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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fund's money, too, has gone into Las Vegas hotels and gambling casinos, such as the Dunes and Caesars Palace. Some of it has simply vanished. The Government has brought fraud and conspiracy charges against borrowers and trustees alike. Last year prosecutors secured an indictment against Irwin Weiner, a Chicago bail bondsman with Mob connections, for allegedly defrauding the fund of $1.4 million in a scheme to buy a plastics plant in New Mexico. As the case was about to go to trial, the Government's star witness was shotgunned to death before his wife and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Attracting Money and the Mafia | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...Perry Weiner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jun. 23, 1975 | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

Last week the grand jury heard the testimony of Jay Weiner, 20, a would-be sportswriter who is a student at Philadelphia's Temple University, but who attended Oberlin from 1972 to 1974. Scott became Weiner's mentor. After his appearance before the grand jury, Weiner refused to say anything about the group, but he did ask newsmen to send his greetings to Tania (the underground name that Patty has adopted) and "my comrade Jack and my dearest sister Micki," who clearly were the Scotts. Weiner also said that he hoped the Scotts and Patty were safe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Patty Hearst Trail Heats Up | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

More cities may soon feel the splat of the pie killers. For $50, Weiner is offering to any taker a "franchise kit" explaining the modus operandi. In Los Angeles, Pie Face International's Don Murdock is processing applications from potential hit men in Detroit, Chicago and New York, and has already taken on two operatives to service the capital area. "In Washington," he says, "the politicians are so removed from the people it takes a pie in the face to get them back to reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Pieman Cometh | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

Vindictive Females. Hit men seldom encounter hostility from their victims. "When you have pie all over your face," explains Weiner, "it's hard to do anything. You can't see and you can't breathe. So you just stand there and grin." But women, in general, do not react well. "They just don't like it one bit," says Murdock. "They aren't good sports." On the other hand, reports a Minneapolis Pie Kill operative, a majority of the clients are "vindictive females...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Pieman Cometh | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

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