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...trial, Georgie received job offers from four of the Senator's friends. "I had not asked any of these people for a job," Georgie told the Washington Post last week. Those offers came from two Washington lobbyists, each of whom had approached Packwood on behalf of clients; an investment banker who had gone to law school with Packwood and raised campaign funds for him; and a businessman who once served on Packwood's staff...
...look at the Clintons' ties to a dubious banker...
Those wacky writers didn't stop there, though. They knew this was a movie, ergo one needed villains. Enter Tyler (Rob Schneider), the greedy banker determined to take those stupid hillbillies for all they are worth, and his scheming girlfriend Laura (Lea Thompson). The tension mounts...
...billion 1988 fight for RJR Nabisco) that burdened corporations with excessive debt, ignited newspaper headlines and enriched everyone from corporate raiders to takeover lawyers. "The only criteria were who won or lost and how the companies were split up," says Felix Rohatyn, a senior partner at investment banker Lazard Freres, Paramount's adviser. In that rapacious era, "we wouldn't look at a deal under $1 billion," says James Stewart, a former front-page editor of the Wall Street Journal and author of the best seller Den of Thieves. "That was for spot news...
...have responded with a heavy hand. Earlier this month, more than 100 Somalis were killed and wounded when U.S. helicopters fired into a crowd that had ambushed a passing U.N. convoy. Last week the Rangers had a small success when they captured Aidid's major banker, but the man was not in hiding...