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...prosecution argues that Edwards did nothing to earn legal fees and that the money was, in part, advance payments for actions he later took as Governor to benefit his partners. After Edwards regained office, Volz insisted, his brother Marion acted as "bagman" to hold Edwards' share of the resulting profits. Said Volz: "Marion Edwards did not do a lick of work, yet he walked away with $1 million." Beyond routine greed, Volz declared, the Governor had a pressing need for money: some $800,000 in Las Vegas gambling debts...
...ndez Galícia (alias La Quina, a diminutive for his first name) of bilking the union of more than $130 million, 20 times the amount he was accused of taking. García was in a position to know, he later claimed, because he had acted as bagman...
...openly channel aid to the contras through friendly countries. Central American governments are understandably loath to be the bagman for what is seen by many in the region as Yanqui imperialism. As Reagan said last week: "We'd be asking some other government to do what our Congress has said...
...addition, the Reagan Administration enlisted the aid of Argentina to act as a sort of bagman for the operation. U.S. funds first were sent to the Argentines, who in turn funneled them to the contras. Argentina also sent 200 military advisers to Honduras, but it reduced its contingent to a skeleton crew during the Falklands war last spring. Meanwhile, Washington established its own links with the Honduran military. Honduran soldiers were sent to training camps in Panama run by the U.S. Army's Southern Command Group (SOUTHCOM) and standard field equipment was provided...
...some police officials that his son was murdered because the report fingered him as a Government witness. Others are convinced that he was slain by fellow mobsters in a business dispute. Nat Masselli was the second Donovan witness murdered during the probe. In June, Fred Furino, a Mafia bagman who was alleged to have received payoffs from Schiavone, was found dead in the trunk of a car in Manhattan...