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“What it means is that the people who are backing this thing, who put up the money for it are gonna take a bit of a bath, a big bath. That’s no hype, that’s truth, they’re gonna get hurt,” he continued before going into a fitting message of unity and peace.

Writing in Sunset magazine in 1927, in an article sub-headlined “Why the Horses Laughed in Los Angeles,” Walter V. Woehlke described a master con man — not Julian — who, “whenever the authorities or his creditors go after him… made his followers believe the authorities were their enemies … got their sympathies …and made them put up the money for each new fight.”

The legal showdown over identifying the suretors began after Federal Court Magistrate Anne Shields, who presided over Santos’ arraignment, sided with media outlets and called for the public identification of the people who put up the money for his release.

He said he and the company he and his wife own, Shoreline Diving, put up the money for the search.

A company called Sphere Media put up the money for a sizzle reel, which convinced the Canadian Broadcasting Company to order the series.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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