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...money all the way to Hastings. Conceded Prosecutor Robert Richter in his opening argument to the jury: "We will not put a big number four up in front of you. We'll put two plus two." The Government contended that Hastings had gone to Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel for dinner on Sept. 16, 1981, as Borders had said he would, to signal his involvement in the scheme. Prosecutors played a tape of a phone call Hastings made to Borders 19 days later. Using what the Government claimed were code words, Hastings supposedly promised that he would...
Defense Attorney Williams derided the evidence as "two minus two," and Hastings had a ready explanation for everything he had done. Yes, he was at the Fontainebleau, but at the "social" invitation of Borders, who stood him up. Yes, he promised Borders over the phone that he would act the next day, but the supposed code was a straightforward discussion of letters he planned to write urging reinstatement of a suspended lawyer who was a mutual friend. And yes, he issued the $845,000 order, but only to comply with two recent appeals court rulings requiring that action. Hastings also...
...When I take visitors around in my boat at sunset, they are just awed," says Stephen Muss, whose family owns the Fontainebleau Hilton Hotel in Miami Beach. "Where else can we ride in an open boat in winter, looking at a skyline on the horizon, cruise ships slowly turning around in the harbor, jets passing overhead, with the day ending in full color in the blue water of our bay? This is just a sensational place to live...
...dollar: "We will look back on 20% inflation with nostalgia." Investment seminars have become regular events at vacation spots in Florida and California. This weekend some 1,600 people are expected to pay up to $445 each for a five-day marathon at Miami Beach's Fontainebleau Hilton...
...erosion on the adjacent section, which was no longer replenished by the wash of fresh sand. The only solution seemed to be to build more groins, but they caused more erosion. By the early 1960s, the waves were lapping almost at the foundations of Miami Beach monuments like the Fontainebleau Hilton...