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Robert Vesco

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Entrepreneur

The Resume

    (December 4, 1935-November 23, 2007)
    Famously hard-driving businessman
    Owner of International Controls Corp
    Manager of manufacturing firms and an airline
    Staged hostile takeover of Investors Overseas Corp
    Fled the country after legal problems piled up

Why he might be annoying:

    He is a high school dropout.
    He was more interested in booze and gambling than his family.
    He and his cohorts broke into a Swiss bank to forcibly obtain shares during a hostile takeover of Investors Overseas.
    He spent a night in jail for this.
    He was friends with Don Nixon, nephew of President Richard Nixon.
    He purchased a huge jet and transformed it into his own pleasure palace at the expense of his company and its investors (Enron, anyone?).
    He bought out Investors Overseas and looted a quarter of a billion dollars from it.
    He made secret donations to Richard Nixon of huge sums of money, which wound up funding the 'Plumbers,' the group of guys who pulled off the Watergate debacle.
    He fled to Costa Rica when his company came under scrutiny from the law.
    He was eventually extradited from Costa Rica, and fled to Cuba, where Castro welcomed him.
    After 13 years of hanging around in Cuba, Vesco began to look like Castro!

Why he might not be annoying:

    He worked unbelievably hard as a young man to achieve the high rank he had later.
    At only 33 years old, he held shares worth fifty million dollars.
    He was eventually sentenced to jail after the Cuban government tired of his wheeling-and-dealing scam attempts there.

Credit: Big Papa


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 89 Votes: 55.06% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 18 Votes: 38.89% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 25 Votes: 44.00% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 23 Votes: 52.17% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 15 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 10 Votes: 90.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 59 Votes: 64.41% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 60 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 55 Votes: 76.36% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 108 Votes: 75.93% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 142 Votes: 71.83% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 320 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 813 Votes: 69.13% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 628 Votes: 70.22% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 609 Votes: 72.25% Annoying