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12/16/24 -- CRA:
Federal
Reserve Defends Terminating Master Accounts
Using Simpson Thacher in SDNY. Fed
Watch: SouthState
Lending Disparities
Triggered CRA Protest But Fed OKs Admitting
Weak Carolinas. Bank
Beat: Tornado
Cash
Roman Storm Trial Still April 14 2025 as His
Lawyers Say May Appeal to Supreme
Court. UN
- Global:
After
UNOPS Corruption Exposed by Inner City Press
Staff
Tell It Nothing Is Reformed. Enviro:
ND pipeline pollution. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
District
Leader Nicole Torres Arraigned For Selling
Poll Worker Jobs 3 iClouds
so Delay
12/9/24 -- CRA:
On
Capital One Discover OCC Doubled Down on FOIA
Withholding Amid New Astroturfing. Federal
Reserve Watch: First
Busey $1B Bid For CrossFirst Hit by Fair
Finance Watch Now Fed Asks Sealed Question.
Bank
Beat: In
Virginia Disparate TowneBank Wants Village
Bank Ignoring HMDA Data and Linkbank Link.
UN - Global:
Lame
Duck USUN Takes Over UNSC No Reply to Press on
SDNY UNRWA Lawsuit Nor Ban. Enviro:
Another UN failure, on plastic pollution. Bronx
/ Legal: Fraudster
Sterling Bancorp Bid To Sell Bank with Weak
CRA to Everbank Dismissive of NY; Barebones
Georgia Organized Crime Indictment Drew Judge
Rakoff Ire Now Bronx F-Bombs
12/2/24 -- CRA:
Problems
with ConnectOne Merger With First of Long
Island Lead to Challenge & Delay. Federal Reserve Watch:
UMB
Bank Application for Heartland Hit on
Disparties Info Withheld Now Won Under FOIA.
Bank
Beat: In
SBA Fraud Case Noah Bank's Shin Got 14 Months
Bid to End Supervision Denied But Travel
Allowed. UN -
Global:
UN
Colombia Mission Sex Scandals Link China
Guterres SRSG Ruiz Buying Next UN Post. Enviro: Pollution
in Iran. Bronx
/ Legal: Eric
Adams Wants Trial Moved Up to April 1 But No
Longer Waives CIPA as 2 Counsel to DC
11/25/24 -- CRA:
Stock
Fraudster Sterling Bancorp Bid To Sell Bank
with Weak CRA to Everbank Hit by FFW. Federal Reserve Watch:
First
Busey $1B Bid For CrossFirst Hit by Fair
Finance Watch Now They Disclose Legal Threat.
Bank
Beat: In
Sudan Case BNP Paribas Was Sued in 2016 Now
Case Proceeds With Administrator. UN -
Global:
UN
Colombia Mission Sex Scandals Link China to
Guterres SRSG Ruiz as No Fleming Answers.
Enviro:
Cancer hot spot in Houston, Texas. Bronx
/ Legal: Guilty
Verdict in NYCHA Bribery 2d Trial of Hector
Colon After Juror Did Own Research
11/18/24 -- CRA:
First
Busey $1B Bid For CrossFirst Hit by Fair
Finance Watch Info Hidden Now FOIA Delay.
Federal
Reserve Watch: UMB
Bank Application for Heartland Hit on
Disparties Info Withheld Now FOIA Delay. Bank Beat: Guilty
Verdicts in Hwang Trial For Archegos $34B
Meltdown Now He Wants No Jail Time. UN -
Global:
UN
Afghan Failure from Weird Calls to Gagnon Sent
to Inner City Press by Whistleblowers. Enviro:
Pennsylvania nitrogen. Bronx
/ Legal: Shooting
of Baby in The Bronx Resulted in 3 Detentions
Now 3 Week Trial Estimate by US
11/11/24 -- CRA:
Fair
Finance Watching Hit HomeStreet FirstSun On
Lending Disparities Now Deal Dying. Federal
Reserve Watch: First
Busey $1B Bid For CrossFirst Hit by Fair
Finance Watch Info Hidden Now Fed FOIA Delay.
Bank
Beat: Mashinsky
of Celsius Wins Order to Depose 4 Witnesses
But Not to Delay Trial Nor Dismiss. UN -
Global:
UN
Colombia Mission Hiring Scandals From
Photographer to Sleeping Way Up No Answers.
Enviro:
Baku COP Corrupt Guterres. Bronx
/ Legal: As
Unlicensed Tow Truck Owner Charged With
Racketeering Murder US Will Not Seek Death
11/4/24 -- CRA:
In
Virginia Disparate TowneBank Eyes Richmond
Area via Village Bank But Challenge. Federal
Reserve waives applications from redliners
like German American. Bank
Beat: Webster
Bank Is Sued for Unscrupulous Loans on NJ
Property by BankESB. UN -
Global:
UN
South Sudan Mission Sex Scandals Now Have
Names Amid Guterres UNMISS Cover Up. Enviro:
NY AG case against Pepsi falls flat. Bronx
/ Legal: Eric
Adams Trial Set for April 21 After Turkey
Bribery Count Argued in SDNY
10/28/24 -- CRA:
Questioning
Capital One Discover Merger NY AG Asks for
Subpoena Now More Astroturf. Federal
Reserve on First Busey says must FOIA -
but then delay. Bank
Beat: Turkey
Halkbank Not Immune 2d Cir Decides Again After
Supreme Court Now Back to SDNY. UN -
Global:
UN
South Sudan Mission Hiring Scandals As Pollard
Comes for Guterres UNMISS Cover Up. Enviro:
DG AG sues. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Charged With Robbing Bronx Bank with Fake Gun
Is Freed in SDNY on $250,000 Bond
10/21/24 -- CRA:
First
Busey $1B Bid For CrossFirst Hit by Fair
Finance Watch As Bowe Thumbs Nose at CRA.
Federal
Reserve granted expedited FOIA on UMB, but
when? Bank
Beat: Opposing
Capital One FFW Watch Raised Case of Customer
Info to Meta Fed Thumbs Nose. UN -
Global:
UN
Corruption in DR Congo Exposed by Contractors
to Guterres Who Does Nothing. Enviro:
Supreme Court lets EPA rule stand. Bronx
/ Legal: As
Bronx Plumber Sues for NYPD Brutality City
Cites DV and Keeps Case in SDNY Plan
10/14/24 -- CRA:
UMB
Bank Application for Heartland Hit on
Disparties Now Info Withheld So FOIA Request.
Federal
Reserve Watch: Expedited Processing on
Busey Bank, now what? Bank
Beat: Toronto
Dominion for Money Laundering Pays $3B First
Horizon Denied Why Not Capital One. UN -
Global:
As
UNSG Guterres Bans Press His Bid to Tap
Grynspan Successor Trashed by UNCTAD Staff.
Enviro:
Supreme Court won't hear Montana case. Bronx
/ Legal: Eric
Adams Staffer Bahi Is Arrested for Obstruction
and Released on Bond
10/7/24 -- CRA:
As
First Tech and Digital Credit Unions Seek to
Merge Disparate Lending Ignored by NCUA. Federal Reserve Watch:
First
Busey $1B Bid For CrossFirst Hit by Fair
Finance Watch As CRA Exhibits Withheld. Bank Beat: Inner
City Press Asks IMF of China Murky Loans Kenya
Graft Review and Egypt Timing. UN
- Global:
After
Breach with German FM Russia State Reporter
Regains UN Access Through Guterres. Enviro:
Lawsuit against Bitcoin mine in Texas. Bronx
NYC / Legal: Eric
Adams Wants Trial Done By March Now US
Attorney Asks No Trial Dates Until CIPA
9/30/24 -- CRA:
First
Busey $1B Bid For CrossFirst Hit by CRA
Challenge by Fair Finance Watch on Disparities.
Federal
Reserve Watch: Expedited FOIA on
SouthState but no documents. Bank
Beat: After
SBF 25 Years Caroline Ellison Asked for No
Jail Time Gets 2 Years Minimum Security. UN -
Global:
In
UNGA Circus SG Guterres Late Iran Video After
Biden Late and UK Starmer on Sausages. Enviro: COP29
Hypocrisy in Azerbaijan. Bronx
/ Legal: Eric
Adams Pleads Not Guilty and Says Will Move to
Dismiss on Oct 2 as Keeps Passport
9/23/24 -- CRA:
In
Battleground Michigan Disparate ChoiceOne Eyes
Detroit via State Bank Opaque HELOC. Federal
Reserve Watch: SouthState
Lending Disparities Triggered CRA Challenge
Now after FOIA Withheld Exhibit 18 - how many
more mis-classified? Bank
Beat: Mashinsky
of Celsius Wants 6 Witnesses as US Estimates
His Guidelines at 115 Years. UN -
Global:
UN
Corrupt SG Guterres Hit With Staff Petitions
on his Cover Ups Inner City Press Third Scoop.
Enviro:
Houston Fires. Bronx
/ Legal: Two
Former FDNY Officials Indicted for Bribes and
Released on $250,000 Bond
9/16/24 -- CRA:
Problems with ConnectOne Merger With First of
Long Island Fair Finance Watch Finds. Federal
Reserve Watch: Paper tiger on Fieldpoint
Private Bank and Trust. Bank
Beat: After
SBF Got 25 Years Salame Got 90 Months now
Grilled if SDNY Assurance about Bond. UN -
Global:
UN
Corrupt SG Guterres Hit With Staff Petition on
His Failing Missions Inner City Press Scoops.
Enviro:
Alabama lawsuit. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Charged With Sex Abuse At Bronx School Was
Freed on $1 Million Bond Now Gets 30 Years
9/9/24 -- CRA:
Opposing
Capital One Discover Fair Finance Watch Raises
Case of Customer Info to Meta. Federal
Reserve responds from Chicago, FRBNY still
nothing on Porticoes. Bank
Beat: As
Binance and Iran Sued by Oct 7 Victims in SDNY
Now Plaintiff Cite Unsealed Hamas Case. UN -
Global:
UN
Guterres Slobbers on Belt and Road & Xi
Concealing His Link to CEFC China Energy.
Enviro:
Georgia Riverkeeper lawsuit. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Arrested After Two Bronx Shooting Found with
Vest of Ammo with Trigger Fish Cited
9/2/24 -- CRA:
In
Battleground Michigan Disparate ChoiceOne Eyes
Detroit Area via State Bank But Challenge.
Federal
Reserve gives that application, but still
not Porticoes. Bank
Beat: After
SBF Got 25 Years Salame Got 90 Months Despite
Withdrawn Motion Judge Says Sept 12. UN -
Global:
After
UN Legal Official Talks Terror at Trump
Complaint Filed in UN & Sent to Banned
Press. Enviro:
NJ shore landfill fines. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
District Leader Nicole Torres Indicted in SDNY
For Selling Poll Worker Jobs
8/26/24 -- CRA:
Porticoes "blank check" bank scam extends to Federal Reserve
as SouthState seals response. Bank
Beat: After
SBF Got 25 Years Salame Got 90 Months Then
Motion now Michelle Bond Indicted. UN -
Global:
In
Corrupt UN of Guterres Scarcia of UNIDO Named
for Waste by Whistleblowers; UN
Guterres Bloviates in Samoa amid Corruption on
Way to Visit His Paymaster Xi. Enviro:
Assessing administration. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Woman Charged with 4 Kilos of Drugs in Car in
July Gets Feb 2025 Trial Date in SDNY
8/19/24 -- CRA:
Porticoes National (blank check) Bank covered up
for by FDIC? Federal
Reserve Watch: Only state CRA question to
SouthState. Bank
Beat: In
Suit Against Cairo Amman Bank For Hamas
Briefing Due on Supreme Court Twitter Case.
UN
- Global:
UN
Guterres Heads on South Pacific Junket as Fig
Leaf to Visit His Paymaster Xi Bans Press.
Enviro:
Maritime rules counterproductive? Bronx
/ Legal: As
NJ Corporation Moves in on South Bronx
Building Pro Se Defendant Speaks Up Loudly
8/12/24 -- CRA:
SouthState
Lending Disparities Triggered CRA Challenge
Now Reply Only As To Independent. Federal
Reserve still no FOIA responses after
closed comment periods. Bank
Beat: US
Sued Javice For Fooling JP Morgan Chase So She
Subpoenaed Chase Now Rulings on Privileges.
UN
- Global:
Bangladesh
Sheikh Hasina Was Part of UN Corruption Axis
Praised by SG Guterres. Enviro:
Disparate subway pollution in NYC. Bronx
/ Legal: For
Attempted Robberies of Bronx Chase Bank and
Check Cashier Man Plead Guilty NJ Omitted
8/5/24 -- CRA:
On
Capital One Discover OCC In Nov 2023 Called It
Big Project Sirius then Andy Texts - when
to Federal
Reserve Meet Rich? Bank
Beat: SouthState
Lending Disparities Trigger CRA Challenge to
Independent Merger Application. UN -
Global:
Sierra
Leone Takes Over UNSC No Answers on Gaza or UN
Rape Sudan or UNrepaired Mission. Enviro:
Protest in NJ. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Who Drove Getaway Car for Bronx Smoke Shop
Robbery Has Suppression Hearing
7/29/24 -- CRA:
On
Capital One Discover OCC Doubles Down on FOIA
Withholding After Predatory Pledge. Federal
Reserve Worsens, even on smaller Southern
proposed merger. Bank
Beat: After
SBF Sentenced to 25 Years Now Delay In Getting
Funds Back from PACs in DC. UN -
Global:
Amid
Venezuela Election UN Guterres Prepares Cover
Up Report Like for JOH in Honduras. Enviro:
Hypocrite SG flies to Paris. Bronx
/ Legal: As
Bronx Drugs and Guns Case Moves to Trial DOJ
Mulls Appealing Suppression
7/22/24 -- CRA:
On
Capital One Discover Opposition by Fair
Finance Watch with Inner City Press on FOIA,
Federal
Reserve Too Slow. Bank
Beat: Coinbase
Presses for Gary Gensler Personal Email Only
While SEC Chair Brief Due July 23. UN -
Global:
UN
PGA Post Doled Out to Helga Schmid As Current
PGA Adviser Is FM of Fake Country. Enviro:
Power plant in Newark . Bronx
/ Legal: After
NYCHA Extortion Take Down Starks Mulls Moving
to Dismiss under Snyder Decision
7/15/24 -- CRA:
Challenge
to Peoples Security Bank FNCB Results in FDIC
Fair Lending Condition. Federal
Reserve Watch: On
Capital One Discover 3 Minutes Each OCC
Withholds 185 Pages Inner City Press Appeals -
Still Nothing from the Fed. Bank
Beat: UMB
Bank Application Buy Heartland Hit on
Disparties and As Shaky Regional Now Spin on
Uninsured Deposits. UN
- Global:
UN
Corrupt SG Guterres Sells Aid Chief Post Piper
Promoted after Inner City Press Asked
& Big
Tony Guterres Gorges on Chicken Kiev and
Russian River Valley Wine As Bans Press. Enviro: Marathon
Oil is Fined. Bronx
/ Legal: On
Fentanyl Death in Bronx Daycare Amparo Herrera
Pleads Guilty to Lesser Included Offense
7/8/24 -- CRA:
On
Capital One Discover OCC Withholds 185 Pages
Inner City Press Appeals as PA Pol Spins.
Federal
Reserve Watch: Too late on Silvergate,
after work with Moonstone. Bank
Beat: Flagstar
Bank Is Sued For Discrimination in SDNY On a
Basis Not Included in HMDA Data. UN
- Global:
UN
Falls Apart Under Guterres Literally Vienna
Agencies Flee Fire Danger in Building C. Enviro: South
Carolina pollution case. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Man Arrested with Gun on 161 Street was
Brought From Rikers Pleads Asking 18 Months
7/1/24 -- CRA:
On
Capital One Discover OCC Withholds 185 Pages
In Full So Inner City Press Appeals. Federal
Reserve Watch: Gov Bowman insists no
rubber stamps, thou dost protest too much. Bank
Beat: In
Menendez Trial FBI Account on M&T Bank
Account and Gold in Chase Safety Deposit Box.
UN - Global:
UNFPA
Kanem Lavished Public Funds on Son OIOS Told
of Sexual Exploitation No Answer. Enviro:
Paris pollution for Olympics. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Followed from NJ to The Bronx to Sell 8 Pounds
of Meth Detained on Consent in SDNY
06/24/24 -- CRA:
UMB
Bank Application Buy Heartland Now Challenged
on Disparties & As Shaky Regional. Federal Reserve Watch:
Gov Bowman in Salzberg, can you say crypto? Bank Beat: Stock
Fraudster Craig Auringer Freed in SDNY Now
Bauer Gets Month to Discuss Disposition. UN -
Global:
Amid
UN Press Freedom Claims Application by Inner
City Press to Enter Is 2024 Litmus Test. Enviro: East
Palestine impacts 16 states. Bronx
/ Legal: Guilty
Verdict for Murder on Aqueduct Walk in The
Bronx Next Ferguson Sentencing Oct 9
6/17/24 -- CRA:
Capital
One Should Discover Merger Dead But Brags of
Access Before July 19 Public Meeting. Federal Reserve Watch:
While delaying on FOIA, Fed "reviews" Testimony
Request. Bank
Beat: In
Hwang Trial For Archegos $34B Meltdown
Halligan Says Bank of America Witness Too Late.
UN
- Global:
In
Corrupt UN of Guterres Refugee Center in
Budapest Roiled by Charges against Clements.
Enviro:
Chicken come home to roost at Citibank. Bronx
/ Legal: On
Fentanyl Death in Bronx Daycare Herrera Garcia
Pled Now No CJA On Saturday Slammed
6/10/24 -- CRA:
Capital
One Should Discover Merger Dead amid Bought NV
Strategist for July 19 Public Meeting. Federal Reserve Watch:
Two late letters from FRB-Dallas. Bank
Beat: After
Allianz Global Investors US Pled Guilty Now
Tournant Also Pleads Before Sept Trial. UN -
Global:
In
Corrupt UN of Guterres Staff Tell OIOS of
UNFPA Natalia Kanem Abuses Nothing Done. Enviro: Colorado
lawsuit. Bronx
/ Legal: For
Ghost Gun and Coke on Bronx El Platform with
Anti-Gun Backpack Greene Detained
6/3/24 -- CRA:
Capital
One Should Discover Merger Dead amid Lame Farm
Talk Before July 19 Public Meeting. Federal
Reserve Watch: Rare Tier 3 approval - for
Ex-Fed Quarles' Numisma. Bank
Beat: In
SDNY Trial of Hwang For Archegos $34B Meltdown
US Insists UBS Salcedo Stay In. UN
- Global:
UNSC
Rubber Stamp Election As UN Fails from Gaza to
Ukraine Now Pakistan and Somalia Join; UN
Lawyer de Serpa Soares Thumbed Nose at Law in
Haiti and Press Freedom Out June 10. Enviro:
China causes ocean-warming Blob. Bronx
/ Legal: After
Fentanyl Death in Bronx Daycare 1 Pleads as
Grei Mendez Severed From June 10 Trial
5/27/24 -- CRA:
Capital
One Should Discover Merger Dead Pro
Merger Lobbying Begins July 19 Public Meeting.
Federal
Reserve Watch: Stats on bank runs,
Signature to SVB. Bank
Beat: In
SDNY Trial of Hwang For Archegos $34B Meltdown
Becker On Lost Sick Days 2+ Weeks. UN -
Global:
In
Corrupt UN of Guterres CCP Spinner of Uighur
Genocide Gets UN ILO Bangkok Job. Enviro:
Pollution in Nigeria. Bronx
/ Legal: After
Fentanyl Death in Bronx Daycare Now Grei
Mendez Severed From June 10 Trial
5/20/24 -- CRA:
Supreme
Court Upholds CFPB Structure 7-2 Amid Industry
Attacks and Merger Proposals. Federal
Reserve Watch: Capital
One Should Discover Merger Dead July 19 Public
Meeting Inner City Press FOIAed Fed. Bank
Beat: As
Jane Street Sues Millennium Must List Trade
Secrets by May 13 Then Discovery to November.
UN
- Global:
UNSG
Guterres Covered For Sex Abuse Onana Now To
Promote Him While Still Banning Press. Enviro: Defenders
of Congestion Pricing Say Plaintiffs Too Late
and Environmental Justice Is Not Law. Bronx / Legal: After
Fentanyl Death in Bronx Daycare Now One
Defendant Set to Plead Guilty on May 23
5/13/24 -- CRA:
Amid
Attack on CRA FirstSun HomeStreet Bid Hit on
Lending Disparities Now Charter Switch. Federal Reserve Watch:
Fed
Disappeared CRA Linkbancorp Condition on
Approval Now NJ Branches out of CRA. Bank
Beat: Republic
Bank Failed with Disparate Record FDIC Gave to
Fulton Over OZK and Flushing. UN -
Global:
After
UNOPS Corruption Exposed by Inner City Press
Vanshelboim UN Appeal June 3 Deadline; After
Inner City Press Reports Sierra Leone UN
Mission Decay Now Unpaid Lawyers Withdraw.
Enviro:
Air quality blues. Bronx
/ Legal: For
2002 Death of Atari Felton in The Bronx Ayala
Gets 220 Months After Asked For 60
5/6/24 -- CRA:
After
Being IDed As Shaky Regional UMB Bank Wants to
Buy Heartland But Disparities. Federal
Reserve Watch: Gov Bowman says immigrants
raise housing prices. Bank
Beat: Republic
Bank Fails with Disparate Record in PA and NJ
Given to Fulton With Narrow CRA. UN - Global: As
UN Fails from Gaza to Ukraine and Haiti UNSC
Taken Over by Mozambique Bans Press. Enviro:
Ash in Lanka. Bronx
/ Legal: For
2002 Death of Atari Felton in The Bronx Ayala
Asks for Five Year Sentence
4/29/24 -- CRA:
Capital
One Should Discover Merger Dead FRB Extends to
May 31 Inner City Press FOIAed Federal
Reserve, which
delays. Bank
Beat: In Trump trial, laxity shown at
First Republic - now JPM Chase? UN -
Global:
In
Corrupt UN of Guterres Khare and Pollard Hear
Of But Ignore Conflicts of Interest so Press
Enviro:
10 most polluted US cities. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Man Charged With Robbing Bodega Had Release
Reversed Now Will Not Meet Doctor
4/22/24 -- CRA:Inner
City Press tells OCC to comply with FOIA as Federal Reserve extends
response on Capital One / Discovery Until
After Comment Period. Bank
Beat: As
Jane Street Sues Millennium Its Request to
Seal Courtroom then Request for TRO Denied UN-Global: UN
Corruption
in Somalia Detailed by Staff Whistleblower But
Guterres Does Nothing. Enviro:
TotalEnergies in the spotlight. Bronx
/ Legal: Felon
Detained for Gun in His Bronx Safe Just Wanted
to Go Home Now Trial Set for May 13
4/15/24 -- CRA:
Lakeland
Bank DOJ Deal Left Disparities So Protest
Now Federal
Reserve Rubber
Stamps Provident Merger. Bank
Beat: Turkey
Halkbank Not Immune 2d Circuit Decided DOJ Wants
to Stay and Consolidate Civil Case. UN - Global: UN
Corruption UNOPS to Brindisi UNanswered by
Fleming Nor Rattray Nor Serpa Soares. Enviro:
Constitutional case in New Mexico. Bronx
/ Legal: After
Fentanyl Death in Bronx Daycare New Defendant
Amparo Indicted and Detained
4/8/24 -- CRA:
Amid
Attack on CRA FirstSun HomeStreet Bid Hit on
Disparities Now Belated Partial Response. Federal Reserve Watch:
Capital
One Should Discover Merger Dead As Inner City
Press FOIAs Fed Barr Talks Basel 3. Bank
Beat: On
Crypto Inner City Press at IMF Asks of El
Salvador Bitcoin Risk Called Key Element Here.
UN -
Global:
Malta
Takes Over UNSC For April No Answer on Gaza or
Daphne Despite Press Questions. Enviro:
Northrup Gruman in NY. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Man Arrested With Gun Was Indicted in SDNY Now
Moving to Dismiss Citing Bruen
4/1/24 -- CRA:
Prosperity
Bank Hit by CRA Challenge to Lone Star Bank now
FDIC Condition Reimposed. Federal
Reserve not a single document on Capital One
/ Discover despite "expedite" FOIA. Bank
Beat: FinTech
Current Accused of Discrimination Is Sued for
Firing Mitura as Cancer Docs Sought. UN - Global: After
Mali Demanded UN Peacekeepers Leave SG Antonio
Guterres Abandons Local Staff Enviro:
Plea from San Diego. Bronx
/ Legal: 10
Charged With Kidnapping Bronx Minor May Get Co
Defendant Meeting in SDNY
3/25/24 -- CRA:
FDIC
Imposes CRA Condition After Mississippi Bank
Merger Challenged by Fair Finance Watch. Federal Reserve Watch:
Pushing back compliance dates for new CRA reg. Bank Beat: Capital
One Should Discover Merger Dead amid Stealth
Application Inner City Press FOIAs Fed. UN - Global: On
Gaza US Double Talk Cynical China and Russia
Veto as Guyana Wants UNRWA Funds. Enviro:
EJ in Austin, Texas. Bronx
/ Legal: Among
16 Bronxites Indicted in Valentine Ave Drug Case
Marcus Loses Appeal VICAR Cited
3/18/24 --
CRA: NYCB
Was Gifted Signature Bank Now Otting Cash as CEO
by Mnuchin, Thumbs Nose at CRA as at OneWest.
Federal
Reserve faux crack down on JPM Chase. Bank
Beat: On
SBF 40 to 50 Years in Prison Sought by US As He
Asks 63 Months Crypto Criminal Book. UN -
Global:
UN
Fails Amid Resignation of Henry of Haiti Where
UN Took Cholera Japan UNSC Useless. Enviro:
Crack down on trucks in Maine. Bronx
/ Legal: Among
16 Bronxites Indicted in Valentine Ave Drug Case
One Appeals Detention But Loses
3/11/24 -- CRA:
NYCB
Was Gifted Signature Bank Now Otting Made CEO by
Mnuchin Thumbing Nose at CRA. Federal
Reserve Watch: Gov Bowman concerned mergers
too slow (amid Capital One-Discover) Bank
Beat: On
Bank Failures Inner City Press Asked IMF about
CRE & NYCB in Wake of Signature Bank. UN
- Global:
New
Book on Guilty Verdicts of JOH Honduras Ex
President Narco Drama by Inner City Press, Still
Asks UN about Guterres Backing up JOH's 2d
Stolen Election. Enviro:
Pollution in Hanoi. Bronx
/ Legal: After
NYCHA Extortion Take Down Johnson Pleads Guilty
1st for $54000 Inner City Press 1st
3/4/24 -- CRA:
Capital
One Should Discover Merger Dead as FTC Hits Kroger
& Inner City Press FOIA pends at Federal
Reserve, in denial on Lakeland discrimination.
Bank
Beat: NYCB
Was Gifted Signature Bank Barney Frank and Cephas
on Board Now CEO Out. UN - Global:
Japan
Takes Over UNSC For March No Answer on Gaza or
North Korea Despite Press Questions. Enviro:
Illinois distrust. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Man Whose Fentanyl Killed 16 Year Old Sex Worker
Pleds Guilty Now Asks for 5 Years
2/26/24 -- CRA:
Capital
One Should Discover Merger Dead CEO Brags to
Zombies Inner City Press FOIAs Federal
Reserve - while Fed delays response on
Provident / Lakeland. Bank
Beat: Amid
Attack on CRA FirstSun HomeStreet Bid Hit on
Lending Disparities and Data Breach. UN - Global:
As
UN Guterres Covers Terror Role of UNRWA He Bans
Inner City Press Which Exposes It. Enviro:
East Chicago Blues. Bronx
/ Legal: In
Bronx Killing of Luiz Vargas US Asked 25 Years on
Spencer Gets 10 Years and $12,000
2/19/24 -- CRA:
As JPMorgan Chase Seeks to Grab More Money in
Affluent Areas Fair Finance Watch Protests. Federal
Reserve Watch: A Governor's role in ABA
lawsuit against CRA? Bank
Beat: Zilberberg
Guilty of Bank Fraud After TARP Subpoena Shown Now
US Wants 4 Years. UN - Global:
Amid
Gaza Guterres Partied with China State Media
Lowest Turnout as UNCA Blocks Press. Enviro:
Bangkok pollution. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Conservatory of Music Sued Bronx School of Music
Which Won Now Seeking Fees
2/12/24 -- CRA:
ABA
of Large Banks Sue CRA Reg on Day FNB Settles on
Fair Lending after CRA Protest. Bank
Beat: Before
FNB Settled on Fair Lending Its Yadkin Merger Was
Challenged But Federal
Reserve Approved It. UN - Global:
As
UN Guterres Spins Terror Role of UNRWA Taps
Colonna to Cover up as Ian Phillips Lies. Enviro:
Nigeria Delta pollution. Bronx
/ Legal: After
NYCHA Extortion Take Down Defendants Freed on
$50000 Bond Inner City Press Was 1st
2/5/24 -- CRA:
As
OCC Proposes to End Automatic Approvals It
Withheld under FOIA US Bank Letter it Used. Federal
Reserve grants Inner City Press expedited FOIA
processing on Provident - but no documents. Bank
Beat: NYCB
Was Gifted Signature Bank Barney Frank and Cephas
on Board Now Down 60%, Rogues. UN - Global:
Guyana
Takes Over UNSC For February But Ukraine Not
Mentioned as Press Banned. Enviro:
10 most polluted cities in Africa. Bronx
/ Legal: For
Burnt
Bronx Smoke Shop Man Got SDNY Plea to Pot
Possession Now Complete Pardon
1/29/24 -- CRA:
Redliner Lakeland gets info hidden by Provident so Federal
Reserve FOIA by Inner City Press. Bank
Beat: Family
of Kansan Who Died After Iraq Captivity Sues HSBC
with Secret Iran Witness .UN - Global:
As
UN of Guterres Admits Staff in Terror Attack of Oct
7 OIOS to Cover Up Spox, Ian Phillips Lies Enviro:
Canada oil sands. Bronx
/ Legal: Immigration
Lawyer Freed on Bond On Exploiting Violence Against
Woman Act Charge
1/22/24 -- CRA:
Patriot
Bank Settled on Redlining After CRA Satisfactory
Rating from Federal Reserve. Federal
Reserve Watch: Lakeland
Bank DOJ Deal Left Disparities So Protest & Fed
Asks of DOJ Settlement Withheld. Bank
Beat: US
Sued Javice For Fooling JPMC Now Privilege Log by
May for Oct 2024 Trial;
In OneCoin Case Mark Scott Asks for 5 Years as US
Wants 17 More Redactions Amid Appeal. UN - Global:
UN
PGA Francis Funded Only by China + 8 Heads There
with Fake Minister as Adviser; After
UNOPS Corruption Exposed by Inner City Press Buck
Passing on Vanshelboim UN Appeal. Enviro:
Guatemala open-pit gold mining. Bronx
/ Legal: For
Death of Friend by Kennedy Fried Chicken in The
Bronx Goodman Gets 12 Years in Prison
1/15/24 -- CRA:
Disparate
Hudson Valley Credit Union Wants to Gobble Up a Bank
Removing it from CRA. Federal
Reserve Watch: Obsessed with supervisory info
misappropriators. Bank
Bank: For
Front Running at Morgan Stanley Passi Gets Deferred
Prosecution Agreement Not a Felon; On
SEC Bitcoin ETF Inner City Press Asks IMF Which Says
It Is Studying also Yemen Impact. UN - Global:
UN
Censorship Redux as Florencia Soto Nino Takes Public
Money To Cover Up Corruption. Enviro:
Shell in Nigeria, one down, many to go. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Indicted for Armed Robbery of Bronx Dunkin Donut Was
Detained Now Pleads Guilty
1/8/24 -- CRA:
Truist
Moving to Close 72 Bank Branches Amid Merger Fallout
Covered Up by US Regulators. Federal
Reserve Watch: Dallas chair's from
Kimberly-Clark. Bank
Beat: Netflix
BitConned Has Crypto Rat Tripani Bragging Before
Time Served, The Bancorp cease & desist, SDNY
Review. UN - Global:
France
Taking Over UNSC For January No Answers UN
Peaceeping Rapes Despite Press Questions. Enviro:
Only green ships in Norway's fjord. Bronx
/ Legal: After
SDNY Courtroom Sealed To Press Case Defendant
Arrested in Bronx Now on Rikers
1/1/24 -- CRA:
Old
National Bank Bid for CapStar Protested After 2021
Settlement 2022 Lending Disparities. Federal
Reserve is on Threads, unlike even the UN. Bank
Beat: On
SBF Now US Drops 2d Trial on China Bribe &
Campaign Finance Charges Bahama$ Gambit. UN - Global:
Brazil
Ends 2 Years on UNSC Blocking Press on X and
Refusing Written Questions on El Pollo. Enviro:
The most polluted cities in the world. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Man Who Shot Gun In Air Three Times Is Again Deemed
Incompetent So Order Prepped
12/25/23 -- CRA:
US Bancorp is fined for harming to consumers during
pandemic, but Federal
Reserve AWOL. Bank
Beat: In
OneCoin Case Konstantin Wants Longer Curfew as Inner
City Press Appeal Due March. UN - Global:
On
Gaza UNSC Kabuki Theater US Abstains on Toothless
Resolution With Press Banned by SG. Enviro:
China moving backwards. Bronx
/ Legal: As
NYC Adams Blames Budget Cuts to Schools on Migrants
Inner City Press Asks UFT of Suit
12/18/23 -- CRA:
Challenge to Merchants & Marine Bank deemed formal
protest by FDIC. Federal
Reserve Watch: Finger in the wind on Basel III
endgame. Bank
Beat: After
Allianz Global Investors US Pleds Guilty Tournant To
Get Bill of Particulars in SDNY. UN - Global:
Amid
Gaza Guterres Parties with Sharon Stone With UNCA
Murky Businessmen in Shadows. Enviro:
UN
Guterres Praises UAE Oil Exec at COP After Living on
Oil Money and Banning Press. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Gentrification Buildings Dispute Damage Under Fair
Housing Act Theory in SDNY
12/11/23 -- CRA:
Amid
FDIC Questions Disparate Mississippi Bank Merger
Challenged by Fair Finance Watch. Federal
Reserve didn't even ask Atlantic Union about the
fee issue CFPB now fines it on. Bank
Beat: A week in mergers. UN - Global:
Gaza
Resolution Fails in UNSC Thomas Greenfield Out UN
Guterres Monetizes Article 99. Enviro:
As
ADNOC Jaber Cashes Out UN Guterres Cover For Him and
His Banks, Banning Press. Bronx
/ Legal: NYPD
Gina Mestre Helped Bronx Gang Murderer Evade Capture
Now Pleads to 70 Month Deal
12/4/23 -- CRA:
PA
Merger Partner FNCB Admits Disparities As Link Was
Hit by Fair Finance Watch Now Plan. Federal
Reserve Watch: Gov Barr Talks Central Bank as
Argentina Says It Will End Its. Bank
Beat: As
Senate Act Against Small Business Data Moves Past
House Rules BofA
Cheated HMDA. UN - Global:
Ecuador
Takes Over UNSC For December Scam on Corruption No
El Pollo Answers Press Ban. Enviro:
UN
Guterres Lies for COP28 Run by UAE Oil Exec But Frmr
Marshall Islands Prez Quits. Bronx
/ Legal: For
Selling Gun In Front of Bronx Building Man Ordered
Released Now Revoked by Part 1 Judge
11/27/23 -- CRA:
Challenged
to Burke & Herbert on Summit Is Deemed Protest
by FDIC despite Bogus Reply. Federal
Reserve Watch: Fed
Dropped CRA Condition on Linkbancorp Approval after
Posting Now Governors Not Told. Bank
Beat: CZ
of Binance Could Skip Bail and Sentencing in UAE DOJ
Argues in Appealing His Bond. UN - Global:
Eager
to Purge the Internet of Anti UN Info USG Melissa
Fleming Polls Staff on Hate Speech. Enviro: Hot air
in Antarctica. Bronx
/ Legal: Video
of NYPD Punching Bronx Felon Filed Along With Bond
Request in SDNY
11/20/23 -- CRA:
Response
by Burke & Herbert on Summit Merger Ignores FDIC
Conditioning Linkbank. Federal
Reserve Watch: Fed
Dropped CRA Condition on Linkbankcorp Approval After
Posting or Even Voting On It. Bank
Beat: Terraform
Labs SEC Case Moves Toward Trial with Experts
Grilled and Howey Briefing. UN - Global:
On
Gaza UN Guterres Cares Only for Himself in CNN Self
Justification Dismissing Yemen Death. Enviro:
In COP28 Run-Up UAE's Adnoc is flaring. Bronx
/ Legal: For
Burnt Bronx Smoke Shop Man Gets SDNY Plea to
Marijuana Possession, Halfway House
11/13/23 -- CRA:
Peoples Security Bank & Trust FNCB merger hit on
lending disparities. Federal
Reserve Watch: Who dropped the F-Bomb on climate
change protesters? Bank
Beat: Late October mergers. UN - Global:
On
UNRWA Inner City Press Asked UN As ESCWA Staff
Complained to SG Now Extended.
