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Vesco had wanted Attorney General John N. Mitchell to intercede on his behalf with SEC chairman William J. Casey.
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At this point, a little-known American financier named Robert Vesco, head of the failing mini-conglomerate International Controls Corporation, offered his help with $ 5M, funds which had inconceiveably originated as part of a larger loan from IOS to ICC.
In 1970, Vesco began a successful takeover bid for Investors Overseas Service, Ltd., a mutual fund investment firm with holdings of $ 1. 5 billion run by financier Bernard Cornfeld, who had run into trouble with the SEC.
Among the accusations against Vesco were that he parked funds belonging to IOS investors in a series of dummy corporations, one of which had an Amsterdam address that was later linked to Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, and that he broke into a Swiss bank vault to obtain shares.
By this time, George Jung had been forced out of the operation, and international criminal financier Robert Vesco had allegedly become a partner.
Vesco and .
Mitchell's name was mentioned in a deposition concerning Robert L. Vesco, an international financier who was a fugitive from a federal indictment.
Mitchell and Nixon Finance Committee Chairman Maurice H. Stans were indicted in May 1973 on federal charges of obstructing an investigation of Vesco after he made a $ 200, 000 contribution to the Nixon campaign.
Slidell is the headquarters of Vesco Tennis Courts, a privately held firm specializing in construction of hard surfaces for outdoor sports facilities.
* Author Renato Vesco revived the wartime theory that the foo fighters were a new Nazi secret weapon in his work ' Intercept UFO ', reprinted in a revised English edition as ' Man-Made UFOs: 50 Years Of Suppression ' in 1994.
The purpose of the Feuerball, according to Vesco, was two-fold.
The appearance of this weird device inside a bomber stream would ( and indeed did ) have a distracting and disruptive effect on the bomber pilots ; and Vesco alleges that the devices were also intended to have an offensive capability.
Vesco managed to take control of IOS, including the unregulated mutual funds, insurance assets, and real estate equity, after eventually evicting Cornfeld from the management.
Having placed his men in key positions within IOS, Vesco ultimately succeeded in transferring over $ 200 million of cash belonging to the IOS funds, etc.
into layered shell corporations domiciled in far-flung areas, and designed to hide the assets from international law enforcement authorities, and make the money available exclusively to Vesco and his minions.
When the SEC issued a public complaint, Vesco fled to exile in a number of Caribbean hideaways, and was reported as having died in Cuba in 2008.
According to Dean's writings and records now in possession by his son Norman Robert Dean ; several groups, including Westinghouse Electric Corporation, the U. S. military, Robert L. Vesco, and the AC Spark Plug ( Aeronautics Division ) became interested in licensing the device.
Combined with his experience of forced appropriation of his non-precessing gyroscopic inertial guidance system by the US military ( for use in intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarines ) and Dean's cautious nature, led him to terminate relations with his most recent interested party investment banker Robert L. Vesco who coincidently fled to Cuba in 1973.
Robert Lee Vesco ( December 4, 1935 – November 23, 2007 ) was a fugitive United States financier.
After several years of high stakes investments and seedy credit dealings, Vesco was alleged guilty of securities fraud.
Charges emerged following the Watergate scandal that linked Vesco with illegal funding for a company owned by Donald A. Nixon ( Richard Nixon's nephew ).
Vesco was notorious throughout his life, attempting to buy a Caribbean island from Antigua in order to create an autonomous country and having a national law in Costa Rica made to protect him from extradition.
A 2001 Slate. com article labeled Vesco " the undisputed king of the fugitive financiers.
Vesco and Mitchell
While Vesco fled the country, Stans, Mitchell, and Sears were indicted for obstruction of justice, though charges against all three were dismissed.
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However, this worked poorly for everybody involved, although Vesco was reputed to have stolen over $ 200 million, and appeared several times on the Forbes list of the wealthiest people in the world.
Vesco was indicted in 1989 on drug smuggling charges.
In the 1990s, Vesco became involved once again with Donald A. Nixon after Nixon went to Cuba seeking to partner with the government in conducting clinical trials on a substance he claimed to boost immunity, called trixolan or TX.
Results from the studies were claimed to be positive, however on or about May 31, 1995, Vesco attempted to defraud Nixon and Raúl Castro, and Cuban authorities seized control of the project and arrested Vesco and his wife.
" In 1996 the Cuban government sentenced Vesco to thirteen years in jail on charges stemming from the scandal.
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" After settling in Cuba in 1982, Vesco was charged with drug smuggling in 1989.
These allegations are unproven, as Vesco fled the country and spent the next fifteen years hopping between countries that lacked extradition treaties with the United States.
In February 1973, with criminal charges against him imminent, Vesco took the corporate jet and fled to Costa Rica along with about $ 200 million worth of IOS's investments, according to SEC allegations.
Vesco would continue to wage a legal battle from Costa Rica and the Bahamas to try to maintain control over his 26 percent of ICC stock, but, with five outstanding indictments for securities fraud against him, he could not return to the United States.
He tours with his own orchestra under conductor Paul Vesco, and has also worked with conductors Sammy Nestico and Billy May.
Vesco and SEC
Among the charges that emerged in the years after Watergate, the SEC accused Vesco of embezzling $ 220 million from four different IOS funds.
Shortly before his departure, hoping to shut off the SEC investigation into his activities, Vesco routed substantial contributions to Richard Nixon through his nephew, Donald A. Nixon.
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And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.
That mistake, she thought, had cost her dearly these past few days, and she wanted to avoid falling into any more of the traps that the mountain might set for her.
After the war, Penny had wanted Keith at least to visit her home with her.
He wanted to know if my father had beaten me or my mother had run away from home to give me an unhappy childhood.
`` He wanted Mr. Sandburg to pose with one of the guitars he had displayed behind glass in the center of his shop, but the poet eyed this somewhat distastefully.
If Hammarskjold had not wanted the list disposed of in this manner, and if Bang-Jensen had not wanted it -- who had ordered it??
If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.
Finally, colleges and clubs took the line that speakers from England were not wanted any longer, even speakers like S.K., so unlike the novelists and poets who had patronized the Americans for many years.
My `` touchstones, had, been strictly '' literature and, humanly enough, American literature ( because that was what I wanted to write ).
The funeral for my husband was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far less than I had expected to pay.
Rector had no idea why Kayabashi wanted to visit the mission.
Occasionally, when he had an unusual flower that he wanted more of he did ; ;
Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.
One day, the children had wanted to get up onto General Burnside's horse.
She had felt that her arm wanted to go up in the first trial, but had consciously prevented it from so doing.
He did not really listen to others, had little interest in their ideas, and wanted to have his own way -- which was the only right way.
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