Word: costa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Humberto Moya Mórux Alajuela, Costa Rica...
ADAMS--Results not tabulated. CURRIER--Rahul Desai '79, Eric B. Fried '80, Charlie Hall '79, Chris Simmons '79, Susan Stavdohar '81. DUDLEY--Janet Corcoran '79, John Corcoran '79, John Costa '79, Lisa DiTucci '82, Mary Ellen Doherty '79, Peter Lustiber '79. DUNSTER--David Blumbered '81, David Curtis '79, Dan Sherman '79, George Velez '80. ELIOT--David Lakhdir '80, John Ordway '79, John Ramig '80, Jerry Rappaport '80, Douglas Tweedale '80. KIRKLAND--Mark Anderson '79, Pat Fischer '80, Lorraine Hayes '79, John Kopchik '80, Tim Sellers '80. LEVERETT--Mike Calabrese '79, Nick Christakos '79, Jane Fayer '80, Gideon gil '79, Carl...
...first-class scandal. The evidence seemed to suggest that Financier Robert Lee Vesco had masterminded a well-funded campaign to buy influence from some of the President's advisers. Vesco's purpose: to get them to call off the Justice Department's attempt to extradite him from Costa Rica, where he had lived in exile for six years to escape prosecution for fraud. But as more details emerged last week, one critical thing was missing: any evidence that the President or his aides had done anything for Vesco or even listened to his proposals...
Vesco tried again in late 1976, soon after Carter's election. According to court depositions, the financier met in Costa Rica with a trio of Georgians, Attorney Fred E. Bartlett and Businessmen Jerry Dorminey and R. L. Herring. Dorminey and Herring are now awaiting trial in Georgia on charges of fraudulently obtaining $277,000 in loans. At a farmhouse in the mountains, Vesco outlined a preposterous plan. If the Carter Administration would promise him leniency, he would order six Latin American countries under his "control" to support the Panama Canal treaty. Back in the U.S., Bartlett and his law partner...
...spring of 1977, the Justice Department stepped up its efforts to return Vesco to the U.S. The department withdrew its request for his extradition and urged Costa Rica instead to expel him, hoping to nab him as he crossed the border. The strategy misfired. When Costa Rican President-elect Rodrigo Carazo threatened to cut off the financier's residence privileges, Vesco escaped to the Bahamas, where he now resides, safe from extradition...