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- GRAPEVINE, Page 19HOSPITALITY VS. QUESTIONABLE CONDUCT
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- By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Wendy Cole
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- Did JESSE JACKSON act as a go-between for the criminal
- Bank of Credit and Commerce International in its dealings with
- African central banks? That's what Nazir Chinoy, the former
- B.C.C.I. Paris chief who is a federal prisoner, told a Senate
- subcommittee last week, but Jackson vigorously denies the tale.
- Chinoy testified that B.C.C.I. paid Jackson's Paris hotel bills
- during a 1985 trip in which Jackson also visited several African
- heads of state and added that Jackson offered to help B.C.C.I.
- establish business relationships with them. Jackson notes that
- at the time most people thought B.C.C.I. was legitimate. Says
- he: "We did not do any business. He did not offer to do any
- business, and I did not seek to do any." As for the lavish hotel
- bills: "It was an act of hospitality."
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