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...passengers debarking a flight from Venezuela, she noticed one that was densely packed with rectangular shapes. On inspection, they turned out to be bricks of bank-notes amounting to $790,550. "He didn't seem to be particularly nervous," says Telpuk of the bag's owner, Venzuelan-American businessman Guido Alejandro Antonini Wilson, a resident of Key Biscayne with alleged links to President Hugo Chavez and a taste for red Ferraris. "He acted perfectly natural until I ordered him to open the bag. Then he did become uncomfortable and at first he didn't react, so I had to insist...
...Guido W. Imbens & Susan Athey
...prospect of living in the same house as someone is daunting to some. But for Professors of Economics Guido W. Imbens and Susan Athey, the home-life proximity was so rewarding that when they transferred to Harvard from professorial positions at Berkeley and Stanford, respectively, they chose offices right next door to one another...
...recording was provided by Venezuelan-American businessman Guido Antonini, the Miami resident who had allegedly attempted to smuggle the $800,000 into Argentina on Aug. 4 on a flight from Caracas, Venezuela. He flew on a charter by Argentina's state oil company. Antonini, who had allegedly fled Argentina for his Key Biscayne, Florida, home, allowed himself to be wiretapped by the FBI and the information he gathered led to the arrest of Venezuelan businessmen Franklin Duran and Carlos Kauffmann. Mulvihill said that Antonini had been offered $2 million by an unnamed party to hide the provenance and the beneficiary...
...Morality notwithstanding, the headlines of the past month remind us that the land of the Liberator still knows plenty of shady deals after all these years. In early August, a little-known Venezuelan businessman, Guido Antonini Wilson, was caught carrying a briefcase with nearly $800,000 in cash on a private flight from Caracas to Buenos Aires. The flight was chartered by the Argentine state oil company, and officials from that firm and from the Venezuelan state oil company had been on board. The incident has been an embarrassment in Buenos Aires, where the government was already under fire...