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The Battalion
Tuesday, July 6,1993
Aid to help fight money-laundering
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Texas has a reputation
for being one of the biggest money-laundering
meccas in the United States, with hundreds of
millions of dollars of illegal cash being con
verted to "clean" money each year.
And that's something state and federal law
enforcement agencies want to change.
At a congressional hearing in San Antonio
on Thursday, Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary
Ronald K. Noble will announce that his agency
is providing a grant to help Texas authorities
combat money laundering.
"Texas will be the first state in the nation to
receive this assistance because of the magni
tude of its money-laundering problem and be
cause Texas has made outstanding efforts to
fight money laundering," says Rep. Henry B.
Gonzalez, the San Antonio Democrat who
chairs the House Banking Committee.
Neither Gonzalez nor Treasury Department
officials would discuss the size of the grant
prior to Thursday's Banking Committee field
hearing, which will examine whether new fed
eral legislation is needed to stem money laun
dering.
Several factors contribute to Texas' emer
gence as a money-laundering capital: its prox
imity to Mexico; a flourishing drug trade along
the border; and the border money exchange
houses.
"Miami and Los Angeles for a long time
were large money centers, but now South
Texas has become a major money center in its
own right," says Vincent Klink, resident agent
in charge of the U.S. Customs Service office in
McAllen.
He attributes the problem to the ease with
which foreigners can cross into Texas and ex
change huge bundles of cash at the money ex
change houses, known as casas de cambio.
"In reality, most of them are money-laun
dering fronts," he says.
Customs agents have witnessed people fly
ing into the McAllen airport with duffle bags
stuffed with $1 million in cash — money they
legally report as belonging to a particular casa
de cambio, Klink says.
While the money is legally reported when
brought into the country, it may not remain le
gal if federal agents can prove it derived from
an illegal source.
Klink and other law enforcement officials
say most of the "dirty" cash is profit from drug
or weapons sales. The owners of the money
want to launder it so they can invest in the
United States, they say.
"It makes good sense to invest your money
here; and drug dealers, like other business
men, are trying to invest their money rather
than have it sit in Mason jars buried in their
back yard," Klink says.
While the money keeps coming in, no one
seems to be able to specify how much — in
large part because the illegal cash typically is
laundered through several steps.
"They do a long, complicated paper trail
shifting money from various businesses — le
gitimate businesses — and then get the money
into banks," says Ron Dusek, spokesman for
Texas Attorney General Dan Morales.
Says Steve Yost, spokesman for the Internal
Revenue Service's Houston district office: "It's
big business, but I don't think anybody feels
comfortable quantifying it."
"All we can track is those cases we are
made aware of. We are fairly certain we might
be doing a better job than we've ever done be
fore ... hut doing this type of investigation is
akin to trying to get a drink from a fire hy
drant — it's just a little overwhelming."
The Texas Legislature in May approved leg-
Campus News Briefs
Clark chosen for
Research Fellow
College receives
funding gifts
Carolyn Clark, assistant pro
of e '
fessor of educational human re
source development at Texas
A&M, has been appointed a
1993 Research Fellow for the
Project for the Study of Adult
Learning.
Clark was chosen after the
selection committee reviewed
her proposal entitled "Chang
ing Course: Initiating the
Transformational Learning
Process."
Clark specializes in adult
learning, adult development,
feminist issues in education and
qualitative research methods.
M.E. department
selects new head
Dr. C.P. Peterson, Tenneco
Professor of Engineering at
Texas A&M, has been selected
to head the Department of Me
chanical Engineering.
Peterson, the author or
coauthor of more than 70 re
ferred journal articles and one
hook, was named by the Na
tional Science Foundation in
Washington, D.C., to be direc
tor of its thermal transport and
thermal Processing program.
Pike picked for
professorship
The Texas A&M College of
Engineering received a series of
gifts last week.
Anderson Consulting Firm
donated $20,000 to endow two
scholarships in the Department
of Industrial Engineering and
Computer Science.
Lockwood, Andrews & New
man, Inc. in Houston pledged
$25,000 to establish the Frank H.
