Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Real Estate Investment of Boynton Beach, Fla., which he said was an offshoot of Abdul Enterprises, and began lining up investment opportunities for Sheik Rahman. The sheik, Meltzer told local businessmen, would lend huge sums to entrepreneurs for promising new ventures; he promised $95 million to one businessman for four tuna boats. But Meltzer demanded that the businessmen first pay him finder's fees. He collected...
...businessman-friend, John Stowe of Richmond. According to Government sources, Stowe was filmed accepting $50,000, and Jenrette was recorded later acknowledging receipt of the money. The only Republican tagged so far is Florida Congressman Richard Kelly, 55, one of the House's most erratic legislators. Kelly apparently learned of the available cash from a chain starting with a convicted stock swindler and leading through an accountant and an East Coast mobster, all three of whom had expected to acquire $50,000 each from Sheik Habib. Only Kelly, however, received a delivery. The cameras in the W Street house...
August 1977. Tongsun Park, a Korean businessman, was indicted for bribery and later testified that he had made payoffs to 31 legislators. Eighteen-month congressional investigations of "Koreagate" led to little action. The only man actually imprisoned was former Congressman Richard Hanna, 65, California Democrat, who was sentenced to a 2½-year prison term. Otto Passman, 79, Louisiana Democrat, was brought to trial but acquitted. Charles H. Wilson, John McFall and Edward Roybal, all California Democrats, were reprimanded by the House, but Wilson and Roybal are still there...
DIED. Howard Dalton, 42, Washington State businessman; of lung cancer; in Seattle. After he learned of his disease in 1978, Dalton launched a campaign for legislation to waive the five-month waiting period required before terminally ill people can receive Social Security disability benefits; while the House is still considering the idea, the Senate passed the Dalton amendment...
...problems began when Businessman David Mugar tried to gain control of the broadcaster's Boston TV station and hired a former Watergate attorney, Terry Lenzner, and Washington Post Reporter Scott Armstrong to investigate General Tire. The team uncovered evidence of a number of unsavory practices, which led to the SEC's consent decree...