Chapter 2: July - December 1990

Regina residents Don Castle and Darrell Lowry were just happy to be home.

The president and vice-president of the Saskatchewan Transportation Company (STC) had been stuck in the United States since February of 1990, awaiting trial after being charged under Jimmy Carter’s Foreign Corrupt Practises Act (FCPA).

At the heart of the matter was a contract for fifty new buses from a company called Eagle Bus Manufacturing in Brownsville, Texas. The allegation was that Eagle kicked $50,000, or two percent of the contract value back to Castle and Lowry, who were charged under the pretense that both were representatives of a foreign government and accepted a bribe.