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  • s  having nimble fingers literally or figuratively; especially for stealing or picking pockets
    a light-fingered burglar who can crack the combination of a bank vault"- Harry Hansen
    the light-fingered thoughtfulness...of the most civilized playwright of the era"- Time

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  • Their bomb duly exploded, but did less damage than shoplifterslight-fingered customers, who'd already inflicted annual losses amounting to 12% of Biba's sales, took full .
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  • Ex-deputy gets one month sentence for stealing while evicting tenants
    A light-fingered Cook County Sheriff’s deputy who stole from poor tenants he was evicting was sentenced to a month behind bars Thursday by a judge who told him he was “lucky” he wouldn’t do more time. Sam Spino, 36, did “a terrible thing” when he targeted “people who have quite enough troubles in life,” Judge James Zagel said. The former deputy was dogged for six years with allegations of ...
    Aug. 29, 2013 - Chicago Sun-Times
  • Ex-deputy sentenced for stealing while evicting tenants
    A light-fingered Cook County Sheriff's deputy who stole from poor tenants he was evicting was sentenced to a month behind bars Thursday.
    Aug. 29, 2013 - FOX News Chicago

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