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Police said the con artists, one man and one woman, tell their victims they have found a check for $4,500 on the street. They ask the victim to deposit the check in her bank account, and to split the cash with them if it clears...
DERIVATIVES, THOSE HOT "BASKETS" OF FINANCIAL products that balance risky but potentially lucrative investments with conservative ones, are at your corner bank. For people rolling over IRA and Keogh money, Citibank offers a five-year deposit account with income tied to Standard & Poor's 500 stock index. Put in $10,000 now when the S&P is 450, and if the index average climbs 150 points by 1998, Citibank will return $6,660 along with the principal. Next to a conventional five-year CD, which would pay $2,613, the stock-linked account looks like a skyscraper. Should the market...
...CURIOUS CONTRADICTION: THE FEDERAL Deposit Insurance Corporation reported last Tuesday that bank earnings hit a record $32.2 billion in 1992, even as bank lending declined. Armed with such statistics, President Clinton asked the industry to loosen credit strings, particularly for small businesses. To encourage the major lending companies to lend more, Clinton unveiled a package of proposals designed to prompt banks to extend loans more on the basis of track record and reputation than on collateral...
...and/or associates theorized, wrongly but understandably, that the blast would so obliterate all traces of the van that it could never be identified. In that case, leaving a rented van missing and unaccounted for would be the way to arouse suspicion, so that reporting it stolen and demanding the deposit back would be a way of diverting attention. But why rent a van at all, rather than stealing one or buying one for cash and giving a false name...
Salameh's connection to the destroyed van was firm: he had not only shown ID when renting it but also, claiming theft, later tried to retrieve a $400 deposit on the vehicle. Also, authorities said, they found manuals on circuitry and materials used in bomb building at the address Salameh gave to the rental company...