Word: rolexes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anglos tend to work the marijuana trade, while the cocaine market is controlled by Colombians and Cubans. No matter what their specialty, the illegal entrepreneurs can be easily spotted. Young Anglos wearing scruffy Levi's and T shirts, gold Rolex watches and ropes of gold chain sit around the marinas waiting for the next call from a mother ship. Current pay for one night's work piloting a "cigarette" averages $50,000, while the wages for unloading the bales are $5,000 to $10,000 a night...
From the Hunts' far-flung oil and gas leases round the world to Brother Lamar's Rolex watch and even Hunt family office equipment, cattle feeders and watercoolers, nothing escaped the attentive and appraising eye of the bankers. Explained one banker in the style of his trade: "When you've got someone over a barrel, you grab everything...