Word: middleman
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...brotherhood that often operates behind a shield of what appears to be legitimate business fronts. According to Japanese press reports, one such business is West Tsusho, a Tokyo-based real estate firm that has bought into two American companies with the help of an unusually well-placed U.S. middleman: Prescott Bush Jr., 68, the President's elder brother...
...India, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, young people advertise organs for sale, sometimes to pay for college educations. In Hong Kong a businessman named Tsui Fung circulated a letter to doctors in March offering to serve as middleman between patients seeking kidney transplants and a Chinese military hospital in Nanjing that performs the operation. The letter said the kidneys would come from live "volunteers," implying that they would be paid donors. The fee for the kidney, the operation and round-trip airfare: $12,800. With that, the Hong Kong government moved to put into effect legislation that would...
...Where's Bob Strauss?" one attendee inquired. Strauss, once the Democratic National Committee chairman, was more recently the middleman who raked off an $8 million fee for setting up the purchase of an American movie company by a Japanese high-tech firm -- just the kind of deal Democrats used to excoriate. "Probably in Japan," came the answer. A couple of wags took estimates on the cost of Clifford's flawless Glen plaid suit. High estimate...
...City but in Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Washington as well. Someone picks up a credit-card number, often by looking over a legitimate user's shoulder or listening in on a charge call placed at a rotary phone. A working number can fetch $50 to $100 from a middleman, who then retails it to long lines of customers eager to pay $5 to $15 to call friends and relatives in, say, Colombia, Poland or the Philippines. A single number can quickly run up a tab in the tens of thousands of dollars, which is charged to the card...
Washington had previously seized some of Saddam's holdings as part of $1 billion of Iraqi assets that the U.S. froze after Iraq invaded Kuwait. The properties were connected with Anees Masoor Wadi, an Iraqi middleman who resided in a $3.5 million Beverly Hills home -- where his neighbors included actor Gene Hackman and director John Landis -- and who was allegedly part of Saddam's global network for procuring arms and military technology. Wadi reportedly helped acquire a suburban Cleveland machine-tool firm called Matrix-Churchill, which made versatile computer-operated jig grinders that could be used to produce precision parts...