This is just for about one line of a fic, but I'd like to get a decent analogy, if I possibly can.
So the question is this. Lex Luthor was, of course, a criminal who was also (apparently) an extremely respectable businessman, a pillar of the community, considered to be beyond reproach. There must have been other such respectable businessmen who ultimately turned out to have been criminals, but who seemed utterly law-abiding at the time. Can anyone suggest any?
Edit: I mean
RL criminals - there wasn't anyone else we knew of in L&C at the time this story is set.
Thanks!
Wendy
