Banks of the United States

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List of banks of the United States of America
1
1st Constitution Bancorp
1st Independence Financial Group
1st Source
A
A. G. Becker
ANZ Amerika Samoa Bank
Abacus Federal Savings Bank
Adirondack Trust Company
Advanta
Alerus Financial
Alex. Brown & Sons
AmSouth Bancorporation
AmTrust Bank
Amalgamated Bank of Chicago
Amarillo National Bank
American Continental Bank
American Plus Bank
American Premier Bank
American Savings Bank
American State Bank
American Trust and Savings Bank
Amresco
Apple Bank for Savings
Arvest Bank
Asia Bank
Associated Banc-Corp
Atlantic National Bank Annex
B
BB&T
BOK Financial Corporation
Bache & Co.
Baker Boyer Bank
Bank Texas
Bank of America
Bank of America, Los Angeles
Bank of American Samoa
Bank of California
Bank of Hawaii
Bank of Holland
Bank of Italy (USA)
Bank of New York
Bank of New York Mellon
Bank of North America
Bank of North Dakota
Bank of the Orient
Bank of the West
BankFinancial FSB
Banner Bank
Barnett Bank
Beal Bank
Beal Bank Nevada
Bear Stearns
Herman K. Beebe
Beneficial Bank
Berkshire Capital Securities
Bessemer Trust
Bristol County Savings Bank
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
Busey Bank
C
C US Bank
C. K. Cooper & Company
C.E. Unterberg, Towbin
Cal National Bank
Cantor Fitzgerald
Capital Mortgage Funding
C cont.
Cardinal bank
Carver Bancorp
Cathay Bank
Central Bank and Trust
Central Pacific Bank
Central State Bank
Chase (bank)
Chevy Chase Bank
Chinese American Bank
Citibank
Citibank South Dakota, N.A.
Citizens & Southern National Bank
Citizens Financial Group
Citizens Republic Bancorp
City National Bank
Colonial Bank
Commerce Bancshares
Commerce Bank & Trust Company
Commerce Bank and Trust Company
Commerce National Bank
CoreFirst Bank & Trust
Corn Exchange Bank
Cowen Group
Credit One Bank
Credit Suisse First Boston
D
Dart National Bank
Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh
Dollar Bank
Dollar Dry Dock Savings Bank
Dukes County Savings Bank
E
East West Bank
Emigrant Savings Bank
EverTrust Bank
Export-Import Bank of the United States
F
FBOP Corporation
Falcon International Bank
Far East National Bank
Federal Savings Bank
Fifth Third Bank
Financo, Inc.
First American International Bank
First Bank and Trust
First Bank of the United States
First Citizens BancShares
First Command Financial Planning, Inc.
First General Bank
First Hawaiian Bank
First Horizon National Corporation
First International Bank
First Internet Bank of Indiana
First Interstate BancSystem
First Interstate Bancorp
First Market Bank
First Midwest Bank
First National Bank (Kansas)
First National Bank Alaska
Old First National Bank of Punta Gorda
First Niagara Bank
First Republic Bank
First RepublicBank Corporation
First State Bank (Nebraska)
First Tennessee
First United Bank
First of America
FirstMerit Corp.
F cont.
Firstar Corporation
Forcht Group of Kentucky
Friedman Billings Ramsey
Frost National Bank
Fulton Financial Corporation
G
GE Capital Bank
Georgia Bank & Trust
Global Commerce Bank
Golden Security Bank
Goldman Sachs
Great Western Bank
Greater Community Bancorp
Greenhill & Co.
Guaranty Bank of California
H
Hampden Bank
Harris Bank
Hawaii National Bank
Hibernia National Bank
Hills Bank and Trust Company
Home Federal Bank
Homestar (company)
HSBC Bank USA
Huntington Bancshares
Huntington State Bank
Hyde Park Bank (Chicago)
Hyde Park Savings Bank
I
Illinois National Bank
Independent Bank
ING Direct
ING Group
International Bank of Commerce
Investors Bank & Trust
Irwin Union Bank and Trust
J
JPMorgan Chase
K
Kennebunk Savings Bank
KeyBank
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.
L
LaSalle Bank
LaSalle Bank Midwest
Ladenburg Thalmann
Laredo National Bank
Lehman Brothers
Lexington State Bank
Liberty Bank
Liberty Bell Bank
Los Angeles National Bank
M
M&T Bank
Main Street Bank
Mars National Bank
Mechanics Co/operative Bank
Mechanics National Bank
Merrill Lynch
MetroCorp Bancshares
Michigan National Bank
Moody National Bank
Morgan Stanley
Mortgage Foundation
Mountain National Bank
N
NCB Capital Impact
National Bank of Commerce
The National Bank of Georgia (U.S.)
National City Corp.
National Cooperative Bank
National Park Bank

