Word: deposit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about hundreds of lawsuits filed by investors claiming they were bilked by his schemes. To settle those charges, the fallen junk-bond king has now agreed to pay $500 million more in a deal that requires the approval of U.S. Judge Milton Pollack in Manhattan. Plaintiffs include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which alleges Milken helped undermine the savings and loan industry by persuading S&L chairmen to load up on junk bonds that collapsed when the market for the risky IOUs turned sour...
...voucher booklets containing l,000 investment points redeemable for the stock of state-owned companies. Seven million citizens have invested in the booklets, the bulk of them since late December, when a company called Harvard Capital & Consulting promised a 10-fold increase within a year to citizens who would deposit the booklets with HC&C and let it choose which firms to buy into. The promotion spawned hundreds of imitators and boosted sales, but the privatization program in general has been dogged by chronic delays and reports of corruption...
...special tribunal concluded that prosecutors had not proved their case. They had charged that Papandreou ordered state companies to deposit funds in the private bank at a time when its owner was suspected of embezzlement. Papandreou was also accused of taking bribes from the bank owner...
Finally the family, unable to save enough money for a deposit on an apartment, moved into Plaza Place, emergency transitional housing for families in Charlotte. "A lot of things run through your mind when you don't have a place to live," says Tamey. "You wonder how did you get this way? How did this happen?" The kids felt the pain too. Brandon, a bright child with a sharp mind, hungered for attention and grew angry at times. Without any peers, Nicole, a pretty girl with a sweet smile and a quick wit, was adrift and alone. They...
...allocated to a worldwide fund to compensate innocent depositors who lost their money when the bank collapsed. The remaining half has been reserved for a U.S. contingency fund to shore up financial institutions that B.C.C.I. secretly controlled. Washington regulators fear that the already depleted guarantee fund at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation could be endangered by banking problems at the Independence Bank in Encino, Calif., and at Washington's First American. Their concern was so acute that authorities immediately transferred $5 million of the forfeited money to the Encino bank to prevent its collapse...