Word: kingpins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Charges against Vesco outside Cuba are myriad if not of mythic proportions. One is the 1989 U.S. indictment of Vesco in absentia for facilitating the narcotics-trafficking activities of Colombian drug kingpin Carlos Lehder-Rivas, who from 1978 to '80 was using the Bahamas as a transshipment point for cocaine. Vesco was living in the Bahamas at that time and is thought to have helped Lehder bribe influential Bahamian officials to look the other way while coke-laden planes landed at and took off from Norman's Cay, a Bahamian island on which Lehder had built an outsize landing strip...
...company was already proving its entertainment value by midwifing many a rumor. West Coast gossip: deposed Warner Bros. music kingpin Mo Ostin would work with Geffen. East Coast gossip: Tina Brown, the editor of the New Yorker, would be coming aboard. A spokeswoman who asked Brown about the rumor received the response...
...their letter, prosecutors Marcia Clark and William Hodgman were investigating an intriguing, if tenuous, lead. With new Simpson revelations ever scanter, the connected tale of his longtime friend A.C. Cowlings has moved to the fore. Last month Cowlings was described as a gofer to an alleged Los Angeles cocaine kingpin, whom he improbably thanked in court papers for helping him end a freebasing habit...
...circles last month when a newly formed U.S. Park Service antipoaching unit pulled off a classic sting operation, arresting 27 citizens from Texas to Florida in the biggest poaching bust in Park Service history. The feds posed as amateur herpetologists and would-be buyers; the crime ring's alleged kingpin, who regularly carried a semiautomatic pistol, gave up without a fight. The Park Service carried out the operation for only...
...kingpin saved: FDA panel nixes over-the-counter hair-drug sale...