But Blair Horner, the legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group, said Mr. Silver's loans to Counsel raised questions because it was difficult to know who was receiving the company's assistance.
Mr. Belnick, who became Tyco's general counsel in fall 1998, testified last week that Mr. Kozlowski had offered him the loan to avoid questions that might be raised if Mr. Belnick, one of Tyco's top executives, suddenly sold $10 million worth of stock.
Some critics, along with government watchdog groups, say his loans to Counsel raise new questions about potential conflicts of interest.
An independent committee formed to investigate Krung Thai's decision to extend the loans in question is due to report its finding to the Bank of Thailand soon.
His demand in a speech to Wall Street on Tuesday for companies to stop making loans to insiders has raised the question of how his toughened standards today would have applied to his own corporate experience.
"The loans in question failed to conform to the investor's express instructions as to a non-credit and non-pricing element.
Firing back at the Obama Administration's plan to end federal subsidies to lenders who provide tuition loans to college students, the Consumer Bankers Association questioned "the ability of the Education Department to handle more than $60 billion a year in federal loans to students and families," according to The New York Times.
The very wealthy Trump, of course, has faced repeated questions about his personal loans to his campaign, despite his promise to forgive those loans, as well as questions about payments by his campaign to his companies and family members – though he is not apparently paying himself a salary.
Chinese banks have among the world's lowest rates of loans to deposits, although some banking analysts have questioned whether many loans by state-owned banks to politically influential borrowers will be repaid.
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But the Federal Reserve did not raise foreclosure as an issue in its action against CitiFinancial, based in Baltimore, and Citigroup typically does not pursue foreclosures as part of the home equity loans in question, according to a person briefed on the matter.
