Word: swindler
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...Last seen on Nov. 20 setting off for a jog on the beach at Miami's Fontainebleau Hotel and since then widely presumed to have drowned, Stonehouse had been variously alleged to be a victim of the Mafia, a Czech spy, a CIA agent and a financial swindler escaping his creditors. When he turned up in Melbourne last week, under arrest for entering Australia illegally, it all suddenly seemed much simpler. His problem evidently was that his exporting ventures were hopelessly...
STAVISKY, Alain Resnais's first feature in five years, is a sort of symbolic biography of the French swindler (nicely played by Jean-Paul Belmondo) whose exposure almost brought down the Third Republic in 1934. Resnais has had the movie photographed like a posh '30s illustration, a style made fashionable by films as varied as The Conformist and Chinatown. But Resnais undercuts all his images of antique chic (among which may be counted Anny Duperey as Stavisky's wife) with symbols of death: orchids, cemeteries, the funeral pyramid in the Pare Monceau. Resnais and his screenwriter, Jorge...
...promised to tell all that he knows after he is sentenced in January-and he knows plenty. Former Cabinet Members John Mitchell and Maurice Stans are scheduled to go on trial Jan. 9 on charges stemming from $200,000 in illegal campaign contributions by Robert Vesco, the accused swindler. And John Dean, the former White House counsel, is waiting to be sentenced...
...roughneck who lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., despoiling stewardesses and brooding about the decline of the West. He quests forth, when funds are low, to do battle for the dread forces of reality-a Robin Hood among chattel rustlers who steals loot back from thugs and swindlers and returns it, minus a 50% commission, to the widows and orphans from whom it was taken. Oftener than not a girl enters the picture. Part of the game is to guess whether she is a thug, swindler, widow or orphan...
...charges came from Louis P. Mastriana, a convicted stock swindler and onetime Roosevelt employee, who was testifying during an investigation of organized crime in stock and security frauds. Under questioning by Senator Charles Percy, Mastriana told the subcommittee members that in 1968 he had been offered $100,000 by Roosevelt and Michael McLaney, a reputed associate of Gambling Czar Meyer Lansky, to kill Pindling after the Prime Minister refused to grant McLaney a gambling license in exchange for campaign contributions...