Last week, ProPublica published a
story about U.S. Century Bank, a troubled financial institution in Miami.
Before we published the story, we made numerous attempts to
reach U.S. Century officials for comment, including sending them written
questions. U.S. Century responded only with a statement,
which we quoted from in the story. (After a translation of our story was
printed in two
parts
by El Nuevo Herald, the bank wrote us a letter to the
editor.) The bank’s original statement asserted, “Based on the tenor of the
questions you have submitted to us, it is clear that you have a very negative
agenda.” So we think readers are entitled to see the questions. Here they
are.
