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Among those indicted were a Massachsuetts man and Everette Bannister, a close associate of Bahamian Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling. Bannister was accused of taking money from the cartel to allow traffickers to use the island nation off Florida's shores as a way station for $1 billion in drug imports...
Bannister was charged in August 1985 with two counts of perjury for lying to the Royal Commission when he denied taking bribes from a drug trafficker. The charges, however, were dropped when the Bahamian attorney general refused to give the trafficker immunity from prosecution...
...firm received $800,000 in 1985 and 1986 from the Bahamian government. The Bahamian prime minister, Lynden O. Pindling, has long been suspected of involvement with drug traffickers...
...Cessna piloted by a Colombian. A Costa Rican produce-export company served as the front. Had the operation run its course, the shipment would have continued on to Miami for sale in the U.S. The proceeds, estimated at $50 million, would have been laundered in a Panamanian or a Bahamian bank. And the money would have been spent by the men who masterminded the deal, in this case Cuban- Americans and Colombians...
...join them. Their destination was Bimini, 50 miles from Miami, where Broadhurst's own boat had undergone repairs. Both Hart and Rice insisted the only reason the party stayed overnight in Bimini was that the customs office was closed. But the Miami Herald reported that Monkey Business cleared Bahamian customs on arriving, shortly before dusk. And according to Bahamian authorities, American pleasure boats are not required to clear customs upon departure. The sleeping arrangements on Bimini prompted more questions than a TV quiz show. Both Rice and Hart maintained that they slept on separate boats, and that...