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...complexity and scope of the scandal became apparent, Beaty asked Detroit bureau chief Gwynne, a former banker and the author of Selling Money, a book about the international debt crisis, to become the other half of a reporting-writing team. Gwynne talked to federal regulatory agencies and banking sources in the U.S., while Beaty followed the B.C.C.I. paper trail to Atlanta, where he interviewed Bert Lance, and London, where he paid a visit to Scotland Yard. At the same time, TIME correspondents in bureaus around the world were tracking down leads in 11 countries, often going at several simultaneously. "This...
First American's alleged parent is one that few people would be proud to claim: the Bank of Credit & Commerce International, convicted of violations in three countries and well known in global finance circles as a banker to Manuel Noriega and Colombian drug lords. The question that won't go away: How could an outfit like B.C.C.I. control a large U.S. bank without regulators knowing or doing anything about...
...attract deposits, B.C.C.I. opened magnificent offices even in poor surroundings. No matter how incongruous, the facilities were lavishly decorated with Persian rugs and sumptuous paintings. "Walk down the main street in Djibouti," says a Western banker, "and you'll see a building with a marble facade. That's B.C.C.I. On the two buildings on either side, the plaster will be breaking and falling...
Other evidence would have proved equally explosive. An executive named Amjad Awan, who managed the bank's Panama office and was Noriega's personal banker, described the extent of B.C.C.I.'s empire in a recorded conversation with an undercover agent. "We own a bank in Washington," Awan told the agent. "It's called the First American Bank. There are six banks bought out by B.C.C.I. about eight years ago. B.C.C.I. was acting as adviser to them, but the truth of the matter is that the bank belongs to B.C.C.I. Those guys are just nominee shareholders...
...avid shopper can look forward to the Square's new facelift as well. Currently under construction at One Brattle Square is a new seven-story shopping mall which, according to Christopher F. Winchenbaugh of Caldwell Banker, will include 102,000 square feet of new shopping and entertainment facilities. Caldwell Banker is the sole leaser of the property...