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ABSCAM — Part 8

57 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Apr 22, 1982 · Broad topic: Politics & Activism · Topic: ABSCAM · 57 pages OCR'd
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tado Sr. was “concerned” when oi -. . ficers told him that his 62-year-old sister Zelda’s 1978 Pontiac had een found ina Milpitas park with ‘@ woman's body in the trunk. “°°. And when Furtado learned that . the body indeed was Zelda's -- and WASHINGTON (UPI) — Social . Security cards — dubbed “the key , to the kingdom”. by investigators * — are commoaly counterfeited or - tolen for use by illegal aliens to fits, a cage to prot pents. - 66 ‘pound green eyes, Furtado thrust at’ police believed his own 16- . year-old son, Donald Jr., had mur. — SocialSecurity card : | | @>:: jobs and collect unearned bene-_ | Cobra’s gem » |_| safe in heist ely sa bya vena cra pl a 383-carat sapphire worth $1.82 million, stole four less expensive stones in wdjoining showcascs unprotected by ser- RP EREAIW beked arrose - “Pit tell you the whole thing: I * won't add, I won't take away,” the Id retired farmer said. toothless man with blazing, an accusing finger toward the trailer that had been his sister's - home, The General Accounting Office . estimates the scandal costs lux- : payers $15 billion a year in bene- fits paid to unqualified applicants. :* Federal employces and private _eltizens, such as travel agents, ped- die the cards for up to $260 each to pointing and stamping his fool. “Eighty percent of it. ... I tell you, my sister's gone, I will say the truth,” he said. “My sister did not use good judgment. You can take the best animal in the world. But if you attack that animal day after day, one day it will surely attack thousands of undocumented aliens who use them to get jobs, accord- ing to government investigators. Illegals also are known to use the cards fraudulently to collect unemployment and welfare food stamps and retire- checks, instruinent oulside her Waser in Fremont. Reports submitted by the officers who arrested him say the body later was wrapped in blankets and dumped jn the trunk of her cream-colored car. Both car and corpse were abandoned in Ed Levin Park in Milpitas, 10 miles s — key to kingdom ment benefits. US. citizens capitalize as well on loose distribution of the cards, by sometimes collecting unem- ployment checks with one card Back of Section, Col. 1 Crash kills - spot where the car was. tus. nesses sald there wes @ Davidson tattoo — “Live . — Ride to Live’ ~— on & arm. Two weeks ago, Supena Judge Lawrence Terry [6ui tado unfit to be tried in t!. nile court system. A f charge was refiled in Sant. + County Municipal Court, 3 tado was arraigned there *. terward. He was transferr: - Juvenile Hall to the Sant. County Main Jail, with bai $100,000. He was schedule: / ter a plea today. a , ee { { t j ' ! Zelda Marie Furtado, at: { , bly-line worker at an Oak: ’ company, bought a whits: | last fall. She moved it onic \ Of land that her father, a | ’ Portugal, had bought in ! ~had bequeathed to her : - brother. After Zelda had move. | e aert al ace ~ brother and nephew burly, CLEVELAND (UPI) — The leader of the Air Force Thunder- birds aerobatics team was killed today i: the crash of his T-38 Talon. jet, which exploded in a “ball of fire” on takeoff from Burke Lake- front Airport and skidded into Lake Erie. Authorities said both the pilot, picket fence around he 5). ~~ separating it from the ; redwood house. At rot * same time, Donald Jr. me | “sa tiny room on the sidtt: ‘ house. His doubis-loct.: ~z.stood only 20 fect from '" fence. “At first, it. was pert: father sald. “But then, abe Officials ‘said the four ‘blue sapphires, val- ued at $25,000, disappered during’a tour by schoolchildren of the $19.8-million exhibit at the Comménwealth Institute organized by the Sri Lankan.high commission. The theft was disclosed Monday, 7 “It's a pity we didn't have poisonous snakes in the other ‘cases,”.,a high commission - spokesman sald.) v0 fo “The locks of the case were intact when the - Thunderbirds commander-leader Lt. Col. D.L. Smith, and his crew chief, Staff Sgt. Dwight Roberts, ejected from the flaming jet before it crashed into the lake. Smith, 40, of Rossville, Ga., commander of the performing squadron for three years, was dead on arrival at St. Vincent Charity Hospital. Roberts’ injuries were nervous, getting irritates. A short-haired, husk: who had no children ii married, Zelda kept to her avoided most of the Furt:: ly, according to Donali =: Rosemary. At the sai Rosemary said, the boy's i to haranguing him, kee sapphires were discovered missing, so we believe the thief had a key,” an official sald. undisclosed. over his door and chi: The nearly 5-foot-long cobra was Installed : ae Mike Barth, airport deputy com- TON roan avon ste “ : 7 “of. thé exhibition ‘to pro et — i Hummel Nev missioner, who saw the crash, said: an Slope | at the outset of the, exhibition to protect the : Jim Humm ews Mtslcidded about 3,500 fect Jiane room — she'd attack him ‘ , , the runway. Jt was a ball of fire all the way down the runway.” q wey “” ‘ months ago, she starte:! | t { } ' iy 7 } } \ if | ‘ \ $ : big sapphires “72's... Back of Seen | 3 | fate all at Annelies AE wae eon dS rn inte et ne eh eer
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