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GETTING THE DOUGH

When you hear the words ‘criminal mastermind’, you probably imagine some big-time con artist swindling rich people out of their millions.

But, believe it or not, those are the words used to describe a man who used soggy bread to scam people out of $320,000.

He’d complain that the loaf was soggy

Takashi Ishimoto, then 53, was finally arrested in 2015 after years of

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