CUNA confirmed Monday it has alerted leagues and some of its members to a TV expose on financial junkets slated for possible airing this week on the ABC network and which targets a CUES Caribbean conference held two weeks ago.

MADISON, Wis. -- The Credit Union Executives Society was alerting its membership late today of a possible TV expose on CU business junkets related to the corporate bailout to appear this week, perhaps tonight, on the ABC network news show "20/20."

The decibel of name-calling and recrimination about the corporate system needs to give way toward reasoned approaches on insurance fund recapitalization, according to the state's top regulator, Howard Pitkin.

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- NCUA's Region V Director Melinda Love was given a hunter's bright orange flak jacket to wear before taking corporate bailout questions at the Washington Credit Union League's annual GAC Conference over the weekend.

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Mid-Atlantic Corporate Credit Union stepped up its campaign to distance itself from U.S. Central calling attacks on the corporate network "irresponsible" as the Pennsylvania firm stressed again its improved performance.

WASHINGTON -- Industry turmoil over the NCUA's planned insurance assessment and corporate bailout plan for U.S. Central CU reached what many were calling an historic fever pitch Friday.

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The industry now in the grip of NCUA's corporate rescue crisis retains "lots of smart minds and good will" and can solve this problem without going to the last resort in the view of James Blaine, the president/CEO State Employees' CU.

WASHINGTON -- As expected, the 2009 economic shakedown and belt tightening is taking a heavy toll on conference programming and trade operations not to mention travel, salaries, hotel bookings and entertainment.