Enviro: DC EJ. Bronx
/ Legal: Skyfield
Wants Speedy Trial on Bronx Ammo Charge But Week
Excluded to Find CJA Lawyer
11/6/23 -- CRA:
Atlantic
Union CRA Protested on American National Replies 2.4
Disparities Is Fine. Federal
Reserve Watch: Loosening Oversight of Citigroup.
Bank
Beat: Bankman-Fried
Guilty on All 7 Counts in FTX Trial Inner City Press
Live Tweeted Now New Book,
"Crypto Criminal." UN - Global:
Failing
on Gaza Guterres' UN Wastes Public Money on
CulturePulse Creating AI Clones. Enviro:
Sri Lanka cancels practices in New Delhi. Bronx
/ Legal: Charged
With Shooting 13 Times in Bronx Housing Project
Allen is Detained in SDNY
10/30/23 -- CRA:
Challenge
to Burke & Herbert Summit Merger After Linkbank
Conditioned by FDIC. Federal
Reserve Watch: As
CRA Rule Launched by Ameris Pre DOJ Deal Was
Protested But Merger Rubber Stamped. Bank
Beat: Bankman-Fried
Says He Wanted to Impact the World But Surprised by
$8 Billion Hole. UN - Global:
On
Gaza in UNGA Canada Amendment Fails So No Hamas as
Bob Rae Blocks Press as Guterres. Enviro:
Oklahoma chicken pollution court case. Bronx
/ Legal: Shooting
of Baby in The Bronx Resulted in 2 Arrests, Now
Renewed Bid for Bail Set Nov 1
10/23/23 -- CRA:
Linkbankcorp
Bid To Buy Partners Bancorp Conditioned by FDIC Now
Linkbank Spins; ABA. Federal
Reserve Watch: What does Linkbank know? Bank
Beat: In
Bankman-Fried Trial Can Sun in from Japan with NPA
Says He Was Shocked Crypto Creeps. UN - Global:
Amid
Gaza UNSC Fails under Brazil Blocking Press on X US
Veto UK and Russia Abstain. Enviro:
Pollution at Teterboro into which SBF flew. Bronx
/ Legal: NYPD
Officer Arrested For Kilo Fentanyl Sale Plan Is
Released on $100,000 Bond to Her Bronx Home
10/16/23 -- CRA:
Bank application by bunq, fined for using (only) AI
for anti-money laudering, is bunk. Federal
Reserve Watch: Governor Bowman in Morocco. Bank
Beat: Bankman-Fried
Trial Trabucco On Signal on Final Day While BlockFi
Cries Crypto Creeps UN - Global:
On
Gaza UNSG Guterres Fake Tears for Media While
Banning Press on Hold with Jake Sullivan Enviro:
Bid to stop idling. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Convicted of Murder and Conspiracy To Kill Federal
Witnesses Now Faces Life Sentence
10/9/23 -- CRA:
Link
Bank Bid To Buy Partners Bancorp Was Hit by Fair
Finance Watch Now Plan Required. Federal
Reserve Watch: Oct 6 No-Show on CRA, Instead
Another Reg. Bank
Beat: Bankman-Fried
Exposed By Math Camp Gary While Everdell Caught in
Loop. UN
- Global:
Amid
Gaza Israel UN PGA Silent Qatar Saudi Funds with
Fake Minister as Adviser, Press Ban. Enviro:
Alabama brownfields. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Arrested in Bronx House with 50 Pounds of Fentanyl
Was Freed But No Passport at Deadline
10/2/23 -- CRA:
Deutsche
Bank Fined for Greenwashing Scam, Next Should Be
Fine for False CRA Claims. Federal
Reserve Watch: CRA reg to belatedly be released
on Oct 6? Bank
Beat: Bankman-Fried
Wants to Stop Ukraine Victim of FTX from Testifying
Remotely. UN - Global:
UN
PGA Adviser Is FM of Fake Country Monte de Agrella
as Corruption Worsens Press Banned. Enviro:
Lawsuit in the UK. Bronx
/ Legal: After
Fentanyl Death in Bronx Day Care 4th Man Arrested in
California on SDNY Charge
9/25/23 -- CRA:
Challenge
to Atlantic Union - American National Proposed
Merger on Loan Disparities. Federal
Reserve wants to hear more from banks, Gov.
Bowman says in Colorado. Bank
Beat: Bankman-Fried
Bid for Experts Thomas Bishop and Brian Kim at Trial
Denied under Rule 16. UN - Global:
At
UNGA India and Pakistan Clash as Iran Trashes Israel
and Japan the Solomon Islands. Enviro:
Oil
Exec from UAE Running COP28 Draws Bots on X Like
Wider UN of Guterres Censors. Bronx
/ Legal: After
Fentanyl Death of 1-Year Old in Bronx Day Care 2 Are
Detained in SDNY, 1 on Lam
9/18/23 -- CRA:
Citigroup is protested, and pushes back, physically. Federal
Reserve Watch: SDNY case set for December. Bank
Beat: Bankman-Fried
Bid to Ask Jurors About Effective Altruism on Oct 3
Opposed by Prosecutors. UN - Global:
By
UNGA Burmese Vainly Asks Credentials for Kyaw Moe
Tun But China on UN Committee. Enviro:
Citi madness. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Drug Case Expanded To Cover A Murder so Beltran
Trial in SDNY, CI Was Deactivated
9/11/23 -- CRA:
Schwab
Moved Bank and CRA Duty to Desert SW After TD
Ameritrade Buy, Now Challenge. Federal
Reserve Watch: Another approval, this time
application from 2004? Bank
Beat: FTX
Ryan Salame Pleads Guilty to Campaign Finance Charges
that DOJ Let SBF Avoid. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Flies and Lies With China's Li about Reform
while Banning Press from UNGA. Enviro:
Pollution hidden at G20. Bronx
/ Legal: Kai
Johnson For Murder of 2 In The Bronx Pled Guilty Now
US Attorney Asks for 40 Years: #EndlessSentences
9/4/23 -- CRA:
Link
Bank Bid To Buy Partners Bancorp On the Ocean Rebound
has More Fed CRA Questions. Federal
Reserve Watch: Fed inaction on JPM Chase's
enabling of Epstein. Bank
Beat: Bankman-Fried
Given to Friday to Ask Postpone Trial & Sept 5
Report on Laptop & Net Use. UN - Global:
Amid
Gabon Coup New UNGA Speakers List Still Lists Their
Head of State on Sept 21; Albania
Takes Over UNSC For Sept Hoxha Virtue Signals While
Refusing Press Questions. Enviro:
Disparate pollution. Bronx
/ Legal: As
Man Who Fired 11 Shots At Bronx Nightclub Gets 87
Months Screaming in the Courtroom, #EndlessSentences
8/28/23 -- CRA:
Lakeland
Bank DOJ Deal Left Disparities in NY So Protest now
Fed Asks of DOJ Settlement. Federal
Reserve Watch: PacWest application of Banc of
California filed sans JPM Chase, a litmus test. Bank
Beat: US
Sued Javice For Fooling JPM Chase Now Judge Wants Bank
and Docs in Court Sept 26. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres on His 3 Week Vacation Protested Fez Coverage
While Dujarric Refuses Press Qs. Enviro:
Chad is most polluted country. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Bodega Robbery in May Yields Murder Charge against
Rodney Spratley Now in SDNY
8/21/23 -- CRA:
Credit
Union Associations Demand Stay of CFPB 1071 Rule As
They Also Move to Merge. Federal
Reserve Watch: Farmington
Bank Belatedly Shut By Fed as SBF Jailed FOIA Appeal
for Crypto Creeps Sequel. Bank
Beat: Bankman-Fried
Wants Internet in Courthouse 5 Days a Week Until
October. UN
- Global:
Past
UN Official Stelzer Replies on Suspension from Anti
Corruption Group UNlike SG Guterres. Enviro:
Pollution in Venezuela. Bronx
/ Legal: NYPD
Gina Mestre Helped Gang Murderer Evade Capture Now
Bailed to Her Ex NYPD Boyfriend
8/14/23 -- CRA:
Banks
Downgraded as Regulators Encourage Mergers But Link
Bid To Buy Partners is Litmus. Federal
Reserve Watch amid belated focus on crypto, SFB
detained. Bank
Beat: Sam
Bankman-Fried Bail Revoked So Jailed As US Claims
Can't Pursue Campaign Finance Charges. UN - Global:
Amid
Aid Blockades UN Guterres Canned Statements Are All
Skau Offers Lachin as Niger. Enviro:
Jakarta pollution. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Defendant Got 35 Years In Case with Rap Lyrics Quoted
Now Co-D Asks Less than 42 Months
8/7/23 -- CRA:
ABA
Demands Stay of CFPB 1071 Rule As Regulators Triggered
PacWest Merger Proposal. Federal
Reserve Watch: Link
Bank Bid To Buy Partners Bancorp On the OceanFirst
Rebound has Belated Fed CRA Questions. Bank
Beat: JPM
Chase Was Fooled by Frank Founder Now Indicted Javice
Opposes Adjournment to September. UN - Global:
Amid
Niger Coup UN Guterres Crony Louise Aubin still MIA
while Press Banned from Santos. Enviro:
No swimming in Paris' Seine. Bronx
/ Legal: On
Man Indicted for Armed Robbery of Bronx Dunkin Donut
Release Order Now Reversed
7/31/23 -- CRA:
Regulatory
Double Talk Triggers PacWest Merger Proposal Like Link
Bank Doomed Bid. Federal
Reserve Watch: Belated fine of USB / CS for deals
with Archegos. Bank
Beat: Bill
Hwang of Archegos wants to subpoena CS, GS, Others.
UN - Global:
Amid
Niger Coup UN Guterres Crony Louise Aubin Out of
Country, UN No Talks with Army. Enviro:
A/C rules in Italy, EU. Bronx
/ Legal: Spiegelman
Cannot Go to Russia to Renounce US Citizenship, Fled
Bronx Houseway House
7/24/23 -- CRA:
Link
Bank In Bid To Buy Partners Bancorp On the Ocean
Rebound Misrepresented to FDIC. Federal
Reserve Watch: Bowman's bid for safe harbor
ignores Quonic and the law. Bank
Beat: Bankman-Fried
Summoned to SDNY July 26 on Bail Conditions, Inner
City Press Filed to Unseal. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres
Conducts Scam Survey on Sex Abuse As Covers It
Up and Banning Press. Enviro:
Sadiq Khan's smoky London. Bronx
/ Legal: NYPD
Sergeant Adrian DeJesus Beat a Prisoner in Central
Booking Now Gets No Jail Time
7/17/23 -- CRA:
Link
Bank Bid To Buy Partners Bancorp On the Ocean Rebound
Protested, Inaction on Bad Exam. Federal
Reserve Watch: Kids' gloves on Capital One, BofA. Bank
Beat: Bankman-Fried
Wants Cell Search Waived for Sealed List So Inner City
Press Files to Unseal. UN - Global:
IMF
Concerned at Kenya Protests, IMF Spox Tells Inner City
Press While UN Refuses to Answer, Corrupt. Enviro:
EJ in Iraq. Bronx
/ Legal: For
Two Bronx Molotov Cocktails Bangladeshi Pled Got 72
Months Now Mendez Gets 27
7/10/23 -- CRA:
Oakwood
Bank Was Protested on MapleMark Bank Merger Now Both
Downgraded on CRA. Federal
Reserve Watch: FRBP blew off Fair Finance Watch
complaints on Quontic - now corrective action order. Bank
Beat: Zilberberg
Fraud Trial Cites FDIC Exam of Park Avenue Bank and TARP
Subpoena. UN
- Global:
2d
Leak About UN Rape in War Office Shows Patten Stealing
VIP Treats for Son on Vacation. Enviro:
Toxic foam in Brazil: Bronx
/ Legal: Violent
Assault in SDNY Cell Block Inner City Press Reported now
Confirmed but Video Sealed
7/3/23 - CRA:
Link
Bank Bid To Buy Partners Bancorp On the Ocean Rebound
Evasively Answers on Lehman. Federal
Reserve Watch: Stress Test strafes US Bancorp and
Truist. Bank
Beat: Meadow
Bribed Cooperator For Insider Trading Info off Morgan
Stanley Girlfriend's Laptop so SDNY Indictment. UN - Global:
UN
Staff Arrested Smuggling Cocaine After UNTSO Van Sex
Exposed by Inner City Press. Enviro:
Just Stop Oil sits down in front of Coca-Cola in London. Bronx
/ Legal: Shooting
at Police in The Bronx was Federalized As Felon in
Possession now Gomez SDNY Fight
6/26/23 -- CRA:
Key
Bank Amid Data Breach Lawsuits Brags of Goodwill Grant
As Engages In Disparate Loans. Federal
Reserve Watch: If Kugler can recuse when conflicted,
why don't the other Governors? Bank
Beat: JPM
Chase
Fooled
by Frank Founder Free on $2M Bond now US Intervenes
& Stays SEC Case. UN - Global:
Amid
UN Press Freedom Claims Application by Inner City Press
to Enter Will Be Litmus Test. Enviro:
London surcharges. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Who Pled to Bronx Armed Robberies Was Arrested in Maine
and Now Detained in SDNY
6/19/23 -- CRA:
Link
Bank Bid To Buy Partners Bancorp On the Ocean Rebound
Has Nameless CRA Answers. Federal
Reserve Watch: Requests for access to Reserve Bank
master accounts from WY - & London. Bank
Beat: In
Goldman Sachs Trial for Insider Trading Goel Took the
Stand So Now to Answer Subpoena. UN - Global:
As
UN Guterres Bans Press He Bloviates About Disinformation
Launching Empty Policy Briefs. Enviro:
Pollution in Minneapolis. Bronx
/ Legal: Drowning
in Spuyten Duyvil in The Bronx Triggers SDNY Discovery
Dispute on Bridge
6/12/23 -- CRA:
Link
Bank Bid To Buy Partners Bancorp On the Ocean Rebound
Has CRA Contemptuous Response, Inner City Press Replies.
Federal
Reserve Governor Jefferson on Basel III. Bank
Beat: On
Tunisia IMF Tells Inner City Press It Stands Ready as
President Kais Saied Slams IMF Recipes. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Covers Up Rapes in DRC and Haiti While Bragging
of Sending 11 Tanzanian Home. Enviro:
Amid Environmental Claims by Administration Bank
Regulators Ignore Pollution on Mergers. Bronx
/ Legal: Drowning
in Spuyten Dyuvil in The Bronx Triggers SDNY Discovery
Dispute on Bridge
6/5/23 -- CRA:
First
Republic Given to JPM Chase amid Dimon Epstein Link now
Closes 21 Branches Cites Cars. Federal
Reserve: Bowman Does Boston. Bank
Beat: In
Epstein Case JPM Chase Opposed Class Cert Amid Jamie
Dimon Deposition Transcript Here. UN - Global:
After
Inner City Press Scoop on UNTSO Sex in UN Van Haq Lies
To AFP About Accountability. Enviro:
Most Polluted Countries. Bronx
/ Legal: Joshua
Rodriguez on Trial For Murder of Rival Dealer Scrolls
Through Rap Videos Used Against Him
5/29/23 -- CRA:
After
SBA Fraud Trial of Shin Noah Bank Got Bank of Princeton
To Buy It Despite Ongoing Issues. Federal
Reserve: Waller Watch. Bank
Beat: In
Epstein Case JP
Morgan Chase Argues
against Class Certification Amid Jamie Dimon Deposition.
UN - Global:
UN
Rot Typified by Volker Turk Silent on Uighurs As He
Shills for Corporate Donations; To
UN Stakeout Ghana Invites Inner City Press But It Is
Banned By SG Guterres and Dujarric. Enviro:
EJ at bank regulatory agencies? Bronx
/ Legal: Felon
Charged With Gun Near Yankee Stadium OK To Go Pro Per
Now Refuses Court and E-mail
5/22/23 -- CRA:
Amid
Bank Meltdowns Yellen Says Bring on the Mergers But
Silent on CRA and Public Input; Oakwood
Bank Was Protested on MapleMark Bank Merger Proposal
& Withdrew now Interest. Federal
Reserve Watch: Gov Bowman tells banks, Call me. Bank
Beat: For
Enabling Epstein Deutsche Bank to Pay $75M Blood Money,
June 1 Fairness Hearing. UN - Global:
UN
Fraudster Cary Yan Gets 42 Months As Judge Notes He
Bribed Francis Lorenzo. Enviro:
Carbon tax - on China? Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Cab Driver Shot 7 or 9 Times Testified In Robbery Trial
Now Mario Powell Found Guilty
5/15/23 -- CRA:
Protest
of MBV Leads To Merger Failure and Uncorrected Lies
about Activist Investor. Federal
Reserve Gov Bowman speaks on bank failure, not a
work about public input. Bank
Beat: IMF
Opposes Crypto as Legal Tender Inner City Press Is Told
But Not As Investment, Argentina and Cote d'Ivoire.
UN - Global:
UN
Western Sahara Sex Scandal Ripped Off by Colum Lynch
from Inner City Press 2021 Scoop. Enviro:
Pollution in NYC subway. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Man Whose Fentanyl Killed 16 Year Old Sex Worker Wanted
Bail But Detained in SDNY (with Bronx Park Motel video)
5/8/23 -- CRA:
First
Republic Given to JPM Chase by FDIC Despite Antitrust and
Dimon Epstein Link. Federal
Reserve Watch: PacWest
on the Ropes with Comerica to Follow Fed Collins on the
Board as FRB Says All Good. Bank
Beat: Toronto
Dominion Bragged 1st Horizon Deal Was On Track Now
Collapses Amid Protest. UN - Global:
On
World Press Freedom Day UN Guterres Lies while Banning
Independent Media Exposing Him. Enviro:
Ohio and Lake Erie. Bronx
/ Legal: As
Signature Bank Slumlord Portfolio Incl in The Bronx Is Put
Up For Sale By Newmark Barney Frank Whited Out
5/1/23 -- CRA:
First
Republic Searches For Savior But KeyCorp Can't Get a
Handout for Disinvestment. Federal
Reserve Watch: FRB
Downplays Its Failure on SVB As Claims No Review of
Signature Crypto But FOIA Scam. Bank
Beat: As
Goldman Sachs Indicted Insider Trader Goel Nears Trial
Barclays Resignation Letter Sought. UN - Global:
UN
Daniela Bas Hired Relatives & Moonlighted as Life
Coach Staff Tell Banned Inner City Press. Enviro:
Train derailment in Maine . Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Extradited From Dominican Republic on Bronx Drug Charges
Pleads Guilty in SDNY
4/24/23 -- CRA:
Key
Falls So As US Banks Being Handed Out KeyCorp Can't Get a
Handout for Disinvestment. Federal
Reserve doesn't think banks' collapse and crypto are
urgent concerns, denies expedited FOIA. Bank
Beat: For
Enabling Epstein Trial vs JPMC Dimon To Be Deposed 7 Hours
Including by Staley. UN - Global:
Guterres
Subject to US FISA Warrant As He Serves CCP Like Police
Station EDNY Indicted. Enviro:
EJ EO must include toxic pollution. Bronx
/ Legal: Felon
Who Shot Gun 7 Times in Bronx Ordered Free on Bond For
Second Time and Signs Out
4/17/23 -- CRA:
Prosperity
Bank Hit by CRA Challenge to FirstCapital Bank now FDIC
Condition Imposed. Federal
Reserve Watch: Announced CS approval, nothing on SVB
or Signature. Bank
Beat: For
Enabling Epstein Trial vs JPMorgan
Chase Now
USVI Says Bank Long Flagged His Large Withdrawals. UN - Global:
Guterres
Weak on Ukraine as Deputy Biased on Kenya Leaks Show as
USUN Allows Press Ban. Enviro:
Philly (Candidate) Dumps on Chester. Bronx
/ Legal: For
Kettling of Bronx George Floyd Protest Trio Sued City now
Discovery Delay, Mediation Duo
4/10/23 -- CRA:
Federal
Reserve Claims No Review of Signature Bank on Crypto or
Otherwise So FOIA Appeal Citing Gov Barr on Transparency.
Federal
Reserve Watch: Double-speak on Wells Fargo. Bank
Beat: Bank
of America Slams Manipulator Zelenskyy Just As It Partners
With UN of Corrupt Guterres. UN - Global:
On
UNRWA Corruption Inner City Press Asked UN Now Also
Damning ESCWA Leaked Email. Enviro:
EPA and chemical plants. Bronx
/ Legal: Big
Bronx Landlord Is Sued by Super Under FLSA and Officer
Served in Manhattan Lobby
4/3/23 -- CRA:
With
US Banks Being Handed Out Key Bank Cannot Get a Handout As
Key to Disinvestment. Federal
Reserve Watch: FRB
Claims No Review of Signature Crypto But Here Is
Farmington Application FRBSF OKed. Bank
Beat: Amid
Bank Giveaways 3 Regulators Dodge on the Hill Claiming
Transparency Slow in FOIA. UN - Global:
As
Washington Targets Wrong Portuguese in UN Guterres Grabs
Corrupt UNOPS as Bans Press. Enviro:
As Stadium still has wind problems. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Man Arrested For PCP in Washington Height Alleged
Retaliation But Loses in SDNY Trial
3/27/23 -- CRA:
Signature
Bank Handed to NYCB Fair Lending Rogue as Barney Frank
& Cephas on Board; CRA
Protest to Gaming MVB Bank Bid On Hemp Lender West Town
Bank Yields More Questions. Federal
Reserve Watch: Credit
Suisse USB Merger amid Bank Meltdown Preapproved by Fed as
Collins on Comerica. Bank
Beat: On
Tunisia IMF Tells Inner City Press Board Meeting Postponed
Citing Inclusiveness; For
Enabling Jeffrey Epstein Some Claims Head to SDNY Trial
Against JPMC & Deutsche Bank. UN - Global:
On
Burma Murder Plot With UN Link Htut Wants a Deposition in
Myanmar or White Plains; UN
Moves from Banning Press in NY to Firing Now Bans Anti-CCP
Whistleblower in Geneva. Enviro:
Louisiana lawsuit. Bronx
/ Legal: In
Bronx Gang Case Dispute Over Protective Order Citing
Threats Triggers SDNY Briefing
3/20/23 -- CRA:
OCC
Withheld US Bank CEO Letter It Used To Approve Union Bank
Merger now Denies Appeal. Federal
Reserve Watch: Amid
Bank Meltdown Former Fed Collins on Comerica Board Like
Signature Frank & Cephas. Bank
Beat: For
Enabling Jeffrey Epstein JPMorgan
Chase Third
Party Complaint on Staley FinCEN to be Summoned? UN - Global:
Corrupt
UNSG Antonio Guterres Gives Top Job at UNDP to Member of
Syria Assad Regime. Enviro:
Tyson and Cargill polluted Oklahoma. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronxite
Assaulted in Target on 225 Street Sues As Defendant Offers
Video But No Motion Filed
3/13/23 -- CRA:
First
Bank Wanting To Sell to Credit Union Not Subject to
Community Reinvestment Act Draws Protest. Federal
Reserve Watch : Fed FOIA Run-Around on Crypto &
FTX. Bank
Beat: For
Enabling Jeffrey Epstein USVI Sued JPM Chase Now Wins
Motion for Dimon Discovery. UN - Global:
At
UN Human Rights Watch Proud of Bahrain Ban But Colludes in
UN Ban of Press Litmus Test Failed. Enviro:
EPA's soot rule. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Charged With Robbing Bronx Tax Biz in Dread Locks Wig and
Yankee Cap Has April 4 Date
3/6/23 -- CRA:
Park
National Bank Settled Redlining Case with DOJ As Federal
Reserve Rubber Stamps Mergers. Federal
Reserve Watch: BMO
Harris BNP Got Fed OK Despite Peters Case With Climate
Dismissed Now French Suit. Bank
Beat: Kevin
Chiu Accused of Stealing $2 Million at NYC Bank Gets Free
Lawyer & $300,000 Bond. UN - Global:
Mozambique
as UNSC President Leaves Press Questions Unanswered As
Mulls DRC Junket. Enviro:
Cancer Alley lawsuit. Bronx
/ Legal: For
Trafficking Girl from NC to The Bronx Paschal Accusing
Officer Headed to Ukraine
2/27/23 -- CRA:
NBT
Bank Bid To Combines Its Disparities With Salisbury Is a
CRA Litmus Test for the OCC. Federal
Reserve Watch: FOIA run-around on MVB Bank and crypto.
Bank
Beat: Man
Gets 20 Months for Bank Fraud in SDNY now Cooperator in
Texas Money Launder Trial. UN - Global:
Year
of Ukraine Failure By UN and Guterres Covered Up Now
Refugees UNserved. Enviro:
Anti-pollution ad rights transferred. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Whose Brother Cooperated Got Gun Upon Release From Prison
Now 2 More Years
2/20/23 -- CRA:
OCC
Withheld US Bank CEO Letter It Used To Approve Union Bank
Merger Now Appeal Filed. Federal
Reserve Watch: With Brainard Leaving, Who Will Stand Up
to Fast Rubber-Stamping Bowman? Bank Beat:
Lakeland
Bank DOJ Deal Left Disparities in NY So Protest Now
Questions to Provident Here. UN - Global:
In
Corrupt UN of Guterres UNEP Scams Detailed by Whistleblowers
to Inner City Press. Enviro:
Train Wreck in Ohio. Bronx
/ Legal: Teacher
Who Filed Police Report After Hit in Head Is Fired by Bronx
Urban Assembly and Sues
2/13/23 -- CRA:
OCC
Withholds US Bank CEO Letter It Used To Approve Union Bank
Merger, Corporate Capture. Federal
Reserve Watch: Lakeland
Bank DOJ Deal Left Disparities in NY So Protest Now Fed
Questions to Provident. Bank Beat:
Key
Bank Amid Data Breach Lawsuits Brags of Grants As Engages In
Disparate Loans. UN - Global:
On
UNRWA Corruption Inner City Press Asks UN and Lazzarini With
Photo of Car No Answer. Enviro:
Filing with Fed on climate. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
On Trial For Gun In Bronx Home His Wife Let Police Search
now Opposes Joint Possession
2/6/23 -- CRA:
Protest
of Predatory TAB Bank Leads to CRA Downgrade amid Hemp
Lender West Town Docs. Federal
Reserve back to laxity on Quontic Bank, delegating as on
Moonstone / FTX. Bank Beat:
Wells
Fargo Sued Brooklyn Man to Collect $6M Loan in SDNY Then
Sold To BTC Capital. UN - Global:
UN
Budget Expert Hyassat Loses NY Rape Case By Default As He
and UN and USUN No Show. Enviro:
Indiana states rights? Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Charged With Armed Robbery of East 180th Street Bodega Is
Freed But 10 Blocks Away in SDNY
1/30/23 -- CRA:
Lakeland
Bank DOJ Deal Left Disparities in NY Now Provident Pitches
Tech Musical Chairs. Federal
Reserve Watch: Fed
Denies Custodia Bank After FTX Wreck As FOIAed on Moonstone
Bank by Inner City Press. Bank Beat:
In
Suit Against Cairo Amman Bank For Hamas Bombing Chart of
Transactions Due. UN - Global:
In
UN Money Murk DSG Lies on Taliban After SG Guterres
Rebuffed Qatar Murder Q at UNCA. Enviro:
Administration's truck loophole. Bronx
/ Legal: For
Two Bronx Molotov Cocktails Man From Bangladesh Detained
Amid Mendez Sealed Plea
1/23/23 -- CRA:
BMO
Harris BNP Gets Fed OK Despite Peters Case With Climate and
Job Loss Dismissed. Federal
Reserve Watch: Dallas Fed's Lori Logan speaks but no
question from public. Bank Beat:
Guldi
on Trial For Defrauding Ditech Financial Hears his Laughing
Calls from Jail in Marcy NY. UN - Global:
In
Corrupt UN of Guterres Libya Post Up for Sale Between UK
Adamson and Gluck, Michaud. Enivro:
Air tests from London Tube... to NYC? Bronx
/ Legal: Charged
With Christmas Shotgun Robbery Man Is Detained Before Feb 10
Start of Bronx Job
1/16/23 -- CRA:
City
National Bank Settled Redlining Case with DOJ After Federal
Reserve Ignored FFW Proof. Federal
Reserve Watch: NY
Fed Dissolved TRO to Fire Unvaccinated Staff Now Fed Accuses
Lawyer of Contacts. Bank Beat:
Zilberberg
Bank Fraud Trial Is Delayed With Niece Loan Nearly Excluded,
New FDIC Docs. UN
- Global:
UNSG
Guterres Covers Up UN Child Rape in CAR As Fleming Bans
Press and Japan Is Told. Enviro:
EPA's Texas Step-Back. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Men Charged With Murder and Shooting Appeared En Masse in
SDNY Now One More In
1/9/23 -- CRA:
Quontic Bank redlining challenged, but is Community
Reinvestment Act ignored under Change in Bank Control Act? Federal
Reserve protects Quonic by closing comment period. Bank Beat:
HSBC
Is Sued For Firing Whistleblower Exposing Front Running Sarb
Ox Cited; Goldman
Sachs Indicted Insider Trader Goel Disputed Audio Now
Attacks Subpoenas. UN - Global:
Japan
as UNSC President Bans Press Questions But Lets In Ghislaine
Maxwell Fundraiser. Enviro:
Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Shootings on Ryer Avenue Result in Jury Guilty Verdicts Now
Pot and Phones in MDC
1/2/23 -- CRA:
Lakeland
Bank DOJ Deal Left Disparities in NY Glaring Now Provident
Let 'em Eat Cake Reply. Federal
Reserve let FTX into Moonstone Bank, now when Inner City
Press comments on Quontic, Bank's arrogant response. Bank Beat:
For
Enabling Epstein JPM Chase & Deutsche Bank Face
Trials Now JPM Moves to Dismiss. UN - Global:
UN
Rubber Stamps Corrupt Budget Stealing US Funds as Guterres
and Korosi Ban Press. Enviro:
Pollution in Chicagoland. Bronx
/ Legal: Men
Charged After Wire Tap of Bronx Stash House Still Detained
Now One Argues for Bail
12/26/22 -- CRA:
Key
Bank Amid Data Breach Lawsuits Engages In Disparate Loans
Regulators Asleep at Switch. Federal
Reserve Watch: On
FTX Wreck Federal Reserve FOIAed by on Moonstone Bank &
Others By Inner City Press. Bank Beat:
Umpqua
Bank Evidences Loan Disparities As Ponzi Lawsuit Against It
Proceeds in NDCA. UN - Global:
UN
Says Burkina Faso Has No Right to Oust Guterres Rep Manzi
But Guterres Can Ban Press. Enviro:
Shell pays blood money in Nigeria. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Men Charged With Murder and Shooting on Video Appear En
Masse in SDNY 1 Missing
12/17/22 -- CRA:
Brookline
Bank Bid To Bring Disparities To NY By Buying PCSB Bank
Rubber Stamped by Federal
Reserve, which gives Lakeland Application 1/2 Hour
Before Closing Comment Period. Bank Beat:
SBF
at SDNY Triggers Creepy Dough Questions Awaiting Extradition
Like OneCoin, Rhino Horn. UN - Global:
At
UN Only 50 Voters & No Competition Now 2 China State
Media In UN Correspondents Assoc Board. Enviro:
Pollution in NJ. Bronx
/ Legal: Robert
Moses On LBJ Stolen Election at NYPL Which Closed Branch by
UN, Needing Study; Bronx
Men Charged With Murder and Shooting on Video Denied Bail
Now Rap Songs Cited
12/12/22 -- CRA:
Lakeland
Bank DOJ Settlement Left Disparities in NY Unaddressed But
Fed Slow on the Draw - Federal
Reserve Watch: Unable or unwilling to provide copy of
pending application in day(s). Bank Beat:
Disberry
Sues Bank of New York Mellon For Sloppy Colgate Pension
Process Leading to Theft. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Rebuffs Qatar Migrant Workers Question from Inner
City Press and PGA Korosi Lies On Way Into UNCA Ball. Enviro:
EJ in LA. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Charged Was Gunrunning from Arkansas Is Ordered Free to
Father in Bronx
12/5/22 - CRA:
Lakeland
Bank DOJ Settlement Left Disparities in NY Unaddressed so
CRA Merger Challenge. Federal
Reserve Watch: Friday news dump from Fed on climate
change review. Bank Beat:
For
Enabling Jeffrey Epstein JPM Chase
& Deutsche
Bank Sued
In SDNY. UN
- Global:
UN
Tells Inner City Press You're Banned Then PGA Spox Says
There's An Appeals Process But... Enviro:
US Steel pollution settlement in Pittsburgh. Bronx
/ Legal: Galarza
Sues For Eye Shot and Taser Wants Officers and NYC on Trial
at Same Time
11/28/22 -- CRA:
Prosperity
Bank Faces CRA Challenge to Lone Star State Bank and
FirstCapital Bank in Texas. Federal
Reserve Watch: Fed's Love Letter(s) to Citigroup.