References

. ^ The Miami Herald; February 27, 1978, Monday; Section 1, Page 8, Column 1; an abstract of William R. Amlong's article:
"Representative Lester Wolff, chairman of House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, says Guillermo Hernandez-Cartaya is being investigated as a business partner of Fidel Castro. His committee is looking at $100 million loan arranged by Castro and Hernandez-Cartaya's Miami-based international banking firm, WFC Corp, to Colombia. Wolff alleges loan conditions include facililtation of cocaine smuggling from Colombia to US by Miami firm. Cites intelligence reports from various federal agencies."
^ "Cuban Exile Banker Under Wide Inquiry", Jeff Gerth, 15 December 1977, A1, The New York Times
^ a b c d Endless Enemies: The Making of an unfriendly world, Jonathan Kwitny, 1984. Meuthen Publications, ISBN 0-86553-124-2
^ Gloria Marina; Patrick Riordan (reporter) (March 19, 1978). "Sunday; Section 4, Page 8, Column 1", The Miami Herald.

Investigation and scandal

WFC came to national attention when an investigation in 1976 by the District Attorney of Dade County, Florida, (along with four other governmental agencies; besides the Dade County Public Safety Office, the FBI, the IRS, the DEA, and the Comptroller of the Currency all participated in the joint investigation) revealed that the WFC held the dubious distinction of being the longest running (and largest) launderer of money for Colombian cocaine smugglers; the investigation proceeded for approximately two years. Somewhat ironically, the law enforcement personnel literally stumbled onto lead, when, during an investigation of a pest-control service called King Spray Service suspected of drug smuggling, two agents of the Dade County Public Safety Office (which, under Donald Skelton, led the investigation until the Justice Department took over) were searching through the company's garbage, in which they found financial records of WFC, recording very large transfers of funds between the bank and the company, along with small amounts of marijuana. The investigation ruined WFC Corp, and it closed in 1980. [3]
Cartaya used the bank as the centerpiece of an elaborate corporate labyrinth, through which the funds and bad loans (to Cartaya and his associates) were filtered and "laundered". An example of the labyrinth: WFC Corp. was 100% owned by the WFC Group, which itself was owned by Cartaya to the amount of %24.7; another %23.3 was held by "Neo-Floridian Development Company"- of NFDC, %54.4 was held by Cartaya, again.
A considerable proportion of the money was funneled through a bank in the Bahamas called the Cisalpine Bank, and from thence to the Vatican Bank to Swiss numbered accounts; this bank was owned by Vatican Bank manager Archbishop Paul Marcinkus and notorious dirty Italian banker Roberto Calvi. Interestingly, the Cisalpine bank seems to have also been laundering heroin profits through the Nugan Hand Bank bank for the Grey Wolves.
The bank was involved with a number of prominent Floridians, such as Walter Sterling Surrey, a stockholder in, director of, and lawyer for, WFC Corp. Kwitny recounts,
Surrey says he came aboard mainly to help start a foreign-based mutual fund for an old client, a Cuban exile who helped found World Finance. He says he dropped out in 1976 when the mutual fund deal fell through, and that he was unaware of any criminal or intelligence activities of the company.[3]
The investigation and its aftermath were marred and dogged by persistent rumors and allegations of corruption and cover ups by various governmental agencies. Jonathan Kwitny writes this of the Justice Department's head investigator, Jerome Sanford:
He says the main investigation was halted by Washington in 1978, after the CIA objected that 12 of the Justice Department's chief targets were "of interest" to it. Sanford says he was told that this meant the men he was investigating were CIA operatives of one sort or another. Florida lawmen who worked with Sanford backed up his story.[3]
Two of the suspects were Richard Fincher and Hernandez-Cartaya. In the aftermath, Florida Attorney General Robert Shevin returned $7,600 in contributions from WFC-connected Latin businessmen. Dade County Democratic chairman Michael Abrams resigned from the board of a WFC-backed insurance company[4].
Kwitny and Sanford were not the only ones to detect things amiss; Kwitny offers this extract from a House Select Committee on Narcotics and Drug Abuse staff report:
There is no question that the parameters of the WFC can encompass a large body of criminal activity, including aspects of political corruption, gun running, as well as narcotics trafficking on an international level... It is against this background that our investigation encountered a number of veiled or direct references to CIA or KGB complicity or involvement in narcotics trafficking in South Florida.[3]
There were also allegations that 8 of the 12 bank directors were either current or former CIA employees, and that then-CIA director William J. Casey (coincidentally, a Roman Catholic) apparently stymied the investigation for reasons of "national security". And so the two year investigation ended in the conviction of Cartaya in 1982 for nothing more than tax evasion.

