"In a speech to the Brookings Institution, Morgenthau sent a clear message that his sights are now set on the "global dirty money problem.""
Morgenthau keeps following the money - See 'BCCI' Investigation! The BCCI Affair - Islamists
Some businesses in Bermuda Recognize the 'players'?
"Ultimate Holdings, Ltd.--An investment company, with a registered office at Milner House, 18 Parliament Street, Hamilton, at the law firm of Cox, Hallett and Wilkinson. Believed to be owned or controlled or both by Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian arms dealer who was reported on page 1 of the Royal Gazette of October 10, 2001 and Ireland's Sunday Business Post of October 7, 2001 as having business ties with Osama bin Laden."
"Sam Bamieh is someone whom Rogers has indicated that he spoke with concerning the advisability of taking on the Adham account. Bamieh is a well know Palestinian-American businessman with strong ties to the Republican party and to various individuals in the Middle East, including the Saudi Royal family. According to press reports, in the late 1970's Bamieh financed the trip of Ruth Carter Stapleton, President Carter's sister, to the Middle East. During the 1980's Bamieh testified on several occasions before the US Congress on issues related to the Middle East.(7)
According to Rogers he met Bamieh during the 1988 campaign because "he was a friend of Lee Atwater's who I worked for."(8) Rogers told subcommittee staff that while he was at the White House he spoke on the telephone to Bamieh on a regular basis, indicating "There was no pattern to it, but monthly."(9)
However, shortly after he left the White House, Rogers was in frequent contact in with Bamieh placing calls to him on August 5,13,14,15,16,26,28 and attending a party at his house in San Mateo, California on August 27 which Bamieh hosted for Adnan Khashoggi.
Rogers could not explain his frequent contact with Bamieh, other than to say that he and Bamieh were friends and "It would not be unusual for him to call."(10) Rogers did not say why he was calling Bamieh on such a regular basis. According to Bamieh, who was interviewed on the telephone by staff on two separate occasions, he wanted Rogers to come to work for him. But in his deposition, Rogers stated that he could not recall discussing possible representation of Bamieh and said that neither was he "soliciting business."
Rogers meeting with Khashoggi at a party hosted by Bamieh is of particular interest to the Subcommittee because of Khashoggi's ties in the Middle East, including reported business dealings with Adham, and his role in BCCI. Khashoggi had accounts with BCCI in France and used those accounts to move millions of dollars for financing US arms sales to Iran."