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...Commission judge found that Slusser and two of his companies "pilfered millions of dollars from customers using the commodities market to carry out their scheme." Some of the money was funneled through accounts of Slusser's Sterling International Bank Ltd., which existed as a post office drop on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. The commission barred Slusser and his firms from trading commodity futures and assessed a $10 million penalty, the largest ever in an administrative hearing. A U.S. appeals court, while acknowledging there had been "multiple frauds," reduced the fines to $600,000, which Slusser has again appealed...
Earl is fairly optimistic for a guy who experienced what he calls "the most publicized bankruptcy in history." "My friends can't understand why I didn't just say, 'No more,'" he says. In some ways he has moved on, launching, among other projects, a Caribbean resort, a London bagelry and a fast-food chain named after his partner, the (11th and current) Earl of Sandwich. But Earl refuses to abandon his often lonely Planet. "I've got a lot of people I need to win for," Earl says, practically seething as he describes "some wanker journalist" asking political hopeful...
Higginbotham expressed particular interest in the Caribbean influx in America...
...students of color at Harvard, most of them are of Caribbean descent and African descent,” she said, noting that African-American students are in the minority of black students here...
Holbrook said she ate some unusual plants that night, including a fruit that could only be found in the Caribbean...