Word: dinner
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Sources said North played a behind-the-scenes role in arranging the April 15 dinner...
WASHINGTON--Fired White House aide Oliver L. North participated behind the scenes in an April 1985 dinner to aid Nicaraguan refugees that netted only $1000 to help refugees but paid more than $100,000 to "consultants," according to documents and sources...
Documents on the April 15 dinner, obtained by The Associated Press, show one of its chief organizers reporting to North on plans for raising money, including a suggestion that the sultan of Brunei "might kick in a million dollars...
...Nicaraguan Refugee Fund sponsored the April 15, 1985, dinner, featuring a speech by Reagan, that took in $219,525 for refugees. However, an internal audit by the fund showed costs totaling $218,376, including $116,938 in consulting fees and $71,163 to feed the nearly 700 people at the dinner...
...angry exchange of letters following the dinner, Michael Schoor, a lawyer for the refugee fund, told Carl Russell "Spitz" Channel, the endowment's president, that the fund had not received promised contributions from the endowment and would "contact directly those persons who you identified as your donors and from which funds have not been identified as being received...