Word: colombian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sources familiar with the case said last week that Manufacturers Hanover was tipped off in December, 1990, to what one source called "ethical problems" with Young's handling of a Colombian debt deal in November, 1990. As a result, Young was forced to resign on Christmas Eve of that year, and he lost a Christmas bonus of an unspecified amount...
...indictment also quotes alleged conversations in November and December of 1990 between Young and Liberatore, who were then business partners, in which they discuss how to convince a Manufacturers trader to sell Liberatore the Colombian debt instrument. Manufacturers eventually sold the instrument to Liberatore at 67.5 percent of its face value...
...March 1991, Young helped set up a company, Y & A Holdings Inc., "as a vehicle for Daniel Young and others to profit from the Colombian asset and other [less developed country] debt...
Darias' most important contact was Marlene Navarro, a petite, ripe-breasted beauty in her 30s who was known to friends as "the hummingbird." Navarro was a Colombian who had studied at the Sorbonne and converted to Judaism while living in Israel; she could seduce men in five languages. She was also the chief U.S. agent for Carlos Jader Alvarez, one of the godfathers of her country's drug trade. With careful stroking, Darias had persuaded Navarro to let his firm launder more than $1 million of Alvarez's cocaine profits when Operation Swordfish was abruptly halted, partly because a corrupt...
...then fled with $250,000 in ransom. Last September a Honduran kidnapped Interior Minister Luis Fishman. Then last Monday five heavily armed gunmen slipped into the Supreme Court building in San Jose and took 19 magistrates and five assistants hostage. Initially the kidnappers tried to pass themselves off as Colombians, demanded $20 million, safe passage to a South American country and the release of prisoners from local jails, which fueled suspicion that they belonged to a Colombian drug cartel. Not so. They all turned out to be Costa Ricans. After four days of negotiations, they bagged $150,000 in ransom...