CRIME: The Cheaters

"So I buy this steak, see, an' it's supposed to be proim. Well, Alfred, he bites into it an' he sez what kennel did you get this steak at, an' I sez it's proim an' he sez, yeh, it's proim hawssmeat. But whaddaya gonna do, they're all doin' it."

"Yeh, they all gotta big smile an' a pounda thumb."

Jouncing their baby buggies as they commiserated, two Brooklyn housewives last week clucked bitterly over the news of a growing scandal in which they—and uncounted thousands like them—were the victims. Implicated in the first week's disclosures by New York's Commissioner of Investigation...

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