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WASHINGTON - Critics of contemporary congressional ethics charge that ethical lapses allegedly conducted by Representative Paul Kanjorski (D-Pa.), a noted congressional credit union champion, are going uninvestigated under a congressional deal designed to cover-up ethical lapses. A report published in the Washington Post charged that Republican House Leaders backed off...

LOS ANGELES - When it was brought to Helen Godfrey's attention that a small Mississippi credit union's loan portfolio was near collapse and liquidation loomed, the vice chairwoman of the African American Credit Union Coalition stepped up to provide strategic planning to help keep the financial afloat. Over a year's...

I read with considerable personal interest Credit Union Times Editor-in-Chief Elaine Barr's article in the July 17th issue concerning Gary Wolter. I say "with personal interest" because I was the president of Pen Air FCU who hired Gary in 1961. Gary was a unique young man when he was interviewed....

WASHINGTON - The Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institution Fund (CDFI) has awarded individual credit unions, as well as the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (NFCDCU $5 million in funding in fiscal year 2002. In addition to the previously reported $2 million award to the NFCDCU...

MIAMI - Four South Florida credit unions are joining together to form South Florida Acceptance Corp., an indirect lending CUSO. The CUSO will be made up of Tropical Financial CU, Power 1 CU, City and County CU of Fort Lauderdale, and Pam-Am Horizons FCU. Together the CUs command about $1...

MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. - US Airways Federal Credit Union will continue to operate business as usual after its largest employer group, US Airways, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Aug.12. Flights will continue on their normal schedule for US Airways, the nation's seventh largest airline and the company is confident that...

WASHINGTON - Five of the nation's leading public interest groups have called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to appoint an auditor oversight board made up entirely of individuals who are "strong, unwavering advocates of audit reform." The Consumer Federation of America, Consumer Action, U.S. Public Interest Research Group Consumers...

ST. LOUIS, Mo. - Jennifer Brownrigg immersed herself in the financial trenches as an intern at Educational Employees Credit Union. Through the African American Credit Union Coalition's internship program, the Florida A&M University graduate student got a hands-on approach in a number of departments at the credit union this summer,...