He and Mary had become serious, he said, and Ghaith Pharaon was upset about it—so upset that he’d decreed that they stop seeing each other. As I came to understand the sequence of events, Alex and Mary had hidden their relationship from Ghaith, but they felt guilty about it so they finally decided to go to Ghaith and spill the beans; the beans apparently included the fact that Alex had.
In the mid-1970s, an obscure Saudi money man named Ghaith Pharaon began investing large sums in U.S. banks, first in Detroit and Houston, and then, in 1977, in the National Bank of Georgia, which he acquired from Jimmy Carter’s one-time director of the Office of Management and Budget, Bert Lance. Only later was it learned that Pharaon was actually a front man for a Pakistani financier named.
The Subcommittee found numerous connections among Keating and BCCI-related persons and entities, such as BCCI director Alfred Hartman; CenTrust chief David Paul and CenTrust itself; Capcom front-man Lawrence Romrell; BCCI shipping affiliate, the Gokal group and the Gokal family; and possibly Ghaith Pharaon. The ties between BCCI and Keating's financial empire require further investigation.
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Two journalists withTimemagazine didn’t just report on the BCCI story: they became players in a game of journalistic three-dimensional chess—full of murky leads and shady sources who often were not what they seemed.Through their fast-paced, firsthand account, we are there as Beaty and Gwynne arrange back-channel rendezvous: find a way around government stonewalling; and slowly begin to.
Published: 2 Dec 2012 This past weekend, the media reported that Israel has decided to advance the planning of thousands of apartments in the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim, as part of the E-1 plan, in the area connecting the settlement to Jerusalem.
Morgenthau named Ghaith Pharaon as a front man for BCCI who had gotten a secret loan from the bank to invest in three U.S. banks. The New York Fed -- not Washington -- also took action. It coordinated an action on the fourth of July weekend 1991 to shut BCCI down. And, finally, the DA's investigation forced Washington to act, though it kept the case as limited as possible. Soon after.