Ajman Arab Bank

Another bank had been started in the United Arab Emirates's Sheikdom of Ajman, with the collaboration of the Ajman government. It was called the Ajman Arab Bank. It was plagued by the same problems as Unibank, and was shut down May of 1977. Cartaya went to the UAE, apparently to try to explain the missing money, and the authorities confiscated his passport. Cartaya none the less escaped the UAE, using documents brought him by a fellow Cuban.

Pan American Bank

In 1976, the Comptroller of the Currency forced Cartaya out of his control of the Pan American Bank of Hiateah in Florida- 2 million dollars had gone missing due to bad overdrafts and uncollected funds. This incident was the reason for the Comptroller's later involvement in the investigation that broke open the WFA scandal.
Also in 1976, US Customs agents intercepted a private plan inbound from Panama. Aboard was thousands of dollars in cash, strapped to a woman associated with WFC's Vice President. On the plane were also that Vice President, Cartaya, and Cartaya's wife.

Unibank

Two years previously, in 1973, WFC founded a bank in Panama called "Unibank". It received with unusual swiftness Panama's most liberal banking license, a Class One license. Most of the equity was held by WFC, but a total of %24 (8 per cent each) was held by three American banks- Mercantile International Corporation (subsidiary Mercantile Trust Company of St. Louis), First National Bank of Louisville (subsidiary of First Kentucky National Corporation), and Midatlantic International Inc. (subsidiary of Midatlantic Banks of West Orange, N. S.).
Unibank was rather successful- by 1976 it had affiliates world-wide and ~50 million dollars in deposit. Unibank was instrumental in the frauds, as it often diverted loans and loan repayments to WFC, where they typically vanished. Financial fraud was not the only actitiy- it diversified into arms smuggling and circumventing the embargo of Cuba. The deceit could not last forever, and in 1977, the Banking Commissioner of Panama seized Unibank; he had little choice since Unibank was a debtor to the National Bank of Panama, and already $10,000,000 had been lost. Unibank would not be the only bank begun by WFC principals to collapse with great financial loss.

Overseas loans and banks

In 1975, WFC was designated an "exclusive official agent by the Colombian Government for a loan of $100 million, the largest in the nation's history."