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...never have purchased all the gold that investors paid for, and that Saxon diverted much of his clients' money to his personal use. He owned another home in Venice, a $59,000 Maserati, a Porsche and a Mercedes. He had made a $95,000 deposit on a Learjet. He apparently had lost $1 million in an attempt to buy the Commercial Bank of California in West Hollywood and save it from bankruptcy. The bank failed last May, and its demise has led to numerous disputes and even lawsuits among its directors...
...sour ending to an otherwise happy holiday. For three weeks Christina Onassis, 32, had frolicked on the beaches of Skorpios, made side trips to other Greek islands and nibbled-well, all right, feasted-on the local cuisine. But when the heiress boarded her personal Learjet to fly home to Nice, France, from Aktion military airport last week, an official took her passport and forbade her to leave the country. Reason: a pending court case in which the Greek government claims that Christina owes $33 million worth of inheritance taxes on her father's property. That was when Christina began...
Investigators are unsure what happened to all the money that IGBE took in, but some of it seems to have paid for high living. Says Fort Lauderdale Police Detective Stephen Raabe: "The brothers would think nothing of paying $10,000 for a private Learjet to fly to the West Coast. They were living a jet-set life with lots of cars and women around." Things sometimes got rowdy. On one occasion, a girlfriend wrecked William's Lincoln Mark VI after an argument...
City fathers regard their current problems as a temporary setback and are banking on Wichita's diversified aircraft industry to ignite a new takeoff. Beech Aircraft, Cessna and Gates Learjet serve the general aviation market, while production at Boeing, the city's largest employer, is 55% defense related. Boeing and Beech reportedly plan to hire 8,000 more employees over the next few years. Unlike many other Midwest cities, Wichita may need no major economic retooling. Says Jerry Mallot, a Chamber of Commerce official: "Much of our industry is in the high-tech area...
...larger crowd, but I'm happy because when was the last time so many people like this gathered in one office?" Lovig, who might repeat the event next year, had another reason to be satisfied. In the first 20 minutes of the swapping, he traded his Learjet for a casino in Las Vegas...