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- BUSINESS, Page 53Business NotesSAVINGS AND LOANSA Bailout with No Bucket
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- Could the Bush Administration's savings and loan bailout get
- any messier? Yes, in ways never imagined. In a surprise court
- victory last week, the ailing Olympic Federal Savings of
- Berwyn, Ill., convinced federal Judge Royce Lamberth that the
- Government's Office of Thrift Supervision currently has no
- power to seize the S&L. Reason: acting OTS director Salvatore
- Martoche and his predecessor, M. Danny Wall, were never
- constitutionally appointed to their posts.
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- The decision could invite lawsuits from other insolvent S&Ls
- seeking to avoid seizure by OTS. But the agency has received
- temporary permission to continue taking over bankrupt thrifts
- pending an appeal. Meanwhile, the Bush Administration moved
- quickly to nominate T. Timothy Ryan, a former top Government
- lawyer, as the new OTS chief and urged the Senate to expedite
- approval.
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