Word: bahamians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some $99 million of the money has simply vanished. The other $125 million, says the SEC, was mostly "spirited" away to Luxembourg and Bahamian banks controlled by Vesco's group and then placed in a series of dummy corporations also serving as fronts for Vesco...
...time work for part-time pay." But his days as a political power were numbered, and in the 1970 Democratic Party primary he finally lost an election-to New York State Assemblyman Charles Rangel, who easily defeated the Republican candidate the following fall. Shaken, Powell retreated to the tiny Bahamian island of Bimini, where he played through his days, surrounded by girls in bikinis and enjoying such concoctions as a vodka-and-Tang drink that he called "poontang...
...widely reported that Hughes left Nassau because the Bahamian government suddenly found that several of his aides-the "Mormon Mafia" -did not have the work permits required of foreigners. Actually, the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan, which is conducting a grand jury investigation of the Irving hoax, had issued a subpoena for Hughes to testify. On Valentine's Day, U.S. postal inspectors appeared in Nassau with the summons; federal officials intended to impanel a grand jury in either Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands to hear Hughes -at night, if he so desired. The postal inspectors consulted...
...certain exactly when he left Nassau. Sources in the Hughes Tool Co. said that he was out of the Britannia Beach Hotel by 8 o'clock the morning of the Bahamian raid. If so, his whereabouts for the next two days is a mystery. Apparently, Hughes boarded a chartered boat for the first stage of his hegira-the 180-mile trip to an unspecified coastal haven somewhere near Miami...
...example, he tossed his wallet onto the Communion table and offered to bet $1,000 that nobody in the congregation could prove to him that it was wrong to drink whisky or sleep with women (no takers). Powell's consistent absenteeism in favor of relaxing at his Bahamian home in Bimini also cushioned the blow. Said one church member last week: "You don't miss what you're not getting...