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...Panama Defense Forces could not save his regime in the face of a U.S. military assault. Now his high-powered legal defense team claims it may not be able to defend his case in the face of U.S. legal action. In a surprise move last week, General Manuel Noriega's lawyers asked to be excused from representing him against drug-trafficking charges in Miami. Reason: uncertain fees. Because of a sweeping U.S. Government freeze on the general's assets, estimated at $20 million to $60 million, his lawyers maintained they could not be paid. Said defense attorney Steven Kollin...
...imbroglio resurrected concerns among Noriega's supporters about his ability to get a fair trial in the U.S. But more important, it renewed some basic questions about the nation's sweeping forfeiture laws. Those statutes provide a mechanism for prosecutors in federal drug and racketeering cases to freeze any of a defendant's assets that they suspect to be fruits of the crime -- even before obtaining a conviction. The targeted assets may include funds that could be used to pay an attorney. As a result, says University of Florida law professor Fletcher Baldwin, "federal prosecutors now have control not only...
JAILHOUSE ROCKS. Federal prosecutors are still having trouble building their case against Manuel Noriega, but the extent to which the deposed dictator plundered Panama is becoming clearer. Edmund Pankau, a Houston private detective, has put together an inventory of Noriega's vast real estate holdings from papers found after his arrest. The list includes two office buildings in New Orleans, interests in Florida hotels, property in Tel Aviv and the south of France, an Italian villa and a house in Spain. Total value: more than $800 million...
BRING US THE DISCOUNTED HEAD OF MANUEL NORIEGA. A former Panamanian government official says the U.S. capture of Manuel Noriega could have been accomplished with less muscle and money. In 1988, he claims, he and some fellow Noriega opponents worked through the Israeli embassy in Washington to contact two former commandos of the Israeli Defense Forces. They concocted a plan that involved a 200-man special unit of the Ecuadoran army and would have cost approximately $3 million. The Rambo scheme was killed when the C.I.A. tipped off the Senate Intelligence Committee...
...everybody else to shut up. These other owners would rather give away their savings and loans than lose their respectability, end up like I am, hounded, harassed, broke. I'm being slammed and ridiculed and called a thief and a bum and a liar. They even tied me into Noriega for forming a Panamanian company to do business in England. Nothing wrong with any part of it. The committee flat said I was doing drugs. Lincoln made a loan to Covenant House, and I waived one of the interest payments on the building which housed these poor kids...