CHAPTER TWENTY
GLOBAL UNITED Bank of Chicago always held the monthly meeting of its board of directors on the fourth Wednesday of every month, set later in the month to accommodate the compilation of the many reports the bank provided its directors. The task of preparing all the varied information each of the directors of Global United received on a monthly basis was far more involved than that of most banks their size, due to the amount of detail the bank’s chairman and principal shareholder, Tariq Nasir, insisted the directors receive. Even with the later timing of the meeting each month, however, bank staff was still usually quite pressed to produce all of the necessary information in a timely, accurate manner. The task would probably be almost insurmountable considering the reports de