Bank
Beat: Lakeland
Bank Redlined in NJ and NY Now Set to Cash Out to Provident,
Lawsuits Filed in SDNY. UN - Global:
UN
Rot Typified by Silence on Qatar by Volker Turk Tapped by
Tony Genocide Games Guterres; To
Access UNGA Inner City Press Applied But PGA Csaba Kőrösi
Blocks Now Lies on Rape. Enviro:
Texas polluter in Pennsylvania. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Faces Bifurcated Trial for Armed Robberies in The Bronx Then
as Felon with Gun
11/21/22 - CRA:
Protest
to Gaming MVB Bank Bid On Hemp Lender West Town Bank Yields
Questions. Federal
Reserve Watch: Correction appended to Gov Bowman's
speech. Bank
Beat: Goldman
Sachs Indicted Insider Trader Goel Disputes Audio Seeking
Delay But June 12 Trial. UN - Global:
Qatar
Bans Filming Of Migrant Workers But Blinken Promotes Emir
Like UN Guterres. Enviro:
UN
Puppet Guterres Reads Wrong Speech They Gave Him at COP 27
But Media Laughed It Off. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Man Charged With Gunfire by Subway After 25 Years in Jail
Has Release Overturned
11/14/22 -- CRA:
Predatory
Lender Republic Bank & Trust Faces CRA Challenge to
CBank Merger Application. Federal
Reserve Watch: FedEZFile has "two way messaging" with
banks, but how do Ex Parte Rules apply? Bank Beat:
Barclays
Bank Delaware and AmEx Are Sued Under FCRA For Not
Investigating ID Theft; other mergers. UN - Global:
To
Access UNGA Inner City Press Applied But PGA Csaba Kőrösi
Blocked It Now Dissembles. Enviro:
Lobbyists at UN's COP 27, Guterres' hypocrisy. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Man Charged With Gunfire by Subway After 25 Years in Jail
Has Release Order Stayed
11/7/22 - CRA:
CRA
Protest to Gaming MVB Bank Bid For Redlining Hemp Lender
West Town Bank Yields Docs. Federal
Reserve Watch: BMO
Harris BNP Faced Fed Qs After Admitting Mislabeling Info Now
Promises, Promises. Bank Beat:
With
Flagstar's NYCB Bid Stalled at FRB Amid Wisp of Fair
Lending Action OCC Whispers on Digital. UN - Global:
Ghana
as UNSC President Bans Free Press But Invites Iran State
Media and Ghislaine Maxwell Fundraiser. Enviro:
UNSG Guterres Jets to Bali, bloviating about emissions. Bronx
/ Legal: Man
Who Drove Fentanyl and Gun From Wisconsin to The Bronx Gets
4 Years, GED
10/31/22 -- CRA:
Challenge
to Gaming MVB Bank Bid For Redlining Hemp Lending West Town
Bank. Federal
Reserve Watch: BMO
Harris BNP Faced Fed Qs After Admitting Mislabeling Info Now
4 More Questions. Bank Beat:
With
Flagstar's NYCB Bid Stalled at FRB Amid Wisp of Fair
Lending Action OCC Jumps Gun. UN - Global:
UN
Staff Gets 15 Years For Raping 13 Women and Drugging 19,
Elkorany Protected By UNSG - Thread & Book. Enviro:
Air pollution in Africa. Bronx
/ Legal: Cooperator
In Bronx Murder Trial Rearrested With Gun And Asks To Be
Kept Out of MDC For Safety
10/24/22 -- CRA:
Credit
Suisse Sued in SDNY, Pays NJ Predatory Lending Settlement
But More Coming. Federal
Reserve Watch: BMO
Harris BNP Faced Fed Qs After Admitting Mislabeling Info Now
Another Question. Bank Beat:
After
SBA Fraud Trial of Shin Noah Bank Wants Bank of Princeton To
Buy It But Issues. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Corruption Leads to Layoffs of Communications
Officers, Fleming Censors. Enviro:
Big banks keep going with coal. Bronx
/ Legal: For
Fake Loans At Bronx Auto Dealership Eduar Vidal Found Guilty
Now 48 Months
10/17/22 -- CRA:
BMO
Harris BNP Faced Fed Qs After Admitting Mislabeling Info Now
More Confidential Answers. Federal
Reserve Watch: Board hides its US Bank - MUFG approach
in a rulemaking announcement. Bank Beat:
New
Book on Trevor Milton Fraud Conviction Has Nikola
Whistleblowers, Trial from Inside; In
SBA Fraud Case Shin Got 14 Months in SDNY, Settles with Noah
Bank so no Restitution. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Rents UN Flag to Trammo as Firm Sued By Puerto Rico
for MTBE, Cooking Books. Enviro:
France is sued over Breton green algae. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Hotels Sued For Labor Violations and National Origin
Discrimination Now Mediation; Men
Charged After Wire Tap of Bronx Stash House Are Detained in
SDNY Mag Court
10/10/22 -- CRA:
NYCB
Proposal With Flagstar Stalled and Now Talk of Fair Lending
Action A Nail in Coffin? Federal
Reserve Watch: Will new FedEZFile be more or less
transparent to the public? Bank
Beat: In
Noah Bank SBA Fraud Case Shin Gets 14 Months in SDNY and
Must Forfeit $5.5 Million. UN - Global:
Gabon
as
UNSC President Was Asked of DRC Scandals But No Answer and
No Press Access. Enviro:
Rhode Island regulator. Bronx
/ Legal: On
Gun Recovered By Bronx Academy For The Future Suppression
Denied Now Guilty Plea
10/3/22 -- CRA: Lakeland
Bank Redlined in NJ and NY Now Set to Cash Out to Provident,
Disclosure Required. Federal
Reserve Governor Bowman wants to loosen merger review. Bank Beat:
Deutsche Bank
To
Settle Suit Citing Epstein and FBME Proposes to Pay $26M in
SDNY. UN - Global:
UN
Federal Credit Union Limits Staff to Staff Transfers While
Banking for Iran Spy, Fraud. Enviro:
Newsome and pollution rules. Bronx /
Legal: In
Bronx Murder For Hire Trial of Zottola in EDNY, FBI Agent Is
Asks If Defendants Texted In Code
9/26/22 -- CRA:
Denial of public hearing on Ford Motors bank proposed by FDIC,
controlled by Administration. Federal
Reserve belatedly gives Inner City Press wrongly sealed
portions of approval merger applications. Bank Beat:
HSBC Is
Sued For National Origin Discrimination and Regulatory
Violations. UN
- Global:
UNGA
Has Ukraine Zelenskyy Applause After Guterres Cover Up Biden
Trudeau Censors. Enviro:
New office, but will it help stop disparately pollution
projects? Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Man Was Charged With Crack and Gun by Mitchell Houses Now
Another, Murder Cited
9/19/22 -- CRA: CommunityBank
of Texas on Money Laundering as Protested Used Paid Letters
Fed OKs. Federal
Reserve Watch: Annals of FOIA (delay). Bank Beat:
IMF
Answers Inner City Press on Transparency in Zambia Ukraine
& Ghana & Suriname Too; JPM
Chase v Tesla Case Is Pushed Into 2023 Amid Dispute on Elon
Musk Tweet & Nikola Trial. UN - Global:
For
UNGA Week Banning Press Guterres Has Long Portuguese Answer
Spreading Censorship. Enviro:
After
Jurors Hear Trevor Milton Doesn't Give a Sh*t About The
Environment, Nikola Questions. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Man Was Charged With Crack and Gun by Mitchell Houses Now
Another, Murder Cited
9/12/22 - CRA:
State Community Reinvestment Acts arise after Fair Finance Watch
challenge to Brookline Bancorp. Federal
Reserve: No questions to TD on consumer abuses, does Barr
mean business? Bank Beat:
BNP
Paribas Was Sued Under Swiss and Sudanese Law in 2016 Now Case
Reassigned. UN
- Global:
To
Access UNGA Week Inner City Press Applies Citing Scoops on UN
Sex & China Bribe Scoops. Enviro:
10 most polluted states. Bronx /
Legal: Felon
Charged With Threatening Bronx Woman with Gun at 4:30 am
Released On $10,000 Bond
9/5/22 – CRA: CommunityBank
of Texas on Money Laundering as Protested Used Paid Letters
but Still Waiting. Federal
Reserve Watch: BMO
Harris BNP Face Fed Qs After Admitting Mislabeling Info Now
Confidential Answers. Bank Beat:
Money
Launderer Rahmankulov Found Guilty After Trial Full of TD Bank
and Remanded For Threats and Uzbek Ties. UN – Global:
As
UN Affiliated Fraudster Cary Yan Indicted For Bribery Video
and UNCA Links Noted Here. Enviro:
NYS has US’ most polluted lake. Bronx /
Legal: For
Two Bronx Molotov Cocktails Man From Bangladesh Lost Bail,
Mendez May Apply
8/29/22 -- CRA: Ford
Credit Bank Proposal Challenged by Fair Finance Watch Citing
Evasion of New CRA. Federal
Reserve Watch: BMO
Harris BNP Face Fed Questions Here As Admit Mislabeling Info
Confidential, Misled. Bank Beat:
Wells
Fargo Is Sued For Not Paying Minimum Wage And Is Told Summary
Judgment Unlikely. UN - Global:
After
UN Fails On Non Proliferation Guterres Phones In Concern 12
Hours Late Banning Press. Enviro:
Amplify Energy Pleading Guilty to Pollution. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Opioids Trial Features JPMorgan Chase Banker Reselling Oxy
with Insurance Fraud Deal
8/22/22 -- CRA:
Toronto Dominion / First Horizon testimony. Federal
Reserve asks US Bancorp a confidential question. Bank Beat:
Citibank
for Trial on Colombian Hedging Scam Gets In Internal Audit
& Dolly of Bottled Water. UN - Global:
UN
Melissa Fleming Censors with Public Funds, As Arrogant As Any
Dictator Banning Press. Enviro:
Illinois lawsuit and jury trial against Sterigenics. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Man Charged With Murder and Shooting on Video Is Denied Bail
But Gets Discovery
8/15/22 -- CRA: Community
Reinvestment Act Reg Comments In As Fed Bowman Hopes Bank
Showed Burden. Federal
Reserve Watch: FOIA delayed even after voluntarily scaled
back. Bank
Beat: As
Brookline Bancorp Bids to Buy PCSB Fair Finance Watch
Cites Community Reinvestment Act. UN - Global:
UN
Official Censors Press Report of Bestiality and UN Security
Corruption From Search in EU. Enviro:
Maine Mercury in Federal Court. Bronx /
Legal: Richard
Rosario Is Awarded $5M from NYPD Whitaker After 20 Years in
Jail & SDNY Trial
8/8/22 -- CRA: On
Community Reinvestment Act Reg Timely Comments In But Mergers
Get Rubber Stamped. Federal
Reserve Watch: On US Bancorp being fined by CFPB, will the
Fed take action or call any comment on it untimely? Bank Beat:
Charged
With Crypto Fraud Alexandre Trial Is March 27 As EminiFX
Receiver Details Foreclosure Deals. UN - Global:
UN
Had Viktor Bout Fly Belgians To Somalia To Urinate on Corpses
Now Silent on Trade. Enviro:
UNSG climate hypocrisy, fossil "fools" in UN Global Compact. Bronx /
Legal: In
Case By Rosario Imprisoned 20 Years Then Freed NYPD on Lineup
as Facebook Post is Out
8/1/22 -- CRA: As
Toronto Dominion Bid To Buy First Horizon Opposed, Fed Defers
to Murky OCC Website, Recommendations Given. Federal
Reserve Watch: FOIA being killed by non-responsive
website. Bank
Beat: Goldman
Sachs Indicted Insider Trader Goel Is Arraigned but not In
Docket, Free on $1M Bond. UN - Global:
As
UN Kills Congolese It Says They Were Stealing Rice As Guterres
Censors From Vacation. Enviro:
Travel polluters lists has omissions. Bronx /
Legal: Child
Sex Trafficking Trial Has Jurors Asking If Can Rely on
Passport That Camila Was 16
7/25/22 -- CRA: After
Federal Reserve Talked 1-Way on CRA No Live Qs FRBNY Provide
Off Record Reply. Federal
Reserve Watch: NY
Fed Dissolved TRO to Fire Unvaccinated Staff, Permanent
Injunction Merged into Trial. Bank Beat:
BitMEX
Hayes Got 6 Months at Home as Delo Back to HK Moves For
Redactions As To Why. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres 1st Covered Up Ukraine Invasion then Claimed Credit
for Food Now Odesa Bomb. Enviro:
Stench in SC. Bronx /
Legal: Trial
for Richard Rosario Imprisoned 20 Years Then Freed For Murder
of Collazo in The Bronx Kicks Off July 25 in SDNY
7/11/22 -- CRA: To
Community Reinvestment Act Challenge to United Community Bank
- Progress, A Dodge. Federal
Reserve Watch: On
Branch Closures Federal Reserve Withheld Info Then Found It
Under FOIA on West Virginia. Bank Beat:
In
Deep Implant ATM Card Skimmer Trial Santander Says It Began in
Richmond Hill. UN
- Global:
For
UN Human Rights Another Guterres Crony Volker Turk UNaware of
Cameroon, A Censor. Enviro:
Dumping by cruise ships in Canada. Bronx /
Legal: For
George Floyd Protest Arrest in Bronx' Mott Haven Margolies
Sues NYC So Motion to Dismiss by July 19
7/4/22 -- CRA: Community
Reinvestment Act Challenge to United Community Bank -
Progress, Test Case. Federal
Reserve Watch: As
BMO Harris Seeks Bank of the West For July 14 Federal Reserve
Roadblocks and 2bl Speak. Bank Beat:
In
OneCoin Case FBI Puts Ruja On 10 Most Wanted List Inner City
Press Asks of Schneider. UN - Global:
Brazil
As UNSC President Was Asked of Dom Phillips Murder No Answer
& No Press Access. Enviro:
Wright
Pled To Carbon Credits Fraud Now Gets 52 Months Jail and $16
Million Restitution. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Defendant Is Denied Bail With Rap Lyrics Quoted By Prosecutors
in SDNY
6/27/22 -- CRA: Community
Reinvestment Act Challenge to United Community Bank -
Progress, Test Case. Fed Watch:
On
Federal Reserve & Antitrust Inner City Press Asks IMF
Georgieva Who Cites Concentration. Bank Beat:
BNY
Mellon Is Sued By Union in Brazil So Calls Them Corrupt and
Resists Discovery. UN - Global:
UN
Bans Press Reporting on Whistleblowers as Guterres Uses AJE
Softballs BBC Phoning it in. Enviro:
UN Guterres Who Covered Up on Ukraine Welcomes Putin Rep to
Lisbon Junket. Bronx /
Legal: For
Fake Loans At Bronx Auto Dealership Eduar Vidal Found Guilty
After Plea Rejected
6/20/22 -- CRA: Bank of America
Is
Sued for Not Fulfilling CRA Pledge in Hawai'i As Fed
Rubber-stamps Mergers. Federal
Reserve: Subpoena
Sought in SDNY For Russian Gold Info From KBC Bank and Federal
Reserve. Bank Beat:
As
Toronto Dominion Bid To Buy First Horizon Hit by Pols,
Disparities Raised by Fair Finance Watch. UN - Global:
UN
Bachelet Quits After Whitewashes Uighurs As China Purchase of
SG Guterres Pays Off. Enviro:
Oregon fines. Bronx /
Legal: Workers
At Bronx Parking Lot Are Denied Minimum Wage and Overtime As
No Records Kept
6/13/22 -- CRA: Former
FDIC Boss and Bank Shill McWilliams Cashes Out to Cravath in
DC, Bad Banks Line Up. Federal
Reserve ignored or quickly fixes up Needs to Improve CRA
ratings. Bank
Beat: IMF
Answers Inner City Press on Sri Lanka Saying Program Will
Depend on "Strength of Policies;" Bangladesh
Apparel Firm Sues JP Morgan Chase As Business Partner but
Discovery Stayed. UN - Global:
As
North Korea Fires More Missiles US Insists China Will
Cooperate As If UN Is Not Failing. Enviro:
Money for states to fight water pollution. Bronx /
Legal: NYCHA
Says Moving a Tenant Can Take a Year even in Cases of Domestic
Violence - Acceptable?
6/6/22 -- CRA:
Will regulators allow banks to continue to claim employment
discrimination is irrelevant to their lending? The case of
Veritex Community Bank. Federal
Reserve still inactive in merger review. Bank Beat:
After
Allianz Global Investors US Pleds Guilty Tournant Says
Privileged Info Taken by DOJ. UN - Global:
Albania
Ferit Hoxha Services China and Turkey State Media As UNSC Prez
Banning Press. Enviro:
Deutsche Bank
Raided
for Greenwashing After US Is Told Of Need Crackdown On Banks.
Bronx
/ Legal: Fair
Housing Case Against 25 Brucker Blvd in The Bronx Needs New
Expert by June 24
5/30/22 -- CRA: Brookline
Bank Bid To Bring Its Disparities To NY By Buying PCSB Bank Is
a Litmus Test. Federal
Reserve Watch: Governor Miki Bowman's Farmers and Drovers,
only middle income tracts. Bank Beat:
Republic
Bank the Object of Hill and Norcross Lawsuit Has Disparate
Record in PA and NJ. UN - Global:
As
UN Bachelet Whitewashes the Uighurs China Purchase of SG
Guterres Pays off in Lisbon Link. Enviro:
Coal numbers. Bronx /
Legal: For
Fake Loans At Bronx Auto Dealership Eduar Vidal Faces Trial
June 14 After Plea Offer
5/23/22 -- CRA: As
Toronto Dominion Bid To Buy First Horizon Disparities Raised
by Press now Aug 18 Meeting. Federal
Reserve Watch: As
BMO Harris Applies For Bank of the West Now Virtual Public
Meeting July 14 Disparities. Bank Beat:
Noah
Bank CEO Shin on Trial Moved to Quash Subpoena now Fight on
Jury Charge on Wires. UN - Global:
As
US Blocks Access to NGOs Olivia Dalton Refuses Press Qs Like
China and SG Guterres the Censor. Enviro:
For
Withholding Lead Removal Work Records Ruilova Is Sued By EPA
Now Seeking to Settle. Bronx /
Legal: Man
Sues NYPD For False Arrest in Bronx Apartment But City Says It
Has General Release
5/16/22 -- CRA: FDIC
On Notice Of Need Crackdown On Bank Mergers As OCC Talks But
No RFI. Federal
Reserve is silent; will 2 new Governors make a difference?
Bank Beat:
Elliot
Smerling Gets 97 Months After Defrauding Citizens and Silicon
Valley Bank. UN
- Global:
UN
of Guterres Sells Out Shireen Abu Akleh As SC Cites Civilians
Like Uighurs P3 Complicit. Enviro:
Pollution and storms. Bronx /
Legal: Can airsoft guns trigger (lock) a Federal prosecution,
after NYPD's Hunts Point gun-down?
5/9/22 - CRA: The
Peoples Bank Dismissive on Lending Disparities & to
Avenatti Inner City Press Raises. Federal
Reserve's transparency on consumer protection ended in
2014. Bank
Beat: Noah
Bank CEO Shin on Trial Grills Kim About Casino Visits in
Queens and Atlantic City. UN - Global:
Seeking
Free Press Return to UN Quinn Emanuel Wrote to Sec Gen UNCA
and USUN. Enviro:
Delaware Federal case against oil tanker. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Family Dollar Is Sued And Removes to Federal Court Must Be
Trial Ready in June
5/2/22 - CRA: First
Internet Bank Hit By 1st CRA Protest of 2022 Requested
Withdrawal now Rubber-stamped. Federal
Reserve Watch: Still no action on CRA reg or merger review
RFI with Lisa Cook stalled from vote by COVID. Bank Beat:
Noah
Bank CEO Shin on Trial Shows Former Staffer Violated Reg O or
Is Lying as Witness. UN - Global:
On
UN Guterres Bluewashing Bucha Tour He Calls Question Inaudible
Then Trashes It. Enviro:
Older oil and gas wells. Bronx /
Legal: Man
Caught on Video Robbing Bronx Laundromat At Gunpoint Pleads
Guilty in SDNY
4/25/22 -- CRA:
Challenge to application by Peoples Bank, Biloxi, MS to acquire
business from Trustmark, citing loans to Avenatti. Federal
Reserve governors block CRA proposal, merger review RFI. Bank Beat:
IMF
Answered Inner City Press on Sri Lanka Now Statement Here and
Malawi China Question. UN - Global:
As
UN Guterres Fails on Ukraine Now Brags He'll Be Received By
Putin Then Zelenskyy. Enviro:
Water Utilities versus Swiss Re in Pennsylvania on lead. Bronx /
Legal: For
Robbery of Target in The Bronx Russell Got 40 Months Now
Cooperator Gets Time Served
4/18/22 -- CRA: FDIC
Is Told Of Need Crackdown On US Bank Mergers by Fair Finance
Watch Now Fed, OCC. Federal
Reserve Watch: On
Branch
Closures Federal Reserve Withholds Info and Tells Inner City
Press No Closure List. Bank Beat:
US
Bank Hearing Showed MUFG in Russia But Fed April 14 Questions
Here Ignore It. UN
- Global:
After
Inner City Press Scoop on UNTSO Sex in UN Van 2 Fired 1
Remains Staff Say Cover Up. Enviro:
EPA is sued. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Shoot Out Triggered Trial Now Guilty Verdict In Hours After E
183 St Security Video
4/4/22 -- CRA: Fed
and Citizens Bank Thumbed Noses At CRA On Investors Bank,
Request for Reconsideration Filed. Federal
Reserve Watch: After Raskin, rural? Bank Beat:
Citigroup
Is Sued By Former Banamex Staffer But Says Must Arbitrate Now
Wants 20K a Day. UN
- Global:
USUN
Thomas-Greenfield Moldovia Trip Garners 4 Questions No Answer
on Ouster or Ban. Enviro:
Pollution in Europe. Bronx /
Legal: After
Drug Gang Sweep In The Bronx One Defendant Detained Another
Freed for Mother
3/21/22 -- CRA: As
Redliner Community Bank NA Wants Elmira Inner City Press
Protested Now Extends April 8. Federal
Reserve Watch: After
Fed Disses Community Reinvestment Act Raskin Blocked By
Manchin Cook 12-12 Tie. Bank Beat:
CommunityBank
of Texas on Money Laundering As Protested Used Paid Letters
Now Fed Qs. UN
- Global:
China
Spying In NY Leads to Indictments So Inner City Press Gets
EDNY Answer All 3 Bailed As UN Silent. Enviro:
More on Environmental Justice study. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Crash on Major Deegan Triggers Suit Removed To SDNY Mediation
Or Motions Dec 5
3/14/22 -- CRA: MUFG
US Bank Hearing Has Branch Closing and Lending Disparities and
MUFG in Russia. Federal
Reserve Watch: Fed
Governors Diss Community Reinvestment Act As FRBNY Approves
Berkshire Bank With NTI Rating. Bank Beat:
Still In Russia Are Citigroup
and HSBC
Amid
Ukraine Death As Inner City Press Put Before Fed. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Fails Ukraine Fleming Stonewalls On 25 Staff No
Answer to Quinn Emanuel. Enviro:
Justice and redlining in the ATL. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Man Charged With Waving Gun at Two Women Is Detained In SDNY
Magistrates Court
3/7/22 - CRA: Amalgamated
Bank Deal Canceled Amid CRA Challenge For Closing South Bronx
Branch. Federal
Reserve Watch: Fed
Scam on Community Reinvestment Act As FRBNY Approves Berkshire
Bank With NTI Rating. Bank Beat:
As
Toronto Dominion Bids To Buy First Horizon Its Disparities In
USA & NYS Come to the Fore. UN - Global:
On
Ukraine US Mission Tells Russia It Moves To Expel 12 Staff As
Silent As Guterres Bans Press. Enviro:
Pollution class action in Oregon. Bronx /
Legal: Charged
With Crack Conspiracy Martin Ross Pled and Now Gets 96 Months
2/28/22 -- CRA: First
Internet Bank Hit By 1st CRA Protest of 2022 Requested
Withdrawal But Noncompliant. Federal
Reserve Watch: After
Investors Bank Hit With Conditions, Fed Rubber Stamps Home
BancShares Texas Entry. Bank Beat:
Wells
Fargo Sued For Redlining After Refused Deposit From
Haitian-Born Man in SDNY. UN - Global:
On
Ukraine Sunday UNSC Clown Show Set As Guterres Bans Inner City
Press and Brags of Canceled Junket. Enviro:
Clean Power Plan moves to the Supreme Court. Bronx /
Legal: Kirby
on Supervised Release Had Gun in Bronx Apartment So Gets 52
Months in New Case
2/21/22 -- CRA: CommunityBank
of Texas on Money Laundering As Protested Used Paid Letters
Now Hit to FDIC. Federal
Reserve Watch: In
CRA Protest of Stock Yards-Commonwealth Inner City Press Filed
In Oct Rubber Stamp in February. Bank Beat:
National
Bank of Australia Was Sued in SDNY and Wants Sanctions But Is
Told Must Wait. UN
- Global:
Genocide
Games Triggers New Book Exposing UN Complicity of Guterres Who
Bans Press Which Asks. Enviro:
Administration tool. Bronx /
Legal: After
Plea in 2018 in Bronx Drugs Case Now Rodriguez Pleads Guilty
To a Death in SDNY
2/14/22 -- CRA: As
Redliner Community Bank NA Spins Elmira Delay Inner City Press
Files Its Disparate Data. Fed Watch:
Federal
Reserve Rubber Stamps South State Atlantic Capital Merger
Despite Aug CRA Protest. Bank Beat:
US
Bancorp MUFG Public Meeting To Have Closures & IOLTA, Bid
Hit by Inner City Press. UN - Global:
Genocide
Games Put UN Guterres' and Bachelet's Lies on the Podium But
Enes Freedom's Ad Off-Air on NBC. Enviro:
Pollution EPA lawsuit in 39 states. Bronx /
Legal: Man
Charged For Gun in The Bronx Gets No Cooperation Deal So April
Trial, New Lawyer
2/7/22 - CRA: While
CRA Still In Limbo State Street Slowed By Antitrust on Brown
Brothers, Now Fed Qs. Federal
Reserve: Dysfuncation as Powell Term Expires Without
Confirmation. Bank Beat:
In
SDNY Citigroup Continued Sealing Requests in Advance Analytics
Case Now Pursuing Fees. UN - Global:
Genocide
Games Has Guterres Thanking Xi For Funds to UN and Himself
Through Briber CEFC, Banning Press. Enviro:
Class action in NYS. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Man Thrown To Ground By Police Sues So Expert Discovery to
Sept 23 in SDNY
1/31/22 -- CRA: CommunityBank
of Texas After Money Laundering Case Hit by Protest by Fair
Finance Watch. Federal
Reserve Asks Marx Family about Disparities Inner City
Press Exposed on Berkshire Bank, and NYS NTI. Bank Beat:
Banco
Santander Seeks SDNY 1782 Discovery Order Against Banks for
Case Against Ducoco. UN - Global:
Genocide
Games Countdown as Guterres Will Meet Xi After Private Jet
From Seoul, Soulless. Pollution:
Enviro Justice in Louisiania. Bronx /
Legal: In
Bronx Drug Case Featuring Facebook Videos and Defendant's Rap
Lyrics Now 108 Months
1/24/22 -- CRA:
Challenge to Alerus - Metro Phoenix. Federal
Reserve: FOIA as First
Internet Bank says it decides what is secret. Bank Beat:
Citibank continues abusing arbitration: Citigroup
Is Sued By Former Banamex Staffer But Says He Can Only
Arbitrate Now Gets More. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Says Genocide Olympics For All As Stacks Deck Banning
Ghislaine Maxwell Link Questions. Enviro:
Public participation in San Diego. Bronx /
Legal: As
DOJ Probes Mount Vernon Police New Case Filed on MLK Day For
Housing Project Arrest
1/17/22 -- CRA:
Challenge to Home Bank NA - Texan Bank based on lending
disparities. Federal
Reserve faux transparency to Press on dubious Delta
Investment application. Bank Beat:
McWilliams-gate at FDIC, industry handwringing. UN - Global:
Biden's
Acceptance of Press Restrictions by UN Raised to CPJ on Night
& Day Report, Kabul and Assange. Enviro:
Permian Ponzi scheme. Bronx /
Legal: After
Bronx Fire Schumer Lobbies HUD For 90 of 120 Families Amid BP
Links, SDNY & UN Questions
1/10/22 - CRA:
Challenge to Berkshire Bank, lending disparities. Federal
Reserve discourages public comment, no email addresses
listed. Bank
Beat: HSBC
Is
Sued For Role In Failed China Iron Ore Sale Described As
Dictating Bank to Use. UN - Global:
UN
Corrupted by Norway Censoring For Jeffrey Epstein Links Mona
Juul DRC Cameroon COVID UNAnswered. Enviro:
Iowa sued Sioux City. Bronx /
Legal: Target
Stores Admits Domes Empty of Cameras Are Dummies In SDNY Bronx
Slip & Fall Case
1/3/22 -- CRA: First
Internet Bank Georgia Bid Hit By 1st CRA Protest of 2022 by
Fair Finance Watch. Federal
Reserve extends FOIA response times routinely. Bank Beat:
Citibank
Is Sued By Staff in Argentina So Countered in SDNY Now Staff
Says End TRO. UN - Global:
UN
Corrupted by Jeffrey Epstein Links of Norway and Mona Juul
With Press Banned from UNSC Like Guterres. Enviro:
Chicago-Land Water Pollution. Bronx /
Legal: Man
Charged With Not Reporting To Bronx Halfway House Has Feb 17
SDNY Conference
12/27/21 -- CRA: As
BMO Harris Applies For Bank of the West Litmus Test on
Fairness for Rudderless Regulators. Federal
Reserve doles out three merger approvals after Powell
re-nominated. Bank Beat:
Citibank Is
Sued By Staff in Argentina So Counter Sues in SDNY And Wins
$10K a Day. UN
- Global:
UN
Votes Itself $3.2 Billion In Public Funds With Press Banned
& No Summary for Days. Enviro:
Pollution in Eastern Oregon (soon to be Idaho?). Bronx /
Legal: As
DOJ Probes Mount Vernon Police More Press Questions About
Civil Case Discovery
12/20/21 -- CRA: Fed
Questions on South State Atlantic Capital CRA Protest After
Saule Omarova Quits OCC Race. Federal
Reserve doesn't maintain its pending merger website. Bank Beat:
IMF
Doles Out $258M To Kenya After Answers Inner City Press on
Crypto in El Salvador and Exit from Brazil. UN - Global:
At
UN New Chief of Staff Blocks Press From Day 1, Rattray Serves
SG Guterres' Ghislaine Maxwell Link. Enviro:
Plastic pollution. Bronx /
Legal: As
DOJ Probes Mount Vernon Police More Press Questions About
Officers In Civil Cases
12/13/21 -- CRA: In
DC Saule Omarova Quits OCC Race Amid CRA Protest to South
State Atlantic Capital. Federal
Reserve: Quarles replacement candidates views on mergers?
