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To: PaulM who wrote (11101)	5/2/1998
From: Bucky Katt	Respond to of 116762

PBM--Saves trial and jail expense. Think it can happen here, in a downturn? A look at euro prices Eleven European Union nations will shed their currencies in the years ahead. German marks, Italian lire, French, Belgian and Luxembourg francs, Spanish pesetas, Dutch guilders, Austrian schillings, Portuguese escudos and Irish punts will stop being legal tender June 30, 2002. From now on, consumers will increasingly see dual-pricing of goods and services in national currencies and euros. Here is what some household goods will cost in euros, as calculated by Associated Press correspondents. The euro is roughly $1.10. VIENNA, Austria (schillings vs. euros) Loaf of white bread - 25 schillings (1.79 euros) ($2.00) One liter of milk - 13.90 schillings (1 euro) ($1.10) PARIS (francs vs. euros) Bread - 11 francs (1.66 euros) ($1.84) Milk - 5.75 francs (0.86 euros) ($0.96) ROME (lire vs. euros) Bread - 2,700 lire (1.38 euros) ($1.53) Milk - 2,500 lire (1.28 euros) ($1.42) BRUSSELS, Belgium (francs vs. euros) Bread - 56 francs (1.37 euros) ($1.52) Milk - 27 francs (0.66 euros) ($0.73) FRANKFURT, Germany (marks vs. euros) Bread - 2.50 marks (1.25 euros) ($1.39) Milk - 1.50 marks (.75 euros) ($0.84) HELSINKI, Finland (markkas vs. euros) Bread - 6 markkas (1 euro) ($1.10) Milk - 3.95 markkas (0.66 euros) ($0.73) MADRID, Spain (pesetas vs. euros) Bread - 165 pesetas (.98 euros) ($1.09) Milk - 93 pesetas (.55 euros) ($0.62) DUBLIN, Ireland (punts vs. euros) Bread - 79 pence (.61 euros) ($0.68) Milk - 64 pence (.50 euros) ($0.55) LISBON, Portugal (escudos vs. euros) Bread - 145 escudos (0.71 euros) ($0.79) Milk - 126 escudos (0.62 euros) ($0.69)

To: PaulM who wrote (11101)	5/2/1998 12:23:00 AM
From: Terry Rose	Respond to of 116762

Paul, The weird thing is this Japanese central bank official was investigating the corruption and not personally under investigation. You are on to a story with this post. Sounds fishy. Speaking of suspicious deaths. It seems the gentleman who found Clinton's cashier check along with other Whitewater momentos in an abandoned junk yard car in Little Rock last year has died. Seems this 28 year old lost control of his car and ran into a utility pole and did not survive the accident. Terry,

To: PaulM who wrote (11101)	5/2/1998 11:32:00 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 116762

>>Not the sort of thing that inspires confidence. Probably a result of the corruptions probe. But its also possible something big is about to fail.<< I agree. But it could also be that the chief felt he had failed in his duty to stamp out corruption. And suicide was for him the honourable Japanese way out to 'escape' shame and public opprobium and condemnation. Perhaps time will tell for sure. It's a Japanese way of apologizing without explanations. I am sure many wished that John Felderhof and David Walsh and the rest of the infamous Bre-X gang had done the same 'honourable' thing!!!

To: PaulM who wrote (11101)	5/4/1998 12:45:00 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116762

A US banker on the lam: NEWS BANKER NOW ON LAM LIVED HIGH ON HOG By DAREH GREGORIAN The fugitive banker who feds say disappeared with $66 million of his company's money was living the high life years before he vanished, The Post has learned. Ricardo Carrasco, 42, was last seen Feb. 19, when he skipped a meeting with his BankBoston bosses to discuss the whopping amount of missing cash. He's been on the lam ever since, officials said. Carrasco, a native of Uruguay who was assigned to BankBoston's New York office 10 years ago, started embezzling the cash in 1994 by making bogus loans and credit extensions to a shady Argentine businessman and his companies, according to affadivits filed in federal court by the Manhattan U.S. attorney. Within a year, financial records show, he was enjoying the best the Big Apple has to offer. "All signs indicate he'd been living it up," said Joe Valiquette of the FBI's New York office. He rented a 2,500-square-foot loft on Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village for $4,100 a month and would often be seen in trendy night spots like the Bowery Bar and Twilo. He had two cars - a Toyota Land Cruiser and a Jaguar. He got a house in tony East Hampton, and he co-owned an antique store with a friend in Long Island. Carrasco had seven credit cards, and in 1995, he racked up more than $84,000 in charges on just one of them, including $45,000 in merchandise for his home and $10,000 in dining bills from ritzy restaurants. Another $15,000 went to travel expenses, including vacations in South America and the Caribbean. His salary at the time was $288,000 a year, plus about $100,000 in stock options. He got a raise in 1996, making $345,000, but his world started to crash in around him toward the end of last year. In the fall, bank officials noticed several "irregularities" at the New York branch, investigators said. When he was first confronted by his superiors, Carrasco, a 20-year employee of BankBoston, acknowledged some money was missing because of "administrative errors," one investigator said. But an internal audit by the company early in January showed that up to $70 million was missing from his department. Bank officials flew down from Boston on Feb. 19 to meet with Carrasco, but he never showed up. He apparently went back to his apartment and packed up some clothes. But most of his expensive belongings, including designer suits, a home entertainment system and the two cars, were left behind. Doing record checks, investigators determined he spent the next few nights in a flophouse on Jane Street before flying to California under an assumed name. Carrasco is unmarried and has no relatives in the United States. Officials fear he's fled the country and have launched an international search for him. "The focus is to determine how the theft occurred and to what extent he profited. We have more questions than answers," Valiquette said. BankBoston has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to Carrasco's arrest and conviction. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the FBI at (212) 384-1000. "Among our white-collar criminal investigations, he is a major, major fugitive," Valiquette said. "He's someone we would love to apprehend." MORE NEWS Copyright (c) 1998, N.Y.P. Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of the New York Post is prohibited.