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  Fife Symington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Fife Symington was the governor of Arizona from 1991 to 1997.
Symington's wife is owner of the Ritz Carlton Hotel at thehigh-scale Biltmore Fashion Square area of Phoenix.
It is suspected Symington himself bought the ownership andput it under his wife's name, so that he would not lose it during the impeachment trial.
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 Fife Symington III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Fife Symington III (born August 12, 1945 in New York City) was the Republican governor of the U.S. state of Arizona from 1991 until his resignation in 1997.
Symington is married to the former, Ann Pritzlaff, who is an ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church.
Symington is a cousin of Stuart Symington, a former Democrat Senator from Arizona.
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 Stuart Symington - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Democrat, Symington was elected to the United States Senate from Missouri in 1952 and served from 1953 to 1976.
Symington ran for President in 1960 and won the backing of former President Harry S. Truman, but eventually lost the nomination to Senator John F. Kennedy.
His cousin Fife Symington was Governor of Arizona from 1991 to 1997.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stuart_Symington   (148 words)

  
 Fife Symington III - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Symington was convicted of bank fraud regarding financial statements and union pension funds, and resigned from office in 1997.
Symington's convictions were reversed on appeal due to the improper excusal of a juror during deliberations.
Symington is the cousin of Missouri Senator Stuart Symington.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Fife_Symington   (256 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: National News
Fife Symington III of defrauding lenders by lying about his financial condition when he was struggling to save his collapsing real estate empire, forcing him from office.
Symington was convicted of one count of wire fraud that alleged he gave the pension funds three fraudulent personal financial statements between 1987 and 1990 overstating his net worth in order to get the $10 million loan for a downtown office-retail project.
Symington, 52, is the Harvard-educated great-grandson of U.S. Steel founder Henry Clay Frick, the son of former ambassador Fife Symington II, who unsuccessfully ran for Congress three times in Maryland, and a cousin of the late Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.).
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/campaign98/stories/wp090397.htm   (1060 words)

  
 Search Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
fife fife, small transverse flute with six to eight finger holes adopted for military music by Swiss regiments serving in France in the late 15th cent.
The fife was used in the British army until the end of the 19th cent.
Symington, William Stuart Symington, William Stuart, 1901-88, U.S. Senator (1953-76), b.
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 phoenixnewtimes.com | News & Features | News | Trusting in Family Values | 1995-11-09   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Fife Symington represented to the union pension fund that the assets and liabilities of the Symington family were community property.
Symington said the pension funds should have inferred that Ann wasn't bound by the legal precept of community property because she had a lawyer of her own.
Fife testified that, after giving her the money, he changed his mind and took the cash back from Ann to send his kid to Phillip Exeter Academy, a school for little pootbutts who grow up to be trust-funders like Ann and Fife.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1995-11-09/news/news5.html   (3114 words)

  
 Fife Symington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
rtdydyy Symington's wife is owner of the Ritz Carlton Hotel at the high-scale Biltmore Fashion Square area of Phoenix.
Fife Family History Society Joins together people with a common interest, the research of their families of a bygone era, who lived and worked in Fife.
Fife, Football and Sweden Comprehensive history of Fife Junior football, with results from 1885 to 2000, including maps to the grounds in Fife.
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 phoenixnewtimes.com | | Columns | Governor J. Fife Crook III | 1996-06-20
Governor Symington, the scion of 19th-century robber baron Henry Frick, is a crook.
Symington and his Washington, D.C., lawyer have been allowed to portray the governor as the victim of federal malevolence.
Symington never took step one to organize fund-raising dinners so that he might pay back the two most important women in his life, women who were unstintingly generous to him when he was desperate for their help.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1996-06-20/columns3.html   (994 words)

  
 fife symington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Fife Symington was the Republican governor of Arizona from 1991 to 1997.
The real Symington story can be read by going to....
He earned a degree in culinary arts and restaurant management after leaving office and is recognized as an accomplished chef, specializing in pastry arts.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /fife_symington.html   (272 words)

  
 Governor J
Symington was involved in negotiations with the bank to obtain a loan to develop the Camelback Esplanade.
Symington wanted to avoid an audit by a CPA, so he insisted that DKB accept an accountant’s compilation letter that was based on a personal financial statement prepared on a Valley National Bank form.
Symington was sued by the Resolution Trust Corporation for his role in the failure of Southwest, a collapse that cost taxpayers $1 billion.
www.bus.lsu.edu /accounting/faculty/lcrumbley/fife.html   (1455 words)

