Word: federales
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Until last week financier Charles Keating had insisted on being the final witness at congressional hearings on the $2.5 billion disaster at Lincoln Savings & Loan, so that he could rebut the witnesses who had accused him of staving off a federal crackdown on his troubled thrift by lavishing money on...
At least five people were probably relieved that the normally garrulous financier had kept his mouth shut: the Senators who received a total of $1.3 million in contributions from Keating. The last time he was asked whether the money he gave to California's Alan Cranston, Michigan's Donald Riegle...
Alan Greenspan. In 1985 Keating hired the current chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, then a private economic consultant, to convince the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) that Lincoln was sound and should be exempt from a rule limiting direct investments in risky enterprises to 10% of a bank...
Sullivan vehemently insists that contrary to reports, it was he, not Mason, who made the decision last month to continue a federal ban on research in fetal-cell transplants, overruling the recommendation of an NIH committee that the research be continued. But there is no question that a decision to...
Bradley, who is under investigation by state and federal agencies for possible conflict-of-interest and insider-trading violations, pledged to work for passage of the code by the city council. But that body is writing its own ethics rules and is said to be lukewarm toward the recommendations. Even...