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    Riggs Bank was a bank headquartered in Washington, D.C. For most of its history, it was the largest bank headquartered in that city. On May 13, 2005, after...
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  • Riggs is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Anna Rankin Riggs (1835-1908), American social reformer Arthur Riggs (geneticist)...
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  • against her bank account with the Riggs Bank in Washington, D.C. since 1994 be examined. Some of these investigations led to the Riggs Bank scandals of...
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    Riggs National Bank is the historic former headquarters building of Riggs Bank, located at 1503–1505 Pennsylvania Avenue, Northwest, Washington, D.C.,...
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    "Pinochet, con nombres de 'chapa', abrió cuentas en el Riggs en 1985" [Pinochet opened accounts at Riggs under false names in 1985]. Radio Cooperativa (in...
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  • foreign governments for many years. In 1997, Riggs Bank bought J. Bush & Co. and made Bush CEO & President of Riggs Investment, a firm based in New Haven, Connecticut...
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  • in Washington, D.C. After suffering from bank failure in 1990, the bank was acquired by Riggs Bank. The bank was chartered in 1809. Daniel Carroll of...
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    Robert Allbritton (category American bank presidents)
    previously the final CEO of Riggs National Corporation, the parent of Riggs Bank, from 2001 to 2005, when PNC Bank acquired the bank. Allbritton has been described...
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  • and Joe Allbritton. He remained a member of the board of Riggs Bank's parent company Riggs National Corporation until 2004. Allbritton and his wife,...
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  • resort. In 1992, a settlement was reached in a lawsuit by Riggs Bank against Columbia First Bank Chairman Melvin Lenkin, a Hadid partner in a Washington...
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    investigation into Riggs Bank, a Washington-based bank into which most of Equatorial Guinea's oil revenues were paid until recently, and which also banked for Chile's...
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  • Atlanta Business Chronicle. May 9, 2004. Barbash, Fred (July 16, 2004). "Riggs Bank Sold to PNC Financial Services Group". Washington Post. Capital One Financial...
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    close relationship with the Washington DC-based Riggs Bank. He is said to have been welcomed by top Riggs officials, who held a luncheon in his honor. Publicity...
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    2004). "With Riggs, PNC Buys a Bit of History". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 23, 2018. "Farmer and Mechanics of Riggs Bank". DC City Guide...
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    April 3, 2017. Program featuring the purchase check cashed for gold at Riggs Bank (17:00 minute mark). Original Document of Check to Purchase Alaska Archived...
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    Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her roles include Emma Peel in the TV...
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    in Santiago. However, after investigations in the United States into Riggs Bank facilitating the concealment of millions of dollars of Augusto Pinochet's...
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    Charles C. Glover (category American bank presidents)
    D.C. in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was President of Riggs Bank, an effective advocate of urban beautification in Washington under the...
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  • Education Fund. Riggs was born in Georgetown, D.C. (now part of Washington), the son of Elisha Riggs and his first wife, Alice (née Lawrason) Riggs. After his...
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    business with PEPs without following adequate procedures, as in the case of Riggs Bank in Washington, D.C. In spite of regulation, political leaders like Muammar...
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  • Elisha Riggs (June 13, 1779 – August 3, 1853) was an American merchant, soldier and banker who founded the Riggs National Bank. Riggs was born on June...
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    months later. In October 2007, she was arrested again in the frame of the Riggs Bank case, along with Pinochet's five children and 17 other people (including...
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  • time to AP Bank. In 1984 Riggs National Bank, of Washington, DC, purchased AP Bank, which became Riggs AP bank in 1987, and then Riggs Bank Europe. In...
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    planning sessions in the home of Charles C. Glover, president of the Riggs Bank, the Protestant Episcopal Church Foundation was created on January 6,...
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  • path of least resistance." In January 2005, talking of a case in which Riggs Bank failed to report suspicious transaction by General Augusto Pinochet, the...
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  • Subcommittee on Investigations exposed the Nguema's family secret accounts at Riggs Bank in Washington and five years after non-profit Global Witness discovered...
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    fined and prosecuted for failure to comply with the BSA. Most famously, Riggs Bank, in Washington D.C., was prosecuted and functionally driven out of business...
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    the Nguema/Mongomo group was deposited in Riggs Bank in Washington, D.C. According to Human Rights Watch, Riggs had been aware of the level of corruption...
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    million of his own money into Bussard's Compact Tokamak. Funding by the Riggs Bank led to this effort being known as the Riggatron. TFTR won the construction...
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    passport forgery following the publication of a report concerning the Riggs Bank in July 2004 by the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations...
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