Citizen Kennedy's Energy

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...The two Michaels grew close and often commuted together to the Citizens Energy office...

...His group assisted in assembling a University Board of Directors that read more like an oil industry convention: in addition to the Cardinal of Angola and Ethel Kennedy, it included the managing director of Engen Limited, the dominant South African oil retailer, and the Angolan minister of petroleum...

...The American Spectator • December 1997 These deals don't quite fit the nonprofit image carefully cultivated since 1979, when Joe Kennedy joined in launching the corporation in the midst of the "energy crisis" hysteria...

...Congressman Kennedy denies getting such a request...

...Yet Michael's high pay may well have been justified...

...They also called on the renowned forensic expert Dr...

...Michael Kennedy has become famous for his obsession with the teenage baby-sitter of his two small children, an affair that may or may not have begun when the girl, the daughter of a family friend and large Democratic Party contributor, was under the legal age of consent...

...The golf club matched a set in the Skakel house...

...Did these memories drive the younger Skakel in his strenuous efforts to break up Michael Kennedy's involvement with his baby-sitter...

...But it is doubtful that Citizens Energy would have received even the limited attention it drew from the Boston press this summer if not for the personal scandals hanging over the Kennedy family...

...At first its ostensible purpose was to provide low-cost heating oil to poor families (the way the New York Times still described it this summer, in a respectful page-and-a-half profile of the eleven children of Robert and Ethel Kennedy...

...Earlier this year Angolan troops of Katangan origin, supplemented by armored personnel carriers and artillery, crossed into Zaire (as it was then called) to help Laurent Desire Kabila overthrow the regime of the ailing Mobutu Sese Seko, long the American-supported strongman there...

...Its intrigues in hot spots like Angola and the Congo have involved the Kennedy family with a whole cast of global wheeler-dealers, of whom the outspoken Mr...

...But an even greater family skeleton lay behind the tortuous unfolding of this affair...

...If his name had been Joseph Patrick instead of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, the effort would have been a joke...

...One of the speakers, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Herman J. Cohen, said that, if elected, Bill Clinton was likely to extend diplomatic recognition to the MPLA, even without the run-off election...

...The original plan was to entice an oil-producing country into selling its crude to the Boston nonprofit at the official price, which in the tight market of 1979 was substantially below the "spot market" rate a newcomer would normally have to pay...

...Congo-Brazzaville has potentially rich off-shore oil reserves just north of the proven Cabinda fields...

...America Mineral Fields holds 25 percent of an upper-Congo river valley concession that is 50-percent owned by the Angolan state diamond company Endiama.1 America Mineral Fields and Citizens Energy are now two of the more prominent participants in the geopolitical gold rush to Congo, just north of the Angolan border, opened by a sudden eruption of a grand MPLA military and diplomatic strategy...

...Interviewed in his small but neat office in the dingy state court building in downtown Bridgeport, he stressed his frustration with the Kennedys' cousins...

...44 December 1997 • The American Spectator Both Savimbi and MPLA president Jose Eduardo dos Santos began their careers as Marxist revolutionaries, but in the 1980's dos Santos brought in the Cuban army and Savimbi became a favorite of Reagan administration conservatives...

...This strategy has brought some unusual new players to the region, including an obscure company called America Mineral Fields, a diamond exploration firm headquartered in Bill Clinton's hometown of Hope, Arkansas...

...The oil minister there saw the public relations payoff, and agreed to sell one million barrels of crude...

...He was the constant companion of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in her last years, and in 1993 he and Jackie entertained President and Mrs...

...The Clinton administration openly encouraged the end of what White House spokesman Michael McCurry called "Mobutuism," and, according to the Wall Street Journal, may have helped to arm Kabila...

...The Global Citizens of Citizens Energy Citizens Energy Corporation, the nonprofit holding company, takes up the fifth floor of the old Russia Wharf building, a renovated brick warehouse on Boston's former waterfront...

...Formed in 1991, CEII plunged right into the classic vortex of oil and international intrigue, seeking exploration and production concessions in some of the most troubled corners of the world...

