How did John Negroponte Make his money.
G.W. Bush (shrub) for example made his in dirty deals, insider info bailouts, tax shelters and family connections for the Arlington Ballpark purchase.
How did John Negroponte do it?
2006-08-15 21:29:38 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I knew this was a tough one. 10 points will be well earned if you dare.
2006-08-15 21:35:57 · update #1
If you are curious at all i at least have a hint.
2006-08-15 21:36:40 · update #2
Father: Dmitri Negroponte (Greek Shipping Zillionaire.
Hint: he went to Yale and then studied finance at Oxford for awhile I believe
2006-08-15 21:49:53 · update #3
I would like to know for sure but I heard on a news bio that he was Extremely good at foreign currency trading......almost to the point of defying odds for his accuracy and timing.
2006-08-15 21:52:11 · update #4
would this have anything to do with drug running and arms deals? gimme a hint, please?
2006-08-15 21:43:02 · answer #1 · answered by kenhallonthenet 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one was more central to the success of U.S. operations in Honduras than John Negroponte. Negroponte, who served as Reagan's ambassador from 1981 to 1985, wielded so much power in the country that he was known as the proconsul. During his reign, the U.S. embassy staff in Honduras increased ten-fold and came to house one of the largest CIA deployments in all of Latin America.
Negroponte was responsible for ensuring that arms could flow smoothly through Honduras, that the U.S. could conduct training exercises there, and that the Honduran army was sufficiently equipped and supported to wipe out any rebels within its borders. U.S. military aid to Honduras increase from $4 million in 1980 to $77 million in 1984. By 1985, its economic aid had surpassed $200 million-becoming the world's eighth largest recipient of U.S. aid.
Negroponte played a key role in organizing pro-Contra projects such as a U.S. counter-insurgency center at Puerto Castilla. Between 1981 and 1986, more than 60,000 U.S. soldiers and National Guard members traversed Honduras in military exercises that delivered arms to the Contras. He supervised the creation of the El Aguacate air base, which the U.S. used as a training facility for the Contras. The base was also used as a secret detention and torture center-the Abu Ghraib of its day. In August 2001, excavations performed at the base uncovered 185 corpses, evidence of those thought to have been killed and buried there.
His dirty, dirty past seems like an easy way to rake in billions.
There's so much more.
2006-08-15 21:46:05 · answer #2 · answered by sarah_lynn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Honduras, Iran/contra scandal under reagan administaration. A devious first class ba*stard. The sardinistas would have loved a piece of his a*s. Getting paid for cover ups instigating wars, human rights abuses. I won`t go on if you don`t mind. Nice of Bush to give him a job.
2006-08-15 21:48:34 · answer #3 · answered by dingdong 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about Negroponte. But I would like to add about GW Bullshit: His grandfather made illegal bussinesses with Nazi Germany, and that is where some of his wealth came from.
2006-08-15 21:37:43 · answer #4 · answered by Avner Eliyahu R 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Magic
2006-08-15 21:36:23 · answer #5 · answered by Binary Buzz 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the son of a Greek-American shipping magnate
2006-08-15 21:50:18 · answer #6 · answered by stanyazfan 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we know how your family made thier money...
foodstamps, welfare,and crack
2006-08-15 21:50:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