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- <text id=91TT0805>
- <title>
- Apr. 15, 1991: Business Notes:Savings & Loans
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 15, 1991 Saddam's Latest Victims
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 45
- Business Notes
- SAVINGS AND LOANS
- The Follies Go On
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- <p> "I thought the judge was very fair," remarked former Dallas
- thrift owner Don R. Dixon last week. Fair and then some. Dixon
- was convicted last December on federal charges that he used
- funds from his Vernon Savings & Loan $2 million to pay for a
- California beach house and $10,000 for prostitutes for board
- members. Though Vernon's former chairman, Woody Lemons, had been
- sentenced to 30 years, U.S. district court Judge A. Joe Fish
- gave Dixon only five years, pointing out that the jury had not
- found him responsible for Vernon's $1.3 billion failure. Dixon
- could be paroled after serving only 20 months in a
- minimum-security prison within commuting distance of his home.
- </p>
- <p> As the curtain fell on one act of the S&L follies, it went
- up on another. The Resolution Trust Corporation, the
- government's thrift-policing agency, filed a claim in federal
- court against the giant Cleveland-based law firm Jones, Day,
- Reavis & Pogue. The RTC seeks more than $50 million in damages,
- citing Jones Day's alleged "endorsement of and/or acquiescence
- in" the actions of Charles Keating and his associates at
- California's Lincoln Savings & Loan, the nation's most
- spectacularly failed thrift. Jones Day denies all charges.
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