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Vesco's emissaries tenaciously tried a new approach. Herring went to Attorney W. Spencer Lee IV of Albany, Ga., and offered him a $10,000 retainer???in addition to a fee of $1 million?if he would set up a meeting with top White House Aide Hamilton Jordan, a school chum and tennis companion of Lee's. Vesco meanwhile told Herring and Dorminey that he would arrange for them to acquire $10 million worth of stock in a Panamanian company for $42,000, if they could get to somebody at the White House on his behalf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Vesco's Latest Caper | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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