Wednesday, September 26, 2012

US probe of HSBC tangled up in bureaucracy, infighting





In the second half of 2010, a senior federal prosecutor in West Virginia drafted an impassioned plea to his bosses in Washington to end infighting as multiple government agencies pursued a high-stakes investigation of HSBC Holdings.


William Ihlenfeld II had been fighting a losing battle against fellow prosecutors in Washington and Brooklyn, who were jointly conducting a parallel probe into the British bank’s controls over illicit transactions.









via Business feed http://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/1047682/us-probe-hsbc-tangled-bureaucracy-infighting

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