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Bankers used to pride themselves on being discreetly incurious about their depositors, even those who walked in with suitcases full of cash. But nowadays any American banker who looks the other way is looking for trouble. Reason: the Federal Government is trying to stamp out money laundering, the process by...
Most of the 1,000 Belgian police assigned to the game were outside, trying to control drunken groups still attempting to pour into the stadium. Inside, helmeted Red Cross medics dodged bricks, bottles and smoke bombs as they worked among the dying and injured, frantically trying to resuscitate people who...
The year was 1962. America was weathering its worst session since the Great Depression. Unemployment soared; interest rates fluctuated in the high double digits. The beleagured construction industry mailed piles of useless lumber to Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, and Capitol Hill clamored for the Fed chief's hide.
Reading Suspects is like compulsively picking chewing gum off the underside of a theater seat. Thomson piles unsavoriness upon unsavoriness: murders, betrayals, secrets and low-budget aphorisms like "People in movies have a sensational now about them and a mysterious past."
The words of contrition did not come easily to the banker. "The events of the past several weeks have taught us a painful lesson," conceded William Brown, chairman of the Bank of Boston (assets: $22 billion). What Brown learned was that the Government is serious in its crackdown on money...