Word: vicenza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then told De Lorean that a "Mr. Vicenza," a drug distributor the C.I. knew, would be willing to put up about $3 million to complete the purchase of 220 lbs. of cocaine for roughly $5 million. Vicenza, actually DEA Agent John Valestra, would handle the distribution of the coke, and De Lorean would be given most of the profits. The C.I. told De Lorean that once the cash was on hand, the actual financial transaction would be conducted by Benedict, the presumed bank officer...
...scheme was further refined at a meeting on Sept. 28 in Los Angeles' Bonaventure Hotel; present were De Lorean, the C.I. and, for the first time, Vicenza. De Lorean would get the cash profits after Vicenza had sold the drugs. The group agreed that the sales could gross more than $50 million. For his key role, Vicenza would get a 50% interest in De Lorean Motors, which theoretically would have been rejuvenated with the fresh funds...
...waiting when Hetrick arrived at 4 p.m. Benedict assured Hetrick that the $1.8 million would be in the room shortly. Hetrick said he was "ready to go." It was not until 7:45 p.m., however, that yet another self-styled drug distributor, actually DEA Agent Gerald Scotti, arrived with Vicenza. Hetrick was wary, but in Scotti's briefcase, which was placed on a Plexiglas coffee table, was a vast amount of cash...
...Lorean went directly, and unsuspectingly, to well-wired Room 501 at the Sheraton Plaza. Waiting were the Government's trio: the C.I., Benedict and Vicenza. One of them showed De Lorean a suitcase containing 20 kilos of coke. De Lorean picked up one bag and said, "It's as good as gold and just in the nick of time." Actually it was too late. Only hours earlier, the British government had closed De Lorean's plant in Northern Ireland (see following story...
...Lorean's astonishment, Benedict and Vicenza abruptly broke the light mood by announcing that they were federal agents. They told De Lorean he was under arrest. One of them read him his constitutional rights. Recalled an FBI official: "He was calmer than they had expected him to be." De Lorean was hustled into an unmarked federal car, booked at the downtown Los Angeles jail and led to a six-prisoner cell...