Judge Backs Riggs's $16 Million Plea Deal A federal judge Tuesday approved requiring Riggs Bank to pay a $16 million criminal fine for its failure to abide by federal anti-money-laundering laws and lambasted the bank as "a greedy corporate henchman of dictators and their corrupt regimes." WORLD IN BRIEF U.N. Peacekeepers to Go To Sudan but Not Darfur UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Securi1y Council voted unanimously Thursday to authorize 10,700 peacekeepers for southern Sudan but remained deadlocked on any action for Darfur, in the west. 6 U.S. Banks Held Pinochet's Accounts Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet had more than 125 accounts at a half-dozen U.S. banks, including Citibank, during the 1990s, according to a Senate report.
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