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...taken with the prince that he went to Ronald Reagan and National Security Council Adviser Robert McFarlane and told them of the expected donation. As matters turned out, there was no money and no prince: the would-be contra benefactor was Mousalreza Ibrahim Zadeh, an expatriate Iranian swindler who has pleaded guilty to bank fraud and faces five years in jail...
Adelaide Stiles, 60, left her home in Fort Lauderdale one day eleven years ago to take a vacation with her boyfriend Michael Burnett. She was never seen again. Ever since, Burnett, 57, a swindler with a long record, has been suspected of killing the wealthy divorcee after embezzling her money. But police were unable to tie him to the disappearance until Vernon Frazier, an inmate in a San Diego jail, learned that Burnett had become a protected FBI informant playing a crucial part in municipal bribery investigations in New York City and Chicago...
...those who encounter him. "A very intelligent, cultured man," gushed one American admirer. "He knows every opera and can recognize a symphony from just a couple of notes. He is a nationally ranked chess player. He speaks nine languages." He is also, say authorities, a world-class swindler...
Throughout the '30s, Cagney enjoyed stardom in a series of feisty, defiantly urban parts: a street-smart swindler in Blonde Crazy (1931), a slum-bred cop in G-Men (1935), a ruined bootlegger in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938). By late in the decade he was one of the highest-paid actors in the country, a status he achieved partly by walking out repeatedly on Warners to press for higher pay and protest its grueling working conditions and bumper-to-bumper production schedule. For all his fame, Cagney had little taste for Hollywood night life. He liked best the company...
...Nashville shopping mall was an odd place for the skein of corruption scandals that have ensnarled New York City and Chicago to begin unraveling. But that was where police picked up Michael Burnett, a corpulent ex-con, swindler and murder suspect who was to provide important evidence in corruption investigations in both cities. Burnett, police said later, had stopped at the mall to make last-minute preparations for a burglary. Inside his van, officers found a submachine gun, ammunition and an automatic pistol...