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Citi is now implementing what is probably one of the most aggressive anti-money-laundering programs in the U.S. banking industry. But its past missteps could lead to a tightening of money-laundering statutes on Capitol Hill. The company is taking no chances and has hired Boyden Gray, White House counsel in the Bush Administration, to keep legislators from getting too busy. Gray sent a letter to the Senate subcommittee arguing that it lacked jurisdiction to investigate. A second letter pleaded that Reed should not have to testify. Both requests were quickly denied...
...weapons in their arsenal. Even Nixon's adversaries never subpoenaed the President. In the past there has been a grease of custom and compromise that kept Presidents and prosecutors from getting this far in the hole. "You never want to litigate questions of separation of powers," says C. Boyden Gray, George Bush's White House counsel. "When you litigate these things rather than bargain over them, you tend to lose them...
...Boyden Gray, White House counsel in the Bush Administration, has become a sort of Greek chorus of the Clinton fund-raising scandal. He pops up in the newspapers after each new revelation to intone self-righteously, We never did that in our day. This generally turns out to mean, We never did exactly that. There were cocktail parties for contributors at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but "the White House per se was not used." Clinton "is giving these hour-and-a-half klatches...We would never have allowed people to pay for this kind of time in the West Wing...
...dozens of visits to the White House this year. Secret Service logs show that Huang went there most frequently in February 1996, shortly after joining the D.N.C. "It creates a very bad impression to have a fund raiser spending that much time in the White House," says C. Boyden Gray, who served as Bush's White House counsel. Gray set up a "funnel" in the Bush White House during the 1992 campaign, requiring campaign officials to clear any conversations with Bush appointees in the government. "It was time-consuming because you had to make two phone calls instead...
...Nobody does anything but sling mud--I really want issues, not fighting," said Janet Boyden, taking a break from a round of bowling in Raymond...