BANKING
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Jury Acquits Kennedy’s Future Father-in-Law: A Lafayette, La., jury acquitted Edmund Reggie, Sen. Edward Kennedy’s prospective father-in-law, of federal charges of defrauding a savings and loan. Prosecutors said Reggie, who founded Acadia Savings & Loan in 1957, headed schemes to defraud the S&L; and tried to force two investors to buy stock in a failing bank in order to get loans from the thrift. Both institutions were closed in 1987.
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