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...only thing a member of my family could do wrong is utter selfishness. I'm not going to be an investment banker and go on cruises and not pay attention to anyone else," Ehrenreich says...
Although the partygoers described the evening as "upbeat and happy," it was in reality a melancholy event. Clifford, who became a latter-day banker, is now embroiled in controversy over his ties to a foreign bank convicted of money laundering. Nor was that the only cloud hovering over this Democratic Olympus. Alan Cranston, criticized by the Senate ethics committee for his shady dealings in the savings and loan scandal, showed up at the book party. So did Ted Kennedy, wrapped in the shadow of the Palm Beach sex scandal...
...sovereign governments in shady financial deals built on its ability to control massive global flows of illegal funds, such as drug money and flight capital. It has involved itself with the central banks of more than 30 Third World countries and in return for extending credit has become sole banker for hundreds of nationalized corporations...
...every account, Abedi was a brilliant banker, and his financial empire was built to make the movement of money as invisible as possible. His tangle of offshore corporations, banks, trusts and foundations is one of the most complex and secretive banking networks ever developed. As a result, his market includes tax avoiders, intelligence agencies, political bribers, arms dealers, narcotics traffickers and national leaders bent on looting their countries (Manuel Noriega was a customer). Former B.C.C.I. bankers estimate that 15% to 20% of B.C.C.I.'s multibillion-dollar cash flow involved flight capital -- "unofficial money," as they prefer to call...
...Lance connection was paying off elsewhere as well. When Lance resigned, he hired Washington attorney Robert Altman to represent him. Through this connection, Abedi met Clifford, his key U.S. contact and a man who wielded precisely the sort of influence the Pakistani banker was looking...