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...Robert Vesco, one of the two or three most wanted U.S. fugitives for more than 20 years, is now the focus of a diplomatic poker game between Havana and Washington. Last week, Cuban officials quietly notified American officials that they had detained the rogue financier, who fled the U.S. during the Watergate scandals amid charges of massive embezzlement and bribing the Nixon re-election campaign. (A major drug trafficking indictment came later.) Clinton Administration officials, wary of Cuban motives, today said they were interested in Vesco's extradition -- but not, as Havana has hinted, atthe price of warming U.S. relations...
...second thing to know is that he's not afraid to upset very large apple carts. Richard Nixon's reported gripe to his counsel John Dean about the too-vigilant "Jew boys" over in the sec was aimed partly at Sporkin, who was dogging the rogue financier Robert Vesco for an illegal $200,000 contribution to Nixon's re-election campaign. Eventually Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell pressured William Casey, then sec chairman and Sporkin's boss, to delay an investigation into Vesco's contribution until after Election Day. When Casey tried to lean on Sporkin, the latter resisted...
...talk to a drug pusher like you." What about his reputation for anti-Semitism? That, he explained, resulted from his linking of Jewish Gangster Meyer Lansky to Banker David Rockefeller, which in turn led to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, to fugitive Financier Robert Vesco and to a cocaine connection that involved, among others, assorted Bulgarians and a former President of Colombia who was a close friend of former President Jimmy Carter's. Clear...
...founder of Investors Overseas Services nearly three decades ago, Bernie Cornfeld presided over a $2 billion financial empire that spanned the globe. Enter Robert Vesco, who in 1971 managed to gain control of the company before being charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with looting IOS of $224 million. Now Cornfeld, 57, has resurfaced with his own vitamin company, called Better Living Enterprises. The vitamins, he claims, will help poor sleepers and the overweight and even boost people's sex drives. Waving away suggestions that the virtues of his vitamins might be just a bit overstated, Cornfeld predicts...
...effete liberalism Harvard usually packages its filth in. After Hitler, dare we ask, what next? A Torquemada scholarship in Jewish Affairs?. . . a P.W. Botha fellowship in Race Relations?...invite Charles Manson to lecture on the symbiosis of religions and murder?...grace the Business School with a bust of Robert Vesco...