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Mike Ruppert is a former LAPD narcotics investigator. He grew up in Los Angeles and attended Venice High School, graduating in 1969. He then attended UCLA earning a B.A. in Political Science in 1973. Catherine Austin Fitts is a former investment banking Managing Director at Dillon, Read & Co. and during the Presidency of George H.W. Bush former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. She earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Pennsylvania, and received her MBA from The Wharton School in 1978. In 1986 Fitts became the first woman to be promoted to Managing Director of Dillon, Read & Co. in the investment bank's then 156 year history. At the helm of the bank she became what Businessweek described as “Wall Street's foremost champion“ of public utilities bonds. ---------- U.S. Companies Tangled in Web Of Drug Dollars Lowell Bergman OCTOBER 10, 2000 ---------- CORRESPONDENT BANKING:
