What is Bunco Squad?
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The bunco squad is those policemen who investigate confidence swindles. In use from the 40's through the 60's. Not usual among law enforcement today.
The original "bunco" was a dishonest gambling game. Perhaps a variant of banco, from Spanish banca, which is a card game similar to "monte".
Eventually the word evolved to mean swindling or fraud of any sort).
Now applied to various groups of
"The Bunko people are really carrying a needle for the Rube"--W.S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
Look... Here comes the bunco squad in their
rice burner CRXs.
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