Word: liechtensteiner
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...court in Tel Aviv indicted Tzur on charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust. The accusations are the latest developments in a complex contretemps that involves, besides the state of Israel, a Baron de Rothschild, a shady Swiss bank with a record of ties to the Mafia, secret Liechtenstein trust accounts, a hero of the World War II Hungarian underground and scores of millions in missing funds...
...example, two Rothko paintings were sold to the Liechtenstein firm of Galleria Bernini (two of whose directors also sit on the boards of four Marlborough shells). The Galleria paid $140,000 for them, of which the estate received $84,000. But Mrs. Paul Mellon wanted those very Rothkos so ardently, Lloyd testified, that Marlborough bought them back from Galleria Bernini for a whopping $420,000 and then resold them to her for that amount. "Since the price was so high," Lloyd said with benign altruism, "I didn't want to profit from it." Yet if the sale...
...campus, Father Al Jonsen is analyzing health policy issues and the moral desirability of such technical advances as the mechanical heart. From a base in Los Angeles, Fa ther Nick Weber, 33, and two companions carom round the country in a battered station wagon giving performances of the Royal Liechtenstein One-Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, an amiable blend of circus acts and low-key morality plays. Weber and company live a frugal, catch-as-catch-can existence, begging meals and a place to sleep wherever they stop. A Rochester, N.Y., Jesuit high school teacher, Father William S. O'Malley...
...firm that -under the guidance of Frank Lloyd, a dealer of legendary if unloved astuteness-has in the past decade become the world's richest gallery complex, with main offices in New York, London and Rome, a branch in Tokyo and a network of holding companies in Liechtenstein. Fiat had agreed to design and build four air-conditioned "Artmobiles" equipped to carry shows all over the U.S. The American branch of Fiat was to give these to the Met as a public relations gesture. Though the Met officially denies it, sources within its staff believe that the gift...
Ever since the French Revolution, the specter of a militantly left-wing government has periodically caused wealthy Frenchmen to dispatch their gold and cash to safe harbors abroad. This year an unknown number of businesses and petits bourgeois have been illegally transferring their liquid assets to Switzerland, Liechtenstein and other countries with strong currencies and discreet bankers. The reason for this unseemly flight of capital was explained by a recent public opinion poll. It showed that President Georges Pompidou's Gaullists and their allies were fast losing ground to the Communist-Socialist coalition in next month's parliamentary...