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...most complex cases of fraud ever to hit the arcane world of high finance is ending. Two men last week pleaded guilty to stealing $270 million from New York's Chase Manhattan Bank. Joseph V. Ossorio, 43, and David J. Heuwetter, 42, face prison sentences of up to 18 and seven years, respectively, for their roles in the Drysdale Government Securities scam...
...Ossorio, who was chairman of the parent Drysdale firm, steadfastly maintained his innocence, saying last week that he was entering a guilty plea only to avoid "prolonged and expensive" litigation. Said he: "I voluntarily plead guilty even though I do not believe I am guilty." Co-Defendant Heuwetter, the owner of Drysdale Government Securities, said that the charge against him was "substantially" true. Said he: "I had hoped that I could make up the losses...
...Libertad so that he can dissociate himself from Townley and at the same time discredit Leigh, Moffitt says, adding that Pinochet was forced to deport Townley because he couldn't deny that Townley was issued an official passport. An interesting sidelight Moffitt mentions is a subscandal involving Guillermo Ossorio, the man who issued the passports to Townley and Larios. Ossorio died on October 21, 1977, after last being seen with Contreras, the former head of DINA. In November, the government announced he had died of a heart attack, but when his body was exhumed in February of this year...
...first artists to look appreciatively at these molds was Alfonso Ossorio, an obsessive assemblagist who produces gaudy conglomerations out of the found objects that he squirrels away against the day when he may need them. By now he has accumulated hundreds of hat blocks at his East Hampton studio, has used scores in his sculptures. Blocks have also long fascinated Arne Ekstrom, director of the Cordier & Ekstrom gallery. When he got the notion of supplying various artists with a block of their choice to see what they could produce, he asked to use Ossorio's collection as a source...
Aesthetic Cannibalism. With the extravagance of one who has hat blocks to squander, Ossorio used no fewer than five in his work titled Waste Not, Want Not. Along with four mannequin heads, plus the weathered skull of a toothy lion, they have been neatly skewered, mounted and bedecked with paint to form a chillingly gay totem pole. It stands as a kind of wry monument to Ossorio's own aesthetic cannibalism...