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category	tags	summary	born	died	location
BCCI Scandal	Person BCCI Banker	Robert Mueller was the head of the Justice Department's criminal division.	1944-08-07	2026-03-21	New York City, New York, USA

Robert Mueller was the head of the Department of Justice's criminal division.¹

Role in BCCI Scandal

Mueller appeared on ABC's Nightline to refute Time magazine's charges regarding the Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandal.² He stated that the Justice Department had won a victory in the Tampa money-laundering case and disputed claims of insufficient investigation.³ He denied the existence of missing tapes from Jack Blum's interviews with former BCCI bankers who discussed political payoffs and BCCI's secret ownership of First American Bank.⁴

Mueller asserted that the Justice Department had provided information leading to the shutdown of BCCI's offices in Florida.⁵ He maintained that all allegations or evidence provided to the Justice Department were being pursued.⁶

Footnotes

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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. 10. ↩︎

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. 150. ↩︎

3. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 150. ↩︎

4. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 150. ↩︎

5. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 150. ↩︎

6. Beaty, Jonathan and Gwynne, S. C. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride into the Secret Heart of BCCI. New York: Random House, 1993, p. 152. ↩︎