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| | Arkansuckers - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Good luck: The estate holds about $1 million, raised mostly from the sale of Howell's 2002 SL500 Mercedes-Benz and a 50% stake in a Beechcraft King jet. |
 | | According to lawsuits, Howell told investors such payments could easily be covered by an investment strategy that pumped out 90% returns--but in reality, the suits say, he was using the very money he borrowed, and not trading profits, to make interest payments. |
 | | Howell did manage to get his hands on some serious cash--thanks to Jones, who made a $5 million investment, in return for a note, and was also persuaded to make an $11 million loan backed by a $12 million CD Howell had placed at Bank of America. |
| www.forbes.com /home/free_forbes/2003/0915/056a.html (965 words) |
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