A few weeks ago, Eric Hovde became very defensive when it was learned that at least one foreign government had money in his California-based bank. I can't even imagine how he's feeling now that news is breaking that his bank was involved in a $26.2 million deal with a Mexican bank that has ties to drug cartels and money laundering, compliance issues and even bribery of a Texas congressman, per a report by Dan Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: According to a May story in the Wall Street Journal, Banco Azteca has struggled doing business with U.S.