Word: fbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school board members are proud of their tough stand. Says Norman Murray, the father of seven children and a former FBI man: "I don't have a corner on the world's wisdom, but I think we were right." He plans to spend much of the money that the district makes from teacher and union fines on remedial pro grams in basic skills...
...himself as Stein showed up at Russalmaz's Geneva office and spent the day selecting diamonds. The next day he returned with another man, who has not been identified and who did not resemble Rifkin, and agreed to pay Russalmaz $8.1 million for 43,200 carats of diamonds. The FBI believes that Rifkin either smuggled the diamonds into the U.S. himself or had them delivered by courier. In any event, he began peddling them...
Only five days after the robbery, Rifkin sold twelve diamonds to a Beverly Hills jeweler for $12,000. Then he jetted to Rochester, where he tried to arrange more diamond sales through a former business associate. But the associate tipped off the FBI. With federal agents on his heels, Rifkin flew to San Diego and was met at the airport by an old friend from school days, a photographer named Daniel Wolfson. Rifkin told Wolfson that he had decided to give himself up but first wanted refuge for the weekend...
Shortly before midnight on Sunday, Nov. 5, FBI agents knocked on the door of Wolfson's apartment. After a brief argument with the photographer, they entered and began to search. Suddenly, Rifkin stepped out of a closet, hands raised, and gave up. He turned over to the agents a suitcase, filled with $12,000 in cash and about 40 packets of diamonds. As agents led Rifkin from the apartment, Wolfson snapped a few pictures of his friend that he sold to news organizations the next...
...FBI has connected only Rifkin to the bank robbery. Agents believe that they have exonerated Jeweler Lon Stein, who claims that he had nothing to do with the diamond deal in Geneva. As for the mysterious Mr. Nelson, agents are trying to learn his real identity by tracing his messages through Western Union...