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In December 1991, Attorney General Barr announced that the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] (BCCI) had entered a guilty plea to certain racketeering charges, in return for which the U.S. Justice Department agreed to drop all other federal and state charges that might be brought against BCCI entities in the future. In the plea-bargain arrangement, BCCI forfeited all of its estimated $550 million assets in the United States, and there were some minor jail sentences.
In December 1991, Attorney General Barr announced that the [[Bank of Credit and Commerce International]] (BCCI) had entered a guilty plea to certain racketeering charges, in return for which the U.S. Justice Department agreed to drop all other federal and state charges that might be brought against BCCI entities in the future. In the plea-bargain arrangement, BCCI forfeited all of its estimated $550 million assets in the United States, and there were some minor jail sentences.
==Iran Contra==
:{{See also|Iran Contra}}
Ths total lack of security at the [[Mena airport]] and intelligence professionalism was why the [[CIA]] wanted out of [[Arkansas]]. The final loose end that needed to be tied up was the investigation of Gov. [[Bill Clinton]]'s half-brother, Roger and his friends. Barr told Bill Clinton:
{{quotebox|We are all in this together and let's not forget that the vice-president [George H.W. Bush] and Mr. Casey want this operation to be a success. Mr. Seal carried with him a falsely created, high-level profile of a drug runner. All of the cops in the country were investigating a drug operation. They put the police into a position where we could control them. We fed them what we wanted to feed them, when we wanted to feed them. Seal was a diversion. It was perfect until your brother started free enterprising and now we have to shut it down.}}
It was the arrests of Roger Clinton and [[Dan Lasater]] - not the Hasenfus shoot-down months later - that threatened to expose the operation and prompted the CIA to end it. Barr said of the money investigation,
{{quotebox|[[Edwin Meese|Mr. Meese]] is intervening right now and there will be no money investigation. The United States Attorney's Office in Little Rock is 'getting religion' as we speak.}}
Gov. Clinton's reputation as a cad did not go unnoticed by the CIA. Barr ended the meeting with words of encouragement.
{{quotebox|Bill, you are Mr. Casey's fair-haired boy ... You and your state have been our greatest asset. Mr. Casey wanted me to pass on to you that unless you ****up and do something [[stupid]], you're No. 1 on the short list for a shot at the job that you've always wanted. You and guys like you are the fathers of the new [[government]]. We are the new covenant.<ref>Terry Reed & John Cummings, [https://books.google.com/books?id=zRlXGVfUJPsC&pg=PA542&lpg=PA542&dq=barr+Southern+Air+Transport+iran+Contra&source=bl&ots=L14nVB5CC5&sig=bkZMdqW45Zc75WhInkMiZCpC96s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiu_oPss4_fAhUo1oMKHZXxDjE4ChDoATAAegQIBxAB#v=onepage&q=covenant%20New&f=false ''Compromised: Clinton, Bush and the CIA''], Shapolsky Publishers, 1994</ref>}}
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