Word: godfrey
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When convicted pimp Sterling Godfrey walked out of the federal prison in Atlanta in 1977, after serving nearly five years of a maximum 15-year term, he still owed his $35,000 fine. But Godfrey said he was short of cash, so the U.S. Attorney's Ofiice in the capital obligingly allowed him to pay exactly $10 a month, thus giving him almost three centuries to pay his debt to society. Godfrey fell behind that undemanding schedule, even though the FBI discovered that he had re-established a lucrative prostitution business, opened a bicycle shop and acquired a Cadillac...
Haled before a federal district judge in Washington last week, and threatened with contempt of court, Godfrey agreed to begin paying off his fine at a rate of at least $50 a month during most of the year and $100 a month in the summers, when his bicycle business booms. Godfrey's case followed a similar action against Gambler Alvin Kotz, who in January became the first person in Washington, and perhaps in the entire country, ever convicted of willful failure to pay a criminal fine...
...month, because ae had to support his "aging Italian parents." In fact, he managed to pay a mere $40 in six years, even though he went on gambling trips to Las Vegas, where he tad a $10,000 line of credit at Caesars Palace. Startled by the Kotz and Godfrey cases, the U.S. Attorney's Ofiice in the capital has been reviewing its long list of cons in arrears...
...Waverly owes its existence, in a sense, to two highly unlikely and unwitting patrons: Arthur Godfrey and an unmusical Greenwich Village landlord. It was Godfrey's ukulele playing that first prompted Jaffee, a furrier's son, to begin strumming the guitar as a boy in Brooklyn. Later, while studying musicology at N.Y.U., he met Kay, a pianist whose landlord had forbidden her to practice in her apartment. She took up the recorder as a consolation, and Michael experimented with accompanying her on the lute. Inspired by Noah Greenberg's pioneering New York Pro Musica, they "roped...