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34. ''The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society...

Sun Mar 29, 2015, 02:38 PM

Mar 2015

and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings." -- President John F. Kennedy

Lance was formally precluded from engaging in financial transactions while director of OMB. However, according to later SEC charges, Lance continued to meet with General Olmstead regarding the sale of FGB, and put Olmstead in touch with William G. Middendorf, a former secretary of the Navy who ultimately decided to take over FGB. Lance met with both Olmstead and Middendorf at the Washington Metropolitan Club about the proposed sale while director of OMB.(12). As of April 1977, Middendorf and a group of twenty investors purchased Olmstead's interests in FGB, and Middendorf was installed as the chairman of the bank. But the takeover group, including former ambassador to Iran Joseph Farland, Arkansas banker Jackson Stephens, and Occidental Petroleum chairman Armand Hammer, swiftly began to disintegrate. By November, 1977 the shareholders had split, with Stephens heading a group opposed to Middendorf -- even as the Federal Reserve ordered Olmstead and his group to end their dual relationship to both International Bank and FGB by January 31, 1978.(13)

Remember BCCI.

One of the leading legal practices in Arkansas, The Rose Law Firm often represented Mr. Jackson Stephens.

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