...Henry Lee, head of the state police crime lab...

...On September 23, 1993, Clinton issued an Executive Order declaring that UNITA posed "a continuing unusual and extraordinary threat" to U.S...

...policy tilted toward the MPLA, practically the only public complaint about Kennedy involvement came in 1993 from Howard Phillips, chairman of the Conservative Caucus...

...The baby-sitter investigation put Michael Kennedy on the front pages, and made his salary a major story...

...All these countries, an Angolan spokesman explained to visiting U.S...

...The Rosen of the title is Marvin Rosen, finance chairman of the Democratic National Committee at the peak of its shakiest fund-raising...

...In 1995, it gave $85,000 to a Danish-run Children's Town orphanage in Huambo...

...45 Kabila is reopening the foreign mineral concessions granted by Mobutu's hyper-corrupt regime, and one of the first beneficiaries has been America Mineral Fields...

...Just when he had started a new life at Citizens Energy, he found himself the witness to another scandal involving a pretty 15-year-old girl...

...Kennedy referred to the prospect of press scrutiny of his family's sexual affairs, as if that scrutiny could get any more intense...

...Tamraz is only the latest to enter the spotlight...

...According to Inspector Frank Garr, now attached to the State's Attorney's Office in Fairfield County, they remain among the four active suspects in her death...

...Police theorize that she was knocked down near the street end of her large circular driveway and then dragged face-down to the shade of a Chinese maple, where her assailant flew into a frenzy and clubbed her fourteen times...

...The diamond fields in northeast Angola are UNITA's ace in the hole...

...American friends of the two fought over the enormous oil and diamond fields of Angola, among the richest in Africa...

...Citizens Energy is a key player in an unfolding foreign policy debacle in which the Clinton administration has sold out longterm friends of the United States to unlikely coalitions of old Marxists and corporate hustlers...

...Clinton at Martha's Vineyard on his 7o-foot yacht, the Relemar...

...Its other interests in the region are hidden behind the philanthropy curtain, but it may be no coincidence that an old family friend, the international diamond broker Maurice Tempelsman, has reemerged as a player on the scene...

...He relocated to Boston under the Kennedy family wing as the renewed investigation turned up the pressure on his family...

...This shadow entered the baby-sitter case through the person of Michael Skakel, a cousin of Michael Kennedy and fellow worker at Citizens Energy...

...As U.S...

...Two days later, almost as if on cue, the MPLA launched a savage attack on the UNITA negotiators, killing among others UNITA vice president Jeremias Chitunda, a familiar figure in Washington...

...The Angolan Connection Perhaps the most interesting of these hidden subsidiaries is Citizens Energy International Inc...

...The reaction among the guarantors of the "free and fair" elections was muted, to say the least...

...He extended this "declaration of national emergency" this year on the anniversary of his 1993 order, denouncing UNITA's "aggressive policies of territorial acquisition...

...The Kennedy support for the faction once backed by the Soviet Union and a Cuban expeditionary force has helped create a Frankenstein monster now rampaging through central Africa...

...Inspector Garr, who wears snappy red suspenders and his thinning gray hair in a pony tail, was one of two veteran Greenwich police detectives who reinterviewed more than zoo witnesses...

...We learned new things about what happened in 1975...

...For the 1994 Senate campaign, Teddy's stiffest challenge in years, Tamraz personally contributed $5,000 43 and raised another $25,000...

...Diamonds Are Forever It doesn't take much cynicism to connect this political and charitable activity with Citizens Energy's stake in Angolan resources...

...diplomat Bill Richardson, provided logistical support and sanctuary to the UNITA forces...

...JAMES RING ADAMS is an investigative writer for TAS...

...Moxley was beaten to death with a golf club on Halloween eve ("mischief night") 1975, in the upper class enclave of Belle Haven in Greenwich, Connecticut...

...This October, 3,000 Angolan troops from the enclave of Cabinda surged into the Republic of Congo-Brazzaville, Congo's northwestern neighbor...

