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Even some of the most vocal exile leaders, who have been howling for years for Abiola's immediate release and installation as President, have done business with the generals. During the eight-year reign of General Ibrahim Babangida, from 1985 to 1993, Abiola himself often operated as a bagman, showering large sums on prominent African Americans who would have been embarrassed to take money directly from a military dictator. An effort by Jesse Jackson to strengthen ties between African and African-American businessmen benefited from Abiola's largesse, as did the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation: each reportedly received...
...black pimps and pushers who worked for them. In Foxy Brown she has a white dealer castrated; in Sheba, Baby she impales a yacht-owning white mobster who has been intimidating black businesses. In Jackie Brown Grier's character is motivated by necessity and money lust; she's a bagman for a crook, and at one point a cop turns down her offer of a bribe. She's no longer a hero, merely a protagonist...
...Malcolm J. Moldowsky -- a political fixer and Dilbeck's bagman from the sugar lobby -- who worships the sainted memory of John Mitchell. "A dear friend and mentor," says Moldowsky of the former Attorney General and Watergate conspirator. "Savagely maligned...
...grouses Rubino, "has been the greatest get-out-of-jail card ever." Rubino estimates that the government cut as many as 70 special deals to get testimony against the general. Tony Aizprua, the pilot whose plane landed on I-75, served no time at all, while Noriega's trusted bagman Lieut. Colonel Luis del Cid got his 70-year sentence reduced to a 10-year maximum. Another defendant who is presumably trying to cut a deal is Ricardo Bilonick, a Tulane-educated lawyer who was whisked back from Panama last week to face charges of running cocaine on his Panamanian...
Four autumns ago, when Nicholas I. Martin '88 first laid eyes on Erik J. Salovaara '88 in the freshman suite they would share in Wigglesworth Hall, he was not impressed. As Martin tells it, "I'm living with a bagman" was the first thought to cross his mind as he saw the groggy, half-dressed Salovaara stumble into the common room to meet Martin and his parents. The impression was reinforced when he realized that the stench of his roommate's clothes permeated the suite...