“Your honor, I have watched this defendant...
“Your honor, I have watched this defendant on almost a daily basis since September of 1988 counting money. . . . They spend their day counting money. That may be hard to believe, but in a billion-dollar money laundering operation, that takes a lot of time.”
--Assistant U.S. Atty. Russell Hayman, referring to jewelry dealer Wanis (Joseph) Koyomejian, 47, of Northridge, one of 37 people charged with using their businesses as fronts to launder proceeds from cocaine sales for Latin American drug dealers.
The kissing machine, invented in 1939, presses two pairs of ruberized lips together under 10 pounds of tension--the ideal kissing pressure, according to Max Factor. At right, a 1932 face-measuring device.
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