Word: bail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington to attend a White House luncheon at which Vice President George Bush was the host. Secret Service agents, checking invitations, were surprised to discover that the guest from Greece was under a six-year-old federal indictment. They arrested Koskotas at his Washington hotel. The banker posted bail of $1 million. A few days later, to get home, Koskotas lied to Greek embassy officials and obtained a travel document...
Only last December, prominent Mexican stockbroker Eduardo Legorreta Chauvert was an honored dinner guest of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. But these days Legorreta is a guest of the Reclusorio Oriente jail in Mexico City, where he has been held without bail since Feb. 14 on charges that he traded in bogus government treasury certificates, as well as other allegations of securities fraud. Legorreta, chairman of the go-go brokerage firm Operadora de Bolsa, is the government's biggest catch in a long-awaited crackdown on irregularities in the Mexican stock exchange, La Bolsa...
Judge John P. Sullivan set bail for Perkins at $100,000 bond or $10,000 cash, Lynch said. Perkins is due back in court March 9, the clerk said...
...Quabbin system continues to be stressed further because of the lack of precipitation, the MDC would find it very difficult to provide water to the partially supplied communities to bail them out in case of an emergency," said Bhatti. Most of greater Boston draws on the Quabbin and Wachusett, MDC's reservoirs...
Just a week after President Bush unveiled his plan to bail out hundreds of insolvent savings and loans, some of them took a turn for the perverse by getting into a costly new interest-rate war. Houston's Commonwealth Savings cranked up the rates it pays on six-month "jumbo" certificates of deposit (typical size: $100,000) from 9.6% to a hefty 10.75%. In California, Pasadena's BancPlus Savings followed suit with a 10.5% six-month rate. One reason for the feverish run-up was the need for the thrifts to compensate depositors for the perceived risk of putting money...