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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...
...Spencer Lee IV of Albany, Ga., and offered him a $10,000 retainer?in addition to a fee of $1 million?if he would set up a meeting with top White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, a school chum and tennis companion of Lee's. Vesco meanwhile told Herring and Dorminey that he would arrange for them to acquire $10 million worth of stock in a Panamanian company for $42,000, if they could get to somebody at the White House on his behalf...
There the Vesco case rested until earlier this year, when the Securities and Exchange Commission began delving into more of his complicated stock schemes. The probe led to Dorminey and Herring. The SEC also obtained unsigned copies of letters and telephone logs of purported contacts in early 1977 between Lee, Jordan and Carter Adviser Charles Kirbo...
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