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...considered to be the fastest-growing opera company in America. This new season is also the first time the company is performing at the lavish Shubert Theater (usually reserved for touring Broadway companies), right next door to their old venue, the Emerson Majestic. This is also baritone Hector Vasquez's debut on the BLO stage after four seasons at the Metropolitan Opera...
While the pinnacle of the event was the "El Grito" ceremony and the singing of the national anthem, celebrations of Mexican culture played a prominent role in the four-hour event. On a stage at one end of the Athletic Center, Iliana Vasquez hosted a show that included groups of folk dancers and both pre-Hispanic and modern Mexican music performances. Vasquez, who hosts the local television show Pachanga Latina, has attended the event for several years, but was serving as emcee for the first time...
Thomann, then 29, landed in San Francisco a couple of weeks later as the D.N.C.'s northern California finance director. His first job was to collect the outstanding money committed at the Blum-Feinstein dinner--including the Vasquez contribution. Before long, Thomann got a phone call from Richard Sullivan, the party's finance director in Washington. Thomann said Sullivan informed him of a "change in direction" for the Vasquez pledge. Sullivan wanted the money routed to Carey's campaign, as long as Thomann made sure it was legal, according to Thomann's depositions. He was told by Sullivan that someone...
Oblivious to these larger machinations, Thomann went about his business and quickly determined that Vasquez was an employer and thus barred from giving to the union campaign. He informed Sullivan that the idea wouldn't fly, but he had a harder time breaking the news to a Teamster lawyer named Nathaniel Charny, who, just as Sullivan had predicted, had tracked Thomann down by phone a few days earlier and pressured him for the money, Thomann says. In the return call, Charny (who declined comment) was upset that the D.N.C. official had given up so easily, and suggested that Vasquez...
...broad outline of the Vasquez gambit was disclosed by federal prosecutors last month when Davis and two other Carey associates pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the complex plan to channel Teamster money into Carey's campaign. So far no Democratic party officials have been charged. In an interview, Sullivan said he never took the Davis deal seriously. He simply asked Thomann to see if the transfer from Vasquez to Carey was "possible," Sullivan said, and dropped the issue after that. What Senate investigators want to know is how far the grand swap extended, which is why Mark Thomann is scheduled...