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...raiders left a note which read, "Jack the Robber Strikes...
...Chris Boyce escaped from Lompoc federal prison and lived on the lam, as a bank robber and fisherman, for 19 months before his capture. To many of those he met then, he is still a friend, and maybe a hero. That story could make for a sequel--The Falcon Strikes Back, perhaps?--superior to the original movie. The early careers of Chris and Daulton prove that truth is stranger, and more thrilling, than docu-drama...
...title of muckrakers, but it was Ida Tarbell who perfected the technique. Her father, a minor Pennsylvania oil driller, was nearly ruined by John D. Rockefeller. Twenty years later she settled the score with her scathing 1904 History of the Standard Oil Company, which described some of the robber baron's sharper practices and led eventually to the dismantling of his empire. But as Kathleen Brady, a TIME reporter-researcher, points out in a graceful new biography, the scourge of Big Business was not always bent on vengeance. Most of the time she was a stiff-backed, old-fashioned...
Some law-enforcement officials confessed to being puzzled by the sweeping announcement. The Colombo clan was all but eclipsed years ago by stronger rivals.Those familiar with the Mafia say that the true force behind the Colombo group was not Persico, but a onetime bank robber named John ("Sonny") Franzese, who was tapped by other Mafia bosses six years ago to help straighten out the inept clan. Franzese was not named in the indictment. Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney in New York, told TIME, "We have a lot more to do." Indeed, Washington officials said an organized-crime strike force...
Nine years ago, Bowden's husband James was mistaken for a grocery-store robber and was killed by two white policemen. A department inquiry cleared the officers, but Patricia Bowden, with the help of Local Attorney Lawrence O'Donnell Sr., sued for damages. After a three-year investigation that exposed a top-level police coverup, a federal court jury awarded her $250,000 plus interest...