SJT remains silent on Riggs Bank relationship

[seemslikeadream]

The connection between GW and Riggs runs deeper than Trachtenberg's position on the bank's board. Robert Allbritton, Riggs' CEO and son of its largest shareholder, is a member of the GW Board of Trustees (Albritton refused through a spokesman to comment). In addition, Riggs is one of four or five banks that handle the University's finances.

Trachtenberg referred all questions about Riggs to the bank's spokesman, Mark Hendrix. But Hendrix was equally unwilling to talk about GW's connections to the bank, and refused to comment on the investigation. He had, however, previously told The Hatchet, "All the publicity about Riggs has been whether we've made timely compliance in releasing information pertaining to the Bank Secrecy Act." This law requires that banks report suspicious activities of its clients to federal regulators.

Hendrix added that Riggs was taking all necessary actions to rectify its legal discrepancies.

According to reports in The Washington Post, the bank had been fined millions of dollars due to failures to ensure that clients' money did not come from or fund illicit activities. Riggs accounts were linked to officials from the Embassy of Saudi Arabia, the totalitarian government of Equatorial Guinea and former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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http://www.gwhatchet.com/news/2004/09/03/MetroNews/Sjt-Remains.Silent.On.Riggs.Bank.Relationship-710387.shtml

[NewYorkerfromMass]

1. Saudis laundered terrorist funds through it

it is all but proven. Bush family is the best friends the Saudis ever had.

[emad]

2. TRACHTENBERG! That name again (viz Dov O'Piss Zakheim,

WMD/NMD missiles policy, Robert Maxwell's disgraced business partner Larry Trachtenberg and his imminently co-bankruptee Kevin Maxwell...

SEEMS: just WHICH Trachtenberg does this article refer to, please???

[annabanana]

3. It's getting harder to maintain "the big lie" in today's world. n/t

[seemslikeadream]

4. University President Stephen Joel Trachtenberg

I'll try and find out more



does he look like anyone we know?

[emad]

5. Brother of David Trachtenberg, or brother of Maxwell's pal

Larry Trachtenberg???

Maybe looks a bit like



Zbigniew Brzezinski.....

[seemslikeadream]

6. no relative yet but he's a sweetie

GLOBALIZE THIS!: President of GWU Caves in to Police, New Clampdown on IMF/World Bank Protesters, Students Respond
by 10 Sep 2001
Modified: 10 Aug 2003
The administration at George Washington University has decided to close its campus and cancel classes at the end of September when the International Monetary Fund and World Bank hold their meetings. Administration President Stephen Trachtenberg has agreed to a police request to shut down the university, evict all students and use the campus as a launching pad for the police. However, students have called for strike in opposition to the plan.

Breaking News: Audio interview with student organizing against the evictions from campus.

Online with President Stephen Trachtenberg: claims GWU is "neutral" but buildings will be used for police.

Announcement and details of GWU closing and eviction of students.

Call for student strike in response.

To provide housing for students:

Anti-Capitalist Convergence Housing Form
Mobilization for Global Justice Housing Form
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:NCrXoU9P-YYJ:dc.indymedia.org/index.php%3Flimit_start%3D984+%22Stephen++Trachtenberg%22+&hl=en

Trachtenberg is the father of two sons: Adam Maccabee, who received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1997, and Ben Lev, who received a B.A. from Yale University in 2001. Trachtenberg and his wife, Francine Zorn Trachtenberg, will be celebrating their 31st wedding anniversary later this month. Mrs. Trachtenberg is senior vice president at WETA, Washington, D.C.’s public television station.

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:YONat3F-iCAJ:www.gwu.edu/~media/pressreleases/06-03-02-FatheroftheYear.htm+%22Stephen++Trachtenberg%22+father&hl=en

[lovuian]

7. Riggs is so Rigged

and the Bushes Helped