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<text id=91TT1770>
<title>
Aug. 12, 1991: American Notes:Crime
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Aug. 12, 1991 Busybodies & Crybabies
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 32
American Notes
CRIME
Extracurricular Activities
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<p> Vincent Arthur Hall was a polite, mild-mannered disability
analyst at the New York State social-services department. Away
from the office he was a wild and crazy guy. In June, police
say, Hall took a day off, went to a bank in Queens and
threatened to blow a teller's head off unless he handed over
some cash. But as he fled the scene with $725, Hall dropped the
Manila envelope he used to conceal a gun and a holdup note. The
envelope was stamped with his employer's address, and although
the address had been inked out, the FBI was able to track him
down two weeks ago.
</p>
<p> Federal prosecutors say Hall, 50, is suspected of robbing
an additional 20 banks since April, getting away with an
estimated $70,000. What's more, he has a criminal record dating
back some 20 years and spent three years in prison for killing
a guard in a 1977 bank robbery. A social-services department
spokesman said the agency was "aware of some of his record" but
had no idea about "his alleged extracurricular activities."
Prosecutors called the state's decision to hire Hall in 1981
"mind boggling."
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