1.   And here, where we are walking right now, was the very heart of their financial empire.

2.   He created a vast financial empire worth billions of dollars.

3.   With two partners, he created a vast financial empire of over half a billion dollars in some six years.

4.   Beebe lived in Shreveport, La., but was building a financial empire in Texas.

5.   A dispute between Michael Milken and his former accountant is providing a rare peek into the financial empire of the former junk-bond financier.

6.   A financial empire.

7.   But as his personal financial empire became ensnared in the corruption investigations, Berlusconi tried to curb all investigating magistrates.

8.   He is one of a handful of executives who worked closely with Weill as he was building his financial empire.

9.   Hughes by that time was so sick physically and mentally that he had no control over his financial empire and hardly any grip on reality.

10.   In public, Symington has talked about his bankruptcy filing as though it were the last step in dissolving his financial empire.