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...count indictment alleges that between September 1982 and July 1985 Cantley and five of his accomplices, including Joseph Vito Mastronardo Jr., the son-in-law of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, operated a $1 million-a-week, five-state gambling ring. They hid their profits, the indictment states, by changing cash into bank checks and money orders, which then made their way into numerous Shearson accounts. The funds were mostly used to buy municipal bonds. Thus the defendants allegedly managed to launder their gambling proceeds by putting them into legitimate investments...
...daughter from Taylor but also had a yen for him herself. According to this scenario, the ultimate stage mother locked up her love-hungry daughter on the night of the murder. Minter escaped and fled to Taylor's house. When Normand came by on a social visit, the girl hid upstairs in the bedroom. Mama arrived with her trusty .38 just in time to see her daughter descending the stairs. Assuming the worst, she opened fire. The case was never solved because Shelby used most of Minter's movie earnings, nearly a million dollars in all, to pay off various...
VIENNA, Austria--Kurt Waldheim, the former U.N. secretary general who has been dogged by claims he hid his Nazi past, received the most votes in the Austrian presidential elections yesterday but fell just short of the absolute majority necessary to win the post...
...many years ther was a grim silence, as Adam West and Burt Ward went on to open shopping malls and Batman Comic fans grimly hid their books behind issues of Spiderman. There was no hope in Gotham...
...Osip Mandelstam. He died in one of Stalin's prison camps in the late '30s and was resurrected in Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned, the magnificent two-volume memoir by his wife Nadezhda. She died in 1980, and Brodsky recalls her life of outcast poverty and how she hid her husband's manuscripts in saucepans. In the end, her kitchen became a cultural pit stop for touring writers and scholars. She tired of the attention, Brodsky says, and looked forward to death, because "up there I'll again be with Osip." The poet Anna Akhmatova disagreed...