Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker said he is frustrated by the delay in returning dormant Swiss bank accounts to victims of the Holocaust. “I don’t know if I can be as frustrated as some of the victims, but I am plenty frustrated myself about the length of time it takes,” Volcker, who heads an international commission investigating the accounts, said at a U.S. House of Representatives Banking Committee hearing.
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