...But, as Kennedy family supporters told the press, the prosecutors met with the girl only after she had turned 16 and had no first hand evidence of a crime...

...Like Roger Tamraz, Tempelsman gave lavishly to Democratic Party organs, by one count $145,000 for the 1996 cycle...

...foreign policy...

...Some of the old-time idealists left quietly...

...It was broadcast last year as a television mini-series...

...Whether he is bluffing or seriously expecting a major break from the lab tests, Garr projects iron determination...

...Earlier financial reports are unavailable, but the federal return for calendar year 1992 reported an annual deficit of $75o,00o and total assets of $z,45,877...

...In 1996, Michael led a Citizens Energy delegation to Luanda to announce a $1.5 million commitment to build the Catholic University of Angola...

...But there is indeed a secret hidden in the Kennedy cupboard, and it's not just a personal skeleton but the key to the fortunes of Bobby Kennedy's children...

...At 2:4o a.m...

...When the case was dropped, Skakel's complaints about Citizens Energy subsided and, according to his lawyer Michael Mone, he works there to this day...

...As predicted by Assistant Secretary Cohen, the Clinton administration recognized the MPLA government in Luanda...

...Young Joe may not have thought it through, but he was asking for valuable financial favors from seasoned cynics who undoubtedly complied because they saw him and his family as a good political investment...

...Tamraz denies that the fees to Victoria Kennedy were payoff's for access, since he already had ample access to the Kennedys...

...I have never been allowed to talk to the Skakel brothers," he said...

...For more than three decades Tempelsman gave money and advice to the political elite of black Africa's governments and liberation movements...

...After he became chairman, Michael Kennedy took a strong personal interest in war-torn Angola, the resource-rich former Portuguese colony on the southwest coast of Africa...

...denies any current involvement with AMF, and an AMF company spokesman says that although McMurrough probably knows Clinton, the first couple has no stake in his company...

...The murder was so savage that the club broke on her head, and whoever did it stabbed her neck with the broken shaft...

...But the office directory in the stairwell presents the picture of an energy conglomerate with tentacles reaching into Wall Street and the cut-throat world oil market...

...Norfolk County prosecutors called Skakel in this June for three and a half hours of questions about the potential statutory rape...

...Other senior officers were also richly rewarded...

...Western companies are picking up booty from this string of aggressions, and providing political cover, but the Luanda regime makes no bones about its own motives...

...The story was false, but according to Garr, the publicity prompted then-State's Attorney Donald Browne to launch a complete reinvestigation of the case...

...According to the reports, Victoria, now estranged, gave them unread to her husband, who destroyed them...

...In fact, he was brushed off almost everywhere, except in Venezuela...

...The Skakels have never cooperated with the police at all, even when they were talking to the police...

...At the end of the month, Zambia, on Angola's eastern border, reported an attempted coup, although the details are still murky...

...But as Michael Kennedy indicated in his self-defense, big business deals are definitely bubbling away, and at least one of them raises the question of whether Citizens' main stock in trade is still the Kennedy name...

...Michael Kennedy has dealt exclusively with the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), which was installed in the capital city of Luanda in 1975 when Portugal (temporarily under the control of a Marxist clique) disbanded its African empire...

...And in the long run, Citizens Energy became a conduit for selling Kennedy influence...

...Neither of the brothers' revisions amounts to a confession, and they are still known only second-hand through Levitt's article...

...The details are still under wraps, but Dorthy Moxley, the victim's mother, has said that Dr...

...The insurgency was widely reported as an armed coup by ElfAcquitaine, the French oil company, against Occidental Petroleum, which had been striking a deal with Lissouba to move into Elf's oil concessions...

...Skakel himself has refused to talk to the press...

...Thanks to Dr...

...he told one interviewer he spelled most of their names wrong...

...Kennedy was instrumental in founding the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce, described by critics as a front for the MPLA...

...Lee's sophisticated techniques, said Garr, "we learned a lot about what took place...

