Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coat cannot be driven or deducted. It is not an investment object, such as a rare book or print. It cannot be insured at true replacement value. It is likely to be stolen if the owner lets it out of her sight. Checkrooms refuse responsibility. Passers-by mutter about cruelty to animals and starving Cambodians...
...going undercover-and enduring the attacks that such operations can bring. Over the past two years, the FBI has been engaged in nearly 100 separate undercover operations -and with impressive results. Last year, these investigations produced 2,817 arrests, 1,372 convictions and the recovery of $318 million in stolen property...
These operations began with the FBI joining local police in setting up phony fence operations-often in storefronts. There stolen goods were readily purchased, and at the proper time the unsuspecting sellers
...were stung. The scams ranged from Operation Tarpit in Los Angeles, where the expenditure of $450,000 bought some $42 million in hot goods, with 256 arrests, to Operation Lobster in Boston, where agents recovered 17 huge truckloads of stolen goods that were stuffed with $3 million in loot. As a result, Boston area hijackings dropped from about 50 a year to only two since this sting ended in March...
...followers had seized control of the city gates, a vital link to leaguers in the countryside. By the latter part of 1579, butchers and bakers were defiantly withholding taxes. Daringly and, as it turned out, fatally, Paumier's faction was also demanding complete restitution of the funds stolen by the town administrators over the previous two decades...