Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dismissed Steve Forbes as the poster boy for the candidates who don't matter. Sure, he came in second in the Iowa straw poll. But it was a 90[degree] day, when I witnessed the pull of an air-conditioned tent and short food lines on voters. Some days, money can buy you love. But I still didn't think it could buy presidential stature. Forbes, despite spending millions, is stuck with the uncomfortable person he is. In one ad in which he gazes from a movie-set White House at the real one, with emotions running the gamut from...
...Forbes can stay on Bush's case until the end with enough money to buy TV ads--enough to buy a TV network--if he wants to. He's shown he will spend from his $450 million fortune what it takes. According to the New York Times, he has already given up majority ownership in Forbes, Inc. To avoid being labeled negative, he's going pre-emptively nice. "I like Bush personally. I would consider him for Vice President. His brother, too." If Forbes peels off conservative votes, it increases the chances of a McCain nomination. The Senator from Arizona...
...private bank repeatedly broke many of its own rules in handling the cash of these depositors, and was not too particular in determining whether funds coming in were legally obtained. Says Senator Carl Levin: "We cannot condemn corruption overseas and then tolerate U.S. banks' making fortunes managing that same money...
...sons of Nigeria's recently deceased dictator, General Sani Abacha. Shortly after the general's demise last year, his wife was stopped as she tried to leave the country with 35 or so suitcases bulging with foreign currency. According to the report, with Abacha gone and Nigeria searching for money he allegedly stole, his sons urgently began to shift $39 million among various Citi accounts--with no opposition from the bank...
Citi is now implementing what is probably one of the most aggressive anti-money-laundering programs in the U.S. banking industry. But its past missteps could lead to a tightening of money-laundering statutes on Capitol Hill. The company is taking no chances and has hired Boyden Gray, White House counsel in the Bush Administration, to keep legislators from getting too busy. Gray sent a letter to the Senate subcommittee arguing that it lacked jurisdiction to investigate. A second letter pleaded that Reed should not have to testify. Both requests were quickly denied...