Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President by J.H. HatfieldMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
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BCCI: Wikipedia https://share.google/uE9TKHvTG6lPKcq0z
(BCCI), which at one time had more than 400 branches in 78 countries with assets of more than $20 billion, including drug-trafficking and arms-smuggling proceeds, looted savings and loans, and defrauded depositors of legitimate financial institutions. As he had done in 1977, when anoth-er BCCI figure, James Bath, invested heavily in Arbusto Energy, Bush was once again doing business with people who had ties to BCCI, commonly referred to by the U.S. Justice Department as the "Bank of Crooks and Criminals."
It was the Little Rock investment firm who handled the brokerage when Middle Eastern front men for BCCI made an early attempt to pur-chase First American Bank in Washington, D.C. (BCCI later acquired First American's predecessor, Financial General Bankshares.) Stephens, Inc. also played a significant role in introducing the BCCI virus into U.S. banking when it arranged the sale of Bert Lance's National Bank of Georgia to Ghaith Pharoan, identified by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board as a "front man" for BCCI's secret acquisitions of American banks.
At the time of the Harken investment, UBS was a joint-venture part-ner with BCCI in a bank in Geneva, Switzerland. According to Congressional hearings transcripts, UBS also helped BCCI skirt Panamanian money-laundering laws by flying cash out of the country in private jets, and was involved in Ferdinand Marcos' illegal transportation of 325 tons of gold out of the Philippines.
Sheikh Abdullah Bakhsh, as reported in the Wall Street Journal and in the book False Profits by Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin, had been an investment partner in Saudi Arabia with BCCI front man Gaith Pharoan. Khalid bin Mahfouz, another BCCI figure and head of the largest bank in the Arabian Peninsula, was Bakhsh's banker
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