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Charles Banks, Tim Duncan's Advisor: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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Charles Banks, an Atlanta-based advisor, is being sued by Tim Duncan for more than $ 1 million, according to My San Antonio.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. Banks is a Personal and Financial Advisor

My San Antonio describes Banks as “a longtime ‘personal and financial adviser.’ ”

2. Banks Put His Interests Over Duncan’s

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From the lawsuit, according to My San Antonio

Banks also encouraged, promoted, hustled and advised Duncan to invest in several wineries and investment funds that he controls. Banks has used these wineries and funds to secure substantial income for himself, but they have yet to return much, if anything, to Duncan. Needless to say, Duncan would not have invested his family’s financial future in these wineries and funds if Banks had advised him that they would be operated for Banks’ benefit and to the detriment of Duncan and the other investors.

3. The Lawsuit is Over Fees Collected by Banks

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KENS5 San Antonio reported that the lawsuit is over fines collected by Banks, to which Duncan didn’t agree.

Using his position, Banks instructed Gameday to withhold 20 percent of the amounts due Duncan under the Gameday Note as Banks’ “fee.” However, Banks did not, and does not, have any written authorization from Duncan allowing such withholding.

4. The Lawsuit States Duncan’s Signature Was Forged

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According to KENS5, “The lawsuit also alleges that at least two documents related to Duncan’s relationship with Gameday were executed with a forgery of his signature.”

5. The Two Have Known Each Other Since 1998

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KENS5 says the two have known each other since 1998, Duncan’s rookie year.

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Liberians Wonder If Duncan's Death Was A Result Of Racism

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first Ebola patient diagnosed in the U.S., at a wedding in Ghana. Texas Overall health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where Duncan was being treated for the illness, on Wednesday, Oct. eight, 2014 said Duncan has died.

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Moffie Kanneh is angry at the United States. When I meet the Liberian lawyer, he asks right away where I am from. “Take this back to Washington,” he says. “I am incredibly furious.”

In the days right after the death of Thomas Eric Duncan — the Liberian man diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas last month — Kanneh was 1 of numerous Liberians who told me that case changed the way they see the United States. Several noted how different Duncan’s encounter in the U.S. healthcare technique seemed from white sufferers who contracted Ebola, like Dr. Kent Brantly, who recovered from the disease final month, NBC cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, who is creating progress in his therapy there, and most recently two nurses who treated Duncan, each of whom are performing well.

Sitting outside a little café in Monrovia, Kanneh explains that he feels U.S. attitudes toward Liberians are tinged with each racism and xenophobia. “The combination of African, black…” he shakes his head. “I nevertheless feel if Eric was an American they would have given him preferential therapy.”

Some men and women also see Duncan’s case as evidence that the U.S. does not want West Africans to seek therapy in the United States. “It was a racist approach in a larger sense,” explains Franklin Wesseh, who describes himself to me as an opposition celebration member and writer. He’s referring to the slow response by the Dallas hospital that initially sent Duncan home in spite of a fever and weakness.

“I personally consider [Duncan] could have been saved,” he says, sipping coffee after church on a Sunday afternoon. “He was offered much less focus. It was a way of probably discouraging Liberians who contracted the disease and want to go there.”

But whilst numerous Liberians I spoke to are frustrated by what they see as anti-African prejudice, some within the government urge less concentrate on race and more on fighting the epidemic.

“When we play the race card there will be issues,” says Nathaniel Toe, the superintendent for Maryland County, Liberia. His county, in the southeastern element of the nation, does not have an Ebola treatment center but, and Toe is concerned that the U.S. could react to charges of racism by slowing down delivery of help. One of the 18 U.S.-built treatment centers is planned for Maryland county.

“We are getting distracted,” he says. The actual problem, he thinks, is not racism or American attitudes toward Liberia. It is access to healthcare. “I would like to see the intervention attain all of Liberia, [with] the exact same top quality of service as in Atlanta, in Dallas.”

“Take that to Washington,” he says. “We need to have far better hospitals.”

Yet another government official I meet, Mitchell Jones of the Liberian Ministry of Commerce and Market, echoes Toe’s sentiments. “This is not a time for politics,” he says.

Jones speaks poetically about unity and democracy. “We Liberians have to be as one folks,” he tells me. As he talks, he slides away from me on the bench we share.

“I am sorry,” he says. “Now we are all afraid of touching, of the brushing of skin even.”

He equates the Ebola epidemic in Liberia to the 9/11 attacks in the US. “This is the time that we all hold collectively. Like when Bin Laden attacked the United States, it was a time for each American to hold with each other to fight their frequent enemy. Liberians right now, our widespread enemy is Ebola.”

Despite such calls for unity, the Liberians I met had been frustrated and angry at the U.S. And these feelings are coloring the way they view U.S. aid. Even following Thomas Eric Duncan’s story fades from the headlines, Wesseh says he will feel of it when the U.S. says it is committed to assisting Liberia via the crisis.

That a Liberian citizen died of Ebola when American citizens have survived tends to make him really feel that America may not be truly committed to helping the Liberian people.

“America protects its interests,” he says. “Yes they are right here these days, creating confident Ebola can be kicked out of Liberia, but only for their [business] transactions. I personally am disappointed.”

Back in the U.S. this week, Duncan’s nephew echoed some of the comments I heard in Monrovia. In an essay written for the Dallas Morning News, Josephus Weeks stated that his uncle did not have to die and that his therapy had been substandard.

Weeks brought up the situation of race in his opening paragraph: “He told the nurse he had not too long ago been in Liberia. But he was a man of colour with no wellness insurance and no means to pay for therapy, so within hours he was released with some antibiotics and Tylenol.”

He went on to say that “Thomas Eric Duncan was a victim of a broken system. Some speculate that this was a failure of the internal communications systems. Others have speculated that antibiotics and Tylenol are the normal protocol for a patient with out insurance coverage. … Their error set the wheels in motion for my uncle’s death and extra Ebola circumstances, and their ignorance, incompetence or indecency has designed a national security threat for our nation.”

Weeks captures what everybody I spoke to in Monrovia agreed with: that Duncan had not been treated with dignity and that his death was a tragedy.