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...quite that much." He admitted that he had received at least $1,000,000 in consulting and attorney's fees from companies controlled by Promoter Wallace Groves, an ex-Virginian whose political clout in the sun-drenched Bahamas has enabled him to turn his giant holdings on Grand Bahama Island into a lucrative industrial park and high-priced playground just 26 minutes by jet from Miami...
...ruling executive council-the body through which the islands' fate was firmly controlled for years by the white businessmen-politicians who are known as "the Bay Street boys." Sir Roland Symonette, the first Prime Minister of the Bahamas, signed on as a $20,000-a-year consultant to Grand Bahama's real estate developers. His son, Robert, an internationally famed yachtsman, also had a five-year consulting contract, at $15,000 annually. "I earned my fees," he testified last week, "advising on marine design, yacht purchases and bunkering facilities." Dr. Raymond Sawyer, a dentist and U.B.P. executive-council...
...into his campaign charge that government leaders had accepted questionable fees and that U.S. crime-syndicate members were taking over the casinos. Soon after, Pindling announced that three fugitive Americans, wanted on tax evasion and bookmaking indictments, who were forced out as managers of one of Groves's Grand Bahama casinos, will be expelled from the islands when their residence permits expire at year...
Pindling has also doubled the islands' casino tax to $1,000,000 a year, and as a result, Groves last month abruptly closed the gold-papered Monte Carlo gaming room at his luxurious Lucayan Beach Hotel. That leaves Grand Bahama with only the Moorish-style El Casino in operation. In Nassau, the wheels still spin at the sedate Bahamian Club, now run by Eddie Cellini, who along with his brother Dino once ran the casino at Havana's Hotel Nacional for the big-time gambler and Mafia henchman, Meyer Lansky...
...computed as part of the construction industry), is figured in. But then there is the $126.7 billion of Government spending, the $189 billion service industry, the $21 billion annual economic loss through crime, and the $25 billion that Vance Packard says is spent on disposable packages each year. The grand total has soon soared past the gross national product...