Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Murmur of the Heart, 6, 9:40 p.m.; Stolen Kisses, 8:05 p.m., weekends...
...stacked to the ceiling: household goods, toys, shoes, sweaters, suits, radios, electric toothbrushes, records, film, perfume, wigs, even ballet slippers. Ignore the department-store price marked on most items. Swaggi will give you "a real steal." But watch yourself. What you are reaching for is likely to be really stolen goods, hot as a smoldering coal. Vincent Swaggi is a fence...
...subterranean society of professional crime, the fence is an economic necessity. Godfather to rip-off artists ranging from truck hijackers to snatch-and-grab junkies, the fence buys their "swag" (stolen goods) for a fraction of its value and unloads it swiftly at slightly below wholesale to respectable folks eager for a bargain. Though he is the underworld's most visible agent, the fence has generally escaped the scrutiny of journalists, cameras and sociologists. Until recently, that is. In The Professional Fence (Free Press; $8.95), Sociologist Carl B. Klockars offers the latest word on the ancient practice of selling...
...Stolen Suits. Swaggi the fence knows his mark. "Nine out of ten people got larceny," he explains, "maybe even 99 out of 100 ... If the price is right and a man can use the merchandise, he's gonna buy." During World War II, Swaggi parlayed his philosophy of man into a thriving odd-lot business that provided a "front" for a lucrative swag mart that soon was fencing hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of hot goods a year-virtually unimpeded by the police. In more than 30 years as a fence, Swaggi, 60, has spent only eight...
Sprague held his tongue. But he finally decided to let loose after a local newspaper revealed that Fitzpatrick personally went into court to recommend probation for one Joseph F. Nardello, who had been convicted of receiving stolen goods. Sprague had wanted to recommend 21/2 to 5 years, but Fitzpatrick preferred the probation in exchange for Nardello's agreement not to attack the conviction. Newspapers then suggested another possible Fitzpatrick motive: they charged that the D.A. had once represented Nardello when in private practice...