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Though Joe and Melanie Kelly, who have a plumbing-contracting business, claimed to have no idea where their son was, the FBI later seized evidence from the Kellys' home and safe-deposit box that showed that they had visited their son in Europe, that they had sent him money, and that Melanie had looked into getting Alex access to a $600,000 trust fund before he turned 21. Assistant district attorney Hudock has opted not to prosecute the Kellys for aiding their son because he fears that jurors will be sympathetic to parents desperate to help a child in trouble...
...EDUCATION] Favors vouchers for public, private and religious schools. Sees teachers unions as an obstacle to reform. Has proposed giving a tax credit for student loans and the chance to deposit $500 a year in tax-free accounts to save for tuition...
When Sapir went to the Credit Suisse bank in Geneva in 1947, she showed officials a deposit slip dated August 1938. The bankers were unmoved. One of them, with what she remembers as a starchy military bearing, told her that in order to claim the account she would have to produce a death certificate for her father. "I broke into tears," she says, "and I cried to him, 'You want me to get it from Hitler, from Himmler?' But it was no use." That was the experience of thousands of Jews...
...study" of what it knew about the Swiss handling of assets from Germany during and after the war. And in New York City this month, Holocaust survivors and heirs filed a $20 billion class action contending that Swiss banks improperly refused to return victims' money and other valuables on deposit. Says Swiss Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Philippe Tissieres: "This publicity is really killing...
...Nazi Gold: Information from the British Archives, which reveals that an immense amount of gold the Nazis looted from banks and private holdings in occupied countries ended up in Switzerland. Citing a Swiss banker who "let it slip," the report says some $500 million in Nazi gold was on deposit in Switzerland, a charge Bern vigorously denies. Not all of it was taken from captured central banks. Some was gold from the jewelry and teeth of Jewish victims of death camps. The Germans then remelted it into ingots and camouflaged them with the stamp of the prewar Reichsbank. Despite knowledge...