I really don't know, regarding their ultimate path(s). I knew two of 'em, during the Jimmy The Worthless One Carter days. They were involved in trading oil certs, turning "old" into "new" or "new" into "imported". In one day, I watched them use the same cert seventeen times, taking $3.00 bbl, old and turning it into $11.00 bbl, imported.

The others, working at that office/operation, were high rollin' Bond Daddies, until laws changed and banks couldn't take in Muni Bond interest as non-taxable. So, instead of moaning and groaning about the gummint a-changin' laws ... They'd find a new gig ... and roll with it to the max.

Due to that ability, I'd have to guess that they either partied themselves to death ... or ... are sitting on half-of-the-money-in-the-world.