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Only Coincidence. In the easygoing Bahamas, where for 350 years men have reaped fortunes from piracy, intentional shipwrecking, Civil-War blockade breaking and Prohibition-era rumrunning, the payments were not likely to be considered a crime or much of an offense against hardened public sensibilities. Still, Sir Stafford was embarrassed...
Groves, who served part of a two-year prison term for mail fraud in the U.S. in the early '40s, was described by Sir Stafford as a "splendid...
...ground that it "might incriminate me," the former Minister refused to say what he did with the money that Groves gave him. It was "mere coincidence," Sir Stafford insisted, that Groves and his associates also agreed to contribute $10,000 a month to Sir Stafford's United Bahamian Party while the casino applications were under consideration...
Though Sir Stafford was the chief beneficiary, the royal commission's inquiry showed last week that well-paying consultancies were handsomely distributed among the rest of the U.B.P.'s ruling executive council-the body through which the islands' fate was firmly controlled for years by the white businessmen-politicians who are known as "the Bay Street boys." Sir Roland Symonette, the first Prime Minister of the Bahamas, signed on as a $20,000-a-year consultant to Grand Bahama's real estate developers. His son, Robert, an internationally famed yachtsman, also had a five-year consulting...
Bigger than Beaches. Sir Stafford himself pulled up stakes in Nassau last spring and moved to self-imposed exile in Spain, although he says he still plans to spend a few winter months each year at Waterloo, his home on East...