...The conditions that made Joe's first oil deal a success, the tight oil supply and high mark-up in the spot market, had evaporated almost as soon as Citizens Energy got underway...

...Unlike Tamraz, Tempelsman got results...

...Taking control of the capital Brazzaville and the main Atlantic seaport Pointe Noire, they overthrew the America-leaning president Pascal Lissouba and re-installed the former Marxist president Denis Sassou-Nguesso...

...In effect the Bay Staters were riding on the backs of consumers in Puerto Rico...

...In fact, one advantage of the nonprofit structure is that it hides just what the for-profit subsidiaries are doing...

...She referred him to a partner in her firm, Miami's hyper-political Greenberg, Traurig, Hoffman, Lipoff, Rosen & Quentel...

...The picture changed sharply after 1986, when he made his long-expected move into politics to take over former House Speaker Tip O'Neill's congressional seat...

...According to friends of former employees, the pay issue crystallized discontent with Citizens Energy's new direction...

...These figures mask wild fluctuations in the value of the money-making parts of the empire, grouped under a holding company called Citizens Corporation...

...The reception area displays the PC flourishes of a recycled building: an exposed brick wall and a ceiling stripped to the original brick vaulting...

...The investigation lay dormant for more than a decade, but other Kennedy troubles in 1991 brought it back to life...

...Their investigators expected the Skakels to be witnesses only, but according to one exhaustive press account, Tommy and Michael startled them by The American Spectator • December 1997 sharply changing the stories they told the police...

...According to a Boston Globe analysis this summer, Michael Kennedy's paycheck was never less than three times Joe's best year, and in two peak years it hit a level more than ten times as high, $622,000...

...Skakel also befriended the Kennedy family baby-sitter and her family...

...If Joe Kennedy worried that a run for governor would mean more damaging revelations about his brainchild, and his family, he was right...

...Clinton issued this latest order just as MPLA troops were poised to overthrow the pro-American government in Brazzaville...

...Michael has cooled down considerably in recent years, but in 1995 he still made $313,000, more than the president of Harvard University or the American Red Cross...

...But, said Garr, "the article by Len Levitt revealed that they had lied to the police in the original investigation...

...To a lesser degree, he's known in the Boston press for sharply boosting the take-home pay of the Citizens Energy chairman...

...Leaving a press conference in June dominated by the baby-sitter scandal, Joe stopped in his tracks when asked about Michael's salary...

...Reacting to the renewed probe, the Skakel family hired its own investigators to prepare for a possible trial...

...A county prosecutor this summer investigated the possible charge of statutory rape, but dropped it when the girl's family declined to cooperate...

...In a letter to the Senate Ethics Committee, he charged that Senator Edward Kennedy may have violated Senate rules in sponsoring a bill for sanctions against the anti-Luanda UNITA forces...

...We're at the 22nd anniversary of the murder," he said, "but no one is going to give up on it...

...Yet aside from Susan Schmidf s exposé in the Washington Post, surprisingly little attention has been paid to this intervention in American foreign policy...

...Citizens Energy would then take its shipment to an independent refiner and cover the cost of turning it into gasoline and heating oil by letting the refiner sell the bulk of the product at market rates...

...Another family business, Leon Tempelsman & Son, has global mining interests, with heavy emphasis on west Africa...

...All the other suspects, added Garr, "have cooperated in one degree or another...

...The Jacobean Shadow It's a matter for speculation how memories of the Moxley case may have affected the erratic behavior of Michael Skakel in his cousin's baby-sitter affair...

...In 1988, a predecessor company owned by America Mineral Fields principals Mike McMurrough and Jean Raymond Boulle joined a consortium called Arkansas Diamond Development Co., which received permission from then-Governor Clinton to test the feasibility of mining in Crater of Diamonds State Park...

...But the Kennedys' operation is so carefully shielded behind good works that its dimensions might not have come to view at all if not for a family split partly stemming from the still-unsolved murder, twenty-two years ago, of a teenage girl in a fashionable New York suburb...

