re: 'rights'...
never understood why someone convicted of a crime(maybe just 'felonies' in the USA,usually has a parole condition of NOT being able to drink .
i saw that in real life a few years ago….and was equally puzzled.
I worked for a group of financial institutions (S&Ls) in the 1980’s and when Ol’ Lie North laundered CIA money (Arms-for-Hostages) thru one of the branches, the cover-up required the parent S&L be taken-over by FSLIC. (Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation…This only became known after the public lost interest and the book which unveiled it was quickly taken off the market.)
But the point being that one of the commercial lending officers was not a trained and educated financial guru…. he was an Army Veteran having served as a Medic in Viet Nam…and became commercial lending officer thru his own hard work and initiative. He had actual lending experts “loan officers” who worked under him who did the real work. Those guys would go out in the field to acquire borrowers, sometimes thru “loan brokers” who would bring large construction contracts to the bank. These were often ”ADC” loans (acquisition, development, construction) in which the brokers received a commission for putting the lender/borrower together.
But… the banks’ loan officer would put the paperwork together, get an MAI Appraisal of the project-property (for collateral purposes)…and when the loan officer got all the necessary legals/appraisals documented…he would bring the package to Ruben (our former Army-medic) who would make certain all the legally-required boxes had been checked…and pass the pkg on to “loan committee”… (a group of finance-qualified higher execs appointed by the CEO and board-of-directors)…to “Approve” or “Reject” the loan.
The admittedly eccentric CEO became the “target” of the FSLIC take-over of the bank and was necessary in order to facilitate the assignment of all “assets” (code for the records of the laundered money project)… to a more politically-favorable S&L who had supported the Reagan campaign. (The CEO of our S&L had supported Carters’ former v.p. Mondale in that election. This was supposedly the reason North laundered the money thru the CEO’s S&Ls… it was a political punishment.…because the Arms-for-Hostages money would need to be laundered… what would be better than to do it to the ruin of your political opponents’ supporters..??)
In order to get to the CEO, FSLIC had to prove a chain-of-command from the borrower of the laundry-project, thru the loan officer, thru our ex-Medic, thru the loan committee, to the CEO. The board of directors (to avoid prosecution) met with FSLIC in Dallas and agreed to the shut-down of the S&L and handing-over of its “assets” to the more politically-connected S&L… and all the inside-documents and knowledge of the Ol’Lie North laundry-money …disappeared.
BUT… our friend and ex-medic… for the crookedness of his underlings who had accepted laundry-money bribes to bring the loan thru the S&L and who rec’d deferred-adjudication for their testimoney…. our friend faced a prison sentence.
WHILE AWAITING sentencing… he was prohibited from consuming ANY ALCOHOL. It was SuperBowl weekend at my house…and Ruben drank non-alcoholic ”near-beer”…. and I was unaware of the court-ordered “no alcohol”… so I found it curious that he would not drink my beer but instead brought his own six-pack of “Sharps” near-beer.
I only found out later that it was a common court order for such subjects.
