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Share: Does crime pay? Wall Street Crime and Punishment is a weekly series by Benzinga s Phil Hall chronicling the bankers, brokers and financial ne’er-do-wells whose ambition and greed takes them in the wrong direction. During the early 1960s, Americans were captivated by a larger-than-life Texan who fleeced the federal government and the banking industry while boasting of connections in the highest levels of Washington D.C. and leaving a pile of bodies in the wake of his chicanery. Indeed, had Billie Sol Estes never lived, it would have been impossible for any creative writer to invent him he was a gregarious nightmare of financial legerdemain and emotional complexities, wrapped with a rich Lone Star State twang. ....