Do you think it would be tooooo much to ask Shrub to not appoint a crook for every post in Washington?
"U.S. Corporate Watchdog Served At Troubled Firm
Providian Settled Allegations of Fraud
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By Anitha Reddy
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, July 13, 2002; Page A01
President Bush's top official on corporate crime and responsibility was a director of a credit card company that paid more than $400 million to settle allegations of consumer and securities fraud.
Larry D. Thompson, deputy attorney general and head of a new multi-agency corporate-crime task force, was a Providian Financial Corp. board member and chairman of its audit and compliance committee from June 1997 until his unanimous confirmation by the Senate on May 10, 2001 |
