-Caveat Lector- from: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887305601/qid=945018859/sr=1-16/102-33 25973-5980027Click Here: <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0887305601/qid=945018859/sr=1-16/ 102-3325973-5980027">Amazon.com: buying info: Evil Money : Encounter…</A> ----- Evil Money : Encounters Along the Money Trail by Rachel Ehrenfeld Try an out-of-print order 1-Click ordering unavailable for purchasing out-of-print items. Holiday Note: To find items that will arrive by December 24, visit Gift Ideas. ASIN: 0887305601 Availability: This title is out of print. Although it is no longer available from the publisher, we'll query our network of used bookstores for you and send an update within one to two weeks. Reviews Editorial Reviews (2) Be the first person to review this book! Editorial Reviews >From Kirkus Reviews , June 1, 1992 Ehrenfeld, a research scholar at NYU Law School and author of Narcoterrorism (1990), ineffectively details several major cases involving money laundering and governmental corruption. In 1981, Ehrenfeld says, Los Angeles banks reported a $341 million cash surplus. In 1991, after L.A. became a money-laundering center, this increased to $5 billion--and Miami and Atlanta banks experienced similar cash booms. Here, the author maps the connection between cash and corruption, outlining three extended case histories, and several shorter ones, that show how this availability of cash has corrupted bank officials--and even whole governments, as with Lyndon Pindling's regime in the Bahamas. Colombia has become a ``narcocracy,'' contends Ehrenfeld, who offers examples of former American officials involved in money laundering. She also examines the case of Elizabeth Kopp, a former Swiss minister of justice forced to resign because she warned her husband that his company was under investigation for money laundering. Ehrenfeld is apparently an expert on this sort of expos‚, but her expertise rarely shines through the mass of rather diffuse detail. The chapters are of highly irregular quality: that on Pindling seems secondhand, and, in the Swiss section, Ehrenfeld puts herself in the narrative, often giving her personal opinion on matters that should be dealt with more substantively. She seems to disdain any but the most perfunctory characterization and has an unerring eye for the banal detail: A salmon served by the Kopps ``tasted as good as it looked.'' Ehrenfeld seems more interested, and readers will be too, when she outlines links between BCCI, oil money, the Abu Nidal organization, and South American narcoterrorists or guerrilla groups such as Peru's Shining Path. Lifeless and uneven, padded with platitudes (``drug- trafficking is an evil acknowledged by all nations'') and minutia. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. Synopsis An investigation into the BCCI scandal describes the money launderers themselves, the top government officials, the law-enforcement agencies, the criminals, the guilty bystanders, and others involved. 15,000 first printing. National ad/promo. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
