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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in Manila, proudly wearing MacArthur's Medal of Freedom, Lewin opened a cabaret and became the city's leading sports promoter (including the world's bantamweight boxing championship match in 1947). But he hit the really big money with a gambling joint called the Key Club...
He also knew how to do favors for the powerful. In 1949 the daughter of Vice President Fernando Lopez divorced her American husband, who got custody of their two-year-old son. Lewin helped her kidnap the boy in New Mexico, make it to San Francisco after a breakneck car...
According to Philippine records, Lewin deposited a total of $6,521,000 in Reno's First National Bank of Nevada between 1951 and 1953. But when the U.S. tried to collect $501,755 in taxes, Lewin successfully argued that he could not be assessed for income earned outside the...
Lewin, away from the Philippines when the order was issued, turned up briefly in other spots-gambling joints in Tokyo, in Guatemala City-but was determined to get back to Manila by hook or crook. One day a small Panama-flag freighter named Maria Ines sailed into Manila harbor, ostensibly...
Renewing the Visas. When President Magsaysay was killed in a plane crash, Carlos Garcia-an old friend of former Vice President Fernando Lopez-moved into Malacanan Palace, and things began going better for Lewin. On the ground that the Philippine government wanted him for $68,450 in back taxes, President...