1.   Lawsuits in Dayton and Michigan detail a complex financial web that snared dozens of educated, affluent investors, including attorneys and prominent businessmen.

2.   The tangled financial web is bad enough, involving embezzled campaign funds, forged signatures, bounced checks, nonexistent fortunes and phony financial disclosure statements.

3.   Those were among the latest details to emerge as investigators try to reconstruct the financial web supporting the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

4.   There was also the problem in winning the help needed from other countries to unravel complex financial webs, they said.