Word: swindlers
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Last month, for example, it led to Osaka, Japan, where reporters and photographers stood around while two men broke into the apartment of an accused swindler, murdered him with 13 bayonet stabs, then emerged blood splattered to a press corps stunned, but not too stunned to keep the TV cameras rolling. It led to West Germany, where a couple of magazines, Bunte Illustrierte and Stern, tried to auction off to other media bits of Mengele, photographs, letters and other memorabilia. Finally, it led to Beirut, where during 17 days of astonishing symbiosis, television and terrorists co- produced -- there...
...such a connection were inevitable. Even the most tenuous bits of information made huge, unfair headlines: a pornography distributor is a tenant in one Zaccaro building; a reputed mobster rents an apartment in a building Zaccaro inherited from his father 13 years ago and immediately sold; an imprisoned swindler once owned a building that Zaccaro managed. TIME learned that U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani asked Zaccaro to his office last Thursday to talk about a 1972 real estate transaction. Zaccaro is only a minor witness in the case, and has cooperated with the Government. Explained the U.S. Attorney...
Still, the main targets are journalistic: Columnist Jack Anderson, who according to Powell never proved his claim that Carter associates conspired with Fugitive Swindler Robert Vesco; ABC News, which Powell says refused to correct a false report that the FBI was wiretapping U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young; Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft, who is described as having sent back White House tickets to a Kennedy Center gala because the seats were in the balcony; the New York Times, which Powell claims had to "screen" its staff to be sure no drug users were assigned to investigate charges that White House Chief...
...some reason to be ashamed." He announced that "there won't be a single word about these diaries in the next issue." He promised, however, to "make an attempt to uncover the history of this forgery for our readers," adding, somewhat needlessly, "We have no reason to protect the swindler...
...General in June 1972 after Mitchell left Cabinet to head Nixon re-election committee. Pleaded guilty to giving false testimony to Senate Judiciary Committee about antitrust suit against ITT. Suspended sentence. Acquitted last year in home state of Arizona on twelve counts of perjury allegedly committed while representing a swindler. Arizona Supreme Court suspended him from practicing law last month. U.S. Supreme Court suspended him last week from practicing before...