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Armed with virtually ironclad evidence, a Florida grand jury indicted B.C.C.I. for money laundering in 1988. Clifford hired a high-powered criminal lawyer to defend the bank. Despite overwhelming evidence, the government offered B.C.C.I. a plea bargain. The bank thus avoided a trial in which prosecutors planned to present evidence that laundering drug money was an approved policy of the global titan...
...year federal crackdown on securities fraud that has so far netted a dozen major convictions. The big fish included Wall Street speculator Ivan Boesky, who was fined $100 million for insider trading in 1986 and sentenced to three years in prison (he served two). As a condition of his plea bargain, Boesky helped prosecutors pursue Milken...
...pioneering junk bonds and turning them into Wall Street's most lucrative money machine. Instead of squandering the fortune on yachts and jets, Milken formed investment partnerships that earned him additional millions. But riches will not shield Milken from the loss of his freedom. In an 11-page plea for leniency that he wrote to Wood last month, Milken acknowledged, "All people, I am sure, have a fear of incarceration and separation. I am not unique, and I, too, have those fears...
...book does well because he sees what is admirable in the splendid anarchism of the great players. He tells the story, among many other good ones, of the late Jack Straus, who, while waiting in federal court to be tried on a tax charge, was touched by the plea of another defendant that a $35,000 judgment would put his family on the sidewalk. "It's okay, Your Honor," said Straus, "just stick it on my tab!" It is only across the table that you would not want to face such fellows. That, as one old female player told Holden...
...congressional champion of archconservatism, Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), beat a Black liberal, Harvey Gantt, with a last-minute racist appeal. California voters resisted Democratic gubernatorial candidate Dianne Feinstein's plea to give a woman a chance, giving the Republicans control of the most politically important state in the nation. And two of the front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992, N.J. Senator Bill Bradley and N.Y. Gov. Mario Cuomo, squeaked to unimpressive victories against little-known opponents...