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...Lavoro, an Italian institution whose Atlanta branch made $4 billion in fraudulent loans to firms owned by or doing business with Iraq. Justice investigators are charged not just with botching their probe into B.N.L.'s transgressions but also with ignoring evidence that B.N.L.'s Atlanta branch manager, Christopher Drogoul, was not solely responsible for the questionable loans. A 163-page Senate Intelligence Committee report issued last week on the affair suggests, however, that most of the Justice Department lapses were due to "bureaucratic bungling...
...Drogoul was to be sentenced, Congressman Henry Gonzalez, who had been looking into the case for two years, announced that he had a summary of classified CIA cables regarding B.N.L.-Rome's knowledge of the banker's activities. Judge Shoob immediately asked for an explanation. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Urgenson requested that the CIA declassify the Sept. 4 letter so it could be given to Shoob along with the report and the cables that had gone to Gonzalez. According to Urgenson, CIA counsel George Jameson acknowledged that the letter was misleading and asked whether the CIA should redraft it. Urgenson...
...intelligence committee had begun looking into the obvious contradictions between what the CIA was telling the Justice Department and what it was telling Gonzalez. Boren was not pleased with the agency's apparent dissembling. He was even more upset when he learned that on Sept. 30, the day before Drogoul's sentencing hearing ended, the CIA had discovered six more classified documents relevant to the case. By this time Drogoul had a flamboyant new Georgia attorney named Bobby Lee Cook, who argued that the banker was an innocent pawn of Rome and Washington. An investigation by an Italian parliamentary committee...
Immediately at stake is the fate of BNL's former Atlanta branch manager, Christopher Drogoul, who faces trial for allegedly engineering $4 billion in illegal loans to Iraq. But of increasing concern is the credibility of the CIA, the Justice Department and the Bush Administration. Even if it amounts to a mere bureaucratic botch, the tussle over who misled the public allows Democrats to renew calls for a special prosecutor to examine whether the White House tried to cover up its efforts to coddle Saddam Hussein before the invasion of Kuwait...
...allegations by the former Atlanta branch manager of the Italian Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and his attorney Bobby Lee Cook. They say that senior B.N.L. officials in Rome not only approved the loans to Iraq but that the U.S. and Italian governments were aware of the transactions. As proof, Drogoul and Cook introduced what they claim is an internal bank document written in Italian and slipped under Cook's hotel room door last week. The document is an executive summary of meetings between bank executives, Italian government officials and representatives of the U.S. government held in Washington in the spring...