Robert Vesco, Fugitive Financier, Said To Have Died In Cuba

Robert L. Vesco, the fugitive financier who spent most of his life eluding American justice, might even have managed to die on the sly.

Mr. Vesco, who was sentenced to a long prison term in Cuba in 1996 and was wanted in the United States for crimes ranging from securities fraud and drug trafficking to political bribery, died more than five months ago, on Nov. 23, from lung cancer, say people close to him. If so, it was never reported publicly by the Cuban authorities, who said Friday that they considered him a "nonissue." American officials said Friday they knew nothing about his death.

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Comments

[ceasenake]

Even the vaunted Cuban health care system couldn't save him?

Oh, that's right, they make fine Cigars as well.

[paixa3]

He should have come back....he would have fit into the current mold of republicans, easily. I know, the police would have found him.

[michaelescher]

I wanna be the first to say that Sean Penn is a shoe in as Robert Vesco in the bio pic.

[elcojonu]

What an interesting story that would make.
Sean, get on it.

[sox05]

His last words were "Stay thirsty my friends"?

[speakingtruth2power]

Either that or he's hiding out with that Enron boss

at the Rev. Moon's million acre ranch in Paraguay.

You know, the one next to the Bush's estate there.

[steamboat]

You got any PROOF for the allegation you just made?

[Ramirez]

The Headline on frontpage is whack. It reads that Vesco is "...Sought To Have Died In Cuba." I think you meant that he is "Thought" to have died in Cuba.