus clones and you've got the show...
That's not true with Billy." What was true was the revelation that the FBI is investigating possible irregularities in the handling by the National Bank of Georgia of a $6.5 million credit line extended to the Carter peanut business in 1975. Billy was head of the business at the time, and the president of the NBG was Bert Lance, Jimmy Carter's first director of the Office of Management and Budget...
...been killed in the feuding, they agree that all the thieves and witnesses are in great danger. The reason: the successors of the deceased Tommy Lucchese, who led a New York Mafia family, are believed to have planned the crime and to be holding most of the loot. The FBI theory is that Joseph DiPalermo, a capo in the Lucchese group, supervised the plot and the disposition of the money and jewels. The authorities believe that the mob got the cooperation of Lufthansa employees on the inside by the time-honored method of inducing them to gamble, pressuring them...
...receive fees ranging from $10,000 to Werner's $300,000. The rest of the loot apparently went to DiPalermo and another Lucchese capo, Paul Vario, one of the regulars at the old Roberts Lounge, who supervises rackets at Kennedy Airport for the mob. By now, the FBI suspects the money probably has been effectively dispersed through a maze of Mafia business channels...
...hunted thieves are quarreling, so too are their pursuers. New York police are angry at the FBI for making arrests before more evidence could be pinned down. They think, for one thing, that the coach who took on Lufthansa's Red Baron was James ("Jimmy the Gent") Burke. The former operator of Roberts Lounge, Burke is a crony of Vario's. Shortly before the Lufthansa robbery, Burke was paroled from prison where he was serving time for a previous cargo caper. So far he has refused to answer questions about the Lufthansa heist. Burke has not endeared himself...