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They ran. They hid. They even changed their identities. They got away with it for a dozen years. Acting on a tip received from a viewer of”America’s Most Wanted” the previous night, U.S. Marshals from Arizona made the arrest of an Illinois couple wanted for running a Ponzi scheme that targeted friends, the elderly, and even family members, authorities said last week.
As fugitives, Nelson Grant Hallahan, 65, and wife Janet Hallahan, 54, lived in several states in the Southwest and had used a number of aliases, the Marshals Service said Sunday.
The two were arrested by deputy marshals Saturday afternoon in Tonopah, a desert community 50 miles west of Phoenix. Officials believe they hid in Arizona for the past couple years.
“The 12-year run from justice of the Hallahans, also known as the ‘Mini Madoffs,’ has come to an end,” U.S. Marshal for Arizona David Gonzales said in a statement.’
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-illinois-ponzi-scheme-fugitives-caught-in-arizona-20120507,0,678632.story
“Some Red Caviar chips, please.” A SLIGHTLY fishy aftertaste, but after all, these aren’t being made for Americans. At least not yet.
A New York fourth-grader and self-proclaimed junk food aficionado named Bob Marley Jones was one of seven taste testers who recently got to sample some new and, shall we say, creative, snacks.
The taste testers gathered recently at the headquarters of The Associated Press in New York and represented varying levels of culinary pedigree.
In addition to Bob Marley Jones, the testers included food bloggers, famed French pastry chef Jacques Torres and Marilyn Haggerty, and an 85-year-old North Dakota newspaper columnist whose high praise of the Olive Garden went viral earlier this year.
The spread of international snacks didn’t consist of any barbecue-flavored Lay’s chips or black-and-white Oreo cookies. Instead, the menu included “Forest Mushroom” and “Grilled Meat” Lay’s from Russia, fruity Oreos from China and lemon-peppered flavored Tang drink from Saudi Arabia. The reactions were mixed…quotes include “it tasted like an old garden hose” and “food poisoning”.
http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20120506/business/705069856/
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