In the 1970s, I spent a few years working for the Royal Bank of Canada in Montréal and worked on some projects concerning the distribution of retail branches in Canada and thereafter spent some time in the Public Relations Division. For an internal magasine article, I once asked a senior international banker, after he had downed 2 Manhattans befor eating, why there was such an abnormal concentration of bank branches in Southern Florida (from which RBC was totally absent, I must say). He laughed and said that it certainly wasn't a question of the Floridians, retirees and the "snow geese" but to capture and whitewash all the cash coming from black market and undeclared financial and commercial operations in the Carribean, Central America and Venezuala/ Columbia. He then ordered another Manhattan to drink while eating!
Innocence cohabiting with horrors in the sunshine. All the sharks are not in the seam. I remember some really interesting projects with island oligarchs in Haiti and Jamaica for whom Miami was their town...bank, coiffeur, resto...whenever! Just hop a flight.
Florida...one of the great states of corruption. I live here so I can say that. My long-time neighbor was a big-time cocaine dealer working with Colombian king pins. I never knew until he was hauled away I and read about it later. They had an “excavation” company and dug up and buried things in their back yard.. which gives me the willies to think about now.
No, of course not. He was on loan to the Federal Government at the time. The article was about this cooperative program and him. I also found out why he and several other "shelved" senior executives always are "unavailable and in a meeting" every afternoon from 2 till 4 and why they all have "dragons" as secretaries and large comfortable sofas in their offices!
Re Netanyahu:
... “[w]hen you lose an election, you’re supposed to leave. Netanyahu’s not leaving.”
Anyone else see a parallel here?
Thank you, Heather.
Yep. And in Hungry, Turkey, basically all the ‘Stan’s, China, Belarus, and Russia.
In the 1970s, I spent a few years working for the Royal Bank of Canada in Montréal and worked on some projects concerning the distribution of retail branches in Canada and thereafter spent some time in the Public Relations Division. For an internal magasine article, I once asked a senior international banker, after he had downed 2 Manhattans befor eating, why there was such an abnormal concentration of bank branches in Southern Florida (from which RBC was totally absent, I must say). He laughed and said that it certainly wasn't a question of the Floridians, retirees and the "snow geese" but to capture and whitewash all the cash coming from black market and undeclared financial and commercial operations in the Carribean, Central America and Venezuala/ Columbia. He then ordered another Manhattan to drink while eating!
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Perfect!
Ahhh the Keys in the ‘70’s. 😂
Innocence cohabiting with horrors in the sunshine. All the sharks are not in the seam. I remember some really interesting projects with island oligarchs in Haiti and Jamaica for whom Miami was their town...bank, coiffeur, resto...whenever! Just hop a flight.
Florida...one of the great states of corruption. I live here so I can say that. My long-time neighbor was a big-time cocaine dealer working with Colombian king pins. I never knew until he was hauled away I and read about it later. They had an “excavation” company and dug up and buried things in their back yard.. which gives me the willies to think about now.
Creepy!
Yup. Walsh just gave DeSantis $995K and the Key West vote against cruise ships just went away...
In the sea of course! Agh!
The sharks and pirates are now the pillars of the community. With jets...
Wow. Did you quote him in your article or was that off the record? I suppose since the magazine was internal, that would have been edited out anyway.
No, of course not. He was on loan to the Federal Government at the time. The article was about this cooperative program and him. I also found out why he and several other "shelved" senior executives always are "unavailable and in a meeting" every afternoon from 2 till 4 and why they all have "dragons" as secretaries and large comfortable sofas in their offices!
Very interesting.
Clever how HCR has us draw in the parallel lines. A great teacher and historian.