Word: hakim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...targets were Ronald Reagan's former National Security Adviser John Poindexter; fired NSC Aide Oliver North; and two arms dealers, former Air Force Major General Richard Secord and Iranian-born Businessman Albert Hakim. They were charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by establishing and concealing a plan for illegally supporting the Nicaraguan contras. The federal grand jury also charged all four defendants with theft of Government property for siphoning off more than $17 million in proceeds from U.S. arms sales to Iran, and with wire fraud resulting from the movement of the money through Swiss bank accounts. The three...
...legal challenge on immunity could also lead to a protracted court battle. Poindexter, North and Hakim testified before Congress under grants of limited immunity, preventing Walsh from using any of their testimony against them. All but one of the 29 attorneys on Walsh's team avoided TV, the radio, newspapers and magazines when immunized testimony was being aired or discussed; the exception, designated as the "tainted" prosecutor, was assigned to steer the others away from trouble. Nevertheless, the defense will argue that the indictment was affected by the forbidden testimony. The burden of proof is on Walsh...
...which is also the breaking of a trust, seems to rest on the shoulders not only of the men who carried out the missions, but on the men who lead that branch of government--namely the president and the vice president. For as much as the individual actions of Hakim and Secord, North and Poindexter were criminal, the policy of the Reagan administration itself should not escape condemnation. To this day, neither the president nor Vice President Bush will back off from dubbing North and Poindexter "heroes," nor will they concede that it was not Congress which had demanded ending...
...indictment charged that proceeds from the $30 million worth of U.S. arms sales to Iran were diverted illegally to foreign bank accounts controlled by Secord and Hakim for their personal financial gain...
...Hakim and Secord also were charged with conspiring to pay illegal gratuities to North by arranging the installation of a security system at the Marine officer's home and by creating a $200,000 fund for his family in a Swiss bank...