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George Wayne Smith [1] The Norco shootout was an armed confrontation between five heavily armed bank robbers and deputies of the Riverside County and San Bernardino County sheriffs' departments in Norco, California, United States, on May 9, 1980. Two of the five perpetrators and a sheriff's deputy were killed; eight other law enforcement ...
The North Hollywood shootout, also known as the Battle of North Hollywood, [2] was a confrontation between two heavily armed and armored bank robbers, Larry Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, and police officers in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles on February 28, 1997. Both robbers were killed, twelve police officers and eight ...
The Bank of America Corporation (often abbreviated BofA or BoA) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered at the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, with investment banking and auxiliary headquarters in Manhattan. The bank was founded by the merger of NationsBank ...
These are lists of the major tenants of the former World Trade Center in New York City at the time of the attacks in 2001.. 1 World Trade Center (North Tower) included the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Bank of America, Cantor Fitzgerald, Dai-Ichi Kangyo Group, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, and restaurant Windows on the World.
Ronald Ryan. Andrew George Scott (Captain Moonlite) Squizzy Taylor. Robberies. Bank of Australia robbery, 1828, £14,000 in promissory notes and coins. 1984 Sydney bank robbery and hostage crisis. Great Bookie robbery. Nelson robbery. Perth Mint Swindle.
Sheikh Zayed (77%) The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was an international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier. [1] The bank was registered in Luxembourg with head offices in Karachi and London. A decade after opening, BCCI had over 400 branches in 78 countries and assets in excess of US$ 20 billion ...
The 1986 FBI Miami shootout occurred on April 11, 1986, in Miami-Dade County, Florida, U.S. (the specific area was incorporated as Pinecrest in 1996), when a small group of field agents for the FBI attempted to apprehend William Russell Matix and Michael Lee Platt, who were suspected of committing a series of violent crimes in and around the Miami metropolitan area.
In 1791, Congress chartered the First Bank of the United States. The bank, which was jointly owned by the federal government and private stockholders, was a nationwide commercial bank which served as the bank for the federal government and operated as a regular commercial bank acting in competition with state banks.