Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington, Congressmen raised questions about the need for new regulation of the securities industry and promised lengthy hearings on the insider- trading issue. A more aggressive response came from Angelo Oriolo, 66, a retired businessman from Pennsville, N.J., who last week filed a class-action lawsuit in U.S. district court against Boesky and others implicated in the ^ scandal. Oriolo alleged that he had been injured financially in September 1985 when he sold 100 shares of General Foods stock. According to the SEC's complaint against Boesky, he made illegal profits from insider trading on General Foods. The Oriolo lawsuit...
...early 1985 Adnan Khashoggi, a wealthy Saudi businessman, entered the picture. Khashoggi fostered ties to two Israeli arms merchants: Yaacov Nimrodi, a former army colonel and longtime Israeli military attache in Tehran during the Shah's reign; and Al Schwimmer, the founding president of Israel Aircraft Industries and a close friend of then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. He brought them together with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who was close to Iran's Prime Minister. According to the New York Times, the four met in London, where Ghorbanifar proposed that the Israelis ship TOW antitank missiles and Hawk...
Michael Lazar, former city transportation head, was also convicted of two counts of mail fraud; ex-PVB director Lester Shafran was convicted of two counts of mail fraud; and businessman Marvin Kaplan was convicted of one count of mail fraud and perjury for lying before the Securities and Exchange Commission...
...loser. It's exactly the same psychology they use in Russia. If somebody's a dissident, they call him a troublemaker, a neurotic. They even send him to a psychiatric hospital. It's a Time magazine-CIA-ex-Harvard con, that you're not really `serious' like the businessman is `serious...
Kennedy defeated his opponent, Businessman Clark Abt, 72% to 28%. Characteristically, he puts his victory in emotional perspective: "If you just do it the way you really believe it should be done, there is some justice." (His sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend did not fare so well in her bid for Congress. She lost to incumbent Maryland Republican Helen Delich Bentley, 41% to 59%.) Kennedy has been faulted for his impulsive nature; he is no intellectual and appears unreflective. "Clearly, he's not a great thinker," says one longtime Massachusetts political observer. "But he makes up for it by doing...