And Now, For Our Next Witness. When the Justice Department needed to show in U.S. District Court in 1976 that Metro subway tunnels would not threaten the foundation of the new Continental Trailways building at 12th Street and New York Avenue, N.W., it turned to Robert L. Redell. Redell, a construction engineering expert with degrees from Michigan State and
Throughout its checkered history, the nation’s capital has held special allure for the most sophisticated species of the American criminal class: the con artist. Nowhere else, save perhaps for Wall Street, has the confidence game been more comfortably practiced and its practitioners more handsomely rewarded. Disciples of Phineas Barnum, knights of the golden fleece, con artists have swindled their way through society soirées on Embassy Row and wheedled their way into