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While some of the circumstances surrounding the Vesco contribution are in sharp dispute, there is no argument over the chronology...
...fact that the SEC was investigating Vesco's IOS financial shenanigans became a matter of wide public knowledge when a federal judge in New Jersey dismissed Vesco's suit attempting to block the SEC probe...
...Harry L. Sears, head of Nixon's re-election campaign in New Jersey and a director of International Controls Corp., which Vesco dominates, telephoned Mitchell, then Attorney General, to get U.S. Government help for Vesco. He had been jailed in Geneva on complaint of a former IOS sales manager, alleging improper business conduct, fraud and attempted embezzlement. Mitchell personally phoned the U.S. embassy in Berne. Vesco was released on bail the next...
...Daniel Hofgren, a vice chairman of the Nixon campaign finance committee, met a Vesco business associate, Gilbert R.J. Straub, on a transatlantic airliner and suggested that Vesco might contribute to the campaign, as he had done...
MARCH 1972. Sears called Mitchell again to solicit help in setting up a meeting with officials at SEC to discuss their investigation of Vesco. The meeting was held May 11. It was attended by Sears, William J. Casey, who was then SEC chairman, and G. Bradford Cook, who is the newly named SEC chairman...