Bank Beat:
Calk
Found Guilty Of Manafort Loans To Get Cabinet or UN Position
Wants No Jail Time. UN - Global:
UN
Pedophiles Gala Held As Guterres Linked To Ghislaine Maxwell
No Shows, No Answers. Enviro:
LA ports pollution. Bronx /
Legal: Woman
Falsely Charged With K2 on Rikers Sues Now Found Related As
Sent to Magistrate
12/6/21 -- CRA: After
Investors Bank Hit With Conditions, CRA Protests To
Amgalamated, Closer of Bronx Burnside Branch. Federal
Reserve keeps Old National fair lending response
confidential. Bank Beat:
Panama
Money Launderer Luis Martinelli Faked Diplo Creds Has Now Pled
Guilty in EDNY. UN
- Global:
On
UN Sex Abuse in Mali Inner City Press Asked UN After 2 Weeks
MINUSMA Answers, unlike Guterres on his Ghislaine Maxwell
links; Niger
As UNSC President Was Asked For Press Access No Answer
Following SG Guterres into censorship like lemmings. Enviro:
Pollution in Illinois. Bronx /
Legal: As
SDNY Probes Mount Vernon Police, Inner City Press Question to
US Attorney Damian Williams About Impact on Prosecutions in
SDNY (Bronx) and elsewhere
11/29/21 -- CRA: In
DC Five Dems Oppose Saule Omarova as OCC Amid CRA Protest to
South State Atlantic Capital. Federal
Reserve: As Biden
Taps Jay Powell for 2d Term at Fed, CRA Protests of Home
BancCorp, Citizens & South State Pend. Bank Beat:
IMF
Answered Inner City Press on Bitcoin in El Salvador Now
Alleges Risks In Article IV Report. UN - Global:
Before
Ghislaine Maxwell Trial Cynical UN Filing By Her Family Since
UN Was On Her Terranova Board; In
UN Only 51 Votes In Election of Correspondents Who Ignored
Lawyer Letter Some Get Only 31 Votes. Enviro:
Pollution in Pakistan. Bronx /
Legal: Colombia
Junket of UN Guterres Trashed Bronx As Drug Riddled As Wife
Gabs on Public Dime
11/22/21 -- CRA: After
Investors Bank Hit With Conditions, CRA Protest To Home
BancShares Texas Entry. Federal
Reserve lets Webster Bank send its answer to Inner City
Press late, by snail mail, to the wrong address. Bank Beat:
To
PPP Bank Fraud Muge Ma Pled Guilty Now Seeks To Seal Motion on
Expert But Press Opposes. UN - Global:
On UN Sex Abuse in Mali Inner City Press Asks MINUSMA By Zoom
Now Guterres By Email - No answer. Enviro:
Tax China's Exports for Carbon? Belt & Roadkill. Bronx /
Legal: False
Arrest on Brook Avenue in The Bronx Is Sent to Section 1983
Mediation Panel in SDNY
11/15/21 -- CRA: Protest
To BankPlus - First Bank and Trust. Federal
Reserve: Citizens
Bank Gets Pot & Lending Qs from Fed. Bank Beat:
UN
Briber Patrick Ho Used Mashreqbank Which Is Disciplined by FRB
As Guterres Bans Press. UN - Global:
Belt
and Roadkill Is Tale of UN Corruption By China With Dark
Comedy, Series Launched. Enviro:
Kentucky comparisons. Bronx /
Legal: Amalgamated Bank Spins Burnside Branch Closing After Fair
Finance Watch challenges it
11/8/21 -- CRA: After
Investors Bank Hit With FDIC Conditions, CRA Protests To
Community Bank NA - Elmira. Fed Watch:
Fed
Qs on Protested Webster Merger As Sterling National Bank Is
Sued SDNY For China Wires. Bank Beat:
Turkey
Halkbank Not Immune 2d Cir Panel Decided So Halkbank Asks
Rehearing En Banc. UN - Global:
UN
Self Dealing By Wall St Amid Censorship Lawyer Letter Ignored
Conflicted Prizes. Enviro:
From
COP26 More Emissions of UN Hypocricy Now Fore of UNICEF Which
Banned Press Q on Afghanistan. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
VA Hospital Is On Religious Trial Amid Questions of $400,000
Pay Ceiling
11/1/21 -- CRA: After
Investors Bank Hit With FDIC Conditions, Stock Yards Protest
Yields Fed CRA Questions. Fed Watch:
NY
Federal Reserve Makes Settlement Secret After It Fired Ex FBI
Agent Sama 69 Years Old. Bank Beat:
HSBC Is
Sued By Stryker But Money Laundering For Chapo Excluded for
Nov 9 Trial; Capital
One and Square Are Sued Under EFTA Now Discovery To Nov 2022
in SDNY. UN -
Global:
In
UN of Guterres Preeti Sinha Questions By Inner City Press
Still UNanswered So Docs; UN
Groups Pitch Murky Crypto Coins While SG Guterres Bans Press
That Asks UN. Enviro:
Chase Bank hypocrisy in run-up to #COP26. Bronx /
Legal: Lawsuit
Against Ousted Bronx Pol Andy King Proceeds in SDNY With
Discovery Extended
10/25/21 -- CRA: As
Garland Talks Trustmark Citizens Bank Thumbs Nose At CRA On
Investors Bank Test. Federal
Reserve too little too late on Reserve Bank Presidents'
stock trading. Bank Bank:
National
Bank of Pakistan Was Sued For Attack on CIA Base in Khost But
Says McLintock Late; State
Street Bank Was Sued For Discrimination Now Fact Discovery
Through May 2022. UN
- Global:
Cameroon
Kills 3 Year Old Minex Kimora But UN Guterres Silent As
Colludes and Bans Press. Enviro:
Illinois metal scrapper. Bronx /
Legal: Fair Finance Watch Raises Burnside Bank Branch Closure to
FDIC against Amalgamated merger application
10/18/21 -- CRA: After
Investors Bank Hit With FDIC Conditions, CRA Scams By Stock
Yards - Commonwealth. Federal
Reserve After Oct 2 Press Request Only Provides Portion of
Stock Yards Application on Oct 15. Bank Beat:
In
SDNY Arrest of Nigerians For Bank Fraud One Works For NY
Health Dept So No GPS. UN - Global:
UN
Puts Cameroon and Honduras on Human Rights Council, Guterres
Colludes Scam Election. Enviro:
Most polluted cities in the USA. Bronx /
Legal: AOC
Cites Pro Publica Papers as Rep Huffman Says US Stays Onshore
But South Dakota, Florida and Delaware Trusts, No Answer Yet
as on UN censorship
10/11/21 -- CRA: Delta
of FIFA Scandal Now Applies for Change in Bank Control, FFW
Challenges. Federal
Reserve: Analysis of lack of transparency. Bank Beat:
Citibank
Sold Hang Lee's Loans Then Buyer Didn't Want to Pay for
Deposition So Summary Judgment Motion. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Who Bans Press Bloviates Praise of Ressa and Muratov
Nobel to State Media. Enviro:
Pollution in Newark's Ironbound. Bronx /
Legal: Bronxite
Peralta Beaten By NYPD Alleges Spoliation of Body-worn Camera
Video in SDNY
10/4/21 -- CRA: Melrose
Credit Union CEO Kaufman Gets 46 Months For Bribes Including
From CBS Radio. Federal
Reserve: Amid
Protest to Fed of Citizens Bid for Investors Bank 2 Reserve
Bank Presidents Out 4 Investing. Bank Beat:
Former
CEO Of Iconix Wanted To Exclude Size of Stock Sales But SDNY
Jury Will Hear $28 Million. UN - Global:
Kenya
As UNSC Prez Bans Inner City Press and Takes Only 6 Qs None on
Nigeria or UN Rapes. Enviro:
PFOA lawsuit in NYC. Bronx /
Legal: In
Taliban Support Trial of Hossain Cooperator Says FBI Told Him
To Use Only His Work Phone As Juror 1 Stays
9/27/21 -- CRA: After
Investors Bank Hit With FDIC Conditions, CRA Protest Filed To
Fed App by Citizens Bank. Federal
Reserve: After
CRA Protest of South State's Atlantic Capital Bid Fed Asks
Questions & Gives 8 Days. Bank Beat:
On
Saturday Before North Korea Trial Virgil Griffith Dockets
Motion About Ethereum GC. UN - Global:
Netflix
Narcos Raised In UNGA By JOH Claiming UN Support As Inner City
Press Asked. Enviro:
Greece Promotes Volkswagen in the name of green. Bronx /
Legal: Savinon
Who Sold Crack On Belmont Ave In The Bronx Gets 56 Months
Still Unvaccinated
9/20/21 -- CRA:
Redlining in our Sweet Kentucky Home, so Stock Yards -
Commonwealth Bank & Trust Challenged. Federal
Reserve calls Wirecard and OneCoin fraud not serious,
denied expedited FOIA appeal processing. Bank Beat:
On
OneCoin Inner City Press Filed to Unseal, Scott Says
Konstantin Perjury, NYDA Inaction. UN - Global:
For
No-Vax Super Spreader UNGA Now NYC Letter, SG Guterres Thumbs
Nose As Bans Press. Enviro:
Idaho court decision. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Drug Defendant Faces His Rap Lyrics in SDNY Trial So He Wants
$21,000 Settlement In
9/13/21 -- CRA: After
Investors Bank Hit With FDIC Conditions, CRA Protest Filed To
Deal With Citizens Bank. Federal
Reserve acknowledges OneCoin & Wirecard FOIA, but
still no documents. Bank Beat:
PNC
Bank Filed Request For Subpoena on Dreambuilders Now Another
Friday Request. UN
- Global:
UN
Guterres Pitches No-Vax UNGA In Presser He Bans Inner City
Press From, No Answers. Enviro:
Protests in Serbia. Bronx /
Legal: Man
Charged With Sex Abuse At Bronx School Is Freed on $1 Million
Bond, Can Return to Carolinas
9/6/21 -- CRA: OCC
Protest of South State-Atlantic Capital Under CRA, How Will
Hsu Differ from Before? Federal
Reserve on
OneCoin & Wirecard FOIA Takes 5 Month to Deny, Inner City
Press Appeal. Bank Beat:
In
XRP Case Ripple Wants Trading Records of SEC Staff and Family
on Crypto, SEC Says No. UN - Global:
In
Afghanistan UN Abandons Local Staff, Censorship By Guterres
and Irish Mission. Enviro:
Pollution by Shell in Louisiana after Hurricane Ida. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Man Sued NYPD For Excessive Force, For Trial They Want
Marshals To Hold Drugs
8/30/21 -- CRA: AOC
Cites Need for Public Alternative To Credit Reports As Inner
City Press Asks of Community Reinvestment Act. Federal
Reserve: Protest
to South State-Atlantic Capital, Fed Begins Closing Comments
Before Application. Bank Beat:
With
Griffith Jailed Before Crytpo North Korea Trial He Asks To
Exclude Evidence of Wealth, Tor & DPRK. UN - Global:
UN Guterres
Heads To No-Vax UNGA Week For Dictators He Supports, Bans
Press, Memo Here. Enviro:
Pollution in Libya. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Defendant Will Face His Rap Lyrics in SDNY Trial, Arguing For
3 Week Delay
8/23/21 -- CRA: Protest
to South State - Atlantic Capital Shows Disparities In
Georgia, Florida & SC. Federal
Reserve's Kashkari versus crypto. Bank Beat:
Calk
Found Guilty Of Manafort Loans To Get Cabinet or UN Position,
Moves For Acquittal. UN - Global:
From
Afghanistan UN Almaty Memo Leaked To Inner City Press August
16, No Answers, Lies. Enviro:
Fight back near St. Louis. Bronx /
Legal: In
NYC Homeless Class Action, Move of Bronx Client To Queens
Cited, Nitty Gritty in SDNY
8/16/21 -- CRA: Valley
National - Westchester Bank Is Protested to NYS DFS's
Departing Lacewell On Lending Disparities. Federal
Reserve: Old
National - 1st Midwest Was CRA Protested Now Gets Asked About
Multi-State Lending by the Fed. Bank Beat:
Avenatti
Finances Unsealed After Inner City Press Filings, $1.4 Million
PPP Loan Exposed. UN
- Global:
UN
Guterres Bumbles Toward UNGA on Honor System, Some Staff Must
Vax, Memo Here. Enviro:
Plastic pollution in the Caribbean. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Lawsuit For Excessive Force by NYPD Has Jury Trial, Plaintiff
Cites 2 Hands Choking
8/9/21 -- CRA: As
Cadence Bank Belatedly Faces Fair Lending DOJ Charge, Inner
City Press Told Fed in 2018. Federal
Reserve: Old
National - 1st Midwest Was CRA Protested Now Withholds All
Answers So New FOIA. Bank Beat:
Haiti
Is Sued For $27 Million Non-Payment For Oil, Central Bank
Moves to Bar Citibank Answers. UN - Global:
Amid
Burma Coup, 2 Arrested In Bid to Kill UN Ambassador, 20
Year-Old Zaw Detained, Risk. Enviro:
Denver and Salt Lake City in top 5 most polluted air. Bronx /
Legal: Sidney
Scales Found Guilty on 5 of 7 Counts After Jury Trial Citing
Josh Lopez Death, Brother Ern
8/2/21 -- CRA: Investors
Bank Hit With FDIC Conditions, Faces CRA Protest On Deal With
Citizens Bank. Federal
Reserve Governor Brainard on EPOP disparities. Bank Beat:
PNC
Bank Files Friday Night Request For Subpoena on Dreambuilders
in SDNY. UN -
Global:
Amid
UN Censorship, Lawyer's Letter to UN Trio and UNCA Dozen Is A
Litmus Test. Enviro:
Illinois Superfund. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Drug Defendant Will Face His Rap Lyrics in SDNY Trial in
September
7/19-26/21 -- CRA: Fed On
Community Reinvestment Act While Prepares Rubber Stamp for
M&T. Federal
Reserve: Old
National - 1st Midwest Was CRA Protested Now Fed Delays on
FOIA But Closes Ears. Bank Beat:
Sterling
National Bank Is Sued For China Wires As Webster CRA Protest
By Fair Finance Watch. UN - Global:
In
Corrupt UN of Guterres Sudan Staff Complain of UNFPA Nepotism
& Retaliation. Enviro:
Lake in Argentina Turns Pink From Pollution. Bronx /
Legal: Parrilla
Latina on Bronx' Webster Ave Is Sued For No Overtime,
Discovery Due Aug 23 / Valley
National - Westchester Bank Is Protested On NY & FL
Lending Disparities, Test for OCC
7/12/21 -- CRA: Citizens
- HSBC Protest on NY Loans & Branch Closings, OCC Role in
Calk Manafort Case. Federal
Reserve is "encouraged" to scrutinize mergers by antitrust
Executive Order. Bank Beat:
JPMChase
Barred Woman From Joint Account After Husband's Death, Judge
Says Find Trace. UN
- Global:
SG
Guterres Covers Up UN Sex Abuse in DRC & Haiti As Bans
Inner City Press 1200 Days. Enviro:
Southern Water in the UK. Bronx /
Legal: For
Bronx Murder of Arias in 2011 Castillo Pleads Guilty 10 Days
Before Trial in SDNY
7/5/21 -- CRA: Old
National - 1st Midwest Is Protested on Indiana & MN Loans,
CRA, 1 Abstention on PNC at the Federal
Reserve, which delays on FOIAs. Bank Beat:
JPM
Chase Is Sued After Theft of $453,000 Now Discovery Into
Bank's Policies Until Dec 2. UN - Global:
On
Honduras As US Omits JOH From List of Corrupt Actors Inner
City Press Asks Zuniga; US
Speaks On Ethiopia Ceasefire As Guterres Brags of Call With
Abiy While UN Bans Press. Enviro:
Exxon slippery on plastic pollution. Bronx /
Legal: As
Unions Sue Zaro's Bake Shop It Tries To Sell Large Bronx
Property, November 5 Is Next
6/21/21 -- CRA: JPMorgan
Chase Is Sued For Retaliation Now Complaints of Sealed
Material Blurted In Court - and COVID overdraft refund
request / demand. Federal
Reserve grants Inner City Press expedited FOIA proceeding
on Webster - Sterling, but no docs yet. Bank Beat:
To
PPP Bank Fraud China National Muge Ma Haltingly Pleads Guilty,
Sept 22 Sentencing. UN - Global:
In
UN 1-Man Election Guterres Grabs 5 More Years Then Lies He's
For Press Freedom. Enviro:
Sri Lanka requests help from UN, which doesn't answer. Bronx /
Legal: Man
Charged As Felon In Possession of a Glock On Frisby Avenue
Nears Guilty Plea and Wants It In-Person
6/14/21 -- CRA: Old
National - 1st Midwest Will Be Scrutinized After PNC
Abstention, As M&T Stonewalls. Federal
Reserve Takes a Week to acknowledge Webster Comment, still
nothing on FOIA. Bank Beat:
JPMChase
Barred Woman From Joint Account After Husband's Death, JPMC
Says Too Late. UN
- Global:
Two-Man
Race Has Maldives Shahid as PGA While 1-Man Dear Leader
Guterres Bans Press. Enviro:
Maryland sues Pennsylvania for pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.
Bronx
/ Legal: Crash
in Hunts Point in The Bronx Ends in Jury Verdict of Defendant
52% Liable, Dead Links
6/7/21 -- CRA: Webster
Proposed Sterling Merger Is Challenged to Fed Based on
Disparities, Weak PPP Lending. Federal
Reserve acknowledges FOIA request but silent on if to
respond in comment period. Bank Beat:
Truist
Bank Was Sued As White Boys' Club Now Settling the Case But
Will Club Continue? UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Now Says Re-open HQ July 6 Once He's Stolen 5 More
Years, Banning Press for 1069th Day. Enviro:
Worse & Worse in Sri Lanka. Bronx /
Legal: Charged
With Robbing Bronx Bodegas Gonzalez Is Told To Ask SDNY
Magistrate For Bail
5/31/21 -- CRA: Citizens
- HSBC Will Be Scrutinized After PNC BBVA Abstention, As
M&T People's Stonewall. Federal
Reserve petitioned on First Bank Corp. of Fort Smith. Bank Beat:
PNC
Bank Is Sued In NY For Usury As Buys BBVA Over Abstention Now
More Delay. UN
- Global:
As
UNSC Prez Estonia Is Asked To Not Block Press Access &
Questions on Haiti & Cameroon. Enviro:
Sri Lanka nightmare. Bronx /
Legal: Lawsuit
Against Ousted Bronx Pol Andy King Proceeds in SDNY Amid City
Council Secrecy
5/24/21 -- CRA: OCC
Is Petitioned To Review Anchorage Paxos Protego & Nicolet
- MBank Merger, Test for Hsu; Review:
Podcast by WSJ & Gimlet Claiming Brooks' OCC Helped People
of Color Rings False. Federal
Reserve FOIA delays range from Bangladesh Bank / Lazarus
heist to Wirecard. Bank Beat:
M&T
Bank Is Sued After Loan Deal With Convicted Felon In Unusual
FCRA Case; In
XRP Case SEC Argues To Get Access to Ripple's Legal Advice But
Privilege Asserted. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Cover Up of Hochschild Hands Down Pants Partially
Picked Up. Enviro:
EJ in San Diego. Bronx /
Legal: After
Verdict For Murder of Bronxite Shaquille 2 Got Life In Prison
Now Espinal Gets 15 Years
5/17/21 -- CRA: Wisconsin
Disparities of Nicolet National Bank Raised Against MBank
Merger to Hsu of OCC. Federal
Reserve in on State Street's sins, compared to Swiss Life.
Bank Beat:
Wells
Fargo Is Sued For Cheating Mortgage Consultants Now Swipecard
Info Fight in SDNY. UN - Global:
To
UN Opposing Guterres Inner City Press Filed to PGA As Did
Whistleblower Now UN Swats. Enviro:
Pollution in Georgia. Bronx /
Legal: Man
Citing Abuse in Bronx Shelter Describes Mr. G But Defense
Lawyer Never Saw Him
5/10/21 -- CRA: In
Ripple Case SEC Now Requests Records of All Legal Advice on
XRP Compliance with Law. Federal
Reserve closes comment period April 12, extends its FOIA
time to May 17, fail. Bank Beat:
IMF
Answers on Colombia and Myanmar As Inner City Press Asks of
Crises. UN -
Global:
Antonio
Guterres Holds 1-Man Debate To Steal 2d Term As UNSG Blocking
All Opponents. Enviro:
China's pollution. Bronx /
Legal: After
Felton Bronx Murder Verdict 2d Circuit Rules Unconscious Bias
Not Missing From Voir Dire
5/3/21 -- CRA: As
Crypto Paxos Gets Federal Bank Charter From Still Headless
OCC, CRA Litmus Tests. Federal
Reserve Beat: After
CRA Protest to M&T People's Fed Asked 32 Qs, As of April
30 No Answers So 2d Protest. Bank Beat:
Guilty
Verdict In Reverse Mortgage Fraud Trial of Hild Cited Capital
One & Consumers Bank. UN - Global:
To
UN Opposing Guterres Inner City Press Filed to PGA, Before
1-Man Debate Talk of Arteaga. Enviro:
US State Dept Talks Sea Turtle But Declines To Name and Shame. Bronx /
Legal: After
Eugene Castelle Died at Riker's Island Inner City Press FOIL,
Bronx DA Locks Door
4/26/21 -- CRA: Webster
Proposed Merger With Sterling Will Be Challenged Based on
Disparities, Weak PPP Lending. Federal
Reserve does moderated or no Q&A while rubber stamping
mergers. Bank
Beat: ICICI
Bank Filed Letter But No Motion About Indian Defendants Now
Drops Two Doshis. UN
- Global:
UN
Delays Next Normal to Sept As Bans Press So Guterres Can Try
to Steal a 2d Term, Corrupt. Enviro:
China air pollution scam. Bronx /
Legal: On
Gun Charges Bronxite Perkins Got New Judge And Now Pleads
Guilty With Rhyming Poetry Cited, Linked
4/19/21 -- CRA: In
CRA Test BancorpSouth Bid For Cadence Will Be Challenged To
Fed BXS Quit to Evade. Federal
Reserve grants Inner City Press expedited processing on
M&T/People's, but where are the documents? Bank Beat:
Chase
Bank Sues In SDNY Seeking A Deposition Citing A Case in New
Jersey. UN -
Global:
To
UN vs Guterres Inner City Press Filed to PGA Now He Won't
Confer with SC Prez Due To Guterres. Enviro:
Mercury in rivers. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Tax Preparer Is Sued by US For 90% Refund Rate So Depositions
By August 6
4/12/21 -- CRA: Litmus
Test As M&T People's Challenged On Racial Disparities In
Lending in NY CT PA. Federal
Reserve extends FOIA time on Wirecard etc. Bank Beat:
In
Citibank Wire Transfer Case Money Did Not Have To Be Returned
Now Citi Asks For Stay. UN - Global:
To
UN vs Guterres Inner City Press Filed to PGA Whose Spox
Quantrill Refuses Questions. Enviro:
Beached Whales in Bangladesh. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Auto Spa and Lube Is Sued For Overtime So Depositions Due June
30 in SDNY
4/5/21 -- CRA: SoFi
Bank Bid To Buy Golden Pacific Protested By Fair Finance Watch
As Regulatory Evasion. Federal
Reserve: Won't even give "public" portion of application
in a week - so formal FOIA. Bank Beat:
Woman
Sues US Bank For Role In Misuse Of Her Debit Card Amid COVID
Pandemic. UN
- Global:
To
UN Opposing Guterres Inner City Press Filed to PGA As Even
Blue Washers Take a Pass on Questions. Enviro:
LA vs Houston. Bronx /
Legal: AOC
Shouts Out City Island But Bronx PPP and Schumer's US Attorney
Picks Not Yet Answered
3/27/21 -- CRA: As
Ex-OCC Brooks Cashes Out To Spring Labs His Rules Subject
Congressional Review Act. Federal
Reserve: CRA
Litmus Test As M&T People's Challenged On Racial
Disparities In Lending in NY CT PA. Bank Beat:
Flagstar
Bank Blamed Regulators For Golden Parachute Delay Now Quietly
Settles It. UN
- Global:
As
Blinken Zooms To UN Questions of SG Candidates Blocked &
Cameroon Posed by Press. Enviro:
Notice of pollution near Alachua County jail. Bronx /
Legal: In
SDNY Bronx Drug Case Cooperating Witness Violated Deal So Some
Charges Dropped
3/22/21 -- CRA: In
Test, First National Community Bank Bid for Georgia Heritage
First Is Challenged to OCC. Federal
Reserve does not think Wirecard or OneCoin are matters of
urgency or public concern, not expedited processing under FOIA.
Bank Beat:
Goldman
Sachs Was Sued For Money Laundering Citing Dodd Frank For
Arbitration. UN
- Global:
To
UN Opposing Guterres Inner City Press Filed to PGA Spox Varma
Cites UNwritten Rules. Enviro:
What will pro-China UNSG Guterres say about China's backsliding
on climate? Bronx /
Legal: After
Arrest in Bronx Plaintiff Might Have Mother As Guardian Ad
Litem In SDNY
3/15/21 -- CRA: SoFi
Bank Wants To Buy Golden Pacific After Got Charter Rubber
Stamped by OCC Brooks. Federal
Reserve: Webster
Bank Games CRA with Health Savings Accounts Fair Finance Watch
Challenged. Bank Beat:
IMF
Answers on Sri Lanka and Ukraine As Inner City Press Asks of
JOH. UN - Global:
After
UN Guterres Banned Honduras Q By Inner City Press His Rep Does
Selfies With Military. Enviro:
Non prosecution agreements studied. Bronx -
Legal: As
Freddie Mac Sued To Foreclose on Bronx Findlay Avenue Case
Referred to Magistrate
3/8/21 -- CRA: Third
Rakuten Application Challenged to FDIC by Inner City Press
Reply Is A Form Letter. Federal
Reserve goes after SunTrust teller, not CEOs. Bank Beat:
Bank
Audi of Lebanon Accused of Keeping $17 Million Now Questions
of Correspondent Banks. UN - Global:
SG
Guterres Gets 2d Complaint of Dujarric Lying of Spying For CCP
Banned Press Pursues. Enviro:
9th Circuit finds pollution not "knowing." Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Man Dealing Crack Got COVID in Jail Now 5 More Years As Lawyer
Cites His Writing Skills
3/1/21 -- CRA: Litmus
Test Looms on M&T People's Proposal on Money Laundering
Plus Redlining. Federal
Reserve: In
CRA Test Challenges To VeraBank Panola Proposal CEO Tidwell
Replies Fed Asks More. Bank Beat:
After
Eaze ex-CEO Pled Guilty Before Wirecard Linked Akhavan Trial
Circle Subpoena OKed. UN - Global:
To
UN In Opposition to Guterres 2d Term Inner City Press Feb 26
Wrote to PGA & UK Derelicts. Enviro:
Thames Water is fined in UK. Bronx /
Legal: After
Eugene Castelle Died at Riker's Island Inner City Press FOILed
Now Bronx DA Probe
2/22/21: CRA: Third
Rakuten Application Challenged to FDIC by Inner City Press on
Compliance. Federal
Reserve discrimination case by fired security officer
headed to mediation. Bank Beat:
In
Citibank Wire Transfer Case Money Does Not Have To Be Returned
Judge Furman Rules. UN - Global:
As
UN Guterres Lusts For 2d Term Abuses Incumbency Amid Silence
from PGA & UKUN. Enviro:
Pollution in Minnesota. Bronx /
Legal: After
Eugene Castelle Died at Riker's Island Inner City Press FOILed
Now Video Won't Play
2/15/21 -- CRA: Wells
Fargo Account Scam Triggers SDNY Suit So Demand By Wells For
Arbitration. Federal
Reserve Bank
of NY Fired Ex FBI Agent Sama Escorted Him Out at 69 Now Cites
Preemption. Bank Beat:
Hamid
Akhavan For Money Laundering & Wirecard Trial To Be Freed
With Armed Guards As Patterson Added. UN - Global:
As
UN Guterres Lusts For 2d Term Abuses Incumbency Amid Silence
from PGA & UKUN. Enviro: Nigeria can use Shell in UK over
pollution. Bronx /
Legal: As
Bronx Concourse Village Resists Collective Action Discovery
Extension With Admonition
2/8/21 -- CRA: In
Litmus Test, Challenges To VeraBank Panola Applications
Replied To By Fed But OCC Silent. Federal
Reserve of Dallas says go FOIA to the Board. Bank Beat:
BNP
Paribas Orban Partners For Steel Alloy Bar Payments Now Traxys
Intervenes in SDNY. UN - Global:
UNDT
Told Inner City Press To Destroy Evidence of UN Sex Abuse Now
Padula Name Disappears Under Guterres Enviro:
Solar farm pollutes wet lands. Bronx /
Legal: After
Eugene Castelle Died in Riker's Island Jail Inner City Press
Files Freedom of Info Request
2/1/21 -- CRA: As
Yellen Takes Over Treasury Fair Access Paused But What Merger
Rubber Stamping? Federal
Reserve on web says extends comment period in light of
Coronavirus - but that not in Fed's Order. Bank Beat:
Manafort
Lender Calk SDNY Trial Set for June 28 Some Witnesses In But
With Limits. UN
- Global:
UNSG
Guterres Lies On Hochschild Of Whom He Knew in 2019 from
Banned Inner City Press. Enviro:
Riverkeeper
Lawsuit Against EPA Will Exclude Hearsay Report In SDNY Ruling
Due February. Bronx /
Legal: Palmer
Charged With 2002 Bronx Killing Fights In SDNY 2021 With
Speedy Trial Act Argument
1/25/21 -- CRA: On
If CFPB Whitewash of Home Mortgage Data End Under Chopra FOIA
By Inner City Press. Federal
Reserve Bank of NY is only one without a 1st VP past
February. Bank
Beat: Fair
Finance Watch Protests Investors Bank Bid For Berkshire
Branches on Lending Disparities. UN - Global:
UNSG
Guterres Rewards Sexual Harassment As Gives Hochschild Tech
Post Staff Tell Inner City Press. Enviro:
Brownfields in Florida. Bronx /
Legal: Andrew
Yang Urges More Pre Trial Release Amid COVID As Inner City
Press Asks UN
1/18/21 -- CRA: As
Crypto Comptroller Brooks Gifts Anchorage He Quits Early So
Can Corrupted OCC Be Fixed. Federal
Reserve OIG list of closed investigations 2020. Bank Beat:
Capital
One Money Laundering Gets $390M Fine From FinCEN As PNC Is
Sued For Usury. UN
- Global:
UK
Ambassador
Letter Citing Inner City Press Scoops Stonewalled By UNESCO
Like Guterres, Seeking UNmerited 2d term. Enviro:
Tzumi
Sues EPA To Stop Hand Wipes Wipe Out Order But EPA Says Claims
Are False. Bronx /
Legal: After
Bronx Playground Shooting Joseph Faces Superseding Indictment
As Felon in Possession
12/21/20 -- CRA: FDIC
Widens ILC Loophope As Abuses FOIA Exemption 8 To Withhold
From Inner City Press. Federal
Reserve Governor Brainard talks to CBA. Bank Beat:
In
Citibank Wire Transfer Case Judge Furman Hopes Industry Learns
From Black Swan Event. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Cries Poor Flying to Germany UK and Lisbon Amid COVID
and Censorship. Enviro:
Pollution in Thailand and online. Bronx /
Legal: Rice
Versus AOC For Energy In DC As Politics of Place But Not Bank
Reregulation Are Zoomed, & Bid
To Stop Election to Replace Disgraced Bronx Pol Andy King
Fails Amid Typos
12/14/20 -- CRA: Fair
Finance Watch Protests Figure Bank at OCC Which Ignores FOIA
Reply Is Boilerplate. Federal
Reserve Bank
of NY Firing Former FBI Agent Escorted Him Out at 69 So He
Sues in SDNY. Bank Beat:
At
Citibank Wire Transfer Trial Waiver Question As Defendant Docs
Says Retain the Funds Here; FDIC
Abuses FOIA Exemption 8 To Withhold All Communications From
Inner City Press. UN
- Global:
UN
Guterres Covers Up Uruguay Child Rape in DRC As Bans Inner
City Press 891st Day. Enviro:
Coral Bleaching in Pakistan. Bronx /
Legal: Dollar
Tree Is Sued For Bronx Negligence Now Wants Protective Order
In SDNY
12/7/20 -- CRA: Fair
Finance Watch Protests Hanover Bank Bid On Savoy Bank As The
Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn Harmed. To Federal
Reserve Christopher
Waller Squeaks In 48-47 In Lame Duck Distanced Self From Judy
Shelton. Bank Beat:
Inner
City Press Asked IMF of Kenya Mombasa Railroad and Mozambique
So Answers Here. UN
- Global:
Banning
Press UNSC Prez South Africa Praised Guterres For Helping Paul
Biya in Cameroon. Enviro:
Pollution insurance policy doesn't cover COVID, Arizona Federal
Judge Rules. Bronx /
Legal: Gas
Station Robbery On City Island In The Bronx In July Yields
Guilty Plea In December, Sentencing in March, Song Here
11/16/20 -- CRA: While
FTC Gets $371 For Discrimination Victims of Bronx Honda
Lenders Not Named. Federal
Reserve Board Nominee
Judy Shelton Is Being Pushed Like Lameduck OCC OKing Charters.
