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...businessmen, straight or crooked, in any era have ridden that dream harder or farther than Frankel. By the time police and fire fighters responded to an alarm at his arcadian Greenwich, Conn., mansion last month to discover smoldering file cabinets full of incinerating and incriminating documents--item one on his to-do list: launder money--Frankel had constructed a financial whiz kid's Xanadu, complete with 80 trading terminals, satellite dishes, a fleet of imported cars and a bevy of female retainers he had attracted by answering personal ads and trolling the Internet. In his $3 million residence...
...stirringly outsize, outlaw pursuit-of-happiness story, this news must be viewed as a disappointment. To them, Frankel is no supervillain, just a failed stockbroker and all-around schlub who had clawed and cheated his way into the American Dream: a cavernous maximum-security mansion in tony Greenwich, Conn., complete with a fully functional securities trading floor; limos pulling up at all hours, dropping off leggy "receptionists" Frankel had met on the Internet. His stuffy neighbors ?- many of them in the same business he was in ?- were baffled and maybe a little envious. Now, Frankel is going to give...
...signs were hard to miss. According to FBI papers, Frankel, 44, had turned his $3 million home in tony Greenwich into a warren of offices with electronic locks and nearly 100 computers, plus wide-screen televisions tuned to financial news channels. And like any true "Seven Habits" disciple, Frankel made lists of things to do, one of which was "launder money." Also seized were personalized astrological charts answering such questions as: "Will I go to prison?" "Should I leave?" and "Will I be safe?" So far, so good. In addition to the insurance money, Frankel may also have pocketed...
...banking bored him, and the gay Greenwich Village milieu that he slipped into was full of scruffy radicals, drug-addled theater queens and goofy twentysomethings fleeing Midwest bigotry. Milk befriended or had sex with many of them (including Craig Rodwell, who would help lead the 1969 riots outside the Stonewall bar that launched the gay movement). By the early 1970s, Milk had moved to San Francisco, enraptured by its flourishing hippie sensibilities...
Tony Hiss, 58, still occupies the Greenwich Village apartment where he lived as a child with Alger and Priscilla Hiss. He calls it a "time funnel," a point of metaphysical access connecting present and past. Tony worked for years writing unsigned Talk of the Town pieces for the New Yorker. He tells Alger's story as a kind of cold war fairy tale, colored by the moods of our age of therapy: Once upon a time, a boy's idealistic young father was set upon by an ogre who hid under the bridge, Whittaker Chambers (fat, neurotic, with bad teeth...