[Mb-civic] !

[richard haase]

another good fundraiser ( if a bit overenthusiastic )
out of commission
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From: "Ian" <ialterman at nyc.rr.com>
To: "Civic" <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 7:01 PM
Subject: [Mb-civic] !


> Did anyone else catch this?  Michael?
>
> Peace.
>
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> Return Engagement Behind Prison Bars
> The New York Times
> November 28, 2004
>
> It has been a long second act.  In the 1960's and 70's, Adela Holzer was
> well known on Broadway as a producer and an investor in shows that
included
> the hit rock musical "Hair."  Then, in 1979, she was found to have started
a
> second career; she was convicted of defrauding investors of nearly
$100,000
> in bogus schemes not involving the theater, and she served two years in
> prison. In 1990, she pleaded guilty to stealing more than $400,000 in
> another investment swindle and served four more years. Two years ago, she
> was convicted of bilking illegal immigrants of more than $200,000 in yet
> another scheme, in which she falsely
> promised them documents that would give them legal status.  These days,
Ms.
> Holzer, 75, is serving 9 to 18 years for that crime at the Albion
> Correctional Facility in western New York, where she works in the prison
> library, said a spokeswoman for the state prison system.
>
>
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/nyregion/28folo.html?ex=1102686283&ei=1&en=b2f127e13e1dcdda
>
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