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...recent weeks a former high-ranking Dole moneyman received the largest penalty ever connected to an illegal political contribution. On Oct. 23 a federal judge in Boston hit businessman Simon Fireman, 71, former vice chairman of Dole's campaign finance committee, with a fine of more than $1 million and six months of house arrest (in his luxury high-rise). Fireman's Massachusetts-based company, Aqua-Leisure Industries, which distributes pool toys and swimming goggles, was fined $5 million. His crime? Making $120,000 in illegal political contributions to individual candidates and the Republican National Committee, including...
...MONEYMAN ROBERT LIGHTHIZER
...Clinton's 1990 gubernatorial campaign. Defense attorneys call the case prosecutorial overkill, a multimillion-dollar probe of a small-potatoes violation, but it could tie Clinton more closely to wrongdoing than the McDougal trial did and will probably force him to testify again. Branscum was a key Clinton moneyman, and Clinton made him state highway commissioner in 1991. The prosecution will try to prove a connection between the contribution...
Sentencing consultants are poised to be the quintessential post-'80s growth industry. Paul Bilzerian, nabbed for securities fraud and tax evasion, hired one to help him reduce a four-year prison sentence by performing community service at a boys' club. A consultant was instrumental in advising Miami moneyman and convicted tax cheat Victor Posner on his offer to establish shelters for the homeless in lieu of prison time. Onetime Wall Street legal eagle and insider trader Martin Siegel asked for and received the chore of running a children's computer camp. Securities fraudster Michael Milken is awaiting court approval...
...Laurentiis' ability to dazzle and deal is scarcely diminished. In February the 70-year-old legend rose from the tar pits of defeat and litigation to form another company, Dino De Laurentiis Communications, with the financial backing of his friend Giancarlo Parretti, the controversial Italian moneyman who also plans to buy MGM/UA for $1.2 billion. Dino's planned renaissance will begin with five films and a $67 million budget...