Newman, Jr. '31 Scholarship in
Civil Engineering.
The American Petroleum In
stitute in Houston pledged
$12,500 to the Department of
Petroleum Engineering.
Hewlett-Packard in Palo
Alto, Calif, donated telecom
munications test equipment
valued at more than $49,000 to
the Electronics Program in the
Department of Engineering
Technology. The equipment in
cludes an HP Network Adviso
ry series 486 mainframe with
options and accessories.
A donation was also re
ceived from Kate Conner, wid
ow of Harold D. Conner '67,
who established an honorary
scholarship in the Department
of Civil Engineering.
The Department of Civil En
gineering was also remembered
in the will of Anna Lee Fischer
of Austin. She donated $109,469
to the department.
Dr. John L. Fike, Jr. was re
cently named holder of the Vic
tor H. Thompson III '64 En
dowed Professorship in Elec
tronics Engineering Technology
at Texas A&M.
The professorship was estab
lished in 1989 thanks to a
$500,000 donation from the late
J.R. Thompson in honor of his
nephew, Victor.
hike's research interests in
clude algorithms and heuristics
for network design and analy
sis in telecommunications.
Broussard funds
M.E. scholarship
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Brous
sard '44 recently donated $82,110
to Texas A&M University.
Some of the money will be
used to establish the Mr. & Mrs.
Douglas E. Broussard '44 Schol
arship in Mechanical Engineer
ing. The remaining $15,000 will
establish the Douglas E. Brous
sard '44 Endowed Diamond
Century Club membership.
Mr. Broussard is a registered
Professional Engineer in Texas
and served in the U.S. Army
during World War II.
New treasurer takes office
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — Former Longview
Mayor Martha Whitehead, Gov.
Ann Richards' pick as the state's
new treasurer, will be sworn into
office Tuesday.
Whitehead, who was
Longview's mayor since 1991, has
promised to make the Treasury
more efficient and says she will
run for the office in 1994.
Richards appointed White-
head, 52, a Democrat, on June 18
to succeed Republican Kay Bailey
Hutchison, who was elected June
5 to the U.S. Senate.
"She is a dynamic leader,"
Richards said. "As the mayor of
Longview, she has proven that she
knows how to make government
work."
A native of Pittsburg, Texas,
Whitehead is a Phi Beta Kappa
graduate of Southern Methodist
University with a master's degree
from East Texas State.
She was elected to the
Longview City Council in 1987
and 1990.
She has served as vice presi
dent of the Good Shepherd Med
ical Center, and has served on the
East Texas State Board of Regents
and the Texas Municipal League
board. She and her husband,
lawyer R. Laughton Whitehead
Jr., have three children.
Whitehead's appointment
gives Democrats six of the seven
top statewide offices.
She said she will seek election
to a full, four-year term as treasur
er next year.
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Crime Stoppers
On Wednesday, June 23, between 5 and 5:30a.m., The Wellborn
Grocery Store located on FM 2154 in Wellborn was the site of an at
tempted burglary. The owner stated the suspect(s) drove a vehicle
around to the rear of the store and back to the front and began ram
ming into the two metal doors in the front entrance of the store.
The suspect(s) then attempted to break the lock by pulling the met
al doors from the bottom. The glass entry doors behind the metal
doors were both shattered and the metal doors were destroyed.
The suspect(s) were unable to gain entry into the store. The clam-
age was estimated at $2500.
Brazos County Sheriff's Investigators have no suspect(s) or vehi
cle information on this crime.
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County Crime Stoppers need your help to identify the person(s) re
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call Crime Stoppers at /75-TIPS. When you call you will be given a
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Crime Stoppers will pay you up to $1,000 in cash. Crime Stoppers
also pays cash for information on any felony crime or the location
of any wanted fugitive.
Correction
The July 1 issue of The Battalion incorrectly reported that
high school teachers are visiting Texas A&M to learn about
cloning dinosaur DNA. Although experimentation in cloning at
the University is being done, no actual dinosaur DNA is being
used. The Battalion regrets the error.
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