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Billie Sol Estes, Texas Con Man Whose Fall Shook Up Washington, Dies at 88
Topic Started: May 19 2017, 06:52 PM (135 Views)
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/us/billie-sol-estes-texas-con-man-dies-at-88.html

Billie Sol Estes, a fast-talking Texas swindler who made millions, went to prison and captivated America for years with mind-boggling agricultural scams, payoffs to politicians and bizarre tales of covered-up killings and White House conspiracies, was found dead on Tuesday at his home in Granbury, Tex. He was 88.

He died in his sleep and was found in his recliner, Mr. Estes’s daughter Pamela Padget said.
Nonexistent fertilizer tanks. Faked mortgages. Bogus cotton-acreage allotments. Farmers in four states bamboozled. Strange “suicides,” including a bludgeoned investigator shot five times with a bolt-action rifle. Assassination plots. Jimmy Hoffa and Fidel Castro. Jack Ruby and Lee Harvey Oswald.
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