Word: fellebaum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What prompted that condemnation from Judge Cooper-together with a five-year prison sentence and a $10,000 fine-was Defendant John Fellebaum's part in a nationwide extortion ring that has turned blackmail of homosexuals into a lucrative, cruelly efficient business. Though the full dimensions of the ring are still not known, 15 members have been arrested over the past year, and eight of them, including Fellebaum, have pleaded guilty. The ring's victims -many of them prominent in entertainment, business, education and Government-have numbered perhaps 1,000, and their total payoff is estimated...
...Chickens" & "Shakemen." The ring's chief method of operation was as simple as it was effective. A decoy-the part played by Fellebaum, 27, an ex-weight lifter-would pick up a victim, usually in a bar, take him to a hotel room and engage in a homosexual act. The decoy, called a "chicken," would then steal or take by force the victim's credit cards and identification, and give them to the ring's "shakemen." Days, weeks, or even months later, the shakemen, posing as police officers, would visit the victim. They would tell him that...
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