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- <text id=91TT0900>
- <title>
- Apr. 29, 1991: American Notes:Banking
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 29, 1991 Nuclear Power
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 33
- American Notes
- BANKING
- "Unsound Practices"
- </hdr><body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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