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...courthouse, Mississippi Grand Dragon Douglas Coen, a shipping executive from nearby Saucier, tells the crowd, "The Klan is here today, it was here yesterday, and it will be here tomorrow." Applause. "The Klan will be here forever!" Coen screams, and a few spectators hoot. Wilkinson takes the podium and is saying the KKK is basically a Christian organization when a white man yells, "You symbolize hatred! How can you call yourselves Christians?" Suddenly the crowd rolls forward as several Klansmen rush the heckler. The police grab him quickly. A local newspaperman is arrested too, for taking pictures of the arrest...
...after its accountants withdrew their certification of the company's 1972 financial statements. Then last week two lengthy federal investigations into Smith's affairs suddenly bore fruit. The SEC filed a suit in San Diego federal court alleging that Smith, Westgate President Philip A. Toft, Michael J. Coen, a former Westgage director, and several corporate defendants had systematically looted the conglomerate of some $100 million in assets. In a separate action, the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency moved against the U.S. National Bank, California's tenth largest (assets: $1 billion), on charges that the bank had lent...
...details of the alleged looting of Westgate's holdings are exceedingly complex. Essentially the SEC charges, which Smith dismisses as "unfounded," say that he, Coen and Toft arranged sales of the company's holdings to various co-defendants at bargain prices. The purchases purportedly were made for cash, but the SEC says that they were actually financed by loans from U.S. National. To hide the fact that Smith was on all sides of the transactions, the SEC says, the loans were channeled through a thicket of holding companies that were also under Smith's control...
...BILL COEN...
...Court, last March married twice-divorced, once-widowed Michal Smoira -and thereby, say Orthodox rabbis, seriously violated Jewish religious law. Cohn transgressed not because he is a Jew, or because he is a judge, but simply because of his name. To be a Cohn-or a Cohen, Kohn, Kahn, Coen, Cahn, Kahane, Kagan or even Katz-is to be a descendant of Moses' brother Aaron and his sons, who were the first hereditary kohanim (priests) of Israel. The honor entails for Orthodox Jews a long and specific set of responsibilities...