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- <text id=91TT1252>
- <title>
- June 10, 1991: American Notes:Bailouts
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- June 10, 1991 Evil
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 25
- American Notes
- BAILOUTS
- $950 Million To Go
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The 1988 collapse of Denver's Silverado Banking, Savings &
- Loan Association was expected to cost taxpayers more than $1
- billion. That burden was eased ever so slightly last week when
- presidential son Neil Bush and 12 other former associates of
- Silverado agreed to cough up $49.5 million as part of a
- settlement of the Federal Government's $200 million civil suit
- alleging gross negligence and insider dealings.
- </p>
- <p> Under the plan, former officers, directors and lawyers of
- the failed thrift will pay the Federal Deposit Insurance
- Corporation $26.5 million and turn over to the agency a $23
- million executive-indemnity fund established by Silverado before
- it was seized by the government three years ago. For Neil Bush,
- 36, an outside director of Silverado from 1985 to 1988, the
- development marks the latest setback in his ill-starred business
- career. Last April, in a separate action, the Office of Thrift
- Supervision formally reprimanded him for engaging in "unsafe"
- and "unsound" practices involving conflicts of interest.
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- </body></article>
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