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Billie Jean Banks person

also: BJ, BJ Garvin, BJ Garman

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Las Vegasplace · 2Robert Corsonperson · 1Vision Banc Savingsorganization · 1Houstonplace · 1Los Angelesplace · 1Roy Dalyperson · 1Austin Savings and Loanorganization · 1Kingsville, Texasplace · 1United Statescountry · 1Desert Springs, Californiaplace · 1

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Billie Jean Banks married Robert Corson book_quoted
“Her name is Billie Jean Banks. And throughout this story, she's going to be referred to as BJ. So she ends up, according to some accounts, being married as many times as eight different times. So one of her husbands, of course, is this Cors…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8 @ 2:14

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The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8
▶ 2:14 Her name is Billie Jean Banks. And throughout this story, she's going to be referred to as BJ. So she ends up, according to some accounts, being married as many times as eight different times. So one of her husbands, of course, is this Cors…
The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8
▶ 2:52 next husband, and that wasn't her first husband, by the way, she meets her next husband, Schumacher, who was a Las Vegas gambler, and ends up, according to all accounts, she was beautiful, had a gorgeous body, so she never had problems find…
The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8
▶ 3:24 that lived in Desert Springs, California. She would later on go on to divorce him as well. But that name stuck. So she's referred to as BJ Garvin. And she gained national notoriety in October 1989 when she became the first person in the cou…
The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8
▶ 3:55 Roy Daly became the first owner of the Houston Savings and Loan to be convicted for fraud. So while she may have been banned, she had lots of family members, to include Corson, that was intimately involved. BJ was a director of her son's Vi…
The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8
▶ 4:26 Under the thrift bailout legislation that was passed that year, the names of all persons sanctioned by the federal regulatory agencies were to be made public. BJ Garman was the first. But the newspaper and wire services didn't know who they…
The Colonel's Corner The Mafia, CIA, & George Bush Part 8
▶ 5:00 in the Las Vegas area, where around that time, she was laundering tens of thousands of dollars in cash through gambling casinos. Even though some of the allegations by the Fed against her were criminal in nature, BJ Garman may never see the…