Word: loreans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scheme was further refined at a meeting on Sept. 28 in Los Angeles' Bonaventure Hotel; present were De Lorean, the C.I. and, for the first time, Vicenza. De Lorean would get the cash profits after Vicenza had sold the drugs. The group agreed that the sales could gross more than $50 million. For his key role, Vicenza would get a 50% interest in De Lorean Motors, which theoretically would have been rejuvenated with the fresh funds...
...agents' attention switched to De Lorean, who was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles from New York the next day, Tuesday, to wind up the coke transaction. But Hetrick had to be permitted one legally mandated telephone call. Would he tip off De Lorean? He did not. When De Lorean's scheduled flight arrived in Los Angeles, he was aboard, and so were three FBI agents...
...Lorean went directly, and unsuspectingly, to well-wired Room 501 at the Sheraton Plaza. Waiting were the Government's trio: the C.I., Benedict and Vicenza. One of them showed De Lorean a suitcase containing 20 kilos of coke. De Lorean picked up one bag and said, "It's as good as gold and just in the nick of time." Actually it was too late. Only hours earlier, the British government had closed De Lorean's plant in Northern Ireland (see following story...
...Lorean's astonishment, Benedict and Vicenza abruptly broke the light mood by announcing that they were federal agents. They told De Lorean he was under arrest. One of them read him his constitutional rights. Recalled an FBI official: "He was calmer than they had expected him to be." De Lorean was hustled into an unmarked federal car, booked at the downtown Los Angeles jail and led to a six-prisoner cell...
John Zachary De Lorean said not long ago that he is a devout Roman Catholic who, when in New York City, goes every day to St. Patrick's Cathedral. He said that he is a believer in prayer, and a "firm believer" in the Ten Commandments. He also, as improbable as it seems, detected parallels between his life and that of Jesus Christ. "In many ways," De Lorean said in 1980, "Jesus was an outsider. Some of the really big things in life are achieved by those who refuse to conform. I stood up for what I believed...