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Regulators seize, sell BankUnited
BankUnited has a new owner after federal regulators seized the ailing thrift and auctioned it off to a private equity group led by banker John Kanas.
BY MARTHA BRANNIGAN AND MONICA HATCHER
Without missing a beat, BankUnited will reopen this Friday morning with a new owner and a whole lot more capital.
Dozens of federal regulators swept in to BankUnited’s offices in Coral Gables on Thursday afternoon after the close of business and seized the teetering thrift, capping a yearlong odyssey to revive the $13 billion asset institution.
New York banker John Kanas and a group of private equity firms won a bidding contest to acquire BankUnited in a sale run by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
BankUnited, the largest financial institution based in Florida, will reopen all 85 branches for regular business hours Friday morning under the new ownership.
”Tomorrow it will be business as usual,” said Kanas, the new CEO who envisions building the freshly capitalized institution into a dominant banking force in Florida. “All the branches will be open and operating as normal.”
BankUnited, dragged down by risky home mortgages that fizzled in the housing downturn, is the largest bank to succumb to loan losses this year and the third-largest in assets to fail in the current downturn after IndyMac and Washington Mutual.
The collapse of the thrift will cost the FDIC insurance fund an estimated $4.9 billion. In the current downturn, only the IndyMac failure cost the FDIC fund more, with a hit of $11 billion.
All customers’ deposits are safe at the new institution, which will keep the BankUnited name BankUnited’s shareholders, however, aren’t so lucky: Their equity is likely wiped out.
BankUnited Financial Corp., the parent company that has about $550 million in debt, was expected to file for bankruptcy protection to provide a process to pay off creditors.
As federal seizures go, BankUnited’s was a low-key affair. It offered none of the spectacle of the 1990 collapse of notorious CenTrust Savings Bank, where regulators marched into the downtown Miami tower and lit it up in red, white and blue.
Instead, a team of luggage-laden regulators from the Office of Thrift Supervision and the FDIC strolled into the headquarters at 255 Alhambra Circle in small groups over the late afternoon and evening hours. The most visible evidence of a seizure was a group of armed security guards waiting in cars outside.
In the penthouse, the regulators met cordially with CEO Ramiro Ortiz, who has been working closely with the Office of Thrift Supervision and the FDIC for months to find fresh capital for the thrift. Ortiz, who was nursing a cold, signed more papers than a typical home buyer taking out a mortgage.
”The real theme here is we have a recapitalized brand new bank,” said Ortiz. “Nothing changes here except we’ve got a lot of capital.”
ORTIZ STAYING ON
Ortiz, a former SunTrust executive who joined the bank six years ago and became CEO last October, plans to stay on at BankUnited and work with Kanas. ”Ramiro will be crucial to me in getting to know the community,” Kanas said.
Regulators’ decision to pick the Kanas group is a positive sign for private equity firms, which pool money from wealthy investors to make acquisitions.
Private equity has been laying plans to take over failing banks with the government’s shouldering a heavy share of the losses, and their role in providing fresh funds may prove crucial because many of the traditional buyers of failed institutions — other bank and thrift holding companies — are on the ropes themselves.
A security guard for the Waffle House, 1050 E. Dublin-Granville Road, was shot in the leg at 2:34 a.m. March 21 while standing outside in front of the restaurant, Columbus police reported.
The guard, a 21-year-old man, was shot in the right leg. Police reported hearing several shots filed in the area but reported no further details on the guard’s injuries or possible suspects in the shooting.
A young couple reported they were robbed at gunpoint while sitting in their car at 10:35 p.m. March 16 in the 4800 block of Kingshill Drive.
Police reported the 23-year-old woman and 25-year-old man were parked when three suspects approached their vehicle. The first suspect came up to the driver’s side of the car, pulled a gun out and told the female victim to give him her money, wallet and phone. The second and third suspects approached the passenger side of the vehicle, the second suspect produced a gun and told the male victim to get out of the car and on the ground.
When he sat on the ground, the victim was struck on the left side temple by the suspect with the gun. He tried to sit back up after being struck when the third suspect hit him twice more in the temple. After giving them his money and wallet, the suspects ran north and disappeared to the northeast, reports said. A police search failed to locate the suspects.
At 7:25 p.m. March 16, a 15-year-old boy was putting trash into a Dumpster in the 2100 block of Bridlington Lane when a suspect approached him and sucker punched him in the face without provocation. The victim and suspect began to fight as the victim’s mother arrived to break up the fight. The suspect then head-butted the victim, causing a knot to the left side of his temple, reports said.
At 3:17 p.m. March 16 , an 18-year-old woman was assaulted in the 5000 block of Tamarack Boulevard. According to the report, the victim had been attempting to avoid a male acquaintance by not answering his phone calls. On the date of the incident, the suspect arrived at her residence demanding to know why she was avoiding him. When asked to leave by the victim, the suspect became aggressive and grabbed the victim by the arms. He then hit her on the left side of her jaw, leaving a visible abrasion, and left on foot, police reports said.
A residence in the 1300 block of Rothingham Lane was reported burglarized at 1:50 p.m. March 16. The resident told police that when she arrived home, she saw three males in her lot wearing black gloves and when she asked them what they were doing, they ran. Upon entering her apartment, she found a brick laying on the floor and her rear window broken out, with the rear door left open. Several pieces of jewelry and $500 was stolen, reports said.
Between 2:30 and 10:30 a.m. March 18, a residence in the 1800 block of Forest Maple Lane was burglarized. The victims told police they came home around 2 a.m. and went to bed upstairs a short time later. While they slept, entry to a locked rear sliding-glass door was gained. A flat-screen television and several other items from the front downstairs living room were reported taken. by columbuslocalnews.com
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An ex-convict who slashed a man with a samurai sword and shot a naval officer who was moonlighting as a security guard at a Kmart in Ramona, pleaded guilty Friday to assault, battery and second-degree murder.
Andrew Nicholas Griffith, who turns 30 on Saturday, is to be sentenced to 42 years to life in prison at an April 10 hearing before Judge Herbert Exarhos at the El Cajon Courthouse.
Before pleading guilty, Griffith had to withdraw his previously entered plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, said Deputy District Attorney Gordon Davis
Two court-appointed doctors said Griffith had mental problems, but that he was not insane, the prosecutor said.
In a hearing Friday, Griffith admitted slashing Steven Michael Lowe on the forearm with a 3-foot-long sword at a riverbank encampment in Ramona on June 16, 2007.
He also pleaded guilty to killing 34-year-old Petty Officer 1st Class David C. Busby on July 21, 2007, and assaulting another Kmart loss prevention officer, Fred Tilli, with a semiautomatic firearm.
Busby and Tilli had caught Griffith shoplifting when he shot Busby — a married father of a 17-month-old son — three times.
Prosecutors said Griffith was convicted in 2004 of possession of an assault weapon in San Bernardino County.by 10news.com
Looks like the folks at ICE have been busy in Texas going after illegal SECURITY GUARD PROVIDERS , some of whom, apparently were armed.
Jason Trahan at the Dallas Morning News reports:
A task force led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided more than two dozen mostly Latino night clubs, restaurants, pool halls and other businesses Saturday night, arresting 49 undocumented immigrants employed as security guards by security guard providers, officials said.
All of those arrested work for two local security guard companies, which authorities declined to identify Sunday.
The investigation into these security guard providers might be ongoing because in Texas, as in most States, security services are a regulated business for which a license must be obtained.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety:
Under state law, commissioned security officers must successfully complete a 30-hour school. Once the course is completed, commissioned officers must wear a specific uniform indicating the company by whom they are employed while carrying their weapons.
Applicants for licensing or registration by the Private Security Bureau must have undergone a fingerprint-based state and national criminal history check. Security guard Applicants who have been convicted of a felony or a Class A misdemeanor cannot be considered for a license for 20 years. Security guard Applicants convicted of a Class B misdemeanor can apply for consideration after 5 years. Some Class B misdemeanors, such as first-time DWI, do not disqualify an applicant from receiving a license or application.
Maybe this is why — despite the lack of official commentary on the matter — Craig Watkins the Dallas County District Attorney stated:
Hopefully, this operation will help us send a message that we will not tolerate the falsification of documents for undocumented aliens under the guise of providing security.
Counterfeit documents are a huge problem and enable a lot of illegally placed individuals to obtain employment that they would otherwise be barred from. Given that they are easily available, they are a gateway for all kinds of other criminal activity, also.
This isn’t the first time, a story has broken, where counterfeit documents allowed people using an unverified or even someone else’s identity to perform duties they never should have been able to.
Although a few miles from Dallas, in November, James Slack of the Daily Mail revealed that 5,000 illegal immigrants were working as security guards in some of the United Kingdom’s most sensitive buildings.
In January of 2007, the Herald Tribune reported that 40 illegal immigrants were arrested on military bases by ICE. The same story referenced an earlier story, where 60 illegal immigrants were arrested at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, home of the 82nd Airborne Division and Special Operations Units.
Earlier this month, Neville W. Cramer wrote in Today’s Facility Manager about the growing problem from a facility management perspective:
While there are a multitude of economic and social issues surrounding the millions of illegal aliens currently in the U.S., two issues should be of specific concern to facility managers (fms). The first is security, and the second is comprehensive immigration reform. Since the latter is currently hung up in Congress, this article will examine security first.
