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JACKSONVILLE, Fla.--Leaders of the Medellin Cartel masterminded the slayings of Colombia's justice minister and the top U.S. drug informant, according to a cocaine-trafficking indictment unsealed here yesterday.
The indictment accuses cartel leader Pablo Escobar Gaviria of organizing the assasination of Colombian Justice Minister Lara Bonilla on April 29, 1984, and says Escobar and Fabio Ocho Vasquez directed the February 19, 1986 slaying of former Drug Enforcement Administration informant Barry Seal.
Genzman said the indictment covers a 15-year period from 1974 to the present, and involved the importation of 44,000 pounds of cocaine, worth $1 billion.
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For two years, says Koskotas, payoffs went to the party, none to Papandreou himself. Then a pivotal event occurred. In October 1987, Koskotas traveled to Washington to attend a White House luncheon at which Vice President George Bush was the host. Secret Service agents, checking invitations, were surprised to discover...