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Defaults: This data is from judgements and foreclosure filings and was collected through county clerk’s offices. It includes every judgement for more than $1 million or the five largest at each bank.
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Key West Bank
SPAN
February 1999-March 2010

HEADQUARTERS
Key West

REGULATORS
OTS

TOTAL ASSETS AT FAILURE
$88 million

COST TO FDIC
$23 million

DIRECTORS
Michael Browning
Philip B. Hogue
Richard Klitenick
Cliff Botway
Kevin Chesebro
Mark Finigan
Marva Green
Key West Bank, regulated by the federal Office of Thrift Supervision, was closed in March 2010.

The FDIC published a report that attributed the failure to excessive high-risk adjustable-rate mortgages, including a significant number of interest-only loans. Such loans are among those that put the entire American financial system in jeopardy.

Last year, a grand jury indicted a former Key West bank officer on charges that she'd shared information about a secret law enforcement inquiry.

Federal investigators say Karen Galo gave a heads-up to one of the bank's clients that his records had been pulled by law enforcement officers.

The client was being investigated for reportedly buying a "go-fast" boat and ferrying immigrants from Cuba.

Galo pleaded guilty to the charges in May; she faces up to five years in prison. Her sentencing is expected later this year. But no date has been set.


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