Bank Beat:
Manafort
Lender Calk Wants Trial In Illinois Not SDNY Citing COVID
Rules In NY. UN
- Global:
After
UN Beer Party Andrea Padula Assaulted 3 Women Here Is
Transcript UN Wants Destroyed. Enviro:
South Asia Pollution sweepstakes. Bronx /
Legal: Fresh
Produce Beef Triggers PACA Suit But SDNY Requires Correct
Service of Bronx Biz
11/9/20 -- CRA: Flagstar
Bank Blames Regulators For Golden Parachute Delay But Docket
Excludes Public. Federal
Reserve focuses on safety and soundness, footnotes CRA. Bank Beat:
BNP
Paribas Is Sued Under Swiss and Sudanese Law While Original
Complaint Unavailable. UN - Global:
UN
Women Staff Sent Porn While UN Beer Party Staffer Padula No
Answer From Guterres. Enviro:
Military pollution in Japan. Bronx / Legal: Bronx School
Sued By Phys Ed Teacher For Discrimination As 10 Other Victims
Named
11/2/20 -- CRA: SoFi
Bank Charter Rubber Stamped by Pro FinTech Comptroller Brooks
After FFW Protest. Federal
Reserve, faced with SARs scandal, makes proposal on...
travel. Bank
Beat: After
US Attorney Dropped Guilty Verdicts on Iran Banker Inner City
Press Seeks Unsealing. UN - Global:
UN
Warns
US Staff Of Nov 3 Election Protests As Guterres Meddles on
Zoom. Enviro:
Pollution in Sri Lanka. Bronx /
Legal: In
SDNY Capital Case Berry and Lopez Await Main Justice Decision
on 2000 Bronx Murder
10/19/20 -- CRA: As
Bronx Amalgamated Closing Has Negative Impact Inner City Press
Hits BNB Dime Merger. Federal
Reserve gets request
for reconsideration on Banco Bradesco, after Over Inner City
Press Protest, BAC Merger Rubber Stamped. Bank Beat:
State
Street Bank Is Sued For Boston Club Culture Now Complains
About Discovery; DOJ Merger Rules comments. UN - Global:
At
UN Ivory Coast Majority Against Outtara No Answer From
Guterres So Q&A With Bamba. Enviro:
Pollution raid in Tamil Nadu. Bronx /
Legal: In
SDNY Murder For Hire Jury Trial Is 1st Since COVID As
Testimony Turns To Bronx Cell Sites
10/12/20 -- CRA: Citibank
Tells Those Facing Discrimination To Move But Inner City Press
Hits BNB Dime. Federal
Reserve Banco
Bradesco Q&A After Inner City Press Protest Leads To
Rubber Stamp. Bank Beat:
Turkey
Halkbank Was Denied Dismissal Now Appeals And Asks For Stay US
To File Oct 13. UN
- Global:
Antonio
Guterres Botched UN Racism Study Over 50% Has Examples
Requiring His Ouster. Enviro:
Fracking? Bronx
/ Legal: Bronxite
Remains in NJ Jail For Bryant Ave Shooting While Hedge Funder
Freed by SDNY
10/5/20 -- CRA: Dime
Community Bank To Be Bought By BNB With No Loans to African
Americans So Protest. Federal
Reserve Inaction As
Amid PPP Abuse Lenders Like Live Oak Bank Issue Prurient
Denial To Inner City Press Data Question. Bank Beat:
JPM
Chase Gave Out Customer Funds Now Will Not Timely Give
Discovery Due To COVID. UN - Global:
As
Law Professors and OSI Sue Trump For ICC Free Speech They
Ignore UN Press Censorship. Enviro:
Pollution in St. Louis. Bronx /
Legal: Amid
Bronx Drug Guilty Plea How To Say Casilla Debated Before SDNY
Judge Stein
9/28/20 -- CRA: Insurers
Beat NYS Regulator In ACA Case in 2d Circuit Now SDNY Follows
Suit. Federal
Reserve did nothing on the banks now exposed with FINCEN
SARs. Bank
Beat:
BMO Harris Bank Debtor Principis Was Told To Pay Collections
Account Now Receiver Mulled. UN - Global:
UN
of Guterres Blocks From UN Website IP of Inner City Press
After UNCA Says Do Not Leak. Enviro:
Senegal pollution. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Rapper Detained As Fugitive Doing Sh*t Lyrics Read Out In SDNY
Magistrates Court
9/21/20 -- CRA: Varo
Bank The Bancorp Application Protested to OCC But Crypto
Brooks Rubber Stamps It; State
Street Bank Is Sued For Boston Club Culture Now Complains
About Discovery. Federal
Reserve hears the Banco Bradesco's "pecuniary
contribution" in Brazil is not a fine. Really? Bank Beat:
Ex-JPMorgan
Trader Objected To SDNY Zip Codes Now Gets 8 Months for ForEx
Rigging; Turkey
Halkbank in SDNY Cites Immunity But US Points to Noriega Case
and 2012 E-mail. UN
- Global:
UN
General Assembly of 4 Day Old Speeches For 100 Tired State
Media But No Inner City Press - Banned by Corrupt Guterres.
Enviro:
New law in NJ. Bronx /
Legal: Annie
Doe Questioning George Floyd Protests Got Suspension From
Bronx's College of Mount Saint Vincent But Still There
9/14/20 -- CRA: Varo
Bank The Bancorp Application Protested to OCC of Crypto Brooks
By Fair Finance Watch. Federal
Reserve's OMWI Report Doesn't address Board's impact with
HMDA and mergers. Bank Beat:
For
PPP Bank Fraud China National Ma Still Jailed But 6th
Amendment Argument Sept 30; Turkey
Halkbank Gets Sept 18 Argument on Motion To Dismiss SDNY
Indictment. UN
- Global:
UN
Staffer In Iraq Indicted For Drugging and Raping Women Then
Lying Now Discovery; UN
Guterres Crocodile Tears For Killed Media As He Roughs Up and
Bans Press From UNGA. Enviro
justice in Minnesota. Bronx /
Legal: Avenatti
Threatens to Appeal To Seal Info in Stormy Case As Inner City
Press Bronx Contrast; Bronx
Car Crash Case In SDNY Seeks Delay For New Lawyer But Called
Not Rocket Science
9/7/20 -- CRA: From
Coinbase Brooks Into OCC Says Will Not Regulate Entities Or
Obey SDNY or CRA. Federal
Reserve Amid
Covid Asks Banco Bradesco of BCB Fine cc Fair Finance Watch.
Bank Beat:
BMO
Harris Bank Debtor Principis Says It Was On No Notice Told To
Pay Collections Account. UN - Global:
UN
Staffer In Iraq Indicted For Drugging and Raping Women Then
Lying As UN Role Questioned. Enviro:
Rwanda campaign. Bronx /
Legal: In
SDNY Hedge Funder Kamensky Bailed For $250000 While Bronxite
Remanded to MCC With Claustrophobia
8/31/20 -- CRA: Japanese
FinTech Rakuten Retreats From CRA Evasion While OCC and Fed
Cheer On Varo. Federal
Reserve Board approves First Illinois Bancorp, while
fintechs sneak through FRBSF. Bank Beat:
In
SDNY Bank Fraud Extraditee From Ghana Has May 3 Trial and TB
in Valhalla. UN
- Global:
UNPGA
Prez Volkan Bozkir Taps Brendan Varma As Spox With Conchita
Wurst Echo Still Censored. Enviro:
3d Circuit throws out PA coal plant emissions regs. Bronx /
Legal: As
Avenatti Seeks To Seal Info in SDNY Stormy Case Inner City
Press Gets Leave To Be Heard / Two
Men Charged With Mailing Coke to Bronx With One Detained As
Other Released on Bond
8/24/20 -- CRA: Sued
for PPP JPM Chase Citigroup Signature Tell Judge Rakoff of
Chevron Deference. Federal
Reserve thumbs nose at FOIA on Bradesco, now Governors
skips even FOIA Appeals as one staffer rubber-stamps another. Bank Beat:
Turkey
Halkbank Civil Suit By Iran Terrorism Victims Has Names Added
Inner City Press On the Case. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Breaks Quarantine With Pompeo In Mansion With
Maskless Men After Vacation. Enviro:
E-waste in Ghana. Bronx /
Legal: Police
Union Preliminary Injunction to Block Complaint Release Denied
But Stayed To Mon 2 PM
8/17/20 -- CRA:
Capital One hit with fine; banks merge and close branches. Federal
Reserve arrogant rubber stamp of Varo, no answer. Bank Beat:
In
JPMorgan Chase Treasury Spoofing Civil Case Long Shadow of DOJ
Prosecution. UN
- Global:
In
Inner City Press Scoop on UNsexploitation Cunillera Restored
to Full Pay Now Cover Up. Enviro:
On Ecuador oil, stonewalling from BNP and Deutshce Bank. Bronx /
Legal: Minter
Charged With Gun in Bronx Says Indictment Not Seen Detained
Until Nov 4
8/10/20 -- CRA: Rubber
Stamp of Varo Bank Protested to Federal
Reserve Chair
Powell Collusion With OCC. Bank Beat:
Turkey
Halkbank Reiterates Demand Judge Berman Be Recused For Quoting
NYT. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Has Broken Quarantine on Secret Vacation Paid For By
Public As He Hides Rapes. Enviro:
Pollution in San Diego. Bronx /
Legal: After
OD Deaths in The Bronx 2 Defendants Were Not Produced March 9
Now Oct Motions
8/3/20 -- CRA:
Varo
Gets Rubber Stamped Into Banking By Federal
Reserve On
A Delegated Basis As Fed Denies FOIAs. Bank Beat:
Ecuador
$17B Bond Restructuring To Go Forward After Restraining Order
Denied in SDNY. UN
- Global:
Ghislaine
Maxwell and Epstein Were Supported by UN Lisa Svensson Who
Inner City Press Exposed. Enviro:
Kenya lead smelting case. Bronx /
Legal: As
Bronx Man Pleads Guilty To Gun Charge Tale of Park Avenue
Shooting Causes Pause
7/27/20 - CRA: From
Coinbase Brooks Into OCC With List of Conflicts Avant Aventas
and Some of Citibank. Federal
Reserve FOIA Appeal due to withholding of all COVID
Bradesco and Brazil info. Bank Beat:
Bank
of America Settles EDNY Fair Lending Charges As Inner City
Press Requests PPP Data. UN - Global:
After
Inner City Press Scoop On Guterres Hands In Pants Cover Up He
Seizes Phones and Laptops. Enviro:
Uber and Lyft. Bronx -
Legal: Bronx
Center Sued For No Sign Language But Even Pre Settlement
Scheduling Secret
7/20/20 -- CRA: SoFi
Bid For Bank Charter From Pro FinTech Comptroller Brooks Is
Opposed By Fair Finance Watch. Federal
Reserve takes six weeks to deny Bradesco FOIA request in
full. Bank
Beat: Epstein
Deals of Deutsche Bank Cited in DCNJ Class Action As UN
Maxwell Events UNexplained. UN - Global:
Antonio
Guterres Lies As He Bans Press Covering Up UN Rapes and Bribes
He Takes. Enviro:
Methane Waste. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Man Facing Death Penalty For Murder Mulls Switching Lawyers in
SDNY
6/22/20 -- CRA: From
Coinbase Brooks Into OCC With List of Conflicts Withheld So
Now FOIA Request; As
CFPB Shirks Public Process With Advisory Opinions Its
Whitewash of Mortgage Continues With Attack on CRA. Federal
Reserve: Varo
Dodges on CRA and Covid Outage When Challenged on Federal
Reserve Application For Banking. Bank Beat:
Amid
PPP Secrecy By Mnuchin Inner City Press Requests Data Valley
National Answer Here; IMF
Answers Inner City Press on Cameroon and Bolivia COVID
Packages and Zambia Timing. UN - Global:
For
UNSC Kenya Beats Djibouti 129 to 62 Gaining 16 Votes Overnight
UNtransparent. Enviro: Pollution in New Zealand. Bronx /
Legal: Parkchester
Security Wants To Settle Class Action As Objector Wants To Be
Airbrushed Out; NYPD
Shot Spotter Nabs Bronxite Now In Westchester Jail With Laptop
and Lawyer
6/15/20 -- CRA: Through
Revolving Door Brooks Into OCC With List of Conflicts As
Otting Out to Black Knight; PPP
Reporting. Federal
Reserve: Varo
Challenged on Federal Reserve Application For Banking After
Service Outage and CRA Dodge. Bank Beat:
TIAA
Is Accused Of Stealing Retiree Money Now Gets Response Sealed
in SDNY. UN -
Global:
After
UN Staff Call Guterres Racist He Rebuffs Questions In Mercedes
Now Letter to Editor. Enviro:
Tennessee sewage violations. Bronx /
Legal: Covid
and the Courts Overheard From SDNY Press Room With Access
Increasing and Redactions Opposed; Law
Firm Sued Bronxite For More Money Than She Ever Saw In Her
Life Now In SDNY
6/8/20 -- CRA: Police
Brutality Bonds Raise Questions About Investments by Federal
Reserve and UN. Federal
Reserve Amid
Covid Lets Banco Bradesco Go Secret On Travel Ban As Fair
Finance Watch Says No. Bank Beat:
In
Griffith Crypto Case Inner City Press Won Unsealing Of
Subpoena Of North Korea IP Logs. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon Journalist Njoka Kingsley Grabbed By Biya As UN
Guterres Refuses Press Questions. Enviro:
Ozone and Coronavirus. Bronx /
Legal: For
Molotov Cocktails At NYPD Remand By Marshals 2d Circuit Orders
With Appeal
6/1/20 - CRA: On
Day Otting Out of OCC Legacy of Contempt For CRA Public
Process and FOIA Brooks Next. Federal
Reserve in face of LIBOR
Case Against JPMorgan and Bank of America Settled As SDNY
Judge Buchwald Signs Off. Bank Beat:
Amid
PPP Abuse Lenders Like Ameris Bank Say Ask SEC As Inner City
Press Requests Basic Data. UN - Global:
While
UN of Guterres Covers Up Coronavirus Role New Song Points the
Finger. Enviro:
As
Pennsylvania Sues Exxon and BP Oil Companies Say No One In PA
Hurt By MTBE. Bronx /
Legal: For
Molotov Cocktail At NYPD Van in Crown Heights George Floyd
Protest EDNY Files Complaint, as Police Mass on Bronx shopping
strips
5/25/20 -- CRA: Amid
PPP Abuse Lenders Like Berkshire Bank Refuse As Inner City
Press Requests Basic Data. Federal
Reserve Delays 12 days in acknowledging FOIA request while
preparing to rubbert-stamp for Bradesco. Bank Beat:
Bank
Named Mega Cites 2004 NYBD Letter As Preventing Showing
Documents to SDNY Judge. UN - Global:
With
UN As Mediocre on Zoom As In Person Time To Move It Out of NYC
and USA. Enviro:
Lawsuit against EPA. Bronx /
Legal: In
NYC Four Hours and 107 New Lawsuits, 24 in The Bronx, After
Coronavirus Shutdown Inner City Press on Case
5/18/20 -- CRA: Capital One Bank Switch
of Business Balance to Personal Is Sued in SDNY.
Federal
Reserve: As
US Bank Regulators Suspend Non Critical Exams Or Go 95%
Off-Site New Project on Abuses. Bank Beat:
Bank
Named Mega Says DFS Prevents Showing Documents to SDNY Judge
Even In Camera. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Wants Video Only GA Week And Drivers Licenses From
New Jersey. Enviro:
EPA sued again. Bronx /
Legal: SDNY
Judge Vyskocil Declines To Put AOC Challenger On Ballot With
Invalid Signatures
5/11/20 -- CRA: Weakening
CRA Comptroller Otting Met Bank CEOs and Clarence Thomas FOIA
Appeal Filed. Federal
Reserve Amid
Covid Lets Banco Bradesco Redact Exhibit Names As Fair Finance
Watch Says No. Bank Beat:
Deals falling apart, while regulators ready to rubber-stamp. UN
- Global:
WHO
Denies Delaying COVID Info For Xi But UN Lied 6 Years On
Taking Cholera To Haiti; UN
Scam Debate Of Lone PGA Candidate Volkan Bozkir With Conchita
Wurst Echo. Enviro:
As
US EPA Coronavirus Deregulation Is Sued SDNY Litigants Leave
It To The Papers. Bronx:
Bronx
Man Sued City For Boston Road Police Stop Now SDNY Judge
Failla Floats $50,000 Settlement
5/4/20 -- CRA: Amid
COVID Fair Finance Watch Challenges Webster Bank Bid For State
Farm HSAs to OCC. Federal
Reserve: EDNY
Probe of FIFA Makes Bank Hapoalim Pay $30M For Money
Laundering, More to Fed. Bank Beat:
As
US Bank Regulators Rubber Stamp Mergers Opposed by FFW Now
Pandemic Anti Monopoly Act. UN - Global:
For
UNSC Estonia Month May Somalia May 21 No Cameroon Spinning
Coronavirus Like SG Guterres. Enviro:
Pollution in Nigeria. Bronx /
Legal: Olszewski
Fled Bronx Halfway House Now Wants Out of MCC Amid Coronavirus
4/27/20 -- CRA: As
FinTechs Like NewTek Snub Small Business While At PPP Trough
CRA Should Apply Inner City Press Says. Federal
Reserve: Amid
Covid 19 Fed Is Letting Banco Bradesco Redact All on Virus
Fair Finance Watch Says No. Bank Beat:
Industrial
Bank of Korea Settles $1B Iran Sanctions Violations For $51M
in SDNY. UN - Global: After UN Guterres on South Sudan Refuses
Press Questions Petition to Him Says UNMISS Spreads COVID.
Enviro:
More outdoors means more complaints, Alabama edition. Bronx /
Legal: NYC
Prisons Move Toward Video Calls Which Authorities Can Watch
But Not Press or Public
4/20/20 - CRA: As
FinTechs Line Up at PPP Trough Community Reinvestment Act
Should Apply Fair Finance Watch Says. Federal
Reserve Opens Season on Conflict of Interest in PPP? Bank Beat:
Amid
Coronavirus In Civil Case Credit Suisse Secrecy Still Sought; Amid
COVID 19 IMF Standards For Debt Relief Questioned by Inner
City Press Response Here. UN - Global:
In
UN COVID Hypocrisy South Sudan and Gym Violations While
UNidentified Staff Disciplined. Enviro:
Prince William Canned Comment. Bronx /
Legal: Bronx
Defendant Without Taste Is Denied Release From MCC By SDNY
Judge Failla As Danger
4/6/20
-- CRA:
As
Regulators Give Big Banks Two Years Community Reinvestment
Act Comment Period Must Be Extended. Federal
Reserve: Regulators
Give Even Volcker Rulers More Time. Bank
Beat: Bank
in West Virginia Fails Amid COVID 19. UN - Global:
Coronavirus
Among UN Staff In South Sudan Is Lied About While No
Social Distancing on UN Bus. Enviro:
Request to pause rules. Bronx
/ Legal: Smith
Charged With Robbing Bronx Barber Also Has Asthma And Bail
Hearing
3/30/20
-- CRA:
As
FDIC Tries To Weaken CRA Fair Finance Watch on Republic
Bank and Axos Bank Demands Extension. Federal
Reserve privatizes to Blackrock. Bank
Beat: Another
SDNY Sealed Proceeding For Money Laundering in Miami Diaz
in MCC Until Friday. UN - Global:
UN
Fundraiser Has Three Officials Without Financial
Disclosure and Boss Guterres With Lies. Enviro:
EPA suspends rules, unlike OCC. Bronx
/ Legal: After
SDNY Bronx Gang Mass Presentment Edgardo Baranco Freed
Over US Objection
3/23/20
-- CRA:
Community
Reinvestment Act Credit For Coronavirus Means Comment
Period Must Be Extended. Federal
Reserve keeps closing merger comment periods though
public hearings impossible. Bank
Beat: In
SDNY Prince Uko Is Bailed On Bank Fraud Charges Amid
Coronavirus and GPS Bracelet Shortage. UN - Global:
UNSG
Guterres Takes 4 Lame Questions Picked By Fleming Who Bans
Press 629th Day. Enviro:
AI to track pollution. Bronx
/ Legal: After
SDNY Bronx Gang Mass Presentment Davonte Brown Freed Over
US Objection Amid Citations to Coronavirus COVID-19,
Now in MDC
3/16/20
-- CRA:
Community
Reinvestment Act For Coronavirus Must Have Comment Period
Extended Fair Finance Watch Says. Federal
Reserve: Talk of Demoting Powell, How Much Longer Can
This Go On? Bank
Beat: Amid
OCC Contempt For Protest to Steuben Trust Bid By Community
Bank NA 3 Branches 39 Workers. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Lies With Correspondents After Withheld That
UNnamed Philippines Dip Has COVID-19. Enviro:
Walkable cities. Bronx
/ Legal: Luis
Rivera Charged With Bronx Shooting Was Beaten By Police,
Federal Defender Says, Then Detained
3/9/20
-- CRA:
As
CFPB Evades Public Process With Advisory Opinions Its
Whitewash of Mortgage Continues With Attack on CRA. Federal
Reserve cancels Denver conference. Bank
Beat: On
Community Reinvestment Act Northfield Bank Challenged To
OCC of Otting. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres and Vaz Pinto Mansion Socialists and Censors
Ignore Qs on Cameroon Genocide. Enviro:
Break Free From Plastic Act of 2020. Bronx
/ Legal: Tiffany
Guerrero Was Arrested In The Bronx 8 Years Ago Now Jury
Rejects Her Case
2/24/20
- CRA:
Community
Reinvestment
Act Attack by Otting Continues But With Comments to April
9. Federal
Reserve Created
BHC Morgan Stanley Without Any Comment Period, Now MS
Makes $13B Offers For E-Trade. Bank
Beat: RBC
Planning Bank Only For the Richest Highlights CRA Fight.
UN - Global:
UN
Refuses Press Qs on Coronavirus But Inner City Press Here
Publishes UN Pro- China Spin. Enviro:
Cleaning
air pollution leads to warmer winters, Guardian UK Says.
Bronx / Legal: In
SDNY Challenge to Drug Cases Disparities Inner City Press
Reported First Now Dies Quiet Death
2/10/20
-- CRA:
As Otting says he's never seen discrimation, OCC is poised
to reward discriminator Evans Bank. Federal
Reserve withholds everything Banco Bradesco did,
despite stated commitments. Bank
Beat: In
OneCoin Case Now David Pike Charged With Bank Fraud For
Scrubbing Ruja Ignatova Name. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon Biya Army Makes Election A Joke While Guterres
Covers Up At AU Silent on Rapes. Enviro:
Coal provides more than 1/3 of the world's electricity. Bronx
/ Legal: Basketball
Standout
Ashanae McLaughlin Released on Bank Fraud Charges Without
SDNY Exclusion Zone
1/20/20
-- CRA:
On
OCC Attack on CRA Even Bankers Say More Analysis Needed As
Gramm Chimes In. To Federal
Reserve Banco
Bradesco Late Sent CRA Redacted Info to Inner City Press
But FRBNY Ignores It. Bank
Beat: In
SDNY Judge Cave Declines To Stay Millennium Discovery
Against Citi BOM Chase and Truist. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres In Closed Meeting Lied About His Retaliation and
Bogus Reforms So Audio
Here. Enviro:
US
9th Circuit Dismisses Climate Change Lawsuit While UNSG
Guterres Flies to Lisbon Again. Bronx:
In
SDNY Mercado Charged With Pistol Shot in the Bronx Claims
It Was Only BBs But Denied Bail
1/13/20
-- CRA:
Now
FDIC and Otting Attack on CRA March 9 Deadline As Wells
Fargo Tries
To Censor. To Federal
Reserve, Banco
Bradesco Late Sends Community Reinvestment Act Redacted
Info to Fair Finance Watch. Bank
Beat: Telegram
Said SEC Info Request Covers 12+ Nations Now SEC Cites
Redacted Durov Depo. UN - Global:
UN
Strips Vote of Lebanon and Yemen While Stonewalling on
Gambia and Corruption of Guterres. Enviro:
Pollution in Thailand. Bronx
/ Legal: Ivorian
Mission to UN Ran Over Bronxite Donald Lewis Then
Removed Case to SDNY
1/6/20
-- CRA:
In
SDNY Schwab - TD Bank Proposed Tie Up Faces Antitrust
Suit by Asian American Firm. Federal
Reserve belatedly posts some mergers but no
response to formal requests by Inner City Press. Bank
Beat: El
Chapo Bribee Garcia Luna Detained in EDNY for Money
Laundering After SDNY Showed Chapo Funds to JOH and
UNSG. UN
- Global:
UN
Security Council Admits Estonia Tunisia Vietnam St
Vincent and Niger While Guterres Censors. Enviro: In
St. Louis, environmental injustice. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Wilson Perez For 2017 Kidnapping In The Bronx
Gets 5 Years Shaved To 3 After Cold In MDC
12/23/19 -- CRA:
Protest
to Flushing Bank Empire After FDIC Joins Otting
Assault on CRA Amid Whitewash of Mortgage Data.
Federal
Reserve Brainard versus crypto-currency but
what did Fed do on OneCoin money launderers? Bank
Beat: Sprint
T-Mobile Merger Trial Ends With Flurry of Sealed
Exhibits Closing Arguments Jan 15. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Covers Up Yet More UN Rape In DRC While
Banning Inner City Press 534th Day. Enviro:
Honeywell's pays low ball $4 million for pollution.
Bronx
/ Legal: Defendant
Horge Tells SDNY Judge Swain of Stabbings In MCC,
40th Precinct, Computers Unsuited for Discovery
12/16/19 -- CRA:
FDIC
Joins Otting To Deregulate Banks As CFPB Hides
Mortgage Data. Federal
Reserve: After
Community Reinvestment Act Protest to Banco
Bradesco Fed Delays Report on Ex Parte Meeting.
Bank
Beat: In
Sprint Trial Legere of T-Mobile Shows Himself As
Marrero Cites Flower Children. UN - Global:
In
Corrupt UN of Guterres UNSC Post Set Aside for
Nils Schmieder After Viotti Gave Filho GB. Enviro:
Tennessee vs. Nissan. Bronx
- Legal: In
Trial For Murder of Bronxite Shaquille Malcolm
Scrappy Crossed By AUSA Sassoon With Berman In
Court But Not Facebook
12/9/19 -- CRA:
FDIC
Backsliding With Otting To Deregulate Banks Raised
in DC As CFPB Hides Mortgage Data. Federal
Reserve Quarles Answers Senate But Silent on
Withholding of HMDA data. Bank
Beat: SDNY
Judge Berman Denies Halkbank Special Appearance
Noting 2d Circuit Logic on Fugitives. UN - Global:
UN
Spox Dujarric Covers Up UN Rapes and Cameroon As
UN Correspondents Association Sells SG. Enviro:
pollution in London. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Trial For Murder of Bronxite Malcolm
Cooperator Remembers Nothing Citing GEO in Queens
2/2/19 -- CRA:
TD
Bank Seeks To Own 13% of Schwab After OneCoin
Bragged Of TD Bank Relationship. Federal
Reserve Governor Brainard speaks on Monetary
Policy Strategy, Tools, and Communications, no
mention of FOIA withholdings. Bank
Beat: After
OneCoin Trial Tweets Venezuela Launder Links of
Dilkinska Exposed By Inner City Press. UN - Global:
UN
Correspondents Association Gave China Veto Then No
Uighurs or Hong Kong In Its Corrupt Wall Street
Awards. Enviro:
Pollution in Dhaka. Bronx:
Crime
Rival Shot By James Felton in 2016 Edwin Romero
Gets 35 Years From SDNY Judge Preska
11/25/19 -- CRA:
Rogue
Regulator Otting of OCC Moves to Launder Predatory
Loans As Valid When Made. Federal
Reserve inaction on banks implicated in
OneCoin money laundering trail including BNY Mellon,
IBERIABANK and others. Bank
Beat: In
OneCoin Trial Amer Abdulaziz Named As Money
Launderer Who Stole 100M Euro Still Horsing Around.
UN - Global:
As
UN Cries Poor Guterres With 3 Cars Starts Junket
To Germany and To Lisbon of Fado Corrupt. Enviro:
Sidney joins Mumbai. Bronx
/ Legal: Bad
Boys 2 Actor Arrested for Dealing Crack And
Ordered Jailed In SDNY With Only Inner City Press
Present
11/18/19 -- CRA:
Deutsche
Bank RMBS Fraud Leads To $500,000 Civil Penalty
Against Former Exec In EDNY. Federal
Reserve withholds attachment from Inner City
Press on Banco
Bradesco Class Action Settlement Hits 2 Day Hitch
on Blacksmiths and Rule 11 in SDNY. Bank
Beat: In
OneCoin Trial BNY Mellon Describes Mark Scott
Cayman Islands Business After David Pike Arrested.
UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Covers Up Cameroon Sex Exploitation
Whispers on Colombia and UN Rape. Enviro:
HR 5120, on the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration. Bronx
/ Legal: Murder
of Shopkeeper from The Gambia and The Bronx Yields
7 Year Sentence For SDNY Cooperator
11/11/19 -- CRA:
CFPB
Takes 2017 Mortgage Data Down Days After 2018
Complaint and FOIA by Inner City Press. Federal
Reserve on Climate Change, Merger FOIA Flaws
UNchanged. Bank
Beat: In
OneCoin Trial Konstantin Ignatov Pled To Bank
Fraud So Defense Asks Which FDIC Bank. UN - Global:
SDNY
US Attorney Lets UN Johns and Pimps Like Lorenzo
Go Free Jailing Only Bribers Ho and Ng. Enviro:
Climate Fed. Bronx
/ Legal: Before
6ix9ine Sentencing in SDNY Taxes Due Dec 4 As
Inner City Press Carjack Video Hit With YouTube
Complaint
11/4/19 -- CRA:
Disparate LendingClub misuses Facebook "Lookalike"
ads but says Federal
Reserve has given them a green light (to
redline). Bank
Beat: In
OneCoin Trial Scott Again Urges Statement In About
Pyramid Scheme Concern Trial Starts this week in
SDNY. UN
- Global:
In
Honduras UN Whispered of Magdaleno Murder
Disavowed By Chapo Funded Guterres and Bachelet.
