Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smugglers provide to their clients. And for one person, Barbara Pisa, that news was vindication of sorts. For three years, ever since her Classic Travel Agency in Naperville, Ill., was one of 28 agencies in the suburbs west of Chicago hit by what police describe as a Colombian burglary ring, Pisa has waged a one-woman crusade to focus attention on what she and others say is a serious public-safety issue that the airlines have ignored. At all 28 agencies the take was the same: blank airline tickets--6,000 of them, worth $6 million on the black market...
...worth hundreds of millions of dollars. And the crimes are continuing. A Marietta, Ga., agency was recently hit twice for 6,000 tickets. "It's organized crime, and it's big," says former Miami Metro Dade detective Gary Yallelus, who along with his partner, John Little, first identified the ring. In 1996 and '97 they arrested 10 people in connection with the thefts, including several of the Colombians and Rafael Horacio Fernandez, 51, a resident alien from Argentina living in San Bernardino, Calif., who was part of another team that printed and sold tickets...
...says Pisa, who got a letter from American Airlines demanding $16,000 for stolen tickets written on her ticket stock. The airline later relented because Pisa had followed recommended security guidelines. But Georgette Bouland-Anthe, a travel agent in Libertyville, Ill., who lost 6,000 blank tickets to the ring and owes the airlines $300,000, was forced to close her seven-year-old Travel Incentives Inc. "The airlines want payment," says Bouland-Anthe. "I am trying to get my nerves back in order after being in this business 20 years and having to walk away from it with nothing...
...Before you married your current wife, you proposed to three different women before three big fights and then broke it off after each fight. Did you keep using the same ring, Champ...
...Well, yeah. If you don't get married, you don't let them keep the ring...