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Some added ingredients for the stew.
Mention of an Aussie group buying part of the company.
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-05-07/business/fi-3811_1_reorganization-plan
The parent of Deak-Perera U.S., the nation's oldest and largest non-bank foreign exchange and precious metals dealer, announced Tuesday that it has emerged from bankruptcy proceedings with a new structure, a new president and plans for expanding.
Deak & Co., which had filed for protection from creditors under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in December, 1984, said Martin Properties Ltd., a publicly owned, Australia-based firm, had purchased a 75% interest in the stock of Deak & Co. for more than $10 million.
The remaining 25% will be held in trust for management and employees, Deak said.
Deak already sold its Foreign Commerce Bank in Zurich, Switzerland, to a Singapore investor group for $48 million. That group had been represented by Chan Cher Boon, a Singapore attorney.
The closing with Martin Properties took place on April 25, Deak said. The bankruptcy judge gave final approval to the reorganization plan on April 14, it said.
https://observer.com/2010/09/untangling-the-bizarre-cia-links-to-the-ground-zero-mosque/
For instance, one of the earliest backers of the nonprofit group, the Cordoba Initiative, that is spearheading the Ground Zero mosque, is a 52-year-old Scarsdale, New York, native named R. Leslie Deak. In addition to serving on the group’s board of advisors since its founding in 2004 by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Deak was its principal funder, donating $98,000 to the nonprofit between 2006 and 2008. This figure appears to represent organization’s total operating budget–though, oddly, the group reported receipts of just a third of that total during the same time period.
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Leslie Deak’s resume also notes his role as “business consultant” for Patriot Defense Group, LLC, a private defense contractor with offices in Winter Park, Florida, and in Tucson. The only names listed on the firm’s website are those of its three “strategic advisers.” These include retired four-star General Bryan “Doug” Brown, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command until 2007, where he headed “all special operations forces, both active duty and reserve, leading the Global War On Terrorism,” and James Pavitt, former deputy director for operations at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he “managed the CIA’s globally deployed personnel and nearly half of its multi-billion dollar budget” and “served as head of America’s Clandestine Service, the CIA’s operational response to the attacks of September 11, 2001.”
http://blackbag.gawker.com/the-ground-zero-mosque-was-an-inside-job-1633321283