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Banksters And Scamsters Work Together
by Charles Selden on June 13, 2013 in Breaking News, Scam Alert

JPMorgan Chase Makes Banks Uneasy
by Charles Selden on March 27, 2013 in Breaking News, Categories
8 federal agencies are taking a look at JPMorgan violations Tweet

There They Go Again…
by Charles Selden on January 27, 2013 in Breaking News
Republicans Try To Protect Bankers When Republicans can’t win a national election, they go the judicial route where voters cannot tamper with results. Their latest trick is to get a federal circuit court to rule that presidential “recess appointments” are unconstitutional. The Republicans picked a circuit court with all three judges appointed by George Bush. […]

Fleecer Of The Year Award
by Charles Selden on September 25, 2012 in Consumerist Takeaway
Services previously included in general charges are moved elsewhere for consumer fleecing. Tweet

How Bankers Avoid The Slammer
by Charles Selden on August 17, 2012 in Breaking News, Categories
Bankers Are Too Big to Jail? This week’s financial industry news read more like crime news than financial. Bankers tinker with interest rates, game the banking system and launder money for people tied to criminal organizations and possibly terrorists. When caught, bankers “settle.” Chartered Bank made headlines: Laundering Case Settled By Bank For $340 Million, […]

Money Laundering Is A Growth Industry
by Charles Selden on August 12, 2012 in Categories, Consumerist Takeaway, Outsourcing
Consumerist’s Guide to the New Money Sanitization Industry The New York Times recently provided details about how foreign banks send their clients’ funds to American banks for money laundering: “The list of global banks… accused…of laundering foreign transactions totaling billions of dollars has been growing—Credit Suisse, Lloyds, Barclays, ING, HSBC—and now Standard Chartered.”* Is this […]

Luxury Prisons Planned for Banksters
by Charles Selden on July 18, 2012 in Breaking News
Incarceration Without Inconvenience Senate hearings* disclosed American bank complicity in money laundering for domestic and international organized crime groups. The news raises the hitherto unthinkable possibility of jail time for banksters. This is good news for the luxury hotel industry. Anonymous sources report that the Four Seasons and Kempinski hotel chains are readying business plans […]

Eight Tweets for Prince Walid
by Charles Selden on December 21, 2011 in Breaking News, Newsmakers
He’ll Show The Princess He Too Can Tweet Saudi Prince Buys Stake In Twitter Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia has taken a $300 million stake in…Twitter.[His] wife, Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel is an avid user with 84,000 followers.–New York Times, December 20, 2011, page B1 The Princess, half the Saudi kingdom and all of the […]
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