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BILL WALTERS. Fueled in large part by loans from Silverado, the aggressive Denver developer built up a net worth of $100 million and became chief of the city's Chamber of Commerce. Then he too left Silverado holding the bag on nearly $100 million in bad loans...
...Silverado drama, Central Casting would have been hard pressed to come up with a group of characters who better personified the Roaring Eighties...
MICHAEL WISE. The former Kansas clothing salesman became the magnetic chairman of Silverado and was considered for a top S&L regulatory position even as outside auditors were questioning the integrity of Silverado's loans...
KENNETH GOOD. A charming and freewheeling huckster who made and lost $1 million in Texas real estate by the age of 26, he used his high-wattage personality and borrowing power at Silverado to create a real estate empire that gave him toys like his $10 million mansion in Denver's ritzy Cherry Hill. He ended up defaulting on $30 million in loans from Silverado...
LARRY MIZEL. The chairman of M.D.C. Holdings, a huge developer that changed the Denver skyline, he created and shuffled more than 100 front companies as the need arose and used Silverado as his personal piggy bank. The politically powerful builder traded undesirable land to Silverado in exchange for hopeless loans so the books of both would look better to regulators...