Word: financiere
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While clearly petty compared with the political-corruption charges, such gifts do raise serious ethical questions. President Eisenhower's top aide, Sherman Adams, resigned in 1958 after it became known he had accepted gifts including a vicuna coat from Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. Abe Fortas resigned in 1969 from the...
More dark rumors arose in 1971, when Don's only son Don Jr., then 24, was hired as a personal aide by Robert L. Vesco, the wandering financier now under federal indictment for illegally contributing $200,000 to the Nixon campaign in 1972 and conspiring to obstruct justice. Vesco...
Sept. 11: Mitchell and Stans are scheduled to stand trial in federal court in New York City on charges of conspiring to arrange an illegally secret $200,000 cash contribution to the Nixon re-election campaign by New Jersey Financier Robert L. Vesco. In return, according to the indictment, they...
Then two catastrophes convert Simon at an even later age than most messiahs. His parents are burned to death in their home: a token of the holocaust that consumes Jews by the millions in World War II. Simon's obsession with the cycles of buying and selling transfers to...
As news of Vesco's troubles-and of Don Pepe's relationship with the financier-spread through San José, the President went on the defensive. Don Pepe insisted that his relationship with Vesco had been strictly business. As long as the American breaks no Costa Rican law...