Enron-linked (NatWest) Scottish Banker found Dead

[Gouda]

I can't keep up anymore...<br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>'Hounded By The FBI'<br>Updated: 17:15, Wednesday July 12, 2006<br><br>A banker found dead and believed linked to a US fraud probe involving NatWest was allegedly "hounded by the FBI".<br><br>Married father-of-two Neil Coulbeck, 53, had gone missing from his home in Woodford Green, east London, on Thursday.<br><br>Civil rights group Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti, after Mr Coulbeck's body was found today, said friends of the dead man claimed America's Federal Bureau of Investigation had "hounded" him.<br><br>Sky News crime correspondent Martin Brunt said: "The man had been interviewed by the FBI. We don't know how important to the investigation he was but FBI sources suggest he was a pivotal character in the case."<br><br>Mr Coulbeck's body was discovered in Waltham Forest, east London. He was Head of Group Treasury at the Royal Bank of Scotland and is thought to have been a possible witness in the NatWest Three case.<br><br>The discovery comes as MPs debate the controversial decision to extradite three British bankers - dubbed the NatWest Three - to the US to face charges over the scandal.<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong><br>The men, who previously worked for NatWest, are accused of taking part in a multi-million pound fraud connected to the collapse of Enron.</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>All three - David Bermingham, Gary Mulgrew and Giles Darby - have denied any wrongdoing. They could spend up to two years in a high-security US prison awaiting trial unless they are granted bail.<br><br>The move to send them to Houston, Texas, is at the centre of a row over Britain's extradition agreement with the United States...<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1227489,00.html">www.sky.com/skynews/artic...89,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

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<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://prorev.com/foster.htm">prorev.com/foster.htm</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>AGENT: "We did him! We did him!"<br>DT: "Did who?"<br>AGENT: "Vince Foster."<br>DT "What do you mean?"<br>AGENT: "We did him!"<br>DT: "Well, where did you do him?"<br>AGENT: "Well, we did him somewhere else, but we dumped him in a queer<br>park to send Clinton and his queer wife a message!"<br><hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>NARRATOR - Miquel Rodriguez discovered that the investigators were treating witnesses inappropriately. Deputy Independent Counsels John Bates and Mark Tuohey and Associate Independent Counsel Brett Kavanaugh <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>used the FBI to harass and intimidate witnesses</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> who had no reason to lie. Witnesses who told investigators Foster's gray car was not at Fort Marcy Park were re-interviewed, harassed, and intimidated. The goal of Starr's office was to silence witnesses whose accounts contradicted its desired result.<br><br>MIQUEL RODRIGUEZ - One thing that I met fierce opposition to, in the trenches, inside the Independent Counsel was this, I was really upset that, the, um, the witnesses who had no incentive to lie, this is the way I phrased it, why is the <!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>FBI harassing and re-interviewing witnesses</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> who have no incentive to lie and yet we are treating with rubber gloves persons who do have an incentive to lie, and or at least not be candid. And who in fact, have made misstatements involving questionable...<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=monster@rigorousintuition>monster</A> at: 7/12/06 5:22 pm<br></i>