This Is Your FBI: The Punch and Judy Shakedown

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI This is your FBI The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Presented transcribed as a public service By the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States And the Equitable Society's representative in your community We Americans believe in providing for our own security

Without sacrificing our independence and self-reliance That is why the equitable life assurance society of the United States numbers five million American families among its policy holders The equitable way of assuring future security is the American way 8,000 men represent the equitable society from coast to coast in about 14 minutes I'd like to tell you how one of these men may help you enjoy freedom from worry and peace of mind that may be yours with

membership in the equitable society Tonight, the Sub-It-A-B-I-File impersonation, its title, the Punch and Judy Shakedown. There have always been men who tried to make their way through life by cheating their fellow men. In good times and bad, they fly their trade, scheming to steal anywhere from pennies to millions of dollars. Their victims come from every part of the country, from every

level of society. The Swindler, whose case history from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation you are about to hear dramatized, is perhaps the most contemptible of all Swindlers, for he prays on the poor.

In law enforcement language he has a name, the Misery Chisler. Like other Swindlers, the Misery Chisler is an opportunist. He takes advantage of every condition. To him, headlines are more than a summary of the news.

The other means by which he keeps his illegal activities up to date. By which he changes a 1910 swindle to reap a 1952 harvest. Tonight's FBI file opens in the shabby tenement district of a large eastern city.