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...TREASURER: Walther Leisler Kiep's confession that money was placed in secret bank accounts led to the current scandal...
...work in the engraving department of Tiffany & Co. No longer prosperous was his family, whose founder, according to the family legend, had come to Manhattan in 1621 as the wealthy Frenchman Bras de Fer; one of whose members had commanded the forts in the 1690 Leisler Rebellion; another of whom is reputedly still owed £567 for paying for Manhattan's City Hall in 1803. Rex Brasher had no art training except at Tiffany's and at a Port land, Maine photo-engraver's. At 19 he set sail in a sloop down the Atlantic coast. In one spring afternoon...
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