Keith Morrison

Didn't he participate willingly in her crimes?

He didn't mind not having to pay for dresses.

He didn't mind not having to pay for Cadillac Baritz Eldorados in our driveway.

He fell in love with the getting away with it.

So, from practically the moment they met, Ken played along.

Even with some of Sante's wackier schemes, like an idea to make money from the 1976 Bicentennial,

Sante used her considerable charm to cozy up to an official of the United Nations.

She got an endorsement where Ken was actually named an honorary bicentennial ambassador.

Well, that's all you need to get mom.

It meant nothing, really.

But Sante and Kenneth went swanning around like very important people, using the title to flog a collection of bicentennial memorabilia.

And with an extra lie or two, the fake ambassador and his wife crashed a reception at Blair House in Washington, shook hands with Vice President Ford.

Secret Service let them right through, and then they said, well, who are you?

The weird stunt was exposed in the Washington Post.

Just a hiccup for Zante.

D.C.

again, a few years later.

Winter, 1980.

Rena Beachy was enjoying a nightcap at a Washington, D.C.

bar when Cannon Sante swept in.