investigate his petition for

naturalization in 1976; (2) by wrongfully failing to proceed with his immigration

proceedings in 1983; (3) by falsely reporting his death in 1983; (4) by delaying his

immigration proceedings for six years between 1996 and 2002; and (5) by wrongfully

keeping him in mandatory pre-removal-order detention without granting him a hearing

pursuant to In re Joseph, 22 I&N Dec. 799 (BIA 1999), in 2002 and 2003.

       In October 2005, the District Court severed and transferred to the United States

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit any claims relating to Tavares’ order of removal.

In March 2006, Tavares informed the District Court that he had been released from

detention. Thus, in its opinion in June of 2006, the District Court dismissed Tavares’

claim based on his post-removaland posted on its website as of Tuesday. Thousands of those were from private individuals expressing their support for cracking down on Wall Street’s risky trading practices.

For banks, the debate comes at a particularly sensitive moment. The last few months have been filled with news of layoffs and pay cuts on Wall Street as banks grapple with a raft of newly proposed regulations and continued economic turmoil in Europe.

The proposed Volcker rule puts a number of new limitations on the financial industry. Big banks would be able to own only small stakes in private equity and hedge funds and they would have to do away with any trading desks that trade solely for the profit of the bank.


Several financial firms, including Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase &