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...Marshall death was only one more spadeful in the tons of dirt cascading over the case of the Pecos Ponzi. Other developments: > Senator McClellan's Investigations Subcommittee announced that it would investigate the suicide (apparent) of William Pratt, 31. Chicago office manager of Commercial Solvents Corp., the New York firm that sold $5,700,000 worth of anhydrous ammonia to Estes, mainly on credit, hoping to be repaid from his grain-storage income. While no connection with the Estes case was evident, Pratt, asphyxiated by carbon monoxide in his car, left a bizarre note: "The bells even toll when...
...Billie Sol Estes case was no laughing matter-to Freeman or anyone else. It was the case of a welfare-state Ponzi. It was a scandal that had already brought about the resignation or dismissal of four Kennedy Administration officials. It had politicians and bureaucrats of all degrees and of both parties shaking in their boots. It had set off investigations galore. It had called into question the whole administration of the mighty U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Though his proud fellow citizens like to think of him as their own Mike Hammer, Milan's Tommaso Ponzi, 37, really does not quite meet TV specifications for a private eye. Big Tom weighs 270 lbs., is a happily married homebody (three children) who has no time for slinky blondes. But otherwise, Tom is up to fictional standards. He is a proven skullbasher: in Italy's first chaotic postwar days he tangled with the Communists in (by his own estimate) 1,300 street brawls, mowing them down with a chunk of railroad track. And he has cold nerve...
...television, the cops grudgingly allow the private eyes to solve their cases for them. But, like Tom himself, Police Chief Nardone did not quite meet TV specifications. Before he knew what had happened, Tommaso Ponzi, private eye, found himself charged with impersonating an officer, violation of domicile, restraint of person and arbitrary arrest. Tom's suspects, who had admitted to being part of an estimated $500,000-a-year ring, walked out of the station free men-because the police themselves had not caught them red-handed as the law requires...
...chisel a bank is rare indeed. Last week, after a fortnight at their adding machines, red-faced country bankers in three Eastern states totted up losses of better than $800,000 as victims of one of the niftiest and most labyrinthine swindles since Boston's dapper Charles Ponzi was in his prime. The man credited with the feats of financial erring do was Earl Belle, 26, a baby-faced Pittsburgh sharpie currently residing scot-free in Rio de Janeiro. So slick was his pitch that only this spring he was interviewed by Mike Wallace as a wonder...