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...your report on Citibank's close relationship with Raul Salinas, brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas [BUSINESS, Dec. 14], there were a few points I did not understand. You said Raul Salinas' wife, using an alias, carried cashier's checks to Citibank Mexico City. Since these were for very large sums of money, I should think someone in Citibank's private-banking unit would have asked immediately about the origin of that money. Further, you noted that once Citibank had the funds, "no documents linked that money to Salinas." That shows an extraordinary amount of trust on Salinas' part...
...with nutty ideas, not grapple with serious issues"--he is truly obsessed with global warming, which this year's brutal Southwestern drought brought a bit too close to home. "Why am I living in a world where I walk onto my porch on a summer afternoon and smell the Mexican jungle on fire?" he asks, um, heatedly. "I mean, that's it--you can't talk me down from that! I'm going to kick and fuss for the next 20 years...
...months she had produced her first translators' list. Often consulted, it is now published on the Internet. "Thousands of people have been assisted by the list since its inception," estimates Barbara Vaughn, public information director for Charleston. Translators have helped Cuban boat people stranded in port, sick Mexican migrant workers who couldn't communicate with hospital staff, Vietnamese schoolkids who couldn't understand instructions and a Norwegian sailor who ran away from a hospital, scared that his ship would leave without...
Salinas, the once high-living brother of disgraced former Mexican President Carlos Salinas, has been jailed in Mexico since 1995 on charges of illegal enrichment and murder conspiracy. He denies all the charges, and the murder case is now under way in Mexico City...
...problem for Amy Elliott at Citibank was not so much what she did but whom she did it for--at least in the view of the Mexican authorities who have brought criminal charges against Raul Salinas. In addition to getting Salinas Broadway theater tickets and managing his portfolio, she employed sophisticated asset-concealment techniques on his behalf. These techniques are used quite legally by wealthy individuals--say, a surgeon who wants to secure her life savings from potential malpractice suits or an estranged husband. Elliott was helping Salinas conceal his large transfers out of the country ostensibly because...