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>Fencing networks were often controlled by Jews, who were often perceived as specializing in shady financial dealings, and who often engaged in pawnbroking and ‘usury’ because of restrictions placed upon their employment by Christian host countries for many centuries. The major receiver for Randolph Branch’s gang of street robbers in the 1750s was Philip Abraham, who was known as Scampy the Jew.
>Fencing networks were often controlled by Jews, who were often perceived as specializing in shady financial dealings, and who often engaged in pawnbroking and ‘usury’ because of restrictions placed upon their employment by Christian host countries for many centuries. The major receiver for Randolph Branch’s gang of street robbers in the 1750s was Philip Abraham, who was known as Scampy the Jew.
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