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Fundraisers contacted at several universities this week said Harvard should consider carefully whether to accept a $1 million donation made by an agent of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI...
Worse still, as Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Arkansas) pointed out during the 1989 Senate debate, the law doesn't require the INS to check the sources of the big ticket foreign investments. The cash could be from a sleazy bank (like BCCI). Or from a bunch of drug runners (like BCCI...
...evil scale of 1 to 100, with the Guyana massacre rating a 96, the BCCI scandal scoring an 82 and the Peewee Herman affair getting a two, I'd give Bidengate...
Having extensively documented the laundering of funds through BCCI, U.S. Customs decided to close the net. In April, Erickson and Musella announced * their engagement and sent wedding invitations to top BCCI officers and Medellin hoods. The two then played out their romantic charade, making preparations for their nuptials...
...BCCI officials in London expressed astonishment at the arrests. Said BCCI in a statement: "The bank wishes to state categorically that at no time whatsoever has it knowingly been involved in drug traffic-related money laundering." While the arrests had no immediate impact on the bank's substantial legitimate operations, BCCI faces potentially severe penalties under the U.S. antilaundering law. Besides providing for as much as $28 million in possible fines, the U.S. law authorizes the seizure of narcotics- tainted money or assets, including businesses involved in trafficking and money laundering. Thus the bank's U.S. assets could be vulnerable...