Federal, state, and municipal law enforcement agencies are well aware that some of the largest employers of illegal aliens are directly and peripherally involved in building services and maintenance. Whether it is the cleaning crews, the janitors, the trash removal workers, or the security guards, illegal immigrants make up a significant portion of the workforce.
While this recent event in Dallas highlights the illegal immigration problem from the South — there are illegal immigrants from other parts of the World working as security guards — who likely have been planted in facilities or organizations for the purposes of stealing information.
From the Today’s Facility article:
For instance, organized criminals from West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, etc.) are now firmly entrenched nationwide in the security guard business. They are usually educated, well mannered men and women who are willing to work weekends and midnight shifts.
Unfortunately, what is not widely known is that “while guarding the henhouse,” many of these contracted security workers are suspected of stealing employee and customer identity data and company proprietary information. In some instances, these guards are using multiple fraudulent identities themselves, making it almost impossible for law enforcement to catch up with them. Fms should be aware of these emerging trends and, along with law enforcement and security professionals, take whatever steps are necessary to mitigate their risks.
The article sums up it’s thoughts with the well known fact that the current Employment Eligibility Employment Verification Form (1-9) is woefully inadequate, especially with all the stolen identities and counterfeit documents that are easily obtained, just about anywhere.
Even with no match SSN legislation forthcoming — which will require social security numbers to match a name — the system will probably still be manipulated. There is a lot of stolen information out there, which contains both names and social security numbers, already. The groups counterfeiting documents will just have to make sure everything matches.
This is likely to cause an explosion in the number of identity theft cases, which is already a growing problem.
This legislation, which has been held up by a Federal Judge in San Francisco at the behest of the ACLU and other groups, appears to be poised to be enacted in the near-term. Arizona, which has the highest rate of identity theft in the nation, has already enacted a similar law. Dallas Morning News story. by Neville W. Cramer
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Nine security guards were arrested in downtown Minneapolis Thursday during a union-led protest.
About 75 members of Service Employees International Union Local 26 gathered near the IDS Center in an effort to urge five security firms to offer a better health insurance package to employees.
Twin Cities security guards walked off the job for one day last month to push for better labor terms.
A union spokesman said eight others who were not members of Local 26 were also arrested Thursday.
The security companies involved in the dispute include ABM Security Services, AlliedBarton Security Services, American Security, Viking Security and Securitas Security Services USA Inc.
The firms are crafting a revised health care proposal that they will submit to the union “as soon as possible,” said Wendy Burt, a spokeswoman for the companies. The five companies collectively employ approximately 800 union workers in Minneapolis and St. Paul. bizjournals.com
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Security Services and the office of student life have identified and taken action against the university security guard caught in pictures covering up damage he incurred when he backed his van over a student’s bike and into a university-owned bike rack.
“There was an investigation and appropriate action was taken by the director of Security Services,” Roger Keener, interim vice provost for student life, said.
Keener said because of confidentiality policies he could not release the guard’s name or specific disciplinary measures taken against him.
Senior Carol Ann McCauley filed an incident report and submitted photographic evidence to Security Services March 13, saying that a male security guard backed a gold Chrysler minivan into a bike rack in front of Townhouse 31. Attempting to free the van after it got stuck in the snow, the guard repeatedly hit a bike rack and ran over a bike, damaging its front tire, McCauley said. The guard then drove off and later returned twice to cover up the damaged bicycle with snow, she said.
The damage and cover-up occurred March 11 between 2 and 3 a.m.
McCauley later found out that a second bike was damaged but Keener said he was only aware of one.
Keener said he didn’t know who owns the bike, but said Joe Becker, interim director of Security Services, tried and will continue to try to contact them.
Becker did not respond to e-mail requests for an interview.
Keener said the bike rack will be repaired and the office of student life will compensate the bike’s owner. However, the owner has not filed a complaint or reported any damage.
“I would personally pay for it if (need be) … my concern is the repair be done and the student not be penalized for something that he or she was not responsible for,” he said.
Keener said the van only had a few scrapes from the accident.
He added that he appreciated McCauley coming forward and feels the office of student life and Security Services dealt with the guard appropriately.
“I thanked her (McCauley) because that shows to me that she cares about not only the property of Bonaventure but also the property of another student … The way we handled this situation was the way I would like a Franciscan university and a caring community to handle (something) like this. We did a thorough investigation, and I feel that appropriate actions were taken.”
Keener said the security guard had no previous infractions, and the university will not pursue legal avenues.
“What you have to look at is if any of us are above making mistakes … people do make mistakes and hopefully the guard learned from this mistake. I think he will.”by Shannon Holfoth
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They are the first line of defense against terrorists. But more often than not, private security guards who protect millions of lives and billions of dollars in real estate offer a false sense of security.
