Cliché corner   

With over 200 references to fugitive financier Robert Vesco in the month of June alone, and countless other references dating as far back as 20 years ago, Cliché Corner wonders whether it should be Fugitive Financier Robert Vesco to indicate an official title:

"After more than 20 years on the lam, fugitive financier Robert Vesco is under arrest in Cuba..."
( Associated Press )

" Fugitive financier Robert Vesco was the Howard Hughes of Communist Cuba until his gilded cage became his jail cell." ( Austin American-Statesman )

"Cuba announces that fugitive financier Robert Vesco is being detained on suspicion that he is a 'provocateur' and a foreign agent;.." ( Wall Street Journal )

"Any illusions Washington may have had of bringing fugitive financier Robert Vesco to justice in the United States appear to have been dashed." ( CNN )

"Lately, Castro has stepped up the manipulations. He jerked the U.S. Justice Department around with a bait-and-switch maneuver using fugitive financier Robert Vesco as a lure." ( Atlanta Journal and Constitution )