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Meanwhile, lawyers for Amos Massa and Thomas O'Malley, two of Williams' convicted co-defendants and former Teamsters' pension fund trustees, submitted an affidavit from former FBI Agent H. Edward Tickel, a 14-year bureau veteran and surreptitious-entry expert, to support their claim that some of the evidence in the conspiracy case was obtained illegally. Tickel, 42, alleges that he made three "black bag" break-ins into the Chicago offices of Co-Defendant Allen Dorfman in late 1978 or early 1979, before the FBI had obtained court approval to conduct telephone tapping and bugging...
...trials, Tickel charged that he informed FBI Director William Webster about his illegal entries in November 1980, but Webster disputed Ticket's accounts. Since then, the FBI has had no comment on any aspect of the affair. The allegations nonetheless inspired attorneys for O'Malley, Massa and Williams to file motions for a new trial...
...firm's senior vice president, Thomas R. Brimberry. Brimberry, 38, joined the firm in 1973 as an $8,000-a-year clerical worker. Five years later, he was promoted to senior vice president in charge of operations, a post he snared when his friend and lawyer, James Massa, bought controlling interest in the firm. The onetime clerk quickly became a high roller, building a home worth some $800,000 in a St. Louis suburb and making frequent gambling jaunts to the casinos of Nassau and Nevada...
Investigators believe that Brimberry's blue-chip life-style was financed with money looted from Stix's clients. Though no indictments have yet been handed up, an affidavit filed in federal court indicates that Brimberry told an Internal Revenue Service agent that he, Massa and Stix President Frederic A. Arnstein Jr. withdrew as much as $100,000 at a time from client accounts and funneled it into shadow accounts. Brimberry then reportedly forged records to cover the withdrawals, removed stock certificates from genuine accounts and forwarded them to banks to serve as collateral for further loans...
...scam was simple to pull off because Brimberry was solely responsible for account transfers when clients bought stock on margin, and he supervised the handling of the firm's stock certificates and cash. Massa, though, denies any knowledge of wrongdoing. Said he: "I didn't know what he was doing over there. Apparently Brimberry's a very smart guy and has the ability to take people...