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- NATION, Page 33American NotesBANKING"Unsound Practices"
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- The 1988 collapse of Denver's Silverado Banking, Savings &
- Loan Association will cost taxpayers more than $1 billion. Last
- week a major figure in that disaster, presidential son Neil Bush,
- was judged to have engaged in "unsafe or unsound practices and
- breaches of his fiduciary duties involving multiple conflicts of
- interest." In making that pronouncement, Timothy Ryan, director
- of the Office of Thrift Supervision, ruled that if Bush again
- serves as director of a financial institution, he must seek
- legal advice on his responsibilities, disclose potential
- conflicts of interest and abstain from voting on matters in
- which he has a personal stake.
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- Ryan's action was the mildest penalty that could have been
- meted out. But Bush still faces potential trouble. The Federal
- Deposit Insurance Corporation has brought a $200 million
- gross-negligence suit against him and other former Silverado
- officials.
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