To hear a Senate Rules Committee investigator tell it last week, whenever Bobby Baker showed up, bankers rolled out a long green carpet. Accountant Lorrin Drennan Jr. told the committee, which has been exploring the moonlighting manipulations of the former secretary to Senate Democrats, that between January 1959 and last November, Baker and his associates had borrowed some $2,784,338 from 22 outfits —including the U.S. Small Business Administration.
The breakdown on Bobby's loans: Beckley National Bank, Beckley, W. Va., $10,000; Suburban Trust Co., Hyattsville, Md., $10,100; First National Bank of South Carolina,...
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