Bribe in US Ex-Im Bank scam lands former Wells Fargo banker behind bars

(San Antonio Express, San Antonio, 27 January 2012) A former Wells Fargo Bank loan officer was sentenced Friday to four months of jail and four months of house arrest for taking a $50,000 bribe linked to the largest fraud against the nation's official export credit agency. Gerardo Uribe, 45, was involved in the scheme that San Antonio businessman Andrew Maxwell Parker perpetrated on the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which backs commercial high-risk loans to stimulate exports of American-made goods to foreign companies.