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To: StockDung who started this subject	9/19/2004 1:27:26 PM
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Todays John Kerry humor.: John Kerry's key role in exposing BCCI scam Washington \| September 18, 2004 7:22:33 PM IST Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry played a key role in exposing the nefarious activities of the Bank and Credit and Commerce (BCCI) in the 1980s. According to an investigative report by David Sirota and Jonathan Baskin of the American Progress Action Fund, Kerry decided to probe the finances of Latin American drug cartels in 1988. Over the next three years, he fought off intense opposition from vested interests at home and abroad, none of whom was eager for him to carry on, reports the Daily Times. Kerry turned to BCCI early in the second year of the probe against the bank when his investigators learned that Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega was laundering drug profits through the BCCI on behalf of the Medellin cartel. The report appears in this month's issue of the Washington Monthly. "By the end, Kerry had helped dismantle a massive criminal enterprise and exposed the infrastructure of BCCI and its affiliated institutions, a web that law enforcement officials today acknowledge would become a model for international terrorist financing," says the report. The two writers allege, "BCCI went beyond merely offering financial assistance to dictators and terrorists." By July 1991, British and US regulators finally responded to the evidence provided by Kerry and a concurrent investigation by the US Federal Reserve. Thereafter, its operations were shut down in seven countries and restricted in dozens more, and served indictments for grand larceny, bribery and money laundering. (ANI)

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