Enviro:
In Bangkok and Beyond, SG Guterres Climate Action is
a Fraud. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY All Reverse Sting Drug Cases Are Against
Minorities For 10 Years Judge Rakoff Hears
10/28/19 -- CRA:
As
Rogue Regulator Otting Tries To Kill CRA His Staff
Tries To Coopt #TreasureCRA. Federal
Reserve goes entirely corporate for its
insurance advsory board. Bank
Bank: Defending
BNP Bank Business With Genocidal Sudan Regime
Cleary Gottlieb Uses Junior Associate. UN - Global:
UN
Linked Fraudster Saint Clair of World Sports
Alliance Detained In SDNY But SG Guterres Still
Free. Enviro:
EPA adviser are split. Bronx
/ Legal: After
SDNY Courtroom Sealed To Press And AUSA Comey
Silence Bronx Process of Elimination
10/21/19 -- CRA:
CFPB
Whitewashes 2018 Home Mortgage Data Despite NYAG
Opposing Disclosure Tables Gone. Federal
Reserve is sued in SDNY, hired outside
counsel. Bank
Beat: As
Spain Minister Nadia Calviño Talks 5G Inner City
Press Asks of Huawei and Narco Hugo Carvajal.
UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Refuses Honduras Corruption Q By Inner
City Press From Mansion to Mercedes. Enviro
Justice: Why isn't The Bronx, or even NYC, at least
as of October 19, 2019 on
https://insights.sustainability.google/? Bronx
/
Legal / Music: Inner City Press Video of 6ix9ine
Carjacking Hit With YouTube Complaint For Music on
Radio Jorge
10/14/19 -- CRA:
CFPB
Whitewashes 2018 Home Mortgage Data Now Slew of
Identical Letters Appreciating It. Federal
Reserve: Jay Power on asking for directions. Bank
Beat:
In OneCoin Case Ignatova Communications Deemed
Admissible Under Crime Fraud Exception. UN - Global:
In
Honduras Trial Denny's Video Of Tony Hernandez
Uploaded By Inner City Press Here. Enviro:
Minnesota pollution data. Bronx
/ Legal / Music: With
6ix9ine Sentencing Now December 18 Co Defendant Ro
Murda Gets 66 Months After Being Stabbed
10/7/19 -- CRA:
Rogue
Regulator Otting Withholds Merger Notices Since
August 17 So All Comment Periods Close. Federal
Reserve Governor
Bowman Says Mergers Are Good Showing Bias Should
Recuse. Bank
Beat: Deutsche
Bank Petition To Undo Mexican Injunction Rejected
Then Resurrected in SDNY. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon After Biya Army Kills 10 More UN Guterres
Praises Him And Refuses All Questions. Enviro:
Shipping industry pollution. Bronx
/ Legal; 6ix9ine
trial verdict and questions...
9/30/19 -- CRA:
CFPB
Whitewashes 2018 Home Mortgage Data Calling It
Static Report And Excluding Public With Tech
Sprints. Federal
Reserve enforcement actions against the small.
Bank
Beat: Citi,
Chase, Banks Accused Of Fixing Bond Prices Dispute
Drug Conspiracy Analogy Before Judge Rakoff. UN - Global:
From
Cameroon Mbella Blames Separatists In Empty UNGA
Protected By UN Guterres Who Bans Press. Enviro:
Supreme Court dodged. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Tekashi 6ix9ine Trial Closes With Accusation
Of Faked Car Jacking, 5 Day Break, Mister Met
Versus Yankee Stadium
9/23/19 -- CRA:
As
CFPB Brags About Complaint Database, It is
Whitewashing 2018 Home Mortgage Data. Federal
Reserve terminates enforcement action on
Optimumbank without explanation. Bank
Beat: For
Bank Fraud Messiah Ortiz Gets A Year And A Day
From SDNY Judge Broderick As Boricua College Cited.
UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Via Spokesman Evades On Ban Of Inner City
Press From UN General Assembly, Video Here. Enviro:
UN
Guterres Leers At Youth Climate Summit While
Covers Up Child Rapes and Flies to Lisbon
Censoring Press. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Tekashi 6ix9ine Carjacking Video Is Shown But
Questioned As Trippie Redd Linked To Bloods
9/16/19 -- CRA:
CFPB
Launches Saudi Like Sandbox for Deregulation After
Whitewashing 2018 Home Mortgage Data. Federal
Reserve shows double standard refusing ICP
comments on withheld info, reciting others'. Bank
Beat: In
SDNY Iranian Banker Sadr Wants Ankle Bracelet Off
and New Emails Excluded After Curio. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Biya Warlike Dialogue Decree No Answers
By Corrupt UN Guterres To Press He Bans. Enviro:
UN
Guterres Flies To Bahamas Noting Haitians Whom He
Cheats After UN Cholera Killed 10000. Bronx
/ Legal Beat: For
Drive By Shooting In The Bronx US Attorney Pled
Jackson To 60 Months Given By SDNY Judge Castel
9/9/19 -- CRA:
Amid
Otting Rogue Show OCC Gets DC Court To Shoot Down
CSBS Fintech Suit Using Anti FOIA Lawyers. Federal
Reserve Questions
After Community Reinvestment Act Protest to Banco
Bradesco Bid For BAC Florida. Bank
Beat: Reverse
Mortgage Fraud Defendant Hild Given Nationwide
Travel Pass Unlike Others in SDNY. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Covers Up Sex Abuse By Dumping Statistics
on 39 Allegations Claiming Only 10 Child Rapes.
Enviro:
Hurricane
Dorian Garners UNSG Guterres Empty Statement While
He Bans Press From UNGA. Bronx:
In
SDNY A Prison Strip Search To Find A Hidden Blade
Results In Civil Rights Trial
9/2/19 -- CRA:
CFPB
Puts Out 2018 Home Mortgage Data With No Racial or
Ethnic Info Lawless Whitewash. Federal
Reserve is supposed standing up to rogue
regulator Otting. But are they? Bank
Beat: Jammal
Trust Bank of Lebanon Is Hit With US Sanctions And
Pompeo Speaks After Earlier Lawsuit in EDNY. UN - Global:
After
UNSG Guterres and his Melissa Fleming Purport To
Ban Press From Reporting On UNGA NYC Denies Having
Any Documents Now Appealed. Enviro:
Siemens
Refuses To Pay To Ship 177 Wind Turbine Blades
From China To Texas And Gets Sued in SDNY. Bronx:
Drug
Dealer Is Sentenced To 18 Years After Rockland
County Seller Got 27 Months
8/26/19 -- CRA:
Amid
Otting Rogue Show in NYC His OCC Protects People's
United Bid For United Bank Refusing Timely Comment.
Fed
Watch: On
Bangladesh Bank US Federal Reserve Upholds Its Own
Withholding of FOIA Records. Bank
Beat: Bank
of China Asks To Appeal Being Accused Of Terrorism
Finance With Iran and Hamas. UN - Global:
Redacted
FOIA Response Shows Al Jazeera Bays Telling VOA Of
Complaint To Ban Inner City Press. Enviro:
Zambia Lead Mine. Bronx:
As
Bronx Deli Is Sued Under FLSA By Madison Ave Firm
Judge Caproni Tells Press It Must Be A Slow News
Day
8/19/19 -- CRA:
As
OCC Of Otting Attacks CRA People's United Bid For
United Bank Challenged On Lending and Cuts. Federal
Reserve: Community
Reinvestment Act Challenge to Banco Bradesco Bid
For BAC Florida on Fraud Disparate Lending. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are watching; CIT
Group Bid For Mutual of Omaha Echoes Its
Fraudulently Promoted Deal For OneWest of Otting.
UN - Global:
In
Cameroon UNHCR Partners With Biya Government In
Bamenda Silence From Guterres and Fleming. Enviro:
UN
Climate Corruption Includes Antonio Guterres And
UNDP Global Environment Facility Felony. Bronx:
In
The Bronx Feliz Killed Victor Chafla From Ecuador
Then in SDNY Got 32 Years in Otisville
8/12/19 - CRA:
Community
Reinvestment Act Challenge to Banco Bradesco Bid
For BAC Florida on Fraud Disparate Lending. Federal
Reserve: Capital
One Inactive On Hacking 127 Days While Federal
Reserve At Amazon Dog and Pony Show. Bank
Beat: In
SDNY Deutsche Bank and Wells Fargo Letters Flashed
In Starship Snacks Trial Of Margulies. UN - Global:
In
UN OCHA Ghelani Favorites Work From Upstate and
Telecommute in Geneva Inner City Press Is Told.
Enviro:
Fraud of Antonio Guterres celebrating luxury yacht
trip of Greta Thunberg, who else can afford this? Bronxite
Jamarr
Fowler Says NYPD Broke Into His Home But SDNY
Judge Tells Him He Sued Too Late
8/5/19 -- CRA:
Capital
One Exposed 140000 Social Security Numbers While
Abusing Consumers Regulators Defanged. Federal
Reserve: Money
Laundering Endgame At Truist Concealed As FDIC
Gives Only 3 Pages To Inner City Press. Bank
Beat: Associated
Bank Sues Merchant Lender Absent From Locked
Courtroom of SDNY Judge Woods. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon and Yemen UK FCO Refuses Again To Provide
Any Documents Censorship Like UK Smale. Enviro:
Pollution in Long Island Sound. Bronx:
SDNY
Judge Torres Recounts History of Mill Brook Houses
In Sentencing Monge To 5 Years
7/29/19 -- CRA:
Japanese
FinTech Rakuten Lines Up For Utah Evasion Of
Community Reinvestment Act. Federal
Reserve casts a jaundiced eye on foreign
financial institutions. Bank
Beat: In
SDNY, Banks Accused Of Fixing Bond Prices Jam
Courtroom of Judge Rakoff In Race To The Bottom.
UN - Global:
UN
Child Rape In DRC By Morocco Peacekeeper Resulted
in Pregnancy Covered Up By Guterres 3 Days. Enviro:
In
SDNY Third of Four Nigeria Oil Company Cases Gets
Stayed But Judge Berman Says Last Time. Bronx:
Kevin
Mora Pleads Softly Guilty To Crack Sales In The
Bronx Both CJA Lawyers Read Plea Deal To Him
7/22/19 -- CRA:
Predatory
Real Estate Lawyer Maddiwar Gets 5 Years As SDNY
Judge Ramos Says He Lied. Federal
Reserve: On
Money Laundering After Fed Withheld 133 Pages On
Truist Inner City Press Appeal Gets 1 More Page.
Bank
Beat: Bank
of China Accused Of Terrorism Finance With Iran
and Hamas After PRC Government Was Told. UN - Global:
UN
Welcomed Jeffrey Epstein Associate Ghislaine
Maxwell For TerraMar Abruptly Disappeared. Enviro:
Pollution in Erbil. Bronx
/ Legal: SDNY
Judge Pauley Lays Down the Law to Johnson of
Edenwald Houses After Michael Cohen Order
7/15/19 -- CRA:
Melrose
Credit Union CEO Bailed For $500000 and Drug
Testing As Georgiton Turns In Greek Passport.
Federal
Reserve says it got no merger application for
month. Bank
Beat: Otting's OCC takes no comments on
Changes in Bank Control, selective on conversions.
UN - Global:
UN
Briber Patrick Ho In Appeal Reveals More Lobbying
In UN For China Met Croatia President No Audit;
Nigeria
UN Mission Ran Over NY Paralegal And Now Cites
Preexisting Condition In SDNY. Enviro:
Polluted run-off triggered by rain in DC. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY For 1997 Bronx Murders Diaz and Acosta Both
Get Life Sentences Then 5 Years Supervision
7/8/19 -- CRA:
Challenge
to Hancock Whitney Bid For MidSouth Bank. Federal
Reserve Submission
by Cadence Bank Redacted 80% of Letter About FIS
Leverage Now Inner City Press Gets. Bank
Beat: On
Argentina IMF Lipton Says Deal To Access $5.4B
After Inner City Press Asked of Corruption. UN - Global:
After
UN Guterres Had Inner City Press Roughed Up De
Blasio Office Delays 1 Year on FOIL. Enviro:
Protests of pollution in Wuhan, China. Bronx
/ Legal:
In
SDNY Murky Mag Court Bronx Murder Defendant Then
Secret Sessions No Case Numbers
7/1/19 -- CRA:
Capital
One Motion For Summary Judgment In Overdraft Fees
Case Denied In SDNY. On Bangladesh
Bank Heist US
Federal Reserve Provides Only 1 Page Under
FOIA. Bank
Beat: Inner
City Press Asks IMF About Zimbabwe and Moldova
Questions Answered Here By Camilla Andersen; OneCoin
Defendant Ignatov Is Denied Bail And Private Jail
In SDNY; Banca IMI's Larry Meyers Cooperates.
UN - Global:
On
Cameroon UN Guterres Who Sold Out For Budget
Favors Now Embraces Swiss Bid Echoing Burundi.
Enviro:
Fines for motors idling, except in front of UNSG
Guterres' Mansion. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Murky Mag Court Bronxite Sandy Susoho Ordered
Down to Arlington On Ghana Passport Scheme
6/24/19 -- CRA:
OCC
Denies Access To Otting Calendar Inner City Press
Requested Five Months Ago As Regulator Goes Rogue.
Federal
Reserve robo acknowledges Inner City Press'
comment on its proposal to weaken its FOIA
responsibilities. Bank
Beat: Banca
IMI Trader Meyers Faces Genteel Prosecution For
ADR Violations Of Antitrust Laws. UN - Global:
The
Onion Mocks UNSG Guterres As Captured By China But
Pompous Media Celebrate Him. Enviro:
Barbados over-fishing. Bronx
/ Legal: Bronx
Bodega Robbery Leads To 97 Month Sentence in SDNY
While Judge Schofield Sealed A Sentencing
6/17/19 -- CRA:
OCC
of Otting Delayed Notice of Mergers Like FOIA Fee
Waiver Final Denial to Inner City Press. Federal
Reserve Proposes
Weakening Its Duties Under FOIA As Withholds Docs
on Mergers and Bangladesh Bank Heist. Bank
Beat: Inner
City Press Asks IMF About Pakistan Haiti and Kenya
Questions Answered Here. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon Pro Biya Media Echo UNSG Envoy Fall
Praise of Killing Quoting Guterres NGOs Fine With
Censorship. Enviro:
Gao casino pollution. Bronx
/ Legal:
In
SDNY Trial of James Felton His Lawyer Said In
Mount Hope Talk Is Of Murder But Also NBA - Inner
City Press daily trial coverage from SDNY
courthouse
6/10/19 -- CRA:
OCC
Decides No Public Comments On Fifth Third
Application For Conversion Lawless Otting Rules.
Federal
Reserve Beat: Barclays
Withdraws Cayman Islands Bid For Federal Reserve
Approval Inner City Press Opposed and Reports.
Bank
Beat: Kam
Wong Gets 66 Months For Stealing $10M From
Municipal Credit Union Opioids From Board Member.
UN - Global:
In
Cameroon Pro Biya Media Echo UNSG Envoy Fall
Praise of Killing Quoting Guterres NGOs Fine With
Censorship. Enviro:
Plastics pollution in Mediterranean. Bronx
/ Legal:
From
SDNY Peter Bright Presentment Reported By Inner
City Press May 23 Including on His Targeting of
Bronx 11 Year Old Girl; Now Pick Up 2 Weeks Later
Bright Still in MCC
6/3/19 -- CRA:
OCC
of Otting Delays Notice of Mergers Until Comment
Period Closes Like FOIA Fee Waiver Sleaze. Federal
Reserve still withholding info; Bangladesh
Bank Heist Case Hits Jurisdiction and Forum
Questions In SDNY As Briefs Due June 16. Bank
Beat: Noah
Bank CEO Edward Shin Puts Up $1M Bond and Must
Undergoing Alcohol Testing. UN - Global:
After
Inner City Press Exclusive on Human Trafficking by
NY Qatar Royals They Brandish US State Dept For
Low Ball Settlement. Enviro:
Abusive mining in Morocco. Bronx
/ SDNY:
Pawn
Shop Stick Up Results In Plea Deal With Wrong
Date and Wrong Dollar Figure But 84 Months
5/27/19 -- CRA:
After
Banker Calk Pled Not Guilty Inner City Press Puts
Fraud Q to OCC Where Banker Otting Delays. Federal
Reserve ends enforcement actions on Fulton
Financial (for merger) and United Bank of Pakistan.
Bank
Beat: IMF
Denies Congo Brazzaville Conflict of DSK Role When
Inner City Press Asks on Barbados and Canada Too.
UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Biya Rep Praises Sisi in Egypt Who UN
Guterres Also Favors for Censorship. Enviro:
Pollution in Hong Kong. Bronx
/ Legal: When
NYS Board of Election Is Sued For Purging Voter
Rolls Its Response Is Lack of Standing; In
SDNY Dual UK Citizen Who Bragged Of Training 11
Year Old Girl in Bronx Offers To Film His
Apartment
5/20/19 -- CRA:
OCC
of Otting Told ETRADE It Is Exempt From CRA Inner
City Press Finds Under FOIA. Federal
Reserve Gov Quarles tells Senate Banking Cttee
of BB&T Public "Hearings," but no response to
written comments on money laundering. Bank
Beat: FOIA
Fee Waiver Sleaze By OCC Otting Tells Inner City
Press Public Does Not Need WSFS Bank Merger Docs.
UN - Global:
On
Cameroon After Belated UNSC Arria Ends With No
Answers Biya Brags As Greenlight to Genocide.
Enviro:
smog in Mexico City. Bronx
/ Legal: SDNY
Seeks To Seal Evidence of Cooperation of Bronx
Cabbie Lizardo Despite Trial Testimony
5/13/19 -- CRA:
FOIA
Fee Waiver Appeal To OCC Otting By Inner City
Press For His Secret WSFS Bank Merger Documents.
Federal
Reserve is wide open for former senior lawyer
Robinson, asking for meetings on bank merger(s) in
private locations. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Inner City Press Asked UK About May 13
UNSC Arria No Answer So FOI Request. Enviro:
Oil companies to blame in Nigeria Delta. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Richard Rolon Gets 27 Months After Fired Gun
on Walton Ave in The Bronx and Pro Bono Lawyer
5/6/19 -- CRA:
On
Money Laundering After Federal Reserve Withholds
133 Pages On BB&T Inner City Press Comments.
Federal
Reserve Rubber
Stamps Mergers Covering For BB&T But At Least
No More (Stephen) Moore. Bank
Beat: On
Belt and Road Inner City Press Asks IMF Which
Cites Tajik and Kyrgyz Debt But Not Money
Laundering. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon, FOIA Request to US Military by Inner
City Press UNresponded To, As May 13 UNSC Is
Whispered by USUN But Is Not Yet On Program of
Work. Enviro:
Plastics event at PACE. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Court, Bronxite Jordan McDonald Claims He Was
Stabbed In MCC, It Is Added To PSR But That's
Sealed As 2 Years Imprisonment Is Added
4/29/19 -- CRA:
In
SDNY Predatory Lending Defendants Get Free Lawyers
Sullivan and Cromwell $2000 a Week. Federal
Reserve settles on the cheap, as with
BB&T, with Sumitomo. Bank
Beat: In
SDNY Sumitomo Sued For Discrimination Responds
With Demand For Attorneys Fees For Proskauer.
UN - Global:
UN
Guterres In China Calls Belt and Road An
Opportunity After CEFC Bribes and Oil Bid To
Gulbenkian Which Pays Him. Enviro:
Birmingham, Alabama and pollution. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Bail Jumper Wants Sentencing Moved Under Rule
20 With Him So Part 1 On 3 Bronx Children
4/22/19 -- CRA:
As
Otting Targets CRA He Changed FOIA Fee Policy To
Hinder Coverage Reversed on Appeal Still No Docs.
Federal
Reserve: As
BB&T Tries Taking Over Suntrust Fed Lifts
Enforcement Action But Named in SDNY Inner City
Press Will Raise. Bank
Beat: In
SDNY Disputed Seizure of Funds From Comerica By
NYC Marshal Beagle For Factoring Company. UN - Global:
UN
Bribery Caught on Wiretap of Patrick Ho and Yan
Who Now Minimizes It Like Guterres SMH. Enviro:
Brownfields development in Jacksonville, FLA. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Cop Ramming Doctor Tells Jury of $450000
Salary In The Bronx With Latinos She Loves; In
SDNY Twitching Man Faces 21 Months For Not
Returning to Bronx Halfway House from Mental
Health Visit
4/15/19 -- CRA:
As
Otting Targets CRA He Refused Inner City Press
Chinatown Comment Now Rep Katie Porter Letter.
Federal
Reserve gets Inner City Press FOIA request and
demand to know which Chicago Fed less transparent
than other Reserve Banks. Bank
Beat: On
Myanmar IMF Belatedly Issues Report Without The
Word Rohingya Worried About Rakhine. UN - Global:
South
Sudan UN Guterres Rep Shearer Refuses To Protect
Machar After UN Covered Up Its Killings. Enviro:
In India, clashes triggered by polluting scrap
facilities. Bronx:
In
SDNY Shackled Man Charged With Biting ICE Officer
On Sedgwick Avenue in The Bronx
4/8/19 -- CRA:
After Fair Finance Watch Protest to Ameris Bank
Takeover Of Fidelity Fed Has Questions. As Federal
Reserve Rubber
Stamps Mergers Nominee Herman Cain Can Cites KC
Fed Service. Bank
Beat: To
Argentina IMF Disburses $10.8B While Calling for
Corruption To Be Confronted Amid South South Waste.
UN - Global:
UNSG
Job Move Plan Delayed To Sept Uganda Wanted 4
Years Guterres Serves China and FrancAfrique From
Montreal. Enviro:
Pollution worldwide. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY, Gambia Passport Scheme of Jagana of Mount
Hope Place BX NY Comes To Trial A Month After
Humanitarian Trip Denied
4/1/19 -- CRA:
Wells
Fargo Now
Goes On Without Tim Sloan After Dropping CRA 2
Levels by OCC Whose Otting Apologized. As Federal
Reserve Rubber
Stamps Mergers Ex Gov Kohn Slaps Anti CRA Nominee
Stephen Moore. Bank
Beat: On
Cyprus IMF Talks Money Laundering As Loans Out of
Banks and Impact of Hard Brexit; Cabo Verde &
Big Tony. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Told World to Join Him In Turning Off
Lights Then Left Them On At UN and His $15M
Mansion Earth Hour Hypocrisy. Enviro:
In
SDNY Liver Cancer Concealment Defended By Bronx
Junk Car Depot After Shackled Defendant Cites
Present Pain. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY For 1997 Bronx Murder 9 Guilty Verdicts on 12
Counts After Lengthy Cold Case Trial
3/25/19 -- CRA:
Federal
Reserve Board Is Already Rubber Stamping Mergers
Now Anti CRA Stephen Moore Nominated. Federal
Reserve: On
SDNY Bangladesh Bank Heist Case Federal Reserve
Delays to April 2 FOIA Response to Inner
City Press. Bank
Beat: IMF
Slams Kyrgyz National Bank Acquisition of a
Troubled Institution As Conflict of Interest.
UN - Global:
As
Guterres Kills UN With Corruption and Cameroon
Censorship Misuses NYPD on 96 St #DumpGuterres.
Enviro:
33 Global Banks increase fossil fuels profiteering.
Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY 22 Year Old Bronx Murder Triggers Testimony
of Drive By and White Van on the Concourse
3/18/19 -- CRA:
As
BB&T Tries Taking Over Suntrust Public
Hearings Set on Merger. Federal
Reserve Governor Lael Brainard's answer to
Inner City Press on banks withholding answers under
FOIA. Bank
Beat: On
Greece IMF Warns of Crises Legacies Saying Bank
Lending Remains Negative. UN - Global:
UN
Briber Patrick Ho Says CEFC Gave $2M Per Year To
UN Guterres Never Audited Corrupt. Enviro:
UN
Guterres Uses Two 4x4s and 5 Guards Arriving At
Publicly Funded Mansion Hypocrisy of
Sustainability Like His Censorship. Bronx
/ Legal Beat: In
SDNY 22 Year Old Bronx Murder Triggers Testimony
on Fingerprints From 1994 Friction Ridge
3/11/19 -- CRA:
As
Otting Targets CRA and Changes FOIA Policy For
Mergers Inner City Press Legal Response. Federal
Reserve: As
BB&T Tries Taking Over Suntrust Its
Susquehanna Abuses Lead To Fine Disparate Lending
To Be Raised to Fed. Bank
Legal Beat: In
SDNY US v Middendorf KPMG Case Goes To The Jury
For However Long It Takes. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Spoon Fed Halibut to Correspondents Not
On His Schedule While Refusing 7 Press Questions.
Environmental
Justice in Erie and near Buffalo. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Bronx Shooting Triggers Hearing on Probable
Cause But Not Suppression Of NYPD Interview
3/4/19 -- CRA:
As
Otting Targets Community Reinvestment Act He
Refuses To Consider Public Comment on Chinatown
Acquisition. Federal
Reserve chair Powell
Spins Rubber Stamp Of WSFS Merger Bad Omen on
BB&T - Suntrust. Bank
Beat: Timely Fair Finance Watch comment to
FDIC on Ameris. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon UN Guterres Silent As Refoulement
Declared Illegal Dujarric Takes Scam Question.
Enviro:
HSBC
protested. Bronx
/ Legal: At
SDNY Inner City Press Asks Ron Kuby of Argument
Okoumou Only Makes Money By Breaking Law; other
SDNY Bronx reports
2/25/19 -- CRA:
Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act WSFS Is
Asked About Its 25+ Branch Closings. Federal
Reserve tells Inner City Press no compelling
need to inform public of its role in $81M Bangladesh
Bank cyber heist. Bank
Beat: In
SDNY US v Middendorf Sweet Grilled On When He Told
KMPG Wells
Fargo Would
Not Be Inspected. UN - Global:
Near
UN When Inner City Press Asks Haass About Marco
Rubio Critique of Guterres Knicks Is The Answer.
Enviro:
Seafood company Trident fined for pollution. Bronx
/ Legal: As
NYC de Blasio Talks Parking UN Abuse of Diplomatic
Plates Raised By Inner City Press, Along With
NYC's Settlement in SDNY for Defrauding FEMA
2/18/19 -- CRA:
As
Otting Targets Community Reinvestment Act His OCC
Starts Safe Harbor Relying On Bogus Ratings. Federal
Reserve gets FOIA request about its Bangladesh
Bank cyber heist role. Bank
Beat: mergers we are watching beyond troubling
BB&T - Suntrust. UN Global:
To
Venezuela FM Inner City Press Asks Why Guterres
Skipped UNSC Meeting and of Federal Reserve [so]
As
Guterres Kills UN With Corruption and Cameroon
Censorship #DumpGuterres. Enviro:
Pollution in NYC subways. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Bronx Oxy Dealer Argues To Stay Out of MDC
Brooklyn via Goodwin Proctor
2/11/19 -- CRA:
As
Otting Targets Community Reinvestment Act Denies
FOIA Fee Waiver For Inner City Press Request For
His Calendar For 1st Time. Federal
Reserve clears decks for Suntrust. Bank
Beat: As
BB&T Tries Taking Over Suntrust Disparate
Lending and Branch Closures To Be Raised. UN - Global:
In
Corrupt UN of Guterres Hiring Scams in Office of
South South Cooperation Travel Waste. Enviro:
Pollution in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Bronx
/ Legal: After
SDNY Sentencing Norman Seabrook Tells Inner City
Press YouTube Is Doctored But Here It Is
2/4/19 -- CRA:
US
Settlement Without Fine For Predatory Lending From
Malta Needs SDNY Approval Comparative Crime.
To Federal
Reserve Cadence
Bank Redacted 80% of Letter Now Fed Extends Time
To Unredact Any Of It. Bank
Beat: Deutsche
Bank Which
Underwrote Predatory Mortgages Now Wants Long
Briefs in SDNY Motion Practice Ensues. UN - Global:
UN
Briber China Energy Fund Committee Remains With
ECOSOC Until At Least June As Guterres Covers Up.
Enviro:
Air pollution in Sri Lanka. Bronx:
For
Bronx Arson of Competing Deli 28 Months In Prison
Imposed In Nearly Empty SDNY Courtroom
1/28/19 -- CRA:
Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act
Centerstate Bank NCC Challenge Yields Fed Qs.
Federal
Reserve snail mails denial of comment period
extension on CenterState-NCC which arrives after the
deadline; firm brags. Bank
Beat: IMF
on West Africa Talks Basel II and III Principles
Amid UN Cheikh Gadio CEFC Bribery Echo. UN - Global:
On
South Sudan Guterres and Farhan Haq Cover Up UN
Murder Sex Abuse Customs Fraud Gender Studies
Link. Enviro:
South Korea cloud seeds against pollution from
China. Bronx
/ NYC Legal: Amazon
Banned Press From Beautiful Boy in UN For SG
Guterres and Alison Smale But YouTube Monetizes
Guard Grabbing Phone
1/21/19 -- CRA:
As
Otting Targets Community Reinvestment Act Inner
City Press Requests His Calendar Under FOIA. Federal
Reserve Watch: Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act Fed Delays
on FOIA for WSFS No Notices Since Dec 21. Bank
Beat: Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act
BancorpSouth Deals in Texas and Alabama Challenged
on Disparate Lending. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Mistakes Sudan For DRC Says No Probe of
Khashoggi But Advising Cameroon Biya. Enviro:
Festival concerning oceans plastics in Antigua and
Barbuda. Bronx
/ NYC: As
Amazon Abuses Opportunity Zone Law To Gentrify
Local Fight Back to DC As UNSG in Limousine
1/14/19 -- CRA:
Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act
Centerstate Bank Takeover of NCC Challenged on
Disparate Lending; Federal
Reserve Allows Centerstate
to Withhold All Substantive Exhibits. Bank
Beat: Lawsuit
Against Eleven Lebanese Banks in New York Accuses
Them Of Assisting Foreign Terrorist Organization.
UN - Global:
As
UN Guterres Fails With Somalia and Guatemala Like
Cameroon His Supporters Blame P3. Enviro:
Mining
Project in French Guiana Called Out for Hypocrisy
and No Consent from Indigenous Bronx
/ Legal: On
Haiti Trial Against US Ending TPS Judge Cites
Cholera Exacerbated By If Not Introduced By UN
Peacekeepers
1/7/19 -- CRA:
Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act Fed Delays
on FOIA for WSFS CRA Program. Federal
Reserve Chair
Powell Says Would Not Resign If Asked Contrast to
FOIA Denials and Merger Rubber Stamping. Bank
Beat: In
EDNY Mozambique Former FM Indicted In Lusophone
Bribery Scandal Echoed By UN Guterres and
Gulbenkian. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Had Press Roughed Up and Accreditation
Withdrawn Now Basis For New Denial. Enviro:
Now Censorship for Sterlite in Tamil Nadu. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Reichberg Convicted Of Bribing For Private
Police As UN Corruption Cover Up Continues
12/31/18 -- CRA:
Mnuchin
Calls Big Six Banks and Monday Convenes Powell and
Otting Amid Targeting of Community Reinvestment
Act. Federal
Reserve Withholding
80% of Letter Urging Fast Merger Approval. Bank
Beat: Cadence Bank Sent Redacted Letter by
Snail Mail Only. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Stonewalls on His Links to China Energy
Fund Committee UN Staffers Met Ye Jianming. Enviro:
More from Tamil Nadu. Bronx:
Assemblymember white-wash
12/24/18 -- CRA:
Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act FFW
Protest of WSFS Leads to CRA Questions Here. Federal
Reserve gives itself more time on FOIA request
about Synovus merger the Fed already approved:
scam. Bank
Beat: Barclays
Bank Fined For Whistleblower Hunt by NYSDFS While
OCC Closes Its Ears On WSFS Abuses. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Refused to Audit China Energy Fund
Committee While Covering Up His Links to Partex
Oil For Sale to CEFC. Enviro:
Sterlite fight in Tamil Nadu continues. Bronx:
Court of Appeals ruling on jury trial rights not
headed to SCOTUS
12/17/18 -- CRA:
At
CFPB Kraninger Sworn In Without Press But Texas
Bankers Present Now Electronic Media Out in 5
Minutes. Federal
Reserve has FOIA as Targeting
of Community Reinvestment Act by Otting Includes
Excluding Comment on 25 Branch Closings by WSFS.
Bank
Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon UN Guterres Envoy Fall Claimed Biya
Gender Desks But After Fact Check No Answer. Enviro:
“Green” Tribunal Order Sterlite Plant Re-opened in
Tamil Nadu. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Michael Cohen Sentenced to 3 Years In Jail
Media Circus Unlike For UN Bribery Verdict; NYPD
Claimed No Records On UN Barred List But Called UN
About It Misspelling Assaultant Name
12/10/18 -- CRA:
Cadence
Bank Urged OCC To Speed Regulatory Approvals And
Gets It From The Fed Despite Jumping the Gun.
