01/14/2009
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"Mr. Gallagher, if you would turn to Exhibit 40. The Bank Melli in Iran, prior to September 11, 2001, HSBC had a relationship with this bank in Iran which, because of its home country, would get more s..."
"It is my intent to try to make government work, and too often, it does not."
"So in this great big organization called HSBC, is it fair for one profit center to put another profit center at that kind of risk?"
"You need a more robust PATRIOT ACT in the areas of this illicit conduct."