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...about the real purpose of all that cash: an illegal contribution from Venezuela to the presidential campaign of then Argentine Senator and First Lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a Chavez ally. One of the men, Moises Maionica, pleaded guilty in January; one is at large and another - Carlos Kauffman, a close Duran pal - pleaded guilty in March, leaving Duran all but alone to face trial in Miami that began this week...
...ever surfaced. The top prosecutor on the Antonini case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Mulvihill, has said in hearings that conversations recorded by an FBI wire that Antonini wore prove the suitcase money "was meant for the campaign of Cristina [Fernandez]." And according to court documents filed this summer, Kauffman is expected to testify they were told by high-level Venezuelan officials that Chavez was personally involved in the alleged suitcase affair and its aftermath...
...claims that two days later Antonini joined them at a reception in the Casa Rosada. Argentine officials dispute that. Either way, Antonini returned home to Key Biscayne, Florida, scared enough to cooperate with FBI agents. For the next four months they monitored his meetings and calls with Duran, 40; Kauffman, 35, a Venezuelan partner of Duran's in oil products and drilling equipment firms; Maionica, 36, a Venezuelan lawyer; Antonio Jose Canchica, 37, an agent of the Venezuelan intelligence service, DISIP; and Rodolfo Wanseele, 40, an Uruguayan and Canchica's driver. Maionica and Kauffman face a maximum five years each...
...DIED. Joseph Kauffman, 84, an architect of the Peace Corps, which was launched by President Kennedy in 1961; in Madison, Wisconsin. As the first director of training for the volunteer foreign-aid force, he designed the boot camp-like regimen carried out for recruits at 70 college campuses across the U.S. Among its features: 7 a.m.-to-10 p.m. workdays six days a week, and instruction in foreign languages, technical job skills and medical issues...
...With reporting by Amanda Ripley and Douglas Waller / Washington and Elisabeth Kauffman / Nashville