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Bank of Credit and Commerce International (view source)
Revision as of 20:05, October 18, 2016
, 20:05, October 18, 2016→American branch
==American branch==
==American branch==
Former adviser to [[Democrat]]ic presidents, [[Clark Clifford]], headed up the American branch.
Former adviser to four [[Democrat]]ic presidents, [[Clark Clifford]], headed up the American branch.
The bank was called First American Bankshares and became the largest in [[Washington DC]]. Robert Morgenthau, the district attorney in [[New York City]], disclosed that his office had found evidence that the parent company of Clifford's bank was secretly controlled by BCCI. The district attorney convened a grand jury to determine whether Clifford and his partner, Robert A. Altman, had deliberately misled federal regulators when the two men assured them that BCCI would have no control.<ref>Summary of Charges, US Board of Governors of the [[Federal Reserve]], No. 91-043, July 29, 1992, pp. 1-11.</ref>
The bank was called First American Bankshares and became the largest in [[Washington DC]]. Robert Morgenthau, the district attorney in [[New York City]], disclosed that his office had found evidence that the parent company of Clifford's bank was secretly controlled by BCCI. The district attorney convened a grand jury to determine whether Clifford and his partner, Robert A. Altman, had deliberately misled federal regulators when the two men assured them that BCCI would have no control.<ref>Summary of Charges, US Board of Governors of the [[Federal Reserve]], No. 91-043, July 29, 1992, pp. 1-11.</ref>