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...typically look well on magistrates who draw attention to themselves." That may be an understatement. There are currently two other pending cases against the judge in addition to the one involving the Franco investigation. Garzón is also being investigated for dismissing financial misappropriation charges against Emilio Botín, the director of Banco Santandar, after the bank sponsored a course at New York University in which the judge was a participant. He's also being investigated for his allegedly inappropriate ordering of wiretaps in a national corruption probe...
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...international expansion. Inciarte says Santander will give Sovereign the same treatment it gave the U.K.'s Abbey National bank, an ailing mortgage provider it bought for $11.2 billion in stock in 2004. It was Santander's first foray into Anglo-Saxon territory, and it met contemptuous resistance to Botín's "Spanish paper," in the words of one shareholder...
...ongoing parlor game in Madrid now is betting who's going to succeed Emilio Botín whenever he decides to step down. Santander was founded in 1857; a Botín has run it since 1920. Current chief executive Alfredo Saenz came to the bank when it bought Banesto in 1994, bringing the Parthenon operating platform with him. He's very smart and at most other banks he'd be a shoo-in. But Botín is a dynastic kind of guy, and his daughter Ana Patricia, 49, currently heads Banesto, which is still run as a separate...
...anyone handicapping this one, Santander City might supply another clue. There among the modern brick buildings are rows of olive trees Botín had brought in, their trunks gnarled and twisted. You won't find one under 1,000 years old. Tradition still counts for a lot here...