1.   Investigators established that cartel cash helped finance that campaign, although no direct links between Samper and drug kingpins was ever proved.

2.   Three decades later, even legitimate business is tainted with cartel cash laundered through banks, hotels, boutiques and ranches.

3.   Both men, who said Samper solicited drug money for the campaign, were later arrested for their roles in allegedly collecting cartel cash.

4.   Washington decertified Colombia in March as an ally in the fight on drugs, citing evidence Samper took cartel cash.

5.   Washington decertified Colombia in March as an ally in the fight on drugs, citing evidence Samper took the cartel cash.