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...enlisting political help. On April 8, a day before he was to testify at D'Amato's hearing, Bronfman invited Hillary Rodham Clinton to his New York apartment for a fund-raising lunch. That morning, New York magazine had published a story on the search for Jewish money in Swiss banks. Bronfman ripped the pages out and gave them to Clinton. "Will you please read these?" he said. "You will understand how important it is that I see your husband tomorrow." Clinton scanned the article and asked, "Swiss banks, do you think you can do anything about them?" Bronfman looked...
...records the debriefing of a certain Dr. Landwehr, who had directed the Nazi foreign-exchange department. "Dr. Landwehr estimates that all in all, the sum of German assets which passed into Switzerland amounted to at least 15 billion reichsmarks," said the report. "Landwehr dismissed with an ironic smile the Swiss estimate of 1 billion reichsmarks...
Israel Singer packed his briefcase with Safehaven documents when he and Bronfman flew to Bern in September 1995. One by one, he laid them on the table before officials of the Swiss Bankers Association, charting a trail of the banks' complicity. Singer and Bronfman insisted the bankers come clean about their role, restoring Jewish funds to Holocaust survivors. But, recalls Singer, "they stonewalled us," offering merely the $32 million found in 774 dormant accounts...
Bronfman told the Swiss he had not come to Bern to talk about money; he had come to talk about process. He wanted to work with the Swiss on a new survey of exactly how many Jewish accounts had existed and how the money left could be returned to rightful owners. Finally the two sides agreed to set up an audit, then discuss a final resolution. In the meantime, the process would be kept quiet...
...bankers broke the confidentiality agreement and publicized a long, detailed Swiss view of the problem. Immediately afterward, the World Jewish Congress issued a statement debunking the Swiss declaration. "I was furious," says Bronfman. "I had just been talking to 500 Jews in Jerusalem who asked me what was going on. I said I couldn't tell them anything because we had agreed with the Swiss not to have any publicity. Then their statement came out. I think it was written out of anger and bad judgment on their part. I stopped trusting them...