Word: jail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boyfriend Michael Burnett. She was never seen again. Ever since, Burnett, 57, a swindler with a long record, has been suspected of killing the wealthy divorcee after embezzling her money. But police were unable to tie him to the disappearance until Vernon Frazier, an inmate in a San Diego jail, learned that Burnett had become a protected FBI informant playing a crucial part in municipal bribery investigations in New York City and Chicago...
...Scientists at the University of California at San Francisco are testing a bladder pacemaker. Using a remote control, the patient can send signals to implanted electrodes, activating nerves to the bladder. D. Wayne Smith, 62, who has had one for three years, delightedly calls it "my key out of jail...
Oddly enough, petty crime on the streets of Palermo has increased since a surprise sweep two years ago rounded up 53 of the prisoners now on trial. Investigators believe that with so many of the big bosses in jail, the lesser lights, with no other source of employment or income, have turned to purse snatching for pocket money...
...soon became a foot soldier under Carmine and Danny Fatico, reputed old- guard members of the Gambino family. Arrested several times, Gotti served a year in jail starting in 1965 for attempted burglary and three years, beginning in 1969, for a hijacking from an airport warehouse. He was not around much for the early years of his five children by his wife Victoria, the daughter of an Italian builder and a Russian-Jewish mother...
...from Las Vegas convicted in 1984 on two counts of tax evasion. In prison since May, he still collects his $78,000-a-year federal salary. If he is not removed by the Senate, he will be able to return to the bench once he finishes his two-year jail term...