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Lindner, the conservative tycoon from Cincinnati, Ohio, who heads Chiquita Brands, gives much more money to Republicans than Democrats. That helps explain why, when he needed a big favor from the Clinton Administration two years ago, he may have wanted to hide his footprints. Lindner wanted U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor to help him pry open European markets, which rely on various tariffs and trade barriers effectively to shut out Lindner's bananas. Though hundreds of companies ask Washington to investigate unfair trade practices, the U.S. Trade Representative accepts only about 14 cases each year. Even fewer are taken...
AFTER READING YOUR REPORT ON CARL Lindner, the Chiquita Brands banana tycoon who showers money on members of Congress to get favorable free-market trade for bananas [BUSINESS, Jan. 22], I have concluded that the U.S. is not a democracy. In a democracy the people rule through their elected representatives: one man, one vote. Not so in the U.S. (or in any number of other countries). The basic idea is more like: $10,000, one vote! The electorate chooses certain people. These then go on to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars for doing what certain companies and associations want...
...more than two years, Lindner has showered money on some of the biggest names in Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike. At the same time, Lindner, whose empire is worth an estimated $13 billion, has worked tirelessly to get Washington's help in changing the fortunes of his well-known Chiquita Brands banana company, which lost $346 million between 1992 and 1994 and was barely in the black...
...from 1988 through 1994, while putting $625,000 in Democratic coffers. Lindner's holding company, American Financial Group, gave an additional $140,000 to the Republicans in the first half of 1995, and handed $40,000 to the National Republican Senatorial Committee last October, just as Dole was pushing Chiquita's interests in Congress. Lindner also contributed $100,000 to Dole's now defunct Better America Foundation, which helped launch his presidential...
...Duke) and calling the homes of people they admired (Richard Gere, Julia Roberts). But gradually, they began to trespass on more than just the telephone lines. With Phiber's help, the crew infiltrated the computer networks of TRW, Martin Marietta, the Bank of America, the National Security Agency and Chiquita Banana. At one point, two MOD members can be heard in a Secret Service wiretap hatching a scheme to create their own bogus credit bureau that would -- for the right price -- alter people's credit histories. "We can destroy people's lives," they boasted. "Or make them look like saints...