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...verdict was a bitter disappointment for New York district attorney Robert Morgenthau, whose early zeal was a driving force behind the July 1991 seizure of the bank. Despite the setback, however, his investigation to date has yielded convictions of B.C.C.I. and its principal front man, indictments of its key executives, and forfeitures totaling $750 million...
...news release, New York District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau said that Young and Liberatore earned more than $500,000 from the arrangement. If Manufacturers had held the Colombia debt instrument, it would have made $1 million...
...apparently took no action because it knew B.C.C.I. had strong links to CIA covert operations and to the illicit transfer of funds for the Nicaraguan contras and arms purchases for Iran. The Justice Department investigation of the criminal banking empire was so dilatory that Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's own probe went far beyond the federal effort...
...York prosecutor Robert Morgenthau has shown the way in his pursuit of the BCCI bank scandal and ultimate Washington insider Clark Clifford. The bank was long known in industry and government intelligence circles as, among other things, a huge money-laundering center for international drug traffickers...
What President-elect Clinton must do is to appoint Morgenthau as the nation's next drug czar--with only this one responsibility, but with broad authority: follow the bucks. Don't bother him with interdiction...