Brookland Patrols Boosted: Riggs customers robbed

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Brookland Patrols Boosted
Police Target Area Where Bank Patrons Robbed

By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, February 16, 2005; Page B05

D.C. police have stepped up patrols and surveillance in part of Brookland in response to a series of street robberies of bank patrons, authorities said yesterday.

The robberies started in early January, and the most recent occurred Friday, police said. All the victims had just left Riggs Bank or Citibank in the 3800 block of 12th Street NE, police said.

"He is taking their purses or stealing their wallets," said D.C. police Cmdr. Jennifer Greene. "It appears that this person is at least watching the people walking from that particular ATM or bank."

The first holdup occurred about 12:20 p.m. Jan. 3, when a woman was robbed of her purse at knife-point in the 900 block of Perry Place NE, police said. She had just left Citibank, police said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28055-2005Feb16.html

RIGGS most famous customer:

Wanted dead or alive???

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1. Maybe Bob needed some more walking around money?

WASHINGTON -- The Riggs National Bank scandal has led to unexpected fallout, including "suspicious activity reports" on former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, Friday's Wall Street Journal reported.

As often as once a week, Mr. Dole's assistant walks around the corner from his Pennsylvania Avenue office in Washington to a branch of Riggs Bank, where she withdraws as much as $8,000 in cash. For walking-around money, Mr. Dole keeps a wad of $100 bills in the breast pocket of his shirt. "I probably use a credit card four or five times a year," Mr. Dole confesses. "I don't even have a wallet."

Mr. Dole's affinity for cash was of no concern to anyone until recently, when federal regulators pawing through the books of scandal-tarred Riggs spotted the large withdrawals and called them to the attention of management. In short order, the bank filed "suspicious activity reports" on Mr. Dole and another prominent Washington figure, Mr. Carlucci, questioning whether the two men might have violated federal laws against money laundering.

The two aren't actually suspected by Riggs of wrongdoing, people familiar with the filings say. But the bank, a unit of Riggs National Corp. (RIGS), felt it had no choice but to file these reports because of the strict wording of the Bank Secrecy Act.
http://marc.perkel.com/archives/000375.html

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2. Always wondered about this story...."walking-about money" or

"Walker money" as in George Walker Bush.....