...Before running for Congress, young Joseph based his career on a nonprofit energy company geared to providing low-cost heating oil to needy Bay Staters...

...Brad Phillips, son of Howard and a veteran supporter of UNITA, says that other similar complaints have simply been ignored...

...Another consortium partner was controlled by Stephens Inc., the Little Rock investment bank so crucial to Clinton's career...

...By the 1995 report, revenues were running $228,000 ahead of expenses, and net assets showed a striking growth to more than $26 million...

...Among other problems, the Puerto Rican government had charged it with price gouging on gasoline...

...Citizens Energy very soon crossed the path of Roger Tarnraz, the international financier who recently stunned the Thompson Committee hearings when he bluntly admitted making large campaign donations to buy access...

...When the pleas failed, Skakel took letters that the infatuated Michael Kennedy had written the girl and gave them to Kennedy's wife Victoria (the daughter of sportscaster Frank Gifford...

...GEII has a three-percent stake in the highly promising offshore oil exploration run by Continental Oil Co...

...This time he said he left his house around 11:3o and went to the Moxley property, where he climbed a tree by Martha's window and tried to call her out...

...While covering the O.J...

...During the notorious rape trial of William Kennedy Smith, tabloids pursued a tip that the defendant had been in Belle Haven the night of the murder...

...Tempelsman's plan is an attempt to solve one of the biggest issues now on the table between the MPLA and UNITA...

...This time around, according to Newsday reporter Len Levitt, he added that Martha had waited and they met again for "a sexual encounter" that lasted zo minutes...

...He also approached Victoria Reggie Kennedy, a lawyer who married Teddy in 1992, for legal help in claiming assets seized by a foreign government...

...After all, his recent troubles—his ex-wife's campaign against the Roman Catholic Church's policy on marriage annulments, and his brother's baby-sitter imbroglio— had run their course, and he was still competitive...

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...Perhaps he had belatedly grasped the secret of the Kennedys' unbroken winning streak in Massachusetts elections—that they have never run for the highly accountable job of governor...

...The intensity of his reaction remains unexplained, however, until one remembers the case of Martha Moxley, another pretty 15-year-old fatally entangled with the Kennedy clan...

...At the same time, Skakel began to complain about the business practices at Citizens Energy...

...The murderer then dragged her partially disrobed body to the hollow, diagonally across the street from the house of Rushton Skakel...

...A white knight emerged in the person of Tamraz, who offered a takeover by a group of Arab investors...

...At some point in late 1996, according to unrefuted press reports, the girl's family learned about her long-term affair with Kennedy...

...Yet from the beginning Citizens Energy dangled the Kennedy name to strike deals with hardened veterans of international oil...

...Lee thinks her daughter was facing her killer and that the lack of struggle suggests it was someone she knew...

...He referred to one damning recent development...

...For all the publicity, the benefits were marginal...

...The state investigators encourage the attention, hoping it will shake loose new information, and Garr is directing the pressure to the Skakels...

...He spent much of the year pushing a diamond consortium for Angola that would bring together the waning parties and make himself a major broker of their exports...

...Generating up to $1 billion a year, they've been in Savimbi's hands for much of the war, and since the 1992 massacres he's relied on the income for most of his outside support...

...Without the reports of Skakel's intervention, the story would not have been as substantial as it proved to be...

...That's the question titillating Massachusetts insiders ever since Congressman Joseph Patrick Kennedy III announced he would not run for governor in 1998...

...Kennedy's group wound up with 200,000 barrels of heating oil, tankered into Boston harbor with great fanfare...

...The Hartford-born writer Dominick Dunne, whose own daughter was murdered, recast the case into his novel A Season in Purgatory, which portrays the fictional killer as a rising young politician...

...The Ghost of Martha Moxiey The African affairs of Citizens Energy International now look like an integral part of a blooming foreign policy disaster...

...The MPLA's Cuban allies guarded American oil facilities in the Cabinda enclave against attacks by the U.S.-supported UNITA forces...

...Financial statements for the eight or so outfits reporting to Citizens Corporation simply don't come into public view...

