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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...army, something that is so powerful. You're with the elite. Your word is law, you're like the judge and jury. Anything you say is final. You feel that you're so superior and that you're chosen. I had 100 to 150 guys with me: bookmakers, loan sharks, drug dealers, union guys, politicians, doctors. There was nothing we couldn't penetrate. We had the sports-betting business, the numbers, loan- sharking, the shakedown business, union kickbacks. But, you know, it really wasn't me. It was the wall around me that was so powerful...
...collapse of Denver's Silverado Banking, Savings & Loan Association was expected to cost taxpayers more than $1 billion. That burden was eased ever so slightly last week when presidential son Neil Bush and 12 other former associates of Silverado agreed to cough up $49.5 million as part of a settlement of the Federal Government's $200 million civil suit alleging gross negligence and insider dealings...
...from his capos with the lofty dignity of an Indian raja being given his weight in gold by his subjects. And he could discuss, with almost Socratic detachment, the subtleties of when or whether to "whack" a customer who had fallen behind in paying the vig on an extortionate loan...
...neither a code of ethics nor the law kept those savings and loan institutions honest...
...became a latter-day banker, is now embroiled in controversy over his ties to a foreign bank convicted of money laundering. Nor was that the only cloud hovering over this Democratic Olympus. Alan Cranston, criticized by the Senate ethics committee for his shady dealings in the savings and loan scandal, showed up at the book party. So did Ted Kennedy, wrapped in the shadow of the Palm Beach sex scandal...