CHAPTER EIGHT
PAUL TROTTER was a veteran bank regulator who had spent his entire regulatory career with the OCC, and he was convinced he had pretty much seen it all. Trotter had examined good banks and bad, large and small, and his experiences had made him the proverbial regulatory cynic. The highlight of the stocky built, grandfatherly, little regulator’s career had occurred in 1984, when he was assigned at a relatively young age to the position of senior examiner in charge of the investigation into the Parkside National Bank failure in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
The Parkside failure was such a large workout project for the OCC at the time of its closure that Trotter became a near full-time resident of Tulsa for almost two years, and a staple for several months on the national evening news. Parks
