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As far back as the 1930s, it was rumored that Huey Long, the crooked governor of Louisiana, hid part of his illicit fortune in Canada. A more recent case involved John O'Halloran, a legendary "fixer" from Trinidad and Tobago. He emigrated to Canada in the early 1980s to enjoy millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks illegally accumulated in his homeland. Incidentally, this is a remarkable case because it's one of the few instances where recoveries of embezzled funds were made on behalf of a Third World country. Indeed, some $4 million was returned to Trinidad thanks to a lengthy investigation by Robert Lindquist, chairman of Lindquist Avey Macdonald Baskerville. Still more recent is the case of Jean-Claude (Baby Doc) Duvalier, the ex-dictator of Haiti who went into exile in February 1986. For the next two years, Haitian authorities conducted an international campaign to recover the substantial assets looted by the Duvaliers. And twice, during that period, Duvalier's financial advisers successfully laundered tens of millions of dollars through Canada to conceal them from Haiti's investigators.