Word: bcci
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Even if he has kept a low profile, Senator Kerry has emerged from his second term with an impressive record of behind-the-scenes successes. A pivotal player in the 1994 Crime Bill, Kerry successfully incorporated crucial funding increases. An investigation he sponsored led to the uncovering of the BCCI scandal, and as Chair of the Select Committee on POW/MIA affairs, Kerry led the campaign for information about missing veterans which ultimately led to the normalization of relations with Vietnam...
...organization. (Two bank officials were convicted on laundering and fraud charges earlier this year.) TIME assistant editor Bernard Baumohl, who covers business, says the troubles are part of a domino effect in law enforcement following the world's largest international banking scandal -- the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). "The Justice Department has been aggressively trying to find a weak link in the international money-laundering business, and the weak link would be in any international bank," he says...
...chief counsel for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime and criminal justice as well as the House Budget Committee's task force on urgent fiscal issues. Rowe led the judiciary committee's investigations of federal law enforcement's handling of the BCCI and Iraqgate scandals...
...memorandum proceeded to list the recent achievements of the office, including supervision of the preparation of Waco Report, a series of multi-agency initiatives against violent crimes in American cities and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) settlement...
Tritech's exact financial status is unknown. But in a March article, Harbus, the Business School's student newspaper, quoted sources familiar with the Young case as saying that Tritech may have been involved with BCCI, an international bank which laundered billions of dollars between foreign governments and overseas bank accounts...