Word: depositing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...arraignment. The other, Mohammed A. Salameh, an illegal immigrant from Jordan, had rented the van that apparently carried the bomb into the Trade Center garage. In a scene that no thriller novelist would dare dream up, Salameh was arrested as he tried to get his $400 rental deposit back...
...account for what looked like his extraordinary stupidity in renting a van under his own name, presenting a valid New York driver's license with a real and traceable phone number and, instead of disappearing after the bombing, calling attention to himself by repeatedly trying to recover the deposit. Such behavior seemed to indicate that the plot was a wildly amateurish -- though horribly successful -- operation...
...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...