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|    gggg gggg to TomB...@agent.com    |
|    Re: The Pawnbroker    |
|    23 Oct 22 09:42:32    |
      From: ggggg9271@gmail.com              On Sunday, October 23, 2022 at 4:59:51 AM UTC-7, TomB...@agent.com wrote:       > I am unclear as to what the pimp was using the pawbroker for. What        > were the forms he was supposed to fill out? Was it just some money        > laundering scheme?        >        >        > Tom Benton        >        > There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.              According to this:              - Regarding the plot, Sol lives with his married sister and her husband,       keeping them in modest prosperity on the income from the shop, seemingly       untouched by the daily procession of human misery that passes through its       doors. He allows his business to        be used as a convenient money-laundering service by a small-time local       racketeer, until he discovers the true source of this wealth, the exploitation       of poor black women in brothels, and links it to the hell that his own wife       suffered at the hands of the        Nazis. Finally, something has touched a nerve. Sol can not go on with the life       he is leading, but can find no way out. He starts to lend ridiculous sums of       money on the valueless trinkets that desperate people bring to his shop, and       refuses to provide        the financial services that the local crime-boss demands. As a result of Sol's       insubordination the young Puerto Rican man who works as his assistant and sees       himself as Sol's pupil in the art of money-making becomes disillusioned with       his guru and turns        back to crime, losing his life in a botched attempt to rob his employer.              https://w.davidgardiner.net/pawnbroker.html              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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