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Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is a U.S. government agency responsible for regulating and supervising all national banks and federal savings associations.[^1]

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is a U.S. government agency responsible for regulating and supervising all national banks and federal savings associations.1

Involvement in BCCI Scandal

In February 1978, an OCC officer, Joseph E. Vaez, submitted a report on the BCCI that characterized it as a bank dangerously out of control.1 The OCC claimed to have "lost" this memo, and only released it after a congressional subpoena.2

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  • Bank of America, 1977–1978, London examination of Bank of America's overseas holdings, including BCCI4
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  1. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 12. ↩
  2. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 382. ↩

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