Federal
Reserve: Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act by Otting
WSFS Tells Fed To Withhold CRA Info But Inner City
Press FOIAs. Bank
Beat: On
Jamaica IMF Worries of Protracted Wage
Negotiations with What It Calls Unsettled Groups.
UN - Global:
UN
Bribery Guilty Verdict Against Ho of China Energy
Fund Committee Shows Need For Reform and Oversight
of SG. Enviro:
Dirty funding by Mizuho Financial and Mitsubishi UFJ
Financial. Bronx
/ NYC: On
UN Bribery Verdict SG Guterres Refuses To Comment
From Mercedes to Cipriani Corrupt Censors
12/3/18 -- CRA:
Targeting
of Community Reinvestment Act by Otting Included
Favor to WSFS Now Fed Protest by Fair Finance
Watch. Federal
Reserve withholding WSFS CRA information. Bank
Beat: On
Money Laundering Deutsche Bank Is Raided While UN
Briber Ho Used HSBC and Mashreqbank Which Settled.
UN - Global:
In
UN Bribery Case Ho Plotted Bribing PGA Ashe with
Yan and Repeatedly Entered UN Covered Up by
Guterres. Enviro:
UN praised Blue Economy conference, with single use
plastic. Bronx
/ Legal: In
UN Bribery Case of US v Ho Gadio Admits Taking
$20000 Then Pushes Photographer on Sidewalk
11/26/18 -- CRA:
Targeting
of Community Reinvestment Act by Otting Includes
Favor to WSFS Which Disses LMI Focus. Federal
Reserve Cadence
Bank Withholding Info on State Bank in Georgia.
Bank
Beat: In
SDNY SocGen Bank Hit With $1.3B Penalty for
Sanctions Violations. UN - Global:
After
Cameroon Leak Said PR Van Oosterom Thanked
Lobbyists Now Skype Hearing on WOB Appeal. Enviro:
UN
Guterres Told Solheim to Pull Himself For Travel
Spending No Worse Than His Own. Bronx
/ Legal: UN
Spokesman Dujarric Spins Censorship For Guterres
While Former Boss Helen Clark Questions
11/19/18 -- CRA:
US
Community Reinvestment Act Targeting by Otting
Urged On By ABA Fulton and Military Banks. Federal
Reserve: Step by step on Synovux. Bank
Beat: Inner
City Press Asks IMF of Pakistan Talks and Sri
Lanka "Coup" Ongoing Answers Here. UN - Global:
In
UN Bribery Case of China Energy Iran Sanctions and
Arms Deal Evidence Will Come In, Belt and Road Is
Out. Enviro:
Australia hot spots. Bronx:
BP meets Fed at Museum, here's hoping for more
serious merger review
11/12/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
Inner City Press FOIA Appeal Denied, Nov 19 ANPR
Scam. Federal
Reserve lets Synovus withhold fair lending
information? Bank
Beat: WSFS
Take Over Of Beneficial Bank in Philadelphia Is
Challenged By Inner City Press / Fair Finance
Watch. UN - Global:
UN
Spox Dujarric Claims Inner City Press Made
Diplomats and UN Officials Feel UNsafe But
Solution Is Simple. Enviro:
Lungs in India - and in NYS bus stops. Bronx:
Financial
Follies Mock Bankrupt Puerto Rico As in DC
Forecloser Joe Otting Targets the Community
Reinvestment Act
11/5/18 -- CRA:
Cadence Bank fends off FFW challenge to State Bank
application by calling operations it bought
“problematic.” Federal
Reserve: Synovus brags of branch reclassified
as moderate income. Bank
Beat: Enterprise - Los Alamos. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres On 16th Public Funded Trip to Lisbon For
Lula Award Decided by CPLP in Cape Verde Where His
Son Pedro Does Business. Enviro:
Bonfire Night. Bronx
/ Legal: UNSG
Guterres Tried To Have Press Thrown Out of
Synagogue Before His Speech No Answer on Why Or
Missionary Killed by Cameroon
10/29/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
Murky Meeting With Citigroup TIAA Wells. Federal
Reserve asks Synovus more questions on FCB. Bank
Beat: Mergers in Iowa and Transylvania; To
Argentina IMF Ready To Dispense $5.7B But Dodged
Inner City Press on Austerity. UN - Global:
UN
Rapporteur Kaye Asked Guterres USG Smale About
Ousting Inner City Press Answer Full of Lies Still
Banned. Enviro:
pollution in Melbourne. Bronx:
At
BDC on 151st Street, Great Liberia Photos and
Ambiguous Role of UN Failing on Cameroon and
Censorship
10/22/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
He Devalues Comments He Earlier Gamed. Federal
Reserve gets
Fair Finance Watch protest to State Bank being
bought by Cadence.
Bank Beat: Mergers we are looking into. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Obiang Pre-Congratulates Biya For
Re-Election Amid Guterres Ban and Cover Up. Enviro:
Pearl Jam offsets, UNlike UN and Guterres. Bronx:
The MTA's Connecticut train scam back on table
10/15/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
Inner City Press Raises His Bid to Free E-Trade
From CRA. Federal
Reserve Antitrust HHI Games. Bank
Beat: UN
Briber Patrick Ho Used Mashreqbank Which Settles
on Money Laundering As Guterres Bans Inner City
Press. UN - Global:
Nikki
Haley Took Names Then Went Native At the UN, Where
Corruption and Censorship Continue. Enviro:
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestle killing the oceans with
plastics. Bronx
/ Legal: UN
Has Secret List of People Banned Guterres Puts
Inner City Press On With Demonstrators No Review
10/8/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
He Back Pedals in Senate As Inner City Press Urges
Recusal. Federal
Reserve requests response from Synovus to Fair
Finance Watch comment. Bank
Beat: On
Panama IMF Upbeat on FinTech and Urges Sensitizing
on Money Laundering Panana Papers Page Turned?
UN - Global:
In
UN Bribery Case Patrick Ho Denied Bail Post Gadio
Role in Qatar Arms But UN Guterres Bans Inner City
Press. Enviro:
ASEAN. Bronx:
Ocasio-Cortez event full, no respones to Press
10/1/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
The Intercept Notes Inner City Press Urging
Recusal. Federal
Reserve ends enforcement against Prudential. Bank
Beat: On
Sri Lanka IMF Gushes Over Vision 2025 But Blind
Like UN to War Crimes and Cluster Bombs. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Revoked Inner City Press Access to UN
Claims E-Answers and Has Not Said For Life.
Enviro:
Norway brags as Solheim flies. Bronx
/ Legal: Gadio
Cooperates Against UN Briber CEFC Patrick Ho Says
$2M Donation to Deby Guterres Bans Press
9/24/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
Net Neutrality Echo FFW Urges Recusal to OCC.
Federal
Reserve: Trump nominates Nellie Liang, who's
written in subprime times. Bank
Beat: Inner
City Press Puts Zimbabwe Question to IMF Which
Says Arrears Must Be Cleared Cameroon Too; UN
Corruption Under Guterres Has Haoliang Xu Spending
$228000 on Travel UNDP Waste Up 44 Percent. UN - Global:
In Cameroon Biya Targets Anglophones in Yaounde as
Guterres Bans Press From Nigeria FM Briefing. Enviro:
At
UN Environment Solheim Blames His Travel Abuse On
His Staff In Email Leaked to Banned Inner City
Press. Bronx
/ Legal: UN
Guterres Said Press Made Hostile Environment For
Diplomats Now Says No Input from Diplomats
9/17/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
Fair Finance Watch Urges Recusal to OCC. Federal
Reserve accepts banks' withholding of basic
into. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN Global:
Misplaced
Focus on Nikki Haley Curtains in $58,000 a month
apartment While UN Says She Supports Censorship of
Press So FOIA Filed. Enviro:
Mystery mist. Bronx:
Alessandra
Biaggi Beats Klein Amid Bad Review of UN and US
Mission Good for Tacos El Bronco II
9/10/18 -- CRA:
Mulvaney's
Moves Against Disparate Impact At CFPB Opposed As
CRA Targeted by Otting at OCC, Approving Varo
Money Bank. Federal
Reserve Banks withhold any exhibit containing
any confidential info in FOIA-lite? Bank
Beat: Inner
City Press Asks IMF About Pakistan From Which No
Request Ghana Kenya Zambia Angola. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Inner City Press FOIAs US DOD For Report
and All Records on Anglophone Areas. Enviro:
Tamil Nadu gov rejects pro-Sterlite report. Bronx
/ Legal: UN
of Guterres Says Trump's USUN and UK Request Ban
of Inner City Press So FOIAs Filed
9/3/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
His OCC's Notice to Community Is Silent As Banks
Cheer. Federal
Reserve to follow or steer clear of Otting's
ANPR? Bank
Beat: With
Argentina In Financial Meltdown, IMF to Meet FM
Dujovne Sept 4 But Dodged Inner City Press on
Austerity. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Refuses To Answer Why He Bans Inner City
Press From UNGA What Done on Cameroon Son's
Conflict of Interest. Enviro:
Most polluted cities: Cairo, Delhi, Beijing, Moscow,
Istanbul, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Paris,
LA. Bronx/Legal:
UN
Guterres Justifies Censorship With Lies Like That
Inner City Press Shouted at Smale's Building But
Has Never Been There
8/27/18 -- CRA:
Redlining
Klein Bank Wants to Sell Out to Old National But
Fair Finance Watch Challenges. Federal
Reserve is said by Bloomberg to be looking at
the concentration it causes. Bank
Beat: IMF
Says Angola Requests EFF Program But Dodged Inner
City Press on Austerity. UN - Global:
For
UNGA Trump to Hold Drug Event Banned Inner City
Press Learns By Not From USUN Notified of Ban Like
Pressman. Enviro:
From Australia. Bronx:
UN
Guterres' Ban of Press Spun to IPS By Ex-IPS Haq
Eviction Was to Change Reporting
8/20/18 -- CRA: Otting's downplaying of discrimination in lending applauded by ABA. Federal Reserve ends enforcement against HSBC for money laundering for drug cartels - bygones. Bank Beat: We're looking at WSFS trying to buy Beneficial in Philly. UN - Global: On Cameroon Inner City Press Video Guterres' Smale Calls Derogatory for Lifetime Ban Remonetized by YouTube. Enviro: New Zealand ship bought to fight pollution. Bronx / Legal: UN Says Inner City Press' Accreditation Is Withdrawn In Kafkaesque Letter By Ex-NYT Alison Smale
8/13/18 -- CRA:
Otting goes it alone in selective assault on CRA. Federal
Reserve lets Citigroup off the hook. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Dutch and HRW Overplay UK Pres Vague Line
on Violence As Guterres Bans Press. Enviro:
Arrest
in Bangalore After Testimony to UNHRC To Be Raised
to UN But Will Zeid or Bachelet Speak? Bronx
/ Legal: As
UN Shifts Review Of Inner City Press
Guterres Spokesman Takes Anonymous Charges As True
But Stonewalled on Corruption
8/6/18 -- CRA:
With
OCC To Hand Out Fintech Bank Charters NY Regulator
Slams It But Lets First Republic Redline. Federal
Reserve Goes Finnish on Nordea. Bank
Beat: To
Gabon's Ali Bongo IMF Doles Out $100M With No
Mention of 40 Year Family Rule like Cameroon.
UN - Global:
To
Replace Zeid UN Guterres Who Bans Press Eyes 4
Latins from Mexico Colombia Argentina and
Guatemala. Enviro:
Wind blowing in from the Arabian Peninsula has
increased dust pollution in India. Bronx
/ legal: UN
Tells RCFP Inner City Press Will Be Told In Coming
Days Results of Review It's Been Heard Only Once
On
7/30/18 -- CRA:
People's
United Bank's Bid to Buy Farmington Challenged by
Fair Finance Watch on Lending Disparities. Federal
Reserve says it looks at redlining. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are looking at; On
France Lagarde's IMF Praises Banks Avoiding Large
Indebted Firms and Communications Amid Benalla and
Biya. UN
- Global:
On
Cameroon Inner City Press Asked UN's Zeid Before
Being Banned Now A Belated Statement With Guterres
Silent. Enviro:
Heat wave and pollution in France. Bronx
/ Legal: As
UNSG Guterres Bans Inner City Press 24+ Days His
Spox Hopes Kafka Probe by GA and Goes on Vacation
7/23/18 -- CRA:
Kathy Kraninger dodges on Puerto Rica, Hurricane
Maria. Federal
Reserve ends enforcement against Community
Banks of Georgia. Bank
Beat: In
SDNY, UN Briber Patrick Ho of CEFC Loses Motions
to Dismiss on FCPA and HSBC Money Laundering, UN
Bans Press. UN - Global:
Cameroon
Not Seen By Human Rights Watch As Top 90 Problem
But Now Spun For Money with UN Censorship Alliance.
Enviro:
Emissions in Punjab. Bronx
/ Free Press: UNSG
Guterres Had His Guards Rough Inner City Press Up
Then Banned It As Heads On 2 Week Vacation of
Corruption
7/16/18 -- CRA:
First
Republic Bank Excluding All Bronxites But
Slumlords Wants 9th Manhattan Branch, Opposed.
Federal
Reserve ends enforcement action against
Pakistan's United Bank in NY. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Inner City Press Asks UNSC Members About
Videos of Abuses and UN Ban, Sweden 1st Reply.
Enviro:
Plastics in India. Bronx
/ Legal: UN
Bans Inner City Press Then Tells UK Independent
Claim of Targeting Is Ludicrous and Saunders
Innocent
7/9/18 -- CRA:
Leandra English is leaving CFPB, Kathy Kraninger on
tap. Federal
Reserve drops enforcement action against Amboy
Bancorporation from 2009. Bank
Beat: In
Cameroon Lagarde's IMF Pays Out $78 Million Amid
Biya's Killings in Anglophone Zones But Citing ACN.
UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Snubbed #MeToo Club in Vienna and Beagle
and Haq Ignore Since While Banning Press. Enviro:
Pollution in Guam post Hurricane Maria. Bronx
/ law: UN
Review of Practices It Authorized from Inner City
Press Video in Hall to Working Late Is A Scam,
Censorship
7/2/18 -- CRA:
Bank
of America Gets Sued For Discriminatory
Maintenance While Citigroup Brags At UN About
Renewables. Federal
Reserve fails Deutsche
Bank on stress test. Bank
Beat: UN - Global:
In
Cameroon Macron Envoy Lemoyne Unfurls French
Banner in Anglophone Buea With Soldiers.
Enviro:
On
Libya Fighting in Oil Crescent Inner City Press
Asked UN Which Speaks After UK, US, Italy and
France Bronx
/ Courts: In
1st UN Bribery Case Ng Lap Seng Is Denied Bail on
Appeal As Argues UN Not Covered, Not Audited
6/25/18 -- CRA:
In
NY Court CFPB Deemed Unconstitutional and Dropped
from Case, Hold on Kraninger.. Federal
Reserve's stress tests. Bank
Beat: mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
At
UN 5 Guards Eject Inner City Press As It Covers
Guterres Talk, Noting His Inaction on Corruption
and Cameroon. Enviro:
the scam of biomass, that burning wood is good for
the environment. Bronx:
UN
Guterres Told Pompeo About Mali But Not UN's Child
Rape, After His Guards Eject Inner City Press
6/18/18 -- CRA:
In
DC to Head CFPB Mulvaney OMB Staffer Kathy
Kraninger Is Nominated, Experience Questioned.
As Federal
Reserve Rubber
Stamps Merger By Ameris Jerome Powell Omits
Regulatory Duties. Bank
Beat: Citigroup
LIBOR Scam Yields $100M Settlement to 42 States
While Deutsche Did $220M to 45. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Inner City Press Asked of UN DSS Staff in
Buea and UN Says UNaware of Reports. Enviro:
Dispute about cap and trade. Bronx
/ sports: World
Cup Opens on Big Screens in UN With Russia
Trouncing Saudi 5-0 and Ambassadors in Jerseys
6/11/18 -- CRA:
In
DC at CFPB Mulvaney Disbands Consumer Advisory
Board As OCC Cuts CRA, FOIA. Federal
Reserve solicits comments on its move to
weaken the Volcker Rule. Bank
Beat: Redliner
BancorpSouth Wants Icon Bank of Texas Amid
Deregulation at CFPB and Fed, FFW Challenges.
UN - Global:
On
Cameroon UK Told Inner City Press Monitoring But
Brags Of New Age Oil Deal. Enviro:
pollution in South Delhi. Bronx
/ Courts: UN
Accessed By Diplomat Who Helped Briber Ng Lap Seng
Pay Lorenzo and UN Covers It Up Like Ho, CEFC
6/4/18 -- CRA:
Weakening
of Volcker Rule Promoted By Federal
Reserve's Powell
and Quarles Without Wells Fargo Recusal. Bank
Beat: Citizens Bank Wants to Buy Franklin
American Mortgage. UN - Global:
As
North Korea's Kim Yong Chol Heads to DC, Pompeo
Cites 72 Hours of Progress in Presser. Enviro:
Protests shot in Tamil Nadu. Bronx
/ World Cup: UN
Guterres To Travel To See Portugal Play Morocco in
Moscow, Refuses Qs on Price Tags
5/28/18 -- CRA:
Enforcement on mergers ignored by Federal
Reserve governor Brainard. Bank
Beat: Fifth Third trying to buy MB Financial
will be closely watched. UN - Global:
After
UN Discloses Rape Case in Mali, Inner City Press
About Accountability, Cut Off, Guterres May 29.
Enviro;
India cracks down on protesters in Tamil Nadu. Bronx:
UN Security Blocks Inner City Press From 7 - 7:55 pm
After Trump, Escorts It To Get Laptop and Leave
5/21/18 -- CRA:
Payday
Lending Scrutiny Survives Capitol Hill Review
Period, US Comptroller Otting Eyes CRA. Federal
Reserve's Quarles
Pitches De-Regulation of Global Banks After As IMF
Ignores Predatory Deutsche. Bank
Beat: UN
Bribery Indictee Patrick Ho Paid Through HSBC,
Stanbic, Mashreq and Deutsche Bank, UN To Charge?
UN - Global:
At
UN, Guterres To Move NYC Jobs to Mexico City,
Budapest and Nairobi, 290 From Uganda, ICP Asks.
Enviro:
UK faces fine. Bronx:
Metro North Still Disses the Borough
5/14/18 -- CRA:
Redlining case against Klein Bank dropped for new
assessment area. Federal
Reserve recites but misses on Ameris. Bank
Beat: Another merger, another recent Needs to
Improve CRA rating. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Met Finland FM, His Security Ordered
Inner City Press To Not Periscope. Enviro:
Smog into ink in India. Bronx:
UN
Guterres Banned Press From His Al Sharpton
Meeting, Dujarric Refuses Read Out; In
1st UN Bribery Case, UN Claims Cooperation After
Ng Sentenced to 4 Years, 2d Ho Case UNacted On
5/7/18 -- CRA:
US
Comptroller Otting Moves To Strip Community from
CRA, FOIA Docs Withheld. Fed
Watch: Small fine on Goldman Sachs,
ineffectual. Bank
Beat: Some mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
At
UN Press Restricted From Covering Guterres'
Lusophone Garden Party, Kids Climb Slavery
Memorial. Enviro:
Indonesia River. Bronx:
In SDNY, UN
Bribery Indictee Patrick Ho Fails To Get Bail,
Said China's Belt and Road, CEFC On Trial
4/30/18 -- CRA:
US
Comptroller Otting Bought Bank Stocks While
Regulating Banks, FOIA Docs Withheld. Federal
Reserve unwisely urged to follow OCC in
removing one of CRA's few teeth. Bank
Beat: On
UN Pension Fund, Investments in HSBC and Shell
Smell Bad, SG Passes Buck to GA, UNanswered. UN - Global:
UN
in DRC Drone Procurement Ousts Low Bidder, Lets In
Firm Under Probe, ICP Asks, Dodge. Enviro:
7 billion with air pollution. Bronx:
The Outrage of Shutting the 4 Train from Manhattan
to The Bronx
4/23/18 -- CRA:
Wells
Fargo Fined $1B By Otting's OCC and Mulvaney's
CFPB, End of An Era? Federal
Reserve's stress capital buffer. Bank
Beat: At
IMF Spring Meetings, Inner City Press Asked About
Yemen and IMF Response, Here. UN - Global:
On
North Korea Talks, Kim Talks Freeze, UN Stonewalls
From Margins, Amid Mis-Reporting. Enviro
defenders in Mombasa Kenya. Bronx/NY:
UN
Briber Patrick Ho of CEFC Asserts "Blame HSBC"
Defense from MCC, Could Have Wired Other Ways
4/16/18 -- CRA:
US
Payday Lending Protections Sued by Industry Group,
Otting and ACE. Federal
Reserve poses Bank
Beat questions to Ameris, no action on its
prior false statements. UN - Global:
On
Syria, After Trump Strikes and Russia Draft Fails
in UNSC, Sullivan Calls Iraq, Turkey, Kuwait and
Czech. Enviro:
Duke gets off cheap in NC. Bronx/NY/DC:
On
Cameroon, Inner City Press Asked US State Dep't of
47 Illegally Deported By Nigeria, US Statement
Here
4/9/18 -- CRA:
Mulvaney to testify on CFPB on April 11. Federal
Reserve picks
insider Williams for New York Fed. Bank
Beat: As
BancorpSouth Pays $13M To Shareholders Misled on
Redlining & Money Laundering, Pay To Play.
UN - Global:
Amid
UN Bribery of Ng Lap Seng and CEFC China Energy,
Guterres Spun Xinhua, ICP on Xi's Vase to Kim.
Enviro:
Pollution cancels 3 South Korea baseball games. Bronx/NY:
In
1st UN Bribery Case, Vivi Wang Pleads Guilty,
Cooperation Deal, UN Corruption Continues
4/1/18 -- CRA:
US
Senate Bill 2155 Mis-Represented As Only for
“Small Banks” by Federal
Reserve Bank
of NY's Dudley, Murky Process to Replace Him
Called Out. Bank
Beat: ICP
Asked IMF About US - S Korea Bilateral Deal on
Foreign Exchange, Here, Myanmar Q; Renasant
tried to move in on Atlanta. UN - Global:
After
UN Guterres Refused Press Question on UNAIDS
#MeToo, To Lisbon For 4 Days, Slow. Enviro:
Censorship and pollution in Thailand. Bronx/NY:
In
First UN Bribery Case, US Wants 6 Years and $2M
From Ng Lap Seng, UN Corruption Continues
3/24/18 -- CRA:
Payday
Lender Invited Back As Banks' Predatory Partner by
OCC's Otting, OneWest Echo. Federal
Reserve spins on Schwab, citing ERISA. Bank
Beat: In Florida, another one bites the dust.
UN - Global:
On
Cameroon, ICP Asked Nigeria's Ambassador About the
47 Taken, UN Not Sure DSG Will Raise. Enviro:
At
UN As Inner City Press Covers Guterres on Water,
UN Requires Minder, Cage, Lake Chad Dying, Pitbull
Cancels. Bronx:
To DC; On
Cholera In Haiti, Sen Leahy Calls UN Reckless,
$10M in Omnibus Budget, UN Silent
3/19/18 -- CRA:
As
US Senate Passes S.2155 Which Serves BOT
Mitsubishi, North Korea Sanctions Evader, Ironic
Praise.
Federal Reserve, as Ameris' Mis-statements on
Atlantic Coast, to Mull Hamilton State's 100% denial
rate. Bank Beat: mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
As
Cameroon's Biya Vows Crackdown in NW and SW
Regions, ICP Asks UN, Prober of Press. Enviro:
Scrutiny in Tamil Nadu. Bronx:
Gentrification watch
3/12/18 -- CRA:
Banking
on the Bomb Are Citi, Chase, BofA, Wells and
Goldman Sachs, ICP Asks Why In UN Global Compact?
Federal
Reserve Won't Object to Objectionable Capital
One. Bank
Beat: On
North Korea Sanctions Violations, Ship Was Funded
By Bank of Maldives, Ex-Prez Nasheed Says. UN - Global:
On
North Korea Talks, Location Ideas Range from
Pyongyang to Mar-a-Lago. Enviro:
When
UN Guterres Did Q&A With Bloomberg, Questions
Pre-Picked, CEFC UN Bribery Ignored. Bronx:
UN's
Ex-Gender Adviser Mayanja Is "Slumlord," Tenants
Say, Inner City Press Asks UN
3/5/18 -- CRA:
Capital One, getting sued for discrimination, tries
to sell deposits to Whitney Bank.
Federal Reserve's Powell Questioned about fair
lending as if he hadn't already shown his hand. Bank
Beat: Business booming in Africa. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon, Visiting UN's Fall Didn't Witness Biya's
Deployment, Didn't Mention Refoulement. Enviro:
UN
Environment Pays EUR 500,000 To Be in Volvo Ocean
Race, For Dee Caffari, ICP Asks. Bronx
/ Haiti:
On Cholera, UN Tells ICP "Transformation Retreat"
Canceled, Dinner Photo Gone
2/26/18 -- CRA:
After
ICP Protest to Ameris Bank Merger With Atlantic
Coast, Ameris Admits to Federal
Reserve Its Application
Was and Is False. Bank Beat: Amid
New US Sanctions, UN Let N Korea Take EUR 4M from
Sputnik Bank, US Asks UN to List, Japan 3. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon, UN's Mueller Congratulated Biya Despite
Crackdown & Corruption, ICP Asks Why. Enviro:
Minnesota let 3M off the hook. Bronx:
HBO rents on 135 St for The Deuce, Echoes of Wedtech
2/19/18 -- CRA:
On
CFPB, Mulvaney Dodges on Equifax Probe. Federal
Reserve slaps US
Bancorp for money
laundering. Bank
Beat: After
ICP Protest to Ameris Bank Merger With Atlantic
Coast & Hamilton, Fed Asks 10 Qs. UN-Global:
On
Cameroon, UK Denies Inner City Press FOIA Request
After 170 Days, Yemen Too, Appeal. Enviro:
free transit to fight pollution? Bronx,
Guns:
In UN, Weapons Advertised After Florida Shooting,
Inner City Press Asked, UN Takes Down
2/12/18 -- CRA:
FDIC
Deems Challenge to Ameris Bank Merger With
Atlantic Coast A Formal Protest, Radio Silence.
Federal
Reserve leaves H2A broken - on purpose? Bank
Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
In
UN Bribery Case, Ho Was Denied Bail, Inner City
Press Asks 3 Why CEFC Still in ECOSOC. Enviro:
“Chinese” pollution in Ghana. Bronx:
Killing investigated
2/5/18 -- CRA:
ICP
Challenged E Trade-Trust Co of America, Banks
Scoffs at Needs to Improve, FINRA Settlement.
Federal
Reserve Imposes
Cap on Wells
Fargo's Growth
For Abusing Consumers, After OCC Apologized for
Double Downgrade. Bank
Beat: New Low for Pinnacle. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon & Nigeria, UN Hides Behind Belated
UNHCR Statement to Inner City Press, DSG Avoids
Qs. Enviro:
On
Climate Risk, ICP Asks of CEFC, DSG Rosewood
Signings, Panel Cites Transparency, UNseen. Bronx
trial for killing of Deborah Danner has echoes of
Eleanor Bumpurs
1/29/18 -- CRA:
Bank Of America To
Raise Fees on Low Income People, Critics Cite
Predatory BofA. Federal
Reserve Asks
Schwab About Community Reinvestment Act After Fair
Finance Watch Protest. Bank
Beat: Worm turns in Charlotte NC. UN - Global:
On
UN Bribery, Inner City Press Asked Guterres of
CEFC, Now Suspended From Global Compact. Enviro:
Pollution in Thailand. Bronx:
Bank robbery, or, banks rob The Bronx
1/22/18 -- CRA:
In
DC, Mulvaney Says CFPB To Reconsider Payday Rule,
Critics Cite Predatory Lending. Federal
Reserve looks at little merger in Michigan. Bank
Beat: ICP
Asks IMF of Tunisia, Yemen Central Bank, Somalia
Debt, and Cameroon, Some Answers. UN - Global:
At
UNSG Guterres Presser, Inner City Press Asks of
Cameroon & UN Bribery for CEFC, Here. Enviro:
Smog in Seoul. Bronx:
Profiles in de-industrialization
1/15/18 -- CRA:
In
DC, Mulvaney Still at CFPB, Fair Finance Watch
Challenges E Trade-Trust Co of America. Federal
Reserve: Ends
Enforcement Actions on 10 Including Citi &
Chase After Micro-Fine of Goldman Sachs. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
After
Nigeria "Disappears" 10 in Abuja, Amina J.
Mohammed Tours with Gov't, ICP Asks UN, Nothing.
Enviro:
Black snow in Kazakhstan's Temirtau. Bronx:
RIP Tim Rollins
1/8/18 -- CRA:
Misreporting on CFPB litigation by New York credit
union, looking into trust. Federal
Reserve takes comments big banks to March 15.
Bank
Beat: merger watch-dogging, deep in the heart
of Texas. UN
- Global:
In
UN Bribery Case, Ho Again Seeks Bail, Saying CEFC
Is With UN Like Salvation Army. Enviro:
Protesting pollution in Nepal. Bronx:
Mensah as hero, from Ghana, UN silent
1/1/18 - CRA:
After
Covering Up Sterling Bank Scam, OCC Withholds
Records, Inner City Press' FOIA Appeal. Federal
Reserve held Sterling call with OCC. Bank
Beat: BancorpSouth brags of evading
accountability for redlining. UN - Global:
In 2017 UN's Guterres Failed in Myanmar, Yemen
& Cameroon, Amid Corruption, Censors Press.
Enviro:
Delhi pollution. Bronx:
As
Dozen Killed By Fire On Prospect Ave, Of Happy
Land & Woodycrest, Blame-Games
12/25/17 -- CRA:
After
ICP Fair Finance
Watch
Bank Merger Challenge, Fed Asked Associated of
Green Bay Market, Reply Here. Federal
Reserve deregulation views. Bank
Beat: First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co says
it'll buy Tampa-headquartered HomeBancorp. UN - Global:
UN
Over $5 Billion Budget Passed by UNGA With No
Public Present, Holiday Tree and Carol, Here.
Enviro:
Superfund by NYC. Bronx:
Apartment Misused
12/18/17 - CRA:
After
ICP Bank Merger Challenge, Fed Asks Associated
About Green Bay Market. Federal
Reserve's Quarles recused from dealing with Wells
Fargo. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon, Inner City Press Asks UN If Guterres Has
Done Anything on Press Freedom, No, Failing Fall.
Enviro
fail in Nigeria. Bronx:
history of 477 Gerard Avenue
12/11/17 -- CRA:
In
DC, Battle for CFPB Continues As English Sues
Again, ABA Cheers OCC Undercutting CRA. Federal
Reserve signs on to Basel III capital
standards. Bank
Beat: looking to Michigan. UN - Global:
North
Korea Said UN Feltman Agrees With Them On
Sanctions, Now He Cites Funding Gaps. Enviro:
Rosewood
Scandal of UN Deputy Amina J. Mohammed Reported by
France24 With Amina Omitted. Bronx:
Trials we're watching
12/4/17 -- CRA:
Trump
Taps Fifth Third Bank Lawyer For FDIC Amid OCC
Scams on CRA & Sanctions, CFPB. Federal
Reserve “fixes” merger listing, does not
extend any flawed comment periods nor explain. Bank
Beat: Chile seeks to buy Spain in Florida, is
it really local? ICP
Asks IMF of Caribbean Critique, No
Reclassification, Yemen & Zambia Answered,
Kenya Not. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon, ICP Asked UN of Biya Calling
Secessionists Terrorists, Now He Orders
"Relocations.” Enviro:
Entergy nuclear spin. Bronx:
On
UN Bribery, Patrick Ho Is Denied Bail, CEFC Bribes
Cited, Entries Into UN Questioned
11/27/17 -- CRA: Amid OCC
Scams on Sanctions & CRA, Cordray Taps
English, Trump Mulvaney, Showdown? Federal
Reserve stopped notifying public of mergers,
ICP / FFW complains. : Lew cashes out to private
equity firm Lindsay Goldberg. UN - Global:
On
UN Bribery Case, ICP Asked of Guterres Use of CEFC
Funds, Kutesa Travel, UN Half-Answers. Enviro:
#BlameBiya for Cameroon pollution. Bronx:
In
UN Bribery Case, Senegal's Gadio Seeks Bail But
Fails, Thanksgiving in MCC Jail
11/20/17 -- CRA:
Amid
OCC Scams on Sanctions & CRA, Withhold Otting
Documents, ICP & CRC Sue. Federal
Reserve accepts South State Bank disparities
on Park Sterling. Bank
Beat: Japan's
Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi Skirts North Korea
Sanctions With "Incorrect" Application to US OCC,
Public Excluded. UN - Global:
UN
Spox Runs From DSG Rosewood Qs, Now Guterres Is
Petitioned by 62,000 to Probe, Recuse. Enviro:
Health disparities in Detroit. Bronx:
RIP Mel Rosenthal
11/13/17 - CRA:
Now it's even easier for Needs to Improve national
banks to get OCC rubber stamp approvals. Federal
Reserve nominee for chair on Hill Nov 28. Bank
Beat: Branch closures in India. UN - Global:
Rosewood
Racket Signed Off On By UN's Amina J. Mohammed Has
Cameroon Smuggling. Enviro:
Protest at refinery in Detroit. Bronx:
On
UN Reform, SG With Rosewood Scandal DSG, Press
Confined to Minders
11/6/17 -- CRA:
Anticompetitive merger, BancorpSouth evades Federal
Reserve, would Jay Powell still be in charge
of (denying) FOIA appeals? Bank
Beat: mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
ICP
Asks UN If Guterres Doctrine Is Quelling
Secessionists for Old Rulers, Restricting Press.
