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Other operational sites were lined up: hotel suites at the Hilton Inn and the International Hotel, both at New York's Kennedy International Airport; an elegant suite at Philadelphia's Barclay Hotel; a condominium in the Regency Towers, along the seashore in Ventnor, N.J. For flexibility, another sheik was created, Yasser Habib. He claimed that he might one day have to flee his home country and seek asylum in the U.S. That asylum could be provided if a member of Congress would introduce a private bill, granting him special status to bypass normal immigration procedures. The sheik would...
...agents sought out their first quarry, Camden Mayor Errichetti, 51, who is also a New Jersey state senator. Errichetti listened attentively as the undercover agents explained that their sheik was interested in investing money in the Camden seaport and might like to open a casino in Atlantic City as well. Television cameras put the scenes on tape as the mayor said he could help the sheik with his investments-for a fee of $400,000. Errichetti accepted $25,000 in cash as a down payment for his services, according to Government sources. To get a casino license, Errichetti said, Kenneth...
Errichetti soon escalated the level of action. He showed up last March at the Corsair, now docked in Delray Beach, Fla., to meet the legendary sheik Kambir Abdul Rahman face to face. This time he had with him New Jersey's four-term Democratic Senator, Harrison ("Pete") Williams, 60. Meeting in the yacht's salon, the visitors spoke to the sheik through an interpreter, a dark-complexioned agent who conveyed their words to the sheik in something approximating Arabic. Nodding and smiling under his burnoose, the sheik, who claimed to speak little English, managed to express his uncomplicated...
...Senator raised his voice to convey his clear concurrence and told the interpreter: "You tell the sheik I'll do all I can. You tell...
...deliver my end." The deal that began that day took at least three more meetings over several months to complete. In Manhattan's Pierre Hotel, the sheik's aides agreed to invest $100 million in the titanium mine and to give Williams an undisclosed share of the mine's stock without charge. At a rendezvous in Arlington, Va., the Senator said he would talk to high officials in Government to seek military contracts to help the mine prosper. As he was about to catch a plane to Europe from Kennedy Airport, Williams accepted the stock certificates. They...