Word: swindlers
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Last week Vivian LaMarre, Frances "Queen of Diamonds," upon whom Swindler Stavisky reputedly spent $6,000 a month was ordered to pay her rent or quit her apartment. Mile LaMarre drew her revolver, shot & killed herself...
...hundred and fifty-eight dollars was all that the French Government realized from an auction of the personal belongings of the late Great Swindler Alexandre Serge Stavisky, against whose estate lie claims...
...Tunney fight in 1927. Lately he has been running a saloon on Chicago's West Madison Street three blocks from Clerk Van Derck's bank. At Amalgamated Dave Barry kept a joint account with Joseph Baiata, a onetime barber who is supposed to have taught Charles Ponzi all that swindler knew. Joe Baiata served five years in jail for helping himself to $200,000 in a Massachusetts bank, and be fore that he helped wreck a big Buffalo insurance company. In his earlier days his favorite method was first to found a bank, then loot...
Late in the summer Swindler Baiata began to glance wistfully at Abraham Lincoln Life Insurance Co., which had $13,000,000 of perfectly good assets. Working control could be bought for $400,000. Gathering about him a crew of sharpers, Mr. Baiata arranged to buy the company for $25,000 down, the balance in instalments. Clerk Van Derck provided the down payment from Ledger...
...motley crowd of politicians, prostitutes, gangsters, detectives and hired editors who make up the cast of L'Affaire Stavisky, greatest political scandal since the War, no figure is more pathetic than that of Arlette Simon Stavisky, the once theatrically beautiful wife of the late swindler...