Enviro:
ExxonMobile pays (too) small fine for gas flaring. Bronx:
At
UN $50,000 Charge For Biden Talk, Guterres To Be
Sold on Wall St, Public Funds to Lisbon
10/30/17 -- CRA:
Shameful impunity for Mid America Bank &
Trust Co as pays to play with Needs to Improve
rating, Federal
Reserve approves merger with Reliable
Community Bancshares. Bank
Beat: Looking at Granite Bank and Bangor
Savings Bank. UN - Global:
As
UNSG Guterres Stopped in Cameroon, Now UN
Read-Out, Here, Destination UNdisclosed. Enviro:
Pollution in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Bronx:
ICP
Asked David Kaye About a FOIA for UN, Smale's
Threat to ICP, Then Asks UN Which Dodges
10/23/17 -- CRA: Wells Fargo Was Dropped 2 Levels by OCC, Which Now Says Only 1 Level Is Its Policy, Sop. Federal Reserve sends part of Associated's application, not protests. Bank Beat: Bank Mutual numbers down. UN - Global: In Cameroon, Opposition March Banned in Douala as UN Parades in Yaounde, UNheard. Enviro: As Mugabe's A Goodwill Ambassador of WHO, Guterres Silent, Echo of Biya & North Korea Cyanide. Bronx: UN Threatens Review of ICP's Accreditation For Audio Report While Staking Out on Cameroon
10/16/17 -- CRA: Fair Finance Watch files challenge with Federal Reserve to Associated - Bank Mutual. Bank Beat: On Cameroon, IMF's Superficial Answer, After Telling ICP Internet Cut Off A Financial Risk. UN - Global: In Cameroon Anglophones Tortured, ICP Requests UN Action, UNder Restrictions. Enviro: Death by pollution in South Sudan. Bronx Zoo kills, in the DR Congo
10/9/17 - CRA: In Puerto Rico, Disparate Bank Lending, Predatory Investors, UN's Maria Photo Ops. Federal Reserve former Gov Duke cashing out to Wells Fargo is an outrage. Bank Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN - Global: As Cameroon Kills Civilians, ICP Asks UN & UK, Crackdown Continues, Failing Fall. Enviro: For UN Guterres Trip to Caribbean, 4 Qs All on Climate, No Pool UNlike Sisi Scam, Cameroon Ignored. Bronx: Legit help to Puerto Rico. 10/2/17 -- CRA: More than 300 protests to Federal Reserve application of Association - Bank Mutual. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Talks with "Money Launderer" in Congo, Pakistan Minister Dar Charged. UN - Global: Angered at UN Praise of Cameroon's Biya, Letter to UN Cites Genocide Threat, UN Corruption. Enviro: Hurricane Irma impunity. Bronx: Support to PR victim of Hurricane Maria9/25/17
- CRA:
South State
Corporation
tells Federal
Reserve
the dog ate
its homework
in Atlanta. Bank Beat:
BB&T
closing
branches. UN - Global:
North
Korea's Ri
Yong Ho Meets
UNSG Guterres,
Asks For
Impartiality,
Conference.
Enviro:
Socializing
harm. Bronx:
Inner
City Press
Asked Trudeau
of Canada Arms
Sales to
Saudi, He
Called The
Question Bad
Behavior
9/18/17 -- CRA: Second comment against SoFi Bank from FFW. Federal Reserve laxity on mega-mergers challenged. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On Myanmar, UNSG Guterres Resisted Calls To Act, Officials Tell ICP, Deference to "The Lady.” Enviro: On Hurricane Irma, UN Spox Cuts Off Press Q on Debt Moratorium, Gives 3 Minute Notice. Bronx, NYC: UN General Assembly Week Bans Press on Day One on Refugees, UNprepared & UNfair DPI of Smale
9/11/17 - CRA: On Synovus - Cabela, Fed Rubber Stamps Despite "Confidential Matter," Cap One Scam. Federal Reserve: Faux regulator Fischer resigns. Bank Beat: Mock crackdown on Regions Bank. UN - Global: For UN General Assembly Week, List Here, UN Both UNprepared and UNfair. Enviro: Pollution in Los Angeles. Bronx: UN Encourages Hecklers of Haiti Cholera, Corruption and Censorship Qs in UN Bookstore Event on NYC and UN9/4/17
- CRA:
Regulators
Said Sterling
CRA Data
Unreliable,
Now Covers It
Up To Approve
Astoria. After
ICP/Fair
Finance Watch
Protest, Federal Reserve Asks South
State 5 Park
Sterling Qs.
Bank
Beat:
Associated
branch
closings
proposed. UN - Global:
As
ICP Pursues N
Korea Story,
UN Security
Orders It To
Stop, UNlike
Others,
Censorship for
Corruption.
Enviro:
Dow and Shell
plants after
Hurricane
Harvey. Bronx:
Facility to be
closed?
8/28/17
- CRA:
Fair Finance
Watch challenges
BancorpSouth
application
to evade Federal
Reserve
scrutiny. Bank Beat:
Alabama -
Florida
merger. UN
- Global:
After
UN Sold Itself
to Ng,
Stonewall on
Event By Guo
Xiangang,
Censors
Demand,
Canceled.
Enviro:
Dutch lawsuit. Bronx: At
NYC City Hall,
de Blasio
Talks Lisbon
& SDGs
With Guterres,
Mark-Viverito
on Columbus
8/21/17
- CRA:
Fair Finance
Watch
challenges
South State to
Federal
Reserve,
here. Bank
Beat:
Baltimore
merger. UN
- Global:
On
Kenya, ICP
Asked UN of
Monica Juma
Job, Blogger
Alai Locked
Up, UN Censors
Enviro:
Pollution in
Baltimore. Bronx: Censorship
at Bx
Community
College, After
Ng Bribery
Conviction,
ICP Asks Of UN
Rewarding Ng
For SSN
Coverage of
Ban Trip
8/14/17
-- CRA:
Comment on
small business
lending data.
Federal
Reserve:
Passing the
buck of bank
boards'
duties? Bank
Beat:
Mergers we are
watching. UN - Global:
On
Yemen, UN
Envoy IOCA
Tweets of
Churros Amid
Airstrikes on
Taizz &
Sa'ada,
Censorship.
Enviro:
Cities ranked
on pollution.
Bronx
/ NY: In
UN Guinea
Bissau Holds
Night Event
With Chinese
Art, MOU With
UNCG, Ng Echo
8/7/17
- CRA:
Challenge to
Sandy Spring /
WashingtonFirst
filed with Federal Reserve
by Fair
Finance Watch.
Bank
Beat:
Mergers we are
looking at. UN
- Global:
After
Ng Bribery
Conviction,
ICP Asks UN of
Carlos Garcia,
Helped Bribes,
Still In UN.
Enviro:
Pollution on
New Delhi. Bronx: UN
Allows
Censorship by
N Korea of Art
Show, Leaves
It & Press
Restrictions
UNexplained
7/31/17 -- CRA: Amid Fed & OCC Sterling CRA Scam, Otting & Quarles In Senate July 27, FOIA. Federal Reserve and Synovus Talked "Confidential Supervisory Matter" July 21, on Cabela Application. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo Stole 25,000 Cars By Imposing Unneeded Insurance, CRA Downgrade Should Continue. UN - Global: After Bribery Conviction, UN Told Reuters It Wants to Get Paid, ICP Asks Why, Video Here. Enviro: Plastics in Cameroon. Bronx: Piano District Scam
7/24/17 - CRA: While Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Reserve Paper Over Sterling's CRA Scam, Otting and Quarles In Senate July 27. Bank Beat: Associated Bank's July 20 proposal to buy Bank Mutual. UN - Global: In UN Bribery Case of Ng Lap Seng, South South News Paid Ashe Wife, UN Staff & Contractors. Enviro: Denmark complains about EU. Bronx/DC: Brownfields; As Reuters Live-streams Spicer's House, Got Press Evicted From UN For Streaming Formal Meeting 7/17/17 - CRA: Quarles Nominated to Federal Reserve Board As It Papers Over Sterling's CRA Scam. Bank Beat: Royal Bank of Scotland in 1st Settlement, UN Sends to Greece Nimetz, Adviser to Firm Invested in Greek Bank Saxo, Conflict of Interest. UN - Global: On UN Bribery Case of Ng Lap Seng, UN Won't Answer on DGACM, Says DPI "Issue of Judgment.” Enviro: India legal complaint. Bronx: Shelter abuse, flight to Honduras7/10/17
-- CRA:
Regulators
Said
Sterling's CRA
Data
Unreliable,
Under FOIA
Federal
Reserve Blacks-Out
Most of 400
Pages, Patreon. Bank
Beat: ICC
Slams South
Africa For Not
Arresting
Bashir, IMF
Cites
“Weakening
Governance,”
Corruption.
UN
- Global:
On
Burundi, After
ICP Asked UN
Repatriated
Mayuyu, Now to
Somalia, DSG
to Act or Not?
Enviro:
Landfills in
Malaysia. Bronx: In
1st UN Bribery
Case, Lorenzo
Admits $20,000
a Month from
Ng's South
South News, in
UNTV
7/3/17 -- CRA: Regulators Said Sterling's CRA Data Unreliable, Now Admits to Federal Reserve It Needs to Improve 2017, Denial? Bank Beat: Like UN's Haiti Impunity, ICP Asks of New Srebrenica Decision, BNP Paribas Bank on Rwanda. UN - Global: On Haiti, ICP Asks Guterres Spox If New Cholera Envoy Against Reparations, No Answer. Enviro: Tunisia protests. Bronx Lebanon Hospital shootings
6/19/17 -- CRA: As SoFi Applies For Bank, FFW Opposes Evasion, Interest Rate North of 20%, FinTech. Federal Reserve new low: Regulators Said Sterling's CRA Data Unreliable, Sterling Response Here. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo Quoted UN IFAD Official In Its Press Release, IFAD Tells ICP No Partnership. UN - Global: UN Killed 10,000 in Haiti, Spox Claims UN Listens, ICP Asks of UNSC Visit. Enviro: Plastic waste from Haiti re-used. Bronx: Bathgate brownfield and Low Income Housing Tax Credits
6/12/17 -- CRA: While OCC Papers Over Sterling's CRA Scam, Otting Nominated as Head, Resume Fraud. On Brazil Land Grabs & CRA Flaws, Federal Reserve Parrots TIAA, Which Alludes To Confidential Info. Bank Beat: After FFW Protested on Cabela, Synovus Snail Mails & Withholds Response, Here; ICP Asks IMF About South Sudan, They'll Meet in Kenya June 12, Need Peace for Program. UN - Global: On Cameroon, Failing Fall's UNOCA Site Out of Date and Broken, Inaccurate Report Here. Enviro: UN Ocean Conference Ends on River Balcony, Guterres On Junket, New Envoy in the Works? Bronx: If you replace Sheridan Expressway, it should be with parks6/5/17 -- CRA: Wells Fargo Gets Cut Off from New NYC Business After CRA Downgrade, Sterling Next? Federal Reserve Expedites Now Delays Press FOIA on Bank Beat, Sterling - Astoria. UN - Global: Cameroon Visit of UN's Fall Cites Human Rights Concerns, UN Tells ICP, After 4 Days' Questions. Enviro: Plastic from Mich to Africa. Bronx: MTA failing
5/29/17 -- CRA: After Fair Finance Watch Protested Synovus - Cabela, Federal Reserve Asks Synovus 7 Questions. Bank Beat: WashingtonFirst / Sandy Spring Bancorp; ICP Asks IMF About Saudi - Blackstone Deal, and Possible Extension for Ghana, Cameroon. UN - Global: ICP Asked UNSG Guterres for Speech, Haiti Read-out, None Provided, Now S Korea - Japan, Money Talks? Enviro: Pollution in NYC. Bronx: The GlobaLocal seen, just south 5/22/17 - CRA: Regulators Said Sterling Bank's CRA Data Unreliable, Sterling Mis-Sends Response, Federal Reserve Expedites ICPs FOIA. Bank Beat: Mnuchin says OCC head is picked, banks to big to succeed. UN - Global: After ICP Asked of WIPO's North Korea Work, Nikki Haley Calls WIPO UNtransparent and Dangerous, Cyanide. Enviro: UK worse pollution than US. Bronx: UN Federal Credit Union Solicits North Korean & UNA-USA Funds, After NK Missile 5/15/17 - CRA: Regulators Said Sterling Bank's CRA Data Unreliable, ICP Exposed It, FFW Demands Hearing from Federal Reserve, Files FOIA. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF About Sri Lanka Inland Revenue Act, Here, and For Cameroon Silicon Mountain Update. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN Of WIPO Using Criminal Defamation Law, Spox Says “Not A Responsive Choice.” Enviro: Pollution in Nepal. Bronx: Of Souleymane Porgo; At UN, Press Coverage of Biz Event Praising Goldman Sachs Hindered by DPI Censorship 5/8/17 - CRA: After Capital One Failed on Cabela, Synovus Applies to Federal Reserve & Fair Finance Watch Protests, Here. Bank Beat: Mergers We Are Watching. UN - Global: From Cameroon to UNSC, "Urgent & Confidential" Memo About Weapons, Copter, via Patreon. Enviro: UK pollution. Bronx: At UN's World Press Freedom Event, ICP Asks of UN Censorship, WIPO & FAO, 1-Line Response5/1/17 - CRA: After FFW Protests Sterling's Application To Buy Damaged Astoria, Fed Confirms Receipt. Federal Reserve After FFW Protest Cites Community Bank OCC Deal & Disparities, Rubber-stamps Merger. Bank Beat: We're looking at South State saying it'll buy Park Sterling. UN - Global: Google Hinders Publication of ICP Video of UN Defending Abuse by Peacekeepers, DPI Deal So Patreon. Enviro: At UN, Indigenous Tells ICP Guterres Hasn't Met Them, Of Norway & Dakota Access Pipeline. Bronx: History in the soil in Mott Haven.
4/24/17 - CRA: Belated fines against predatory Deutsche Bank by Federal Reserve, now what? Bank Beat: On Yemen, IMF Tells ICP Central Banks in Aden & Sana’a Should Cooperate to Avoid Famine. UN - Global: On Burundi and ICP's Scoop of Kafando as UN Envoy, Shingiro Tells ICP Gov Comfortable With. Enviro: AMA on light pollution. Bronx: At UN, DPI Prejudice Against Critical Press UNanswered, Bello Wiffs on Haiti and Roma 4/17/17 - CRA: After FFW protest to TIAA-CREF and Everbank, Federal Reserve's Fifth Round of Questions. Bank Beat: Another merger to watch, and Wells Fargo Branch Closing Notices. UN - Global: UN Praised Cameroon Half-Net Pledge as Clergy Prosecuted, Defends RC Rajat Blocking Inner City Press. Enviro: South Korea fears. Bronx: At UN, Request To Explain Censorship of Press Yields 1-Line, Spox Says Criticism Is Harassment4/10/17 -- CRA: Homage to Kansas City activist Williams. Federal Reserve quietly weakens merger review, rejects challenge without reasoning. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On Syria, After US Airstrikes ICP Asks UN What de Mistura's "Operationally Focused" Means. Enviro: Glasgow pollution. Bronx to UN, Fight for Press Freedom
4/3/17 -- CRA: Wells Fargo Paying $110 Million For Fake Accounts, 400 Branch Closures Still On? Federal Reserve loosens merger reviews, ICP Fair Finance Watch requests reconsideration. Bank Beat:3/13/17
-- CRA:
After
FFW Protest
Stopped NYCB
Bid, Astoria
Wants To Be
Bought By
Disparate
Sterling.
Federal
Reserve
has more
questions for
Simmons. Bank
Beat:
Mergers we are
watching, and
IMF
Tells Inner
City Press
Risks In
Cameroon in
2017 Include
"Events" in
Anglophone
Areas. UN - Global:
UN's
Cameroon
Troops in CAR
Accused of
Abuse, ICP
Asks UN's Haq,
No Answers,
Failing. Enviro: On
Honduras,
World Bank
Gets Sued. Bronx:
Gentrification
slated for
Mott Haven
3/6/17 -- CRA: After FFW Protest, Fed Sends Community Bank System 9 Questions, CEO Tryniski Trashes CRA. Federal Reserve switching Secretary post from dev. Frierson to Misback. Bank Beat: Merger and job loss in Indiana. UN - Global: As UNSC in Cameroon, Nothing on Anglophones from UN When ICP Asks, Ebute's Letter. Enviro: Talk in South Carolina. Bronx: BP says he supports Home Stability Support plan
2/27/17 - CRA: Overdraft abuse by FNB Bank downplayed by Federal Reserve on merger. Bank Beat: After IMF Tells ICP No Talks with Nigeria of Program, ICP Asks UN About Oslo Fundraising. UN - Global: After Guterres' Press Freedom Meeting, Spox Tells Press "It's Not Your Living Room," Runs. Enviro: Kenya urged to protect EJ activists. Bronx: Amber alert leads to “Foxhurst,” Hagstrom hangover 2/20/17 -- CRA: Of Capital One and Cabela's Bank. Federal Reserve rubberstamps mergers at Reserve Bank level. Bank Beat: Heartland Financial wants to grow in Colorado. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Uses UN in Kenya, Kim Won-soo in NY, Spox Calls Press Obsessive A*hole. Enviro: Indian mine in Australia. Bronx: Slumlord or vivero? 2/13/17 -- CRA: Amid DC Moves On CFPB, Acquisitive Simmons Is Asked by Fed of FFW's Protest. Federal Reserve Governor Tarullo to leave, FOIA improvements still needed. Bank Beat: Merger fall-out in Ohio. UN - Global: After PA's Fayyad Blocked, UN Selectively Spins US Green Light, UK Not Mentioned. Enviro: Free speech win in Alabama. Bronx: Catholic schools closing 2/6/17 - CRA: Branch closings by Wells Fargo. Federal Reserve asks United Bankshares about cases. Bank Beat: Mergers we're watching. UN - Global: UN Waste In Dump Caused Malaria in Central African Republic Under Ladsous, Bermann Next? Enviro: Niger Delta. Bronx: Fishing of post boxes, gone 1/30/17 -- CRA: Head of Community Bank System Mark Tryniski calls fair lending baseless. Federal Reserve goes vague on BB&T. Bank Beat: Investors Bancorp, already conditioned by Fair Finance Watch, had deal blow up. UN - Global: UN Wastes Funds Keeping Clinton-Aligned Feltman So His Pension Vests, Draft EO Here. Enviro: Trudeau and indigenous. Bronx: RIP Wayne Barrett - and Bobby Garcia 1/23/17 -- CRA: Fair Finance Watch challenges Community Bank System to Federal Reserve on Vermont proposed merger. Bank Beat: Simmons First tells FFW will close branches. UN - Global: US Has Asked For Ban Ki-moon Brother To Be Extradited, Hearing Reveals As Obama, Power Leaves. Enviro: Entergy in New Orleans. Bronx: UN Again Bans Staff From Women's March, ICP Questions, Gallach at Power's Elex Party1/16/17 -- CRA: Challenge to Scottrade - Toronto Dominion. Federal Reserve grilled on film. Bank Beat: Proposed mergers we are looking at. UN - Global: UN Referred ICP's Corruption Qs to Ban Ki-moon Seoul Spox, Whom They Have Never Called. Enviro: Mining in the Philippines. Bronx: Outgoing Samantha Power smirks at Haiti, cholera
1/9/17 -- CRA: Cardinal and United plans to close branches, but how many? Federal Reserve after comments asks. Bank Beat: The strange case of Capital One and Cabela's “World Foremost Bank.” UN - Global: As Budget Scrutiny Looms, UN Must Do Better on Press Freedom, Due Process and FOIA under Antonio Guterres. Enviro: Cambodian NGO against sand mining scam. Bronx: NYT promotes gentrification, again 1/2/17 -- CRA: After ICP filed FOIA request, Federal Reserve released entirely redacted fair lending plan in TIAA - Everbank proceeding. Bank Beat: Bank of Hope, closing branches. UN - Global: New UNSG Guterres Calls for Peace, Yemen, Myanmar & Burundi Early Tests. Enviro: EPA Office of Civil Rights. Bronx: For New Year's Eve in Times Square, Ban Ki-moon dropped the ball for the last time.12/26/16
-- CRA:
Bank
Merger Called
Off After ICP
Protested
NYCB - Astoria
on Disparities.
Federal
Reserve
delays on TIAA
- Everbank
FOIA request.
Bank
Beat: Next
round on
Capital One. UN - Global:
US
Power Abstains
on UNSC
Settlements
Resolution, As
UN Talk Turns
To Trump.
Enviro:
Ecuador
Chevron case
firings. Bronx:
Brownfield
with “historic
fill”
12/19/16 -- CRA: Terms expiring at OCC, FDIC and two Federal Reserve governor vacancies. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On South Sudan, US Draft Passes 15-0, ICP Asked US Power of UN Arming Warlord. Enviro: Coal ash protests in Puerto Rico. Bronx/NYC: UN Thugs Attack ICP Outside Ban Ki-moon's $1200 Wall Street Event, Throw Periscoping Phone
12/12/16 -- CRA: Now TIAA tries to withhold compliance information, Federal Reserve gets FOIA request. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF About Guinea Bissau's Bank Bailouts, No Deadline to Unwind. UN - Global: UN's Gallach Pays Public Funds To Call Detroit a 3d Rate Flyover City, Evicted & Restricts Inner City Press. Enviro: NoDAPL. Bronx: After NYC Praises UN, ICP Asks Ban's Spox of Gallach's Violations of Free Press & Due Process 12/5/16 -- CRA: After FFW Challenges TIAA-Everbank, Federal Reserve's 3d Round of Questions. Bank Beat: Mega-merger... in Kazakhstan? UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon To Fly For Anti-Corruption Award from Qatar After Promoting Son in Law to Top UN Post. Enviro: Princess Cruises' intentional pollution. Bronx: Open up North Brother Island - and Hart Island Too 11/28/16 -- CRA: Challenge to Union - Cardinal, Federal Reserve gets FOIA on TIAA. Bank Beat: Merger slides. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Brother Ki-ho Thrown Out of UN Global Compact, Mines in Myanmar. Enviro: NoDAPL news. Bronx: Sin City fall-out11/21/16 -- CRA: Bank of Oklahoma, despite compliance settlement, gets Federal Reserve rubbert stamp. Bank Beat: Trustmark is at it again. UN - Global: On Myanmar, Where Ban Ki-moon's Brother Mines, US Accepts Outcome-Less Briefing By Nambiar, Who Says Give Them Time. Enviro: UN Passes Buck After Morocco Rejected COP22-Accredited Beiruk's Document. Bronx NYC: Ban Ki-moon NYU Speech Has Prerequisites While $100,000 Speech Withheld
11/14/16 -- CRA: After ICP Challenges TIAA-Everbank, They Submit to Federal Reserve A Defense of Lending, Brazil Land Grabs. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: After UN Ban Ki-moon Censors Press, Expresses to Trump Confidence in Cooperation. Enviro: COP 22 and Civil Society Excluded. Bronx: the split electoral district11/7/16 -- CRA: After ICP Challenges People's United Bank's Suffolk Bid, Federal Reserve Asks 13 More Questions, Layoffs Threatened. Bank Beat: Looking at Genworth. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Brother Ki-ho Involved in Myanmar, Greenwashing. Enviro: COP 22. Bronx: Read-lining by Barnes & Noble
10/31/16 -- CRA: Challenge to TIAA's Attempt To Buy Everbank to Federal Reserve, Citing Landgrab in Brazil. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Hadi's Bid to Move Yemen Central Bank, Spox Calls It Complex. UN - Global: Under New SG Guterres, Who Will Head UN Peacekeeping, Public Information? Enviro: ICP on Dakota Access Pipeline Asks UN Expert, Then Ban Ki-moon's Spox, “No Communication,” Like Haiti. Bronx: Gentrification Watch 10/24/16 -- CRA: After redlining settlement, BancorpSouth tells Federal Reserve its merger applications are withdrawn. Bank Beat: Another merger we're looking at. UN - Global: As Ban Ki-moon Conceals DC Speech & Is Protested at UN, Tells Wire Of His South Korea Ambitions. Enviro: Detroit incinerator. Bronx: Where's UN on killing of Deborah Danner? 10/17/16 -- CRA: ICP Challenges FNB's Reach into the Carolinas for Yadkin Bank, Files with Federal Reserve on Disparities in Baltimore & Ohio, Insiders. Bank Beat: Mergers We Are Looking At. UN - Global: ICP Asked New SG Guterres About Yemen, His Transition Team Here. Enviro: EPA to re-examine flares in TX, LA. Bronx: Tour de Bronx10/10/16 -- Bank Beat: BNC's lending to people of color fell in 2015. CRA: People's United got worse in NYC in 2015 but Federal Reserve calls it “untimely.” UN - Global: On Yemen, ICP Asks UK, France, NZ & Saudi After Airstrike on Funeral, No Draft Yet. Enviro: Trend found in UN report. Bronx: In praise of libraries.
10/3/16 -- CRA: Bank of North Carolina enforcement actions withheld by Federal Reserve, which brags about applications withdrawn, BancorpSouth still in. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo grilled on the Hill. UN - Global: On Next UNSG, Of Kazakh Deputy & Nordic Dreamers, Russia To Get Political Affairs? Enviro: EJ paper tiger. Bronx: Clay Ave Tenants Association head to UN conference in Quito 9/26/16 -- CRA: Bank of North Carolina, still withholding CRA plan from ICP, get more Federal Reserve questions, here. Bank Beat: We're watching TIAA - Everbank. UN - Global: ICP Asks Ban Ki-moon's Mentor Han Seoug-soo of Moonlighting with StanChart & Doosan, He Says Banks Too. Enviro: Proposal shot down in California. Bronx: Gentrification documented 9/19/16 -- CRA: As Bank of Oklahoma is forced to respond to ICP's protest by OCC, will Federal Reserve take note? Bank Beat: Maryland, Ohio and history. UN - Global: For UNGA, Ban Ki-moon Prints Book on Legacy, But Who Wrote & Paid For It? Enviro: California app. Bronx: Maduro of Venezuela in the West Bronx. 9/12/16 -- CRA: After ICP Challenges Its Suffolk Bid, People's United Calls NYC "Lower Hudson.” Federal Reserve gets FOIA request on BancorpSouth. Bank Beat: United - Cardinal, we're watching. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon & Son In Law Use Jaffna Massacre Commander As Nepotism Defense. Enviro: Southeast activists meet. Bronx: Reynaldo Cuevas killing revisited9/5/16 -- CRA: Bank of Oklahoma's low satisfactories, KC Performance Evaluation scams. Federal Reserve gets admission and demand for confidential treatment from Bank of North Carolina. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Yemen Central Bank, Zim & Mozambique, IMF Staff Moves In. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Promoted Son In Law Reportedly Posed With Dead LTTE Fighters. Enviro: Baton Rouge EJ advocate, rest in peace. Bronx: Getting some LinkNYC wi-fi
8/29/16 -- CRA: ICP Protested BNC - High Point, Now Federal Reserve Asks Questions, Here. Bank Beat: Astoria Bank re-schedules its annual meeting, after protest. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Signed Letter Giving Son-In-Law Top UN Job in Kenya, Confirmed to ICP. Enviro: Big 90 corporations cause more pollution. Bronx: Old school filing dumping8/22/16
-- CRA:
People's United
“Comfortable” With No Loans
to People of Color in NYC in
2014. Federal
Reserve Jumbles Merger
Applications (But Takes
Goldman Sachs' Sunday
Calls). Bank
Beat: BancorpSouth
Down for the Count. UN
- Global:
At
UN, Why Ban Ki-moon
Dropped from Public List
Officials Who Refuse to
Disclose UNexplained.
Enviro:
With Floods in Baton Rouge,
New Gulf Drilling Rights
Opposed. Bronx:
Calling Out People's United
8/15/16 -- CRA: Citing Redlining, ICP Challenges People's United Bid For Suffolk County National Bank. Federal Reserve Disses Flint, Rubber Stamps Chemical-Talmer. Bank Beat: BNC Would Close At Least 3 High Point Branches. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Adviser Han Seung-Soo With UN Bank Standard Chartered, Spokesman Claims Bullying. Enviro: Oil water on plants in Cali? Bronx and Brooklyn and Queens and Harlem and Washington Heights Hall of Shame most recent nominee: People's United
8/8/16 -- CRA: After Taking Goldman Sachs Calls on Sunday, Federal Reserve Fines It $36M, Denies FOIA. Bank Beat: “Super-community” in NM, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Adviser Han Seung-Soo Is Director of UN Contractor Doosan, UNethical? Enviro: Shale wealth fund idea from UK to US? Bronx: Standing in Bronx Criminal Court delay case. 8/1/16 -- CRA: In FOIA farce FDIC Withholds in Full BNC's Compliance Plan the Federal Reserve Relied On. Bank Beat: On Zimbabwe, ICP Asks IMF of Arrears, If Any Program, UN of UNrest, #ThisFlag. UN - Global: On UN DSS Security Scandal, UN Refuses To Name Sponsor, If Ban Ki-moon Approved Or Negligent. Enviro: News from Nigeria. Bronx: Home Street church replaced, History Channel Out.7/25/16 -- CRA: ICP Protested NYCB - Astoria on Disparities from NY to Cleveland, Federal Reserve Questions, One-Two Punch? Bank Beat: Yadkin Wants to Sell to FNB Before Closing 12 NewBridge Branches. UN - Global: On Next SG Straw Poll, Results & Questions of Dual Nationalities, Exclusive. Enviro: Marching to DNC in Philly. Bronx: Gentification market, security abuse
7/18/16 -- CRA: Chemical & Talmer in $1B proposed merger “misunderstand.” Federal Reserve wants to get to know Bank of Oklahoma better. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Jordan & Lebanon, Reply Here, S Sudan & Yemen Not Yet. UN - Global: ICP Asks Ban's Spox Why 6 UN Guards Hindered It, Spox Replies He Was Stalked While NHK. Enviro: New law in Newark, NJ. Bronx: As YouTube Hinders Publication of UN Q&As, Censorship Questions UNveiled7/11/16 -- CRA: ICP Protested BancorpSouth, Now Sued by DOJ, Chemical & BNC. Federal Reserve Asks Chemical About Talmer Branches. Bank Beat: Deals We Are Watching. UN - Global: In S Sudan Leaked UN Memo Says 150 Soldiers Dead As Some Joined Kiir's Tiger Force. Enviro: Bloomberg on EJ. Bronx: ICP Asked UN About Philando Castile & Alton Sterling, Working Group Condemns
7/4/16 -- CRA: FDIC extends time on BNC, But Withholds Compliance Plan. Federal Reserve lets Bank of the Ozarks Off the Hook. Bank Beat: Chemical seeking U.S. Bank funds to buy Talmer. UN - Global: As UN Bribery Ng Case Expands, Ban Ki-moon in Para 12, His Spox Covers Up. Enviro: Gulf Coast letter to Big Green. Bronx: DJ Kool Herc in Crotona Park 6/27/16 -- CRA: Capital One closing branches. Federal Reserve ready for Brexit. Bank Beat: Chemical asked about Talmer. UN - Global: Brexit's UN Fall-Out, UK Less Likely to Veto Malcorra, Scottish P5 Question? Enviro: Duke Energy in NC. Bronx: ABC carpet pulls the rug out from under community 6/20/16 -- CRA: While withholding Compliance Plan, BNC goes for High Point. Federal Reserve lets Huntington withhold antitrust info. Bank Beat: ICP Asked IMF of Sri Lanka Airlines Resolution, Iraq & Mozambique. UN - Global: UN Rapporteurs Mistold by Ban's Gallach Of "Altercation," Press Eviction Pretext. Enviro: Coal victory in River Rouge. Bronx: Attack in Parkchester must be investigated. 6/13/16 -- CRA: Chemical lending in Flint toxic like water. Federal Reserve sends ICP its Qs to Huntington. Bank Beat: Some ones we're watching. UN - Global: UN Told Nobel Winner Ramos-Horta ICP "Openly" Broke UNpublished Rule, Geneva Next. Enviro: Oil field still closed in Los Angeles. Bronx: Roll back the rent 6/6/16 -- CRA: BNC Bancorp Withholds Compliance Plan Cited in