Calvin B Grigsby

Calvin B. Grigsby, a leading California investment banker and a major underwriter of public bonds, was indicted Thursday on bribery, money laundering and conspiracy charges after he was videotaped allegedly offering a Miami-Dade County commissioner a $300,000 kickback for obtaining a piece of the county's bond business. The 25-page federal grand jury indictment handed up in Miami against Grigsby, Miami-Dade County Commissioner James C.

Calvin B. Grigsby, a leading California investment banker and a major underwriter of public bonds, was indicted Thursday on bribery, money laundering and conspiracy charges after he was videotaped allegedly offering a Miami-Dade County commissioner a $300,000 kickback for obtaining a piece of the county's bond business. The 25-page federal grand jury indictment handed up in Miami against Grigsby, Miami-Dade County Commissioner James C.

The handcuffed defendants have familiar faces. In recent months, the police "perp walk" on the nightly TV news has featured a virtual who's who of politicos and public officials. So many South Florida officials have been arrested or forced to resign lately that friends are urging part-time Miami resident Madonna to run for office, a local radio station reports. "People are looking for a leader with no need to steal as much as he can," explained WHYI Producer Tina Malave.

There is a new downtown shopping center, an upscale hotel rising beside the freeway and--where slum housing once stood--the first major single-family home construction in four decades. But the drive for redevelopment in Compton has made still another mark, this one on the city's political landscape: Over the past two years, dozens of builders, bankers, attorneys and businesses have been filling City Council campaign coffers at a record rate.