Vesco reported dead.(CUBA)(Obituary)

0 Comments | Caribbean Update, June, 2008

Robert Vesco, the fugitive financier who left a trail of alleged bribery, embezzlement and drug trafficking that reached to the White House, died in Cuba late last year, reports The NY Times (May 3, 2008). Vesco, who fled to Costa Rica in 1971 to avoid a US Securities and Exchange investigation into charges of cheating investors of more than US$200 million, died of lung cancer on Nov.

23, the newspaper said, citing people close to him.