Hamilton Stewart is the founder of All-Atlantic Insurance. He promised insurance plans for Holocaust survivors in New York City, which were all scams. Former employee Pietro Grimaldi kept a black book with all the evidence, before he was killed. His son Jordan shot him out of revolt that Pietro would use it for blackmail, and then Roland Dell stabbed him for the book on the instruction of one of Stewart’s subordinates, Donald Burton.
Stewart was taken to trial for inordinate grand larceny charges amounting to millions of dollars, and the players in the killing to pleas to testify against him. Stewart’s own protests involved him professing many American businesses took advantage of World War II victims, that his case wasn’t especially egregious. One employee and accomplice in the scam, assistant Alan Bresler, was so heartbroken by the testimony of the victims, he turned state’s evidence to identify Stewart as the mastermind behind Dell’s part in the murder.
Stewart took a plea to four to twelve years in prison and a written agreement to extradition to Italy. (L&O: “Blood Money”)