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Drug Dealer Takes Miami Banker to Court.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2001
The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 2--Eduardo Masferrer, the urbane chairman of Hamilton Bank and a leader in Miami's international banking circles, is mired in a legal struggle with an unsavory opponent: a convicted Mexican drug smuggler who says the Miami banker owes him millions.
Jose Pineda Trinidad -- who spent three years and 10 months in a Mexico City prison on narcotics trafficking charges and whose own self-description is prosperous pig farmer -- has waged a legal battle on several fronts with the ire of Shakespearean betrayal. Masferrer, he claims, was not only his banker, but also his friend.
That is, Pineda says, until Masferrer went to U.S. authorities in 1988 and accused him of drug trafficking,...
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