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...committee's ruling offered no guidance as to what is legal and illegal. All five helped Keating and all five accepted money during the same period of time. But only Cranston, who received $982,000 from the S&L kingpin, failed to observe a respectful amount of time between service rendered and money collected. DeConcini hosted a high-level meeting at which he outlined Keating's demands, which gave an "appearance of being improper" in the eyes of the ethics panel. Glenn, who arranged a luncheon for Keating with then Speaker Jim Wright, was deemed merely to have "exercised poor...
While Bennett's flamboyant life-style attracted attention, the police had nothing solid on him. Villabona, however, became a bit too bold. In 1987 he lent a house he owned in Westlake Village to a cartel kingpin. When Drug Enforcement Administration agents raided the house in pursuit of that operator, they found records showing that Villabona and his Danish wife Helle Nielsen had seven bank accounts in Copenhagen. Later, the unsuspecting Villabona twice flew to Denmark, where he made hundreds of telephone calls to conduct his coke business. So, on one occasion, did Bennett...
...heart and soul of both The Godfather and The Freshman, their essense, if you will, simply is Marlon Brando. Brando, arguably, is bigger than the films themselves, bigger than their scripts. His performance in The Godfather is so powerful that Don Corleone has come to typify the under-world kingpin, not only in Hollywood, but in the American consciousness as well. Brando's riveting presence is an asset in The Godfather, given the somber ambience carefully crafted by Francis Ford Coppola, and the balance provided to the work by the equally riveting performances of Al Paccino, Robert Duvall, and James...
...mailbag for the illegal purchase and importation of arms from Lebanon; both formerly held security posts in France's embassy in Beirut. At least a dozen men had been implicated in the arms-trafficking affair, including embassy chief of security Jean- Claude Labourdette, believed to be the operation's kingpin...
...Manuel Antonio Noriega. U.S. immigration officials suspect that the 47 aliens were ultimately headed for New York City's Chinatown and were customers of a lucrative passport-for-sale racket run for several years by Noriega and his cronies. If the deposed strongman was truly a "people-smuggling" kingpin as a sideline to his alleged drug-trafficking business, he was simply cashing in on the upper niche of an industry that is booming at every level. In March federal agents in Atlanta raided an Eastern Airlines flight twice in two days, seizing 100 illegal aliens, including several Romanians...