Show A24 NATIONWORLD The Salt Lake Tribune PI Friday October 2 1992 rI E--17:4-1r Aide to Hatch Key Figure hi BCCI Loans to Saddam? Ex Atlanta Banker to Get Day in Court THE ASSOCIATED fraud He pleaded guilty in June to 60 counts but later tried to withdraw the plea saying he was made a scapegoat by top BNL officials Drogoul 43 could have been sentenced to life in prison fined $175 million and ordered to pay $18 billion in restitution At a sentencing hearing Thursday prosecutors reversed themselves and asked US District Judge Marvin Shoob to throw out the plea bargain Shoob agreed "Drogoul cannot have it both ways" said acting US Attorney Gerrilyn Brill "He can't plead guilty ask the court for leniency and project a public image of in PRESS ATLANTA — A judge threw out a plea agreement Thursday and cleared the way for a trial for a former bank manager on charges of masterminding a scheme to loan Iraq $55 billion War military during its buildup A lengthy trial is expected in the case which has raised questions about whether the Bush administration covered up its role in arming Saddam Ilussein before the war Christopher DrogouL former Atlanta branch manager for ItaBanca ly's government-owneNazionale del Lavoro will be tried on 347 counts of bank al Sc-and- THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON — In the most comprehensive look yet at the activities of the Bank of Credit & Commerce International in the United States a Senate report released Thursday showed that the bank derailed congressional inquiries into its affairs The analysis by the ranking Democrat and Republican on the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism Narcotics and International Operations offers a scathing portrait of how political influence and international bribery combined with government inaction contributed to one of the biggest financial frauds in history The report depicts many cul4': prits Closest to home it lays out a 11'T ::::::i::: multimillion-dollaE:: camlobbying 1771 :::1: paign involving John Culver a former Democratic senator from Iowa and a senior aide to Sen Orrin Hatch The report said the campaign had persuaded lawmakers not to conduct investigations and sought to conceal information It said Michael Pillsbury the Hatch aide was receiving money from one of the bank's biggest t ': shareholders while he was giving BCCI lawyers inside information about congressional and inquiries Pillsbury told the panel the cash was an advance for a book he was writing with the shareholder Mohammad Hammoud In an interview with The Times ":" in August Pillsbury said that all ::?":"":::b:i :::::4:4 :::W:::: l' :" of his activities on behalf of BCCI ' ::z:::::'' :: ::::: :::"::"i':::"":7::?'':: :':: were ordered by Hatch The report also cited US intelI ' ligence agencies that sat on the '!' :S' powerful information they had accumulated about BCCI law enforcement officials frozen by turf ': ' ::::' :: battles and regulators who ignored mounting evidence that the :: bank was secretly taking over ma" jor US financial institutions "BCCI constituted international global crime on a level that boggles the mind" said Sen John t' '" chairman of the Kerry subcommittee ::: Yet said Colorado Sen Hank Brown the panel's ranking Re! publican BCCI's lobbyists were '' ' so powerful "there was not a single committee of this Congress '':' that wanted to conduct a complete thorough investigation" But most of the report's recom''''' 's' center on mendations regulation :'" of financial institutions and pri- ' A i 't vate lawyers not elected officials The report recommended that the government seek ways to punN : ish banks that do business in 0: countries that loosely regulate international banks And it recomk s ts: mended that the Senate Judiciary ( t ‘:': Committee consider stronger leg'i 4 islation to limit lobbying by 'Isi '1 4 ' officials '' Dea It State former 7 Pillsbury partment official became inA' 4: ' ' volved in the lobbying effort i": ::: 4 through his association with Mohammad Ilammoud who died in f 1990 the report said Hammoud was a close friend of Hatch The report charges that Pillsbury held meetings with officials of the Treasury and Justice departments — key agencies engaged in criminal probes of BCCI — "to evaluate their attitudes tof ward BCCI and to find ways to help BCCI achieve a more favorable outcome in its trial" on ' charges In a statement Thursday Hatch pointed out that he had called for ' a Senate Ethics Committee inquiry of Pillsbury's actions He said r' I :' ''' ' — he could not make any additional comment until that investigation was completed I Attempts to reach Pillsbury on f ? 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