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...Cadillac convertible to make himself inconspicuous while working, settled down in a modest apartment to keep himself inconspicuous off the job. He studied the movements of his prey by reading society pages, travel news, and Hollywood gossip columns. He soon had a king's ransom in loot...
...snowy Vermion Mountains a few miles away, the Markos guerrillas heard of the festival. Through the passes mule trains began to move, some carrying ammunition and food, others empty and ready for loot. Supported by heavy machine guns, bazookas and mortars, 3,000 rebels attacked in foggy darkness. Before morning Naousa was in Communist hands...
Epps admitted that he had threatened two Harvard students and a girl with a 45 automatic on the night of November 20, and stated that his only loot was $7 taken from the couple. At the time, Frederick G. Torrey '49 and his date, Martha Bixler, daughter of the president of Colby College, reported a loss of $19. The other victim, Carl P. Josephson '51, claimed that $7 was stolen from...
Share the Loot. It was principally Irey and his men who broke up Huey Long's gang, gave young District Attorney Tom Dewey the evidence with which to convict Beer Baron Waxie Gordon, jailed Johnny Torrio (who proposed a deal: "Leave us cut out the shooting, boys, there's enough here for everybody"), broke the Lindbergh case and busted up the Pendergast machine...
Except for the Lindbergh case, in which Irey got Hauptmann by tracing registered ransom bills, the technique was always much the same: to determine the size of the gangster's loot, then match it against his income-tax returns. By 1940, Irey had uncovered $476,573,129 in tax deficiencies (the Philadelphia Inquirer's late Publisher Moe Annenberg made the largest single contribution to the Treasury: $8,000,000). At one time nearly two-thirds of all federal prisoners were men jailed as a result of Irey's patient, adding-machine methods...