  
 Fife Symington -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Symington was convicted of (Click link for more info and facts about bank fraud) bank fraud regarding financial statements and union pension funds, and resigned from office in 1997.
Symington was pardoned by (42nd President of the United States (1946-)) President Clinton, and served no jail time.
Symington is the cousin of (A midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union) Missouri (A member of a senate) Senator (Click link for more info and facts about Stuart Symington) Stuart Symington.
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 JOHN FIFE SYMINGTON, III
Symington was convicted on seven counts on September 3, 1997.
Defendant SYMINGTON was responsible for the repayment of this shortfall under his personal guarantee of the Mercado construction loan.
Fife Symington III steps into the 10th-floor elevator at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, joining three reporters who are covering his civil fraud trial.
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 Arizona Republic Articles Explaining Clash of AG and Governor Over State's Tobacco Suit
Fife Symington on Thursday ordered Attorney General Grant Woods to drop a lawsuit against the nation's tobacco companies, prompting a defiant Woods to hint he may join a recall effort against the governor.
Symington said the way to cut down on smoking deaths is through educational programs, such as a statewide advertising campaign, and not through recovering damages in a lawsuit.
Symington complained that too much of the potential winnings of the lawsuit would go to the private attorneys, and that the agreement with the private lawyers mandates that the state pay for any "special facilities" they might need.
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 Free Fife! - February 6, 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Symington, who was sentenced Monday on federal bank and wire fraud charges, may go to a minimum security prison at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada, these reporters write.
Fife Symington III will not do a lick of prison time nor should he - and you heard it here first.
The mitigating factor in the Symington case is that federal prosecutors came in and tried him under a different set of rules - essentially using nitpicky regulations that hold no water in the real world.
wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/91/91/05_1_m.html   (788 words)

  
 phoenixnewtimes.com | | Columns | Ode to Joyce | 1997-05-15
Symington sat on the board of the S&L, violated federal conflict-of-interest regulations, submitted a suspicious appraisal of the project and persuaded his fellow directors to plunge into the Esplanade.
Her upcoming testimony in federal court will show that she and Symington routinely falsified his financial statements to lending institutions, inflating the value of his projects, lying about his income, grossly exaggerating his equity in assorted developments, hiding millions of dollars of debts.
Reibel claims she and Symington were the only two people in the company who had access to the governor's financial statements, which were kept under lock and key.
www.phoenixnewtimes.com /issues/1997-05-15/columns.html   (855 words)

  
 Smith (September 14 - September 20, 1995)
You'd think that in view of the fact that Fife III and his wife Ann personally signed contracts guaranteeing to repay loans of $10 million taken from various union pension funds, that they'd try to do a little better--and be a lot quicker--at repaying their bad debts.
The Symingtons almost certainly have more than $10 million at their disposal--or $8.8 or $11.4--and you can rest assured that when it comes to their own family budget--for housing, transportation, entertainment, clothing and travel, education for the kids, eyebrow pencils for Fife--that much and more will be found and spent.
Republicans like Fife Symington have stolen more from American taxpayers in the form of tax subsidies, bad debt and outright fraud--welfare for the rich--than all the unwed mothers in the country could ever imagine.
www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/09-14-95/smith.htm   (845 words)

  
 The Real Story about Arizona Governor Fife Symington
Symington was "expected to release a statement this morning (May 5) that will say he will not rule out a future run for public office." He said that after giving the race "tremendous thought over the last few months," he chose to focus his attention on his consulting firm, the Symington Group.
"Symington said his thoughts to oppose Napolitano when she seeks re-election next year galvanized just six weeks ago when he was invited to Napolitano's State of the State speech.
According to Symington, he and current Gov. Janet Napolitano would be 'complete opposites.' Indeed, Napolitano ran for office in considerable part by condemning the fiscal policies of the 1990s, mostly the handiwork of Symington.
www.fifesymington.com   (549 words)

