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Many of the Crescent personnel also are younger than they used to be. The Washington-to-Atlanta sleeping-car porter is amiable John Fox, a 29-year-old Bahamian. The chef who takes over in Atlanta confides that he is "25 years, six months and five days old." Not that the old guard has changed entirely. Grizzled Luther King, the black sleeping-car porter who replaces Fox in Atlanta, is a kindly, dignified gentleman, typical of the old Pullman employee. He has worked the rails since 1942, when he made $150 a month; now he makes a guaranteed...
...Charles Allen of direct Mafia connections, but the implications are strong. For example, he calls Allen "the godfather of Hollywood," and traces his rise in the film industry through a maze of allegedly Mob-infiltrated enterprises. According to Truscott, Charles Allen in 1955 bought a 25% stake in a Bahamian company that controlled a casino that was "manipulated" by Crime Boss Meyer Lansky, and one of Allen's partners in the venture was Wallace Groves, a convicted swindler. Then, aided by funds from his Bahamian operation, Allen formed an alliance with Producer Ray Stark and proceeded to take control...
...Agency for International Development. According to Elko, AID officials' misgivings were silenced when Elko suggested that the agency's appropriation might otherwise be "stymied" by Flood in Congress. But the agency did manage to block Elko's attempt to put one of Flood's friends, Bahamian Lawyer F. Nigel Bowe, in charge of the project...
...launder" and then to relay money to strategically placed politicians. This Bahamas Exploration Co., Ltd. may well have passed out $5 million in the U.S. alone. The main job of one of its former officers, William C. Viglia, seems to have been to deposit Gulf money in a Bahamian bank, withdraw it and then run the cash back to Claude Wild in Washington...
...this fell under the committee's scope. Privately, committee members seemed satisfied that Alexander had been wrongly accused; he had prudently interrupted the investigation because some of the IRS evidence might have been "tainted" by the way it was acquired. An IRS undercover agent apparently had supplied a Bahamian banker with a girl friend, then removed from the banker's briefcase and copied lists of American depositors while he was busy with her. The Justice Department is looking into Alexander's handling of the matter but is expected to clear...