Word: toledo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seniors looking for a slightly better return on their retirement income. Ursula Linke, 60, of Silver Spring, Md., and her husband, tired of earning a relatively paltry 4% to 6% on their annuities, moved their entire life savings of $700,000 into viaticals sold by Liberte Capital Group of Toledo, Ohio, which claimed to pay 14% on a one-year maturity. "We wanted to have a sound investment, retire and have some peace and tranquillity," says Linke. After the first few quarterly payments arrived from the company, the money suddenly stopped coming. Liberte Capital blames its escrow agent...
...castlelike "cottage" in Burgundy. Sometimes the accommodations are more modest than what you're offering in exchange. But timing and location can make up the difference. If you live in a less well-known area, you can write to prospects, regaling them with the hidden charms of greater Toledo or Tulsa, or luring them with the special amenities of your community: tennis or golf, for example...
Likely as not, the children themselves are victims of emotional trauma. "These children are suffering profound loss," says Sylvie de Toledo, founder of Grandparents as Parents (GAP), a California support network. "They come with everything from emotional, behavioral, academic and medical problems to physical disabilities from prenatal substance abuse...
...high school student in Toledo, Ohio, Frankel obsessed over financial markets. As an adult and college dropout, he fretted over the opportunities he perceived were passing him by. Of medium build, with brown hair and a diffident, stumbling, yet loquacious manner, Frankel came across as a possessor of arcane knowledge that would empower him and his clients. "He is the most inconspicuous guy you can imagine," says Jeff Creamer, a Toledo lawyer who represented two of Frankel's earliest victims. "That, coupled with what appears to be an Einstein-like devotion to the financial world, makes [people] think they have...
...Teng, who just graduated from high school in Palo Alto, Calif., and worked 40 hours a week last summer as a computer programmer. "If you are a student who is anticipating applying to selective colleges," he says, "it really isn't acceptable to do nothing." Tony Bialorucki, 18, of Toledo, Ohio, was a caddy before trading in his golf clubs for a toolbox last summer to help build an orphanage in Guatemala. "I didn't want to work in a mall or a restaurant," he says. "That's kind of worthless...