...Even before the final march on Kinshasa, AMF had signed a $1 billion deal with Kabila for exclusive exploration rights in southeastern Congo...

...on November 7, 1996, shortly after the revelation, the girl's mother climbed to the roof of her Back Bay townhouse in a cold rain and stood teetering on the gutter dressed in a white nightgown, while her daughter watched from the street below...

...Kennedy's family and their friends were receiving substantial economic benefits from the Communist government in Angola...

...I like the family, like anyone growing up in the '6os...

...Earlier this year, Tamraz emerged as not only a major fundraiser for Joe's uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, but as a client of Teddy's wife...

...Citizens Energy Corporation diverted the bulk of its charitable giving, after its subsidized oil and gas operations in Massachusetts, to Angola...

...Within recent months, Kennedy's allies have overthrown American friends in two neighboring countries and introduced a dangerous new streak of instability...

...In 1980 the CORCO refinery was teetering on foreclosure, losing its edge in the emerging oil glut...

...This business octopus disguised as a charity amply deserves a full-bore investigation...

...In 1994, at the age of 37, Skakel came to Massachusetts to work for Michael Kennedy...

...Kennedy's outfit would keep 20 percent of the output and ship it to Boston for sale at cost to the state government's subsidized fuel program...

...This "encounter" would have lasted until io p.m., which police fix as the time of Martha's death...

...But with help from international oil hustlers such as Roger Tamraz, the shock boy of the recent Thompson hearings, Kennedy's politically correct Citizens Energy Corporation has become the front for a highly profit-oriented empire of overseas oil concessions...

...We're not going away until it's solved...

...Citizens Energy found a refinery in Puerto Rico owned by the struggling Commonwealth Oil Refining Co...

...Not hindered by his constant access to the White House, Tempelsman won support from the State Department and former National Security Adviser Anthony Lake, who instructed a senior deputy to call the U.S...

...Stephens Inc...

...The revived investigation reawakened public interest...

...Even so, dos Santos fell short of 5o percent and was forced to negotiate plans for a run-off with UNITA...

...Its for-profit subsidiaries include Citizens Gas Supply Corp., Citizens Power and Light Corp., Citizens Energy International, and Citizens Lehman Power LP, a partnership with the well-known Lehman Brothers investment-banking firm...

...Because of this human drama, the non-philanthropic business of Citizens Energy has come into view, with all its sinister connections and malign influence on American foreign policy...

...As chairman he made about $6o,000 a year...

...And it was only the notoriety of Michael Kennedy that prompted press attention to the inner workings of the family empire he happened to head...

...This windfall came largely from stock options in a company that entered a joint venture with a Citizens Energy subsidiary...

...This new detail may have been designed to preempt the results of any DNA tests...

...In the midst of their meeting, the U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce held a fateful lunch in Washington on October 29, 1992...

...Kennedy outlined his plan in letters to fifteen oil ministers of members of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries...

...The Luanda regime has tried selling concessions in the disputed region to foreign companies and encouraging them to hire mercenaries to retake the territory...

...The bill, he said, favored the MPLA regime at a time when members of Mr...

...The tests apparently have not refuted a long-standing theory that someone else may have been holding Martha from behind, in a prank that went horribly wrong...

...Garr said results should be in within several months, and the decision whether to go to a grand jury would then fall to Donald Browne, now retired as State's Attorney but still designated the special prosecutor for the case...

...Lee apparently also recovered evidence for a scheduled series of advanced forensic tests, which are awaiting their turn in a heavy caseload...

...As in a Jacobean tragedy, the ghost of Martha Moxley continues to haunt the Skakels and their cousins...

...The Luanda regime was fighting a bitter civil war with its main rival, Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), which produced an equally protracted struggle in Washington between an unlikely set of supporters...

...Michael in his turn added another detail to his 1975 account, in which he said he had been at a cousin's house most of the evening and then come home and gone to bed...

...Major oil companies like Gulf, Chevron, and Texaco managed to wean the Bush administration from UNITA after intense attacks against Savimbi orchestrated by the public relations firm Hill & Knowlton...

...The Angolan eruption makes sense as an attempt to encircle UNITA and deal Savimbi a death blow...

...One of Joe Kennedy's closest advisers said publicly that the congressman had privately expressed "disappointment and disagreement' over Michael's compensation, a statement which Kennedy-watchers feel was almost certainly inspired by Joe, and which amounts to a more significant familybreach than the recent naked ramblings of cousin John in his magazine George...

...Michael Kennedy served as one of 400 outside observers of the September 1992 voting and joined the majority in calling it fair, but a minority who traveled the country with Savimbi reported massive fraud...

...He tried to get his boss to break off the affair while, according to some reports, another family friend asked Joe to intervene...

...Landfills have moved the shoreline east, but in 1773 the vacant lot next door was the quay where tea-bearing ships of the East India Company sat until anti-tax colonials dumped their cargo into the harbor...

...CORCO...

...The directory is actually out of date, since many of these dependencies have recently been spun off or sold in multi-million dollar deals, with six-figure bonuses for Citizens Energy executives...

...I was at Harvard Business School when John Kennedy was shot" Salary Inflation Despite the potential for abuse, Joe Kennedy used Citizens Energy as a political base rather than for personal financial gain...

...The cut-rate price from Citizens Energy allowed the state subsidized fuel program to extend coverage to an additional 2,300 families...

...policy seemed to achieve its long-standing goal of "free and fair" elections in Angola, the MPLA tilt produced a disaster...

...the stocks produced a potential net profit far Michael of nearly a million dollars...

...Although friends say he bragged about his role in covering up the incident, it apparently affected him deeply...

...Although in 1992 U.S...

...46 December / 9 9 7 • The American Spectator Michael Skakel and his older brother Thomas were two of the last people to see Martha alive...

...Whatever the answer, there is wide agreement that without Skakel's intervention, the baby-sitter scandal would never have become as widely known or as well sourced as it proved to be...

...Although the deal collapsed, it was only the beginning of Tamraz's pursuit of the Kennedy family...

...The Kennedy interests stepped up their support of the MPLA...

...The Citizens Energy federal tax-exempt return for 1995 states that long-time president William James received $339,156, plus a severance bonus of $ioo,000...

...Simpson trial, Dunne interested Mark Fuhrman in the case, and the retired Los Angeles police detective is now writing his own book about it...

...Whatever Michael Skakel's role in the Moxley murder or the cover-up, it can only have been a searing experience for a sheltered teenager, and one wonders about the memories that must have come flooding back two decades later when the case refused to die...

...In 1975, the older Skakel brother said he had talked to Martha in his driveway and then gone inside at 9:3o to write a paper on Abraham Lincoln...

...In 1994, CEC gave $10,025 to the fledgling U.S.-Angola Chamber of Commerce...

...Michael is the son of Rushton Skakel, brother of Ethel Skakel Kennedy...

...Joe turned over the chairmanship of the nonprofit business to his younger brother Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, a decision he now (almost openly) seems to regret...

...In a rare interview with the Boston Globe in June, he argued cogently that the only thing that saved Joe's nonprofit structure and its charities was the rapid expansion of its web of for-profit subsidiaries...

...There is a part of himself, he replied, "right at this moment, that thinks that I should have stuck around Citizens...

...Export-Import Bank about financing for the deal...

...A figure of legend and some mystery in the upper reaches of global hustlerism, Tempelsman is chief executive of The American Spectator • December 1997 Lazare Kaplan Inc., headquartered on New York's Fifth Avenue, which supplies diamonds to Tiffany and Cartier...

...Her body was found the next day beneath a pine tree in a wooded hollow by her front yard...

...I know them socially," Tamraz told the Boston Globe...

...Skakel came to the scene as rescue workers talked the woman down, and he went with her to the hospital...

...By the end of this "Night of Long Knives," say UNITA partisans, the MPLA had slaughtered some 50,000 of Savimbi's supporters...