Word: highlevel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marines pour $700 million each year in payrolls alone and the government feeds $1 billion annually into the local aerospace industry and $100 million into ship-building. The leading citizens of San Diego include John Alessio, a former bookmaker turned racetrack operator and C. Arnholt Smith, a highlevel con man chosen "Mr. San Diego of the Century" by the local paper. Smith used the money from his bank, U.S. National, to run deals with organized crime in California, taking a healthy chunk out to support himself and his friends. Among his friends is Richard Nixon...
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