Most of the nation’s 1 million-plus guards are unlicensed, untrained and not subject to background checks. Their burgeoning, $12 billion-a-year industry is marked by high turnover, low pay, few benefits and scant oversight. And according to government officials and industry experts, little has changed since
As the demand for guards increases, security companies “find someone on the street and put him in a uniform, and before he’s finished buttoning up, they put him on a post,” says Henry Nocella, vice president of Professional Security Bureau, a private company based in New Jersey that employs about 4,000 guards. Thus the name: “rent-a-cops.”
For 16 months since terrorists toppled the
State laws remain spotty. While the tiny fraction of guards who carry guns go through training and background checks, most of those who patrol office buildings, apartment complexes, shopping malls, sports arenas, warehouses and cargo terminals are unarmed. Twenty-nine states and the
Private Security guards themselves say they have seen few improvements since the 2001 attacks. A poll of 1,200 guards in
“Post-9/11 training is non-existent in certain parts of the country,” says Bruce Gelting of Allied Security, the largest American-owned and operated security company with 19,000 guards.
Many large companies hire top-flight security firms. They teach guards how to spot suspicious packages, monitor security cameras and evacuate buildings. But there are at least 11,000 security firms nationwide. Experts say many are fly-by-night operations that invest little or nothing in training and don’t check backgrounds.
Many Fortune 500 companies “are just putting bodies in uniforms,” Gelting says.
Raynard Williams is an $8.40-an-hour guard at
Like most guards, Williams, 39, gets no health insurance through work, no paid vacation and no sick days. “It’s a thankless job,” he says.
In 2000, the most recent year for which figures exist, private security guards earned an average of $17,570. For many, it’s a second job; most leave within months.
Williams says he and his fellow security guards feel vulnerable without proper training. But private employers, he says, know that “if they give us training, we’ll want more money.”
That’s a big reason for the long-standing opposition to government regulation. In an industry in which contracts are awarded to the low bidder, private security companies oppose government mandates that would increase operating costs. The businesses that hire them for protection don’t want those costs passed along.
“The security guard industry is a very competitive industry, and their contracts are won and lost based on pennies per hour,” says Jeff Schlanger of the risk consulting company Kroll, based in
Even after the horror of Sept. 11, analysts say, most companies are reluctant to pay more for security. In a tight economy, companies are looking “right down the gun barrel of some tough economic issues: What does it cost, and what do we get for it?” says Philip LaRiviere, a security consultant based in
It’s hard for private security companies to prove their value. Gail Simonton of the National Association of Security Companies, which represents the nation’s largest outfits, says they can’t prove that hiring guards will avert disasters. “You’re trying to prove a negative,” she says.
Experts say if the government doesn’t demand higher standards, the industry will continue to provide a dangerous opportunity for terrorists. Some could slip by untrained guards. In other cases, would-be terrorists could infiltrate the system by getting work as guards themselves.
Over the years, criminals have landed jobs as security guards. Some didn’t go through background checks. Others were subject only to one state’s checks, which didn’t find criminal records in other states. Stories of guards beating, raping and robbing the people they were hired to protect have hurt the industry’s image.
Those problems persist. The New York Daily News reported last summer that private security companies hired by the state to protect the Statue of Liberty and other state and military facilities employed hundreds of unlicensed guards, including former convicts.
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Among unions, employers and elected officials in both political parties, there is a growing movement to improve standards and regulate the fast-growing private security industry.
Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., is pushing a bill that would give states easy access to the FBI’s database for criminal background checks of potential guards. That’s intended to make sure terrorists don’t slip into the system. “It’s a real vulnerability that we put such heavy reliance on the private guard service but do not have guards who are well-trained or put through checks,” Levin says. He notes that Congress has passed laws giving nursing homes, day care centers and banks access to the database.
A similar bill in the House of Representatives also would give states financial incentives to require 40 hours of training before putting guards on posts. Last year, the bill was co-sponsored by a liberal Democrat, Rep. Dennis Kucinich of
Some states have started to act. California Gov. Gray Davis signed legislation in September requiring guards to get 40 hours of training — eight before being put on a post and 32 more within six months.
Most industry experts agree that federal background checks should be conducted for guards nationwide. But they disagree about whether the federal government should mandate a certain number of training hours.
Allied’s Gelting says his company’s guards receive site-specific training tailored to their posts. He opposes a federal mandate for 40 hours of training because “someone guarding a warehouse in the middle of
Meanwhile, the industry continues to grow with the demand for more guards. The Labor Department predicts that employment of security guards is likely to grow faster than average for all occupations through 2010. The main reason: concerns about terrorism.
Experts say that’s all the more reason for better standards and training. “If history proves itself out, we will have some day a huge disaster at a building again,” Stern says. “And as opposed to the
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