Out of the Mold

  • By Adam Hughes
  • | 6:00 p.m. February 20, 2006
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Out of the Mold

by Francis X. Gilpin | Associate Editor

This guy was supposed to be a friend. "Are you kidding me?" Edward F. Venner says he told a Florida pal who called him in 1982 with a business proposition.

 

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