By breaking the fragile status quo prevailing since the spring of 2012, it triggered the current French-led military operation in an attempt to avoid a complete collapse in Bamako.
He quit a year later--ahead of Drexel's collapse triggered by prosecution of its junk-bond operation--to do boutique-finance deals that eventually led him to Houston billionaire Robert McNair's Cogen Technologies (which sold most of its plants to Enron just before that giant's collapse).