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Article: Following The Money.(money laundering case)
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- Newsweek International
- Article date:
- July 24, 2000
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It's a case, as one Washington lobbyist puts it, that "a lot of people in this town wish would go away." And it's not hard to see why. It involves at least three giant, politically influential American oil companies. And the leaders of an energy-rich Central Asian country, whom the Clinton administration has assiduously cultivated in an effort to wrest its oil out of Russia's orbit. And a wealthy, well-connected American middleman, James Giffen, whom the Justice Department is investigating for allegedly channeling millions of dollars from the oil companies into the private bank accounts of the most powerful men in Kazakhstan. As the investigation moves forward, it ...