Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both of the celebrated defendants had gambled that they could pull it off. Instead of remaining silent, as was their right, they would testify in their own behalf-and risk being shaken by the tough cross-examinations that were bound to follow. Last week, when their long hours of testimony...
Mitchell freely admitted, as the prosecution charged, that after Vesco's donation was received he set up a meeting between the financier's lawyer and William Casey, then head of the SEC. The way Mitchell told it, he was not obstructing justice, as the Government claimed, but helping...
As the witness raised his right hand to take the oath in a Manhattan courtroom last week, his left hand flexed tensely three times, then relaxed. It was the only instance in the 27 days of testimony that tough John Mitchell, 60, former U.S. Attorney General, betrayed any signs of...
The obsequies were for French President Georges Pompidou-classicist, civil servant, financier and politician-who died last week at age 62 after a prolonged and painful bout with what is suspected to have been multiple myeloma (cancer of the bone marrow). At week's end, nearly 70 of the...
After fleeing prosecution on charges of masterminding a massive mutual-funds swindle and attempting to obstruct justice, Financier Robert Vesco has made himself about as accessible to newsmen as the Abominable Snowman. Thus it surprised the veteran journalists who had been trying to corner Vesco in his Costa Rican refuge...