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...first clues to the Trillion Dollar Gang were detected not in Mindanao but in Los Angeles. In early 1998, customs officials found fake Treasury notes hidden in the suitcase of a Filipino Jesuit priest. Investigators eventually traced the fake bonds to a shantytown on the edges of Cagayan de Oro. There, in the home of a security guard named Archie Mingoc, police found a box containing $1.38 trillion in fake bonds and stacks of counterfeit Japanese, Malaysian and Argentinian currency. A raid on the home of his brother-in-law, Renato Waban, yielded an additional $773 billion in bonds. Mingoc...
...larger criminal organizations and sometimes working alone. At the point of contact-where women are first approached with an offer to travel or work abroad-recruiters are often former trafficking victims or others adept at gaining girls' trust. In Moldova, known recruiters include the daughter of a village priest and the wife of a policeman. They also routinely use classified ads in newspapers or on the Internet. "Jobs for girls without complexes, $800 a week," read one published not long ago in Makler, the Chisinau newspaper. When a Moldovan reporter disguising her identity called one of these numbers, a woman...
...consideration of Crosby's later film work: the rest of the "Road" series, the 1944 "Here Come the Waves" (with "Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive" sung by Crosby and Sonny Tufts in blackface, one of the latest films to use minstrel racism in a contemporary setting), the priest pictures ("Going My Way" and "The Bells of St. Mary's") and the mature work of the mid-'50s, when Bing finally grew up as an actor...
...were a priest, she would make a perfect pope," Tribe says...
BEST PUNCH: Catholic League president William Donohue: "She is now free to throw off all her shackles so she now accepts film roles either as a slut or a porn star. She doesn't need therapy--just counseling by a priest...