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Crime may not pay but “Vice” does. Edward James Olmos visited 52 His-panic inmates in Chicago’s Cook County Jail last week to stress the economic ad-vantages of clean living. “When I started, I couldn’t sing, I couldn’t dance and I couldn’t act,” he said. “Now I make $3.5 million a year on ‘Miami Vice.”’ To underscore his point home, Olmos told the inmates how he bought a $140,000 Porsche for $45,000 at a police auction of property confiscated from drug dealers. “The guy got 30 years,” he said. “I got his car.”
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