As I read this article on Robert Vesco, I have to ask myself, to what avail?
I remember the articles and the hoopla when Vesco fled the United States in the early 1970s after pilfering several hundred million dollars from unsuspecting shareholders. After looking for a home in the Caribbean, he finally ended up in Cuba where he apparently spent the rest of his life. He presumably died on November 23, 2007.
To what avail? When it’s all said and done, we’re all going to die! The question is how do we want to live?
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Friday, May 16, 2008
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Havana
U.S. fugitive reported dead: Fugitive American millionaire Robert Vesco died of lung cancer in Cuba six months ago, his family said this week. A burial record at Havana’s Colon Cemetery shows that a man with the same name and birth date died on Nov. 23, age 71. In 1972, Vesco fled the U.S., amid allegations that he stole $224 million from a stock fund and tried to bribe the Nixon administration to avoid an investigation into his financial dealings. He renounced his U.S. citizenship and spent decades evading capture by flitting around the Caribbean in yachts and private planes. He was jailed in Cuba in 1996 for defrauding a nephew of Fidel Castro.
Original writing date: May 16, 2008
Article date: May, 16, 2008