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Frank Willis
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Quotes by Frank Willis
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Iraq was awash in cash - in dollar bills. Piles and piles of money. We played football with some of the bricks of $100 bills before delivery. It was a wild-west crazy atmosphere, the likes of which none of us had ever experienced.
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They came in with a can do attitude whether they could or not. They always said yes.
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It shows the brazenness of the people who were around those sums of money and what they thought they could get away with.
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They're certainly beginning to spend more money on the course. I think the people who play are pretty impressed.
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Those are $100,000 bricks of $100 bills and that?s $2 million there. This, in fact, is a payment that we made on the 1st of August to a company called Custer Battles.
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I think that what they were doing was of the nature of what I understand war-profiteering to be about ? which is to get into a chaotic situation and milk every penny out of it you can, as fast as you can, before the opportunity goes away.