Word: cashier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conceded William Brown, chairman of the Bank of Boston (assets: $22 billion). What Brown learned was that the Government is serious in its crackdown on money laundering, a $100 billion-a-year practice by which legitimate businesses like banks accept piles of small bills from criminals in return for cashier's checks or other financial instruments...
What about those great rebate checks that help you balance your bank account every October? A little sign by the cashier's counter at the Coop's Harvard Square store points out that your membership rebate has been rising steadily for the past 10 years--about .1 percent a year to a whopping 9.9 percent last year. What the sign fails to point out is that a little comparison shopping around the square will get you that same discount or better, and you don't have to lend your money to the Coop for a year at no interest...
...England, where some of the estimated $100 billion-a-year business has moved because of increasing federal scrutiny of banks in South Florida. An affidavit filed by an FBI agent in 1983 said that the Angiulo family, a reputed organized-crime group, had bought more than $1.7 million in cashier's checks from a First National branch in Boston's North End. Payment for the checks included $250,000 in cash. According to the Boston Globe, the branch gave cash-reporting exemptions to the two companies allegedly connected with the Angiulos. Such exemptions are usually granted to small businesses like...
...Tina Bochart no longer answers the telephone at State Bank of Dannebrog, Neb., with a cheery "Good morning. State Bank." Instead, she simply says, "FDIC." Bochart, a former assistant cashier, goes on to explain that State Bank, the only bank in town, has folded and been taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. "We're here," she says, "until things are cleaned up." The closing is a severe blow to Dannebrog, a farming village of 380, where the landmarks are groves of giant sycamore trees, a Lutheran church spire and the Silver Dollar Bar. Ray Johnson, owner of Johnson...
...Kingsburg in the San Joaquin Valley, are typical of hard-pressed California farmers who have decided to call it quits. The Hamadas have been trying to sell their farm since mid-1983 but so far have attracted only nibbles. Kathleen, 23, has taken a part-time job as a cashier in a movie theater, and her 30-year-old husband is looking for sales work. Both are resigned to losing their farm. Says Bob: "Now I'm just waiting for it all to be over with...