A Fowl Example of Stretching Truth
<i> Associated Press</i>
NEW YORK —
A jury found a bogus scheme to trade British condoms for Soviet poultry about as funny as a rubber chicken.
The jury in U.S. District Court in Manhattan last week convicted a Detroit lawyer of defrauding investors of $75,000 in a fictitious deal to buy condoms in England, barter them for chickens in the Soviet Union and sell the birds to Saudi Arabia.
Thomas M. Mucciante, 32, of Grosse Pointe, Mich., allegedly promised the three men who put up the money that they would make $2.9 million.
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