Word: adolfo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sheehan's said his speech was based on evidencehe accumulated in a federal circuit court suitthat charges Iran-contra figures including Gen.John K. Singlaub, Gen. Richard Secord, Contraleader Adolfo Calero, arms dealer Albert Hakim and25 others of wide-ranging organized criminalactivity. The case is currently being heard inFlorida in the Eleventh Circuit Court...
...unwilling to renew the military funding that will soon run out for Reagan's favorite freedom fighters. And the willingness of Honduras to go along with the plan means the contra forces could not operate from bases there. Yet the contras still had a trump they could play. Declared Adolfo Calero: "Any decision on a cease-fire would have to be either accepted or rejected...
North also explained why he had cashed traveler's checks, given to him by Contra Leader Adolfo Calero, at such places as a tire shop and a hosiery store. The checks, he said, were meant for use in his contra resupply and other covert operations. He kept "meticulous" records in the now destroyed ledger about his expenses, and when no funds were at hand, he spent his own money. Then he reimbursed himself when new checks arrived...
...wife's discussion with Zucker. But under questioning from Senate Chief Counsel Arthur Liman, the businessman admitted, "Eventually, I would have found it impossible for him not to know." Congressional investigators have already uncovered evidence that North used $2,000 worth of traveler's checks obtained from Contra Leader Adolfo Calero to buy groceries, snow tires and gasoline...
...private donations he solicited for the contras to bankroll his plush Washington offices, stretch limos and hefty payments to friends and associates. Even Oliver North, the superpatriotic National Security Council aide who ran the Iran-contra initiatives, cashed $2,000 worth of traveler's checks received from Contra Leader Adolfo Calero while purchasing groceries, hosiery and snow tires. Ironically, the often maligned contras apparently did not have the sticky fingers of some of their benefactors. Sources on the congressional committees say Calero was "meticulous" in keeping records of funds entrusted...