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Notorious Pension Fraudster Reno de Lemos Sentenced
A Washington dispatch reports Reno de Lemos, a Russian Jew, was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary for defrauding a pension recipient, Thomas Cook of Lowndes County Alabama, by cashing Cook’s checks and signing them in Cook’s name. De Lemos’ career spanned Missouri New York Baltimore Alabama and a stint in the Alabama Legislature after sleeping in the Statehouse chair. He previously posed as a Negro preacher to swindle trust and small-change from African Americans. The note adds other local items and ads from the era.
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Thomas Cook
Lowndes County
Alabama
de Lemos
Cash
Ben de Leamos
United
Brazito
Jefferson City
Jeena City
Thomas J. Foetcher
McCare Wis
John B. Henderson
Washington
Carl Schurz
New York
Baltimore
Montgomery
South
General Grant