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...Cuban government, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the FBI, and the U.S. Justice Department's Strike Force are all involved in the attempt to untangle the swindle. Authorities have arrested one man, a West German commodities broker named Karl Fessler, charged three more, and are seeking others...
Knowing the Cubans' need for coffee, Karl Fessler, a jet-hopping high roller, is said to have made them an attractive offer in late 1977. According to the Cuban government, Fessler told its trade representatives that he would sell them 3,000 metric tons of "Barahona," a choice Arabic blend grown in the Dominican Republic, at a bargain price. Reportedly, Fessler and some cohorts produced all the documents attesting to the availability of the coffee, and the deal was clinched last October on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. The Cubans agreed to a price...
Robert K. Fessler Pittsburgh...
ROBERT K. FESSLER...
...their brief. Haar and Fessler asked the court to overturn the previous ruling. They argued that since the plaintiffs had established a prima facie case of racial discrimination, the court had erred in failing to require the city to give evidence of a rationale which would overcome the inference of unconstitutional discrimination...