  
 CNN - Arizona governor indicted on fraud charges - June 14, 1996
Symington received tens of millions of dollars in loans through the false statements, she said.
John Dowd, Symington's lawyer, claims investors knew the real estate projects were risky and that they were aware of his financial situation.
Ironically, Symington was among the first to call for the impeachment of then-Gov. Mecham.
www.cnn.com /US/9606/14/symington.indicted   (587 words)

  
 Fife Symington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
He earned a degree culinary arts and restaurant management after leaving and is recognized as an accomplished chef in pastry arts.
Relationship of Arizona Governor J. Fife Symington III with Southwest Savings and Loan Association: Hearing before the Subcommittee on General Oversig...
It is made by the Old Guard's Fife and Drum Corps which is considered one of the best in the country.
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 Smith: Lock Him Up! (May 30 - June 5, 1996)
SIX YEARS AGO J. Fife Symington III was telling the voters of Arizona he intended to bring the skills that had made him a rich real estate developer to bear on the task of governing the State of Arizona.
Eddie Basha was all the wonderful things Fife Symington had claimed to be, both times he ran for governor: a successful businessman with altruistic motives toward public service.
We won't soon forget Fife Symington's explanation of how he doubled his claimed assets, and halved his stated liabilities, based his affirmed net worth on best-scenario estimates 10 to 25 years into the future...and then blamed the whole sorry spectacle on the people he lied to, because they accepted his fiction and didn't cross-examine him.
www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/05-30-96/smith.htm   (841 words)

  
 Welcome to the Tucson Citizen
Symington, who served as governor from 1991 to 1997, resigned from office immediately after being convicted by a federal jury of bank and wire fraud on Sept. 3, 1997.
Symington runs a consulting firm and has been working as a pastry chef at a Phoenix restaurant.
Symington, who will make a decision by June, said he started seriously pondering a political comeback after hearing Napolitano's State of the State speech in early January.
www.tucsoncitizen.com /index.php?page=local&story_id=020405a1_fife   (331 words)

  
 Symington 'impoverishing the future' of our communities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Fife Symington has proved conclusively that he knows little about business and building for the future.
Fife's latest scheme will hurt Arizona's working families, weaken Arizona's ability to attract new business and take away the future for thousands of young people.
Fife Symington is impoverishing the future of our children, our families and our communities.
wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/90/51/04_2_m.html   (318 words)

  
 Democratic Underground Forums - Heard an interesting story about Fife Symington and Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton pardoned Fife Symington, Arizona's former Republican governor, for allegations of fraud and wire-tapping, if I'm not mistaken.
Supposedly he did this because at a party in 1965 in Nantucket, Clinton had too much to drink and wandered into the ocean, and Fife Symington pulled him out and saved him from drowning.
Symington can't remember the incident at all, but Clinton swears it's true.
www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID59/24632.html   (250 words)

  
 Fife probably belongs in the kitchen
For those committed to judging Symington exclusively as a soulless, blue-blood developer turned politician turned bankrupt, indicted enemy of the people, Fife walking off the public stage as a pastry chef was a nearly perfect denouement.
Really, the reason Symington's announcement shocked so many of us was because the knee-jerk, first-impulse reaction to such news was that he could not possibly be serious because he could not possibly win.
We had hints that Symington was preparing to re-enter politics when he formed up with opponents of the transportation-funding ballot measure last fall.
www.azcentral.com /news/opinions/columns/articles/0213maceachern0213.html   (1075 words)

  
 Paul F. Heller | February 14, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Fife Symington wants to be the governor of Arizona again.
Still, Symington has the nerve to label her a "liberal democrat" in his letter, easily slipping around the fact that it was another "liberal Democrat", Bill Clinton, who pardoned him.
Symington can't be expected to very good at math, though, not when every business venture he ever took upon his shoulders became a "multi-million dollar failure", in the words of the attorney who successfully sued him on behalf of a bilked pension fund.
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 WELCOME TO THE KAET POLL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Sixty-four percent (64%) agreed with the statement "Fife Symington will be able to receive a fair trial in Arizona".
Interestingly, 31% also agreed with the statement "Fife Symington will be able to do an adequate job running the State while he is in trial".
Symington trying to run the State while being on trial will probably depend on how long the trial drags out.
www.kaet.asu.edu /horizon/poll/1997/5-23-97.htm   (308 words)

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