![]() ![]() Maybe Famous Businessman will be vindicated, and I have not yet figured out end of this fictitious plot. She hopes that Justice will consider the matter too diplomatically sensitive to go into - as in South Korean affairs. sary of a dictator is anxious about whether the contents of, and the reason for, the Manila Envelope will be exposed. In a foreign capital, the beautiful wife‐emis. But unbeknownst to him (as plotters say), people on whose corns he has trodden along life's way - from powerful men and glamorous women to several anonymous “little people” - have been passing what they know to police and press. The grand jury has not called him the secret of the Manila Envelope is safe. By hanging tough, he has intimidated his own directors and lawyers, and diverted press attention to a scapegoat. With three going along reluctantly - two on principle, and one because his own company is in payoff trouble - they fire Number Two, and agree not to press the top man to hire the independent investigators who could really endanger him.įamous Businessman exults. Our protagonist charges Number Two with being out to get him, and declares “It's me or him.” In a dramatic board room scene, he blames the current mess on his current Number Two man - who is guilty of not being involved in the crime and cover‐up. He knows that independent counsel and auditors could not only get the payoff story, but might even reach another matter that could ruin his career: the secret of the Manila Envelope. Some of the company's outside directors suggest that independent investigative counsel be hired to get the truth.įamous Businessman reacts furiously. He has been assured that Justice is about to drop the case.īut the story of the bribe and the cover‐up gets in the newspapers, and Justice must pursue the matter further. He is a friend of the President of the United States. That could be considered “hush money.”įamous Businessman laughs. Foolishly, the company engages in a cover‐up, deceiving the grand jury finally, when too many people learn the truth, the company's lawyer has to admit that its evidence had been a pack of lies.Įven so, Famous Businessman scoffs at his associates’ concern: Hadn't he fired the man responsible for the bribe? Yes, they answer, but there is this little problem of his having ordered that the fired man be paid a whopping bonus long afterward. A Federal grand jury, looking at bribery in a foreign nation, stumbles across evidence of payoffs involving his company. The story begins just as the first tremors begin to shake Famous Businessman's world. (George Sanders would have been perfect for the role.) The main character is a world‐famous businessman - an arrogant aging jet‐setter - who clings to corporate power because his family name is on the building, and because he is skillful at firing his Number Two men before they can push him aside. CHICAGO - In this age of roman a clef, let us concoct a plot - pure fiction - that is almost as strange as truth, and would make.a smash novel and movie. ![]()
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