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Revision as of 13:22, October 24, 2016
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The "Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate" led by Senators [[John Kerry]] and Hank Brown noted that a key strategy of "BCCI's successful secret acquisitions of U.S. banks in the face of regulatory suspicion was its aggressive use of a series of prominent Americans," Clifford among them.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/ The BCCI Affair], A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, 102d Congress 2d Session Senate, December 1992.</ref> Clifford, who prided himself on decades of meticulously ethical civic conduct, summed his predicament up when he told a reporter from the ''New York Times'', "I have a choice of either seeming stupid or venal." Indictments against Clifford had been set aside because of his failing health.
The "Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate" led by Senators [[John Kerry]] and Hank Brown noted that a key strategy of "BCCI's successful secret acquisitions of U.S. banks in the face of regulatory suspicion was its aggressive use of a series of prominent Americans," Clifford among them.<ref>[http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/ The BCCI Affair], A Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, 102d Congress 2d Session Senate, December 1992.</ref> Clifford, who prided himself on decades of meticulously ethical civic conduct, summed his predicament up when he told a reporter from the ''New York Times'', "I have a choice of either seeming stupid or venal." Indictments against Clifford had been set aside because of his failing health.
===Disposition===
The American banking assets including First American Bank were sold to First Union Bank. On September 1, 2001, First Union merged with Wachovia, and later Wachovia merged with Wells Fargo.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/corporate/firstunion|title=First Union is Now Wells Fargo|accessdate=October 23, 2016}}</ref> Wells Fargo had its own banking scandal in 2016.
==Pakistani nuclear bomb==
==Pakistani nuclear bomb==