Talk:Riggs Bank

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[edit] NPOV?

How much Bush-bashing is acceptable before something becomes non-NPOV? The usual standards used 'round here do not leave me with a warm fuzzy feeling. Capnned (talk) 16:52 11 Sep 2005 (UTC)

[edit] DMG413's changes

DMG413 recently made some good changes, NPOVing and generally cleaning up. However he also removed a few sentences that I feel were worthwhile to keep (e.g. that Riggs was only controlled by the Albrittons since the 80s, or that Pinochet was invited to open an account by Riggs executives, or the statement by a Riggs regulator). I'm going to put those back in. Perhaps we could discuss it here? Quadell (talk) 13:54, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for all the contributions. I had it in mind that the Albrittons acquired ownership earlier - though Joe became chairman in 1981 - so upon checking, I'm not sure which is right. Some of the Pinochet info - not so much about the invitation, but the background stuff on the man - is already on the Augusto Pinochet page, I think, and need not be here. And as far as the last paragraph, the quote from the regulator is purely PR, and the proposed legislation seems related to Riggs in the sense of convenient timing more than anything else. --DMG413 03:18, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

May have come across it, but ... [1]

[edit] Canada bank

It looks like there was a time in the 70s when he was banking with Canadian bank. Would be really good if someone who know the name of the Canadian bank would include it somewhere in the front page. See this quote "Thompson describes an October 1994 trip that she and two other senior Riggs executives, Timothy Coughlin and Paul Cushman, took to Chile to thank that country's military for recently returning its "official" accounts to Riggs from a Canadian bank after more than 15 years. Thompson said the military had moved its money to Canada in the 1970s, "directly related to the assassination of Chilean Ambassador Letelier in 1976. In July 1994, the official accounts were brought back to Riggs."" I think a link to Carol Thompson under "see also" would be cool since she is central to the scandal [2]