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Though Biggs has been one of Britain's most wanted men for 16 years, most Britons are scandalized that he may be forced to come home so ignominiously. Said Buster Edwards, 50, a Biggs accomplice who served nine years for the famous heist before being paroled: "It's a crying shame. The people who snatched Ronnie are nothing short of animals. I'm sick about it all." Who says there is no honor among thieves...
...fifth day, Lew is would repeat the process, this time by writing up a new ticket for a larger amount of money. He would then cover his heist of five days earlier by forwarding the credit slip from the new ticket, along with the debit slip from the old ticket, to the Santa Monica branch, causing the MAPS account in that branch to appear to be not just in balance, but flush with new funds. These too could then be drawn down and go unnoticed for five days...
Among Hill's revelations-which included solid leads in a $5.85 million heist from a Lufthansa terminal at New York's Kennedy International Airport in 1978-were charges that almost as a sideline, he had rigged the outcome of Boston College games. According to Hill, he became involved in the scam when a former penitentiary pal introduced him to a friend of a Boston College reserve forward, Rick Kuhn. Kuhn allegedly enlisted the services of Sweeney, an honors graduate who proved to be a sharp negotiator, Hill asserted, indicating games that could easily be rigged and bargaining...
...bank heist bigger than the Brink's job, but the bandits used no guns or getaway cars. Rather than being fast on the draw, they had fast fingers on computer keyboards. The Wells Fargo Bank of San Francisco last week filed suit charging that a group of boxing promoters and a key accomplice inside the bank had pulled off a colossal $21 million embezzlement. The alleged sting was by far the largest computer bank fraud in history and raised some troubling questions: How could such an unlikely ring of conspicuous sports personalities so easily rob a multibillion-dollar bank...
...alleged leader of the heist, Harold James Smith, is a strapping 6 ft. 2 in. and sports a bushy beard usually complemented by a cowboy hat and gold-rimmed sunglasses. His past is something of a mystery. During the 1960s, he worked in the civil rights movement with Stokely Carmichael. In 1976 he turned up in Los Angeles promoting concerts with stars like Shirley Bassey. His business association with Muhammad Ali began a year later, when Smith sponsored some amateur track meets...