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...Brink's trio found guilty
...Organization of American States, summed up the plight of the 26 Latin American and Caribbean nations that met last week in Caracas, Venezuela. Just one year ago, Western bankers and public officials were scrambling frantically to avert a worldwide financial crisis as several Latin American countries tottered on the brink of default. The moneymen have since lent more than $45 billion to Brazil, Mexico and other Latin American nations to help them pay interest on about $275 billion in loans...
...trials concerned who would pay. Uncle Sam picks up the federal bills, of course; no one would speculate on how much they will be, though one FBI agent notes that the cost of the investigations alone was certainly more than the $1.6 million commandeered in the Brink's heist. A battle is brewing, however, between Rockland County, where the crime occurred, and Orange County, where the trial was moved in a change of venue because of prejudicial pretrial publicity. Massive security has been necessary from the beginning, and Orange County has equipped and trained a special squad of police...
...drawn into the probe from the New York and New Jersey state police, the New York City police and several Rockland County communities. The investigation has taken task force agents as far away as Mississippi, Texas and California. One continuing focus has been on finding six fugitives named in Brink's indictments. Last week a task force raid on a District of Columbia apartment netted one of them, a woman who is accused of helping the robbers escape...
There was some agreed-on noncooperation as well between the federal and local authorities. A critical role in the case was played by Samuel Brown, 43, a Brink's suspect who provided FBI agents with crucial early information, which he later claimed was coerced out of him. Questions were raised among prosecutors as to whether some of Brown's statements could be used against him in any trial. Brown does not face any federal charges, but Gribetz wants to try him in Goshen. In order to avoid tainting his case, the local prosecutor insists that he deliberately never...