-Caveat Lector-
Kenneth Bialkin's clients have included Robert Vesco, Michael Milken and
Meshulam Riklis. He was behind the merger between Lehman Brothers and Kuhn,
Loeb, as well as the buyout by Shearson Hayden Stone of Loeb Rhoades and the
subsequent buyout of all of the above by American Express. His reward was a
seat on the board of American Express alongside Henry Kissinger. It was
also Bialkin who engineered the partnership between American Express and
Edmund Safra that later resulted in headlines over money-laundering
allegations in the bank Safra sold to Amex, the Republic National Bank of
New York. An April 2, 1989 Newsday story:
"...had been apparently put together with the assistance of angry federal
drug investigators who felt that major drug money laundering cases had been
blocked for political reasons.
"Indeed, both Bialkin and Safra were hot political commodities at that
moment. Iran-Contra special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh was deep into his
probe of illegal covert operations by the Reagan-Bush White House, and both
Bialkin and Safra�as well as the ADL [Anti-Defamation League]--had surfaced
as prominent players in the secret diplomacy with Khomeini�s Iran and the
illegal covert war against Nicaragua:
"*Bialkin had been the attorney for Adnan Khashoggi in arranging for the
Saudi financier�s purchasing of the original shipment of arms to Iran in
exchange for the release of an American hostage.
"*Bialkin�s Willkie, Farr law partner in Geneva, Willard Zucker, had been
the money handler for Oliver North and Richard Secord at Lake Resources,
Inc. Earlier, Zucker had been Bialkin�s Swiss point-man in the Vesco
looting of IOS.
"*Another longtime Wall Street associate of Bialkin, Arthur Liman, had
served as the chief counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra panel, which
whitewashed the scandal and threw up major roadblocks to Walsh�s independent
counsel probe.
* * *
"*Edmund Safra had been directly involved in the logistics of the
Iran-Contra operations through his Republic Corporate Air fron company,
which he jointly owned with Willard Zucker. According to news accounts, it
was one of Safra�s airplanes that brought Ollie North and Robert McFarlane
to Teheran in the spring of 1986 on their last ill-fated effort at an
arms-for-hostage deal. "
----------------
Source:
Editors of EIR, The Ugly Truth about the ADL, pp. 49-50.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Millegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 10:08 AM
Subject: [CTRL] Billionaire banker dies in attack
> -Caveat Lector-
>
>from:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_548000/548288.stm
>Click Here: <A
>HREF="http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_548000/548288.st
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>BBC News | EUROPE | Billionaire banker dies in �</A>
>-----
>Friday, 3 December, 1999, 14:36 GMT
>Billionaire banker dies in attack
>
>Mr Safra died in his top-floor apartment in Monte Carlo
>
>One of the world's richest men has died in a fire in his apartment in
Monaco
>after an attack by two armed men.
>
>Edmond Safra, listed as one of the world's top billionaires by Forbes
>magazine, took refuge in his bathroom with his daughter's nanny after two
men
>armed with knives broke into the luxury seaside apartment.
>
>Both died from suffocation after the intruders started a fire in the
>apartment, according to the principality's press service.
>
>His wife and daughter, who had barricaded themselves in another room,
escaped
>unharmed.
>
>The family bodyguard was seriously wounded in the attack and is in a
critical
>condition in the Princess Grace Hospital.
>
>Police in Monaco are now trying to examine whether the attack was linked
with
>Mr Safra's business activities.
>
>
>Mr Safra's banks had a reputation for being safe
>Mr Safra, 68, was born in Beirut and started his career in private banking
at
>the age of 16. At 24 he founded his first bank in Brazil, the first of
three
>in different parts of the globe.
>
>He acquired a reputation as a banker with the Midas touch, with a legendary
>ability to read the markets.
>
>Sale to HSBC
>
>His businesses are unusual in that they are built on deposits rather than
>lending - loans make up less than 30% of their total assets.
>
>In 1966 he founded the Republic National Bank of New York, and was a major
>shareholder in the bank.
>
>The attack on Thursday came during the final stages of the purchase of the
>bank by London-based HSBC Bank.
>
>Last month he agreed to reduce by �280m the amount he would make from the
>deal.
>
>His decision to sell the bank had come as a surprise to some. It has been
>speculated that his exit may be due to heavy losses on Russian securities
>last year.
>
>Monaco police have appealed to the French police for help in finding the
>attackers.
>
>HSBC said in a statement that it was "appalled" at the news.
>
>Its shares in London fell 2% after the announcement.
>
>Mr Safra had been expected to take an active role in ensuring a smooth
>transition for Republic's clients.
>-----
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