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...looks like loan flips," said John V. Lane,assistant regional director of the Federal DepositInsurance Corporation (FDIC). "They createfictitious values and sell in between themselves...
...Lane explained that Walsh allegedly inflatedthe prices of his own condominiums by selling themto his associates. He fostered the sale of theproperties by providing his partners with themoney for down payments...
This practice, Lane said, led the banks tobelieve Walsh's investors had the capacity tosupport his projects, when in fact Walsh wasfinancially backing himself...
...drew up the plans. From almost the very beginning, the CIA has been a focus of Kennedy- assassinati on conspiracy theories (bitterness by some agents over Kennedy's Bay of Pigs "betrayal" was an obvious motive). This year the first and most relentless conspiracy theorist of them all, Mark Lane, has come out with a book, Plausible Denial, which targets high-level CIA figures as the plotters behind the assassination. Lane presents what he calls new and conclusive evidence that the CIA was setting up Oswald in the months before the assassination by having an Oswald impersonator meet with Soviet...
Again, even if we don't buy Lane's conclusion about CIA complicity in the Kennedy assassination, 20 years of investigations have shown that the CIA was no stranger to complicity in assassinations. We know how the best and brightest blue bloods bonded with the bloodiest and dirtiest Mafia hit men in plots to kill Castro. We know the freak-show side of the agency that used damaging mind-control drugs on unsuspecting citizens; we know that the agency's own top counterspy, James Angleton, paralyzed the place with his paranoid suspicions that KGB moles and false defectors had penetrated...