Document: Fugitive US financier dead (Robert Vesco)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Document: Fugitive US financier dead

AP foreign, Tuesday May 6 2008

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ

Associated Press Writer

HAVANA (AP) - Robert Vesco, the American fugitive who cooked
up moneymaking schemes that allegedly involved everyone from
Colombian drug lords to the brothers of U.S. presidents, died
in Cuba and was buried almost six months ago, according to
an official document.

A burial record at Havana's Colon Cemetery shows that a man
with the same name and birthdate - Dec. 4, 1935 - died on
Nov. 23 from lung cancer and was buried the next day in a
private plot. He was 72.

In his lifetime, Vesco was accused of looting millions from a
Swiss mutual fund, attempting to find U.S. planes for Libya and
inventing a drug that he claimed could cure AIDS.

He was linked to Latin American presidents, Soviet spies,
smugglers of high-technology equipment - even the CIA.

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[The Backlash Cometh]

1. It's about time.

My parents invested in his Fund of Funds, putting what trust they had in Robert Vesco to invest the first large sum of money they were able to save. Because of that bad experience, they kept their investments in safe, but low investment vehicles for the rest of their lives.

It must be something in our blood, but, I swear, if there is one schister or Schister village anywhere within a 1000 mile radius of us, we just seem to be drawn to them like moths to the light. The FBI fraud unit would be wise to put a tail on us, cuz we could lead them to the slaughter.

[AndyTiedye]

2. Really?

I tend to have my doubts when someone like this "dies".

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. The only reason why he would have to fake his death now,

is because he ran out of money and can no longer depend on the Cubans to protect him from the American authorities.