I found a conversation via web between the webmaster of a major Russian site (I still get their newsletter, a collection of a dozen of the week's articles on Russia) and an Israeli journalist.
The Israeli journalist remarked to the Russian webmaster that Safra's death bore the marks of a Russian job.
Always the fool to rush in where angels fear to email, I emailed the Israeli journalist about Safra's death.
He advised it was significant that Banco del Gottardo maintained a branch in the building where Safra lived and died.
Further, that Banco del Gottardo "did jobs too shady for Republic".
And, that Banco del Gottardo "channeled the kickbacks from Mebatex to Pavel Borodin."
A little research showed that, yes, Banco del Gottardo maintains its branch in La Belle Epoque at 17 Avenue d'Ostende.
And, yes, others have indicated it was through Banco del Gottardo that Yeltsin's bagman Pavel Borodin was paid off.
Oh, that corrupt Yeltsin. Thank heavens he was replaced by that reformer Pooty-Poot.
Uh oh, Dominick Dunne wrote that Putin has a villa on the Cote d'Azur next to Yeltsin's.
Pavel Borodin was arrested en route to Bush's innaugural January, 2001, jailed in New York, extradited to Switzerland on money-laundering charges, and bailed by Putin for three million.
Was Borodin trying to buy influence from Bush as though he were Clinton--or better, Gore?
Recall that it was Gore who wrote "Bullshit!" on the 1995 CIA report on Chernomyrdin corruption.
Gore and Chernomyrdin ran the commission which bore their name for mutual benefit.
Bush during a debate with Gore accused Chernomyrdin of laundering IMF loans to Russia.
Chernomyrdin chugged a bottle of vodka, grew very red in the face, and threatened to sue Bush.
Was the arrest of Pavel Borodin a message from Bush to Pooty-Poot, Yeltsin, Chernomyrdin et al?
It was the chief prosecutor of Geneva who said Safra was killed for cooperating with the FBI regarding the laundering of $4.8 billion in IMF loans to Russia through Republic.
He was thus cited in the Times (UK) Russia Journal and another source on page capture in Mike Maher's file.
Lucy Komisar of Pacific News Service has since queried the prosecutor and says he now denies saying it, noting, it doesn't mean he didn't say it--it means only that he now denies saying it.
As for the transactions of Republic under Safra, they are unknowable since his death.
Anne Williamson of Contagion was certain Ted Maher was a scapegoat from the first.
The IMF laundering profited the Clintons, Rubin, Summers, the Harvard econ faculty, and a half dozen Russian reformers.
The FBI which interrogated Safra was the FBI that gave Hillary's Craig Livingstone 1,000 files on enemies.
A tip from the FBI that Safra was singing would have brought a quick response from She Who Must Be Obeyed to silence the canary.
In New York, where the Harpy Who Would Be Senator had designs, the Helpful Slatkins who provided Lily with interior decoration and scented candles, provided the Deniable Lone Nut.
Sir John Bond, head of Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation, would meet Safra to finalize the sale.
Lily had completed the change to Safra's will to her benefit.
She had finalized her citizenship to Monagasque that day.
She had sent away the security team--all of it.
She had disconnected the burglar alarm (see fire report).
Her paid agent Sonia pencilled in Vivian and Ted at the last minute for a shift they did not work.
Edmond--poof--is dead.
The next business day he is cremated and the Fed approves the sale of Republic to HSBC.
Lily runs off to hide under the Queen's skirts and lavishes her lady bountiful act on Charles and Brillo Porker Bowels.
Sir John Bond has a squeaky-clean acquisition.
The Clintons, Rubin, Summers, the Harvard econ faculty, a half dozen Russian reformers can face the events (electoral roulette) of 2000 with easy (lack of) consciences.
The one improvement on the Rose Law Firm Turbo-Shredder: the double-tap in the wee hours.
Monaco blocked Dr. Michael J. Baden from developing the spattering of the late Edmond Safra's blood on Vivian's panties, bra and barrette/nursing cap.
And the undidentified male DNA not belonging to Ted Maher under Safra's nails.
But Safra's cremated and Ted's convicted.
No need to send Craig Livingstone to the funeral home to stick Vince's Honda keys in his pocket.
No one's expecting any "miracles" from "Bush" or anyone else for that matter.
A simple recognition of a poetic principle at play in this case.
Noted poet e.e. cummings expressed it when he said:
The plausibly deniable lone-nut patsy universal scapegoat fails to cover the known facts.
Anomalies abound, leaping from great gaping holes like lab rabbits in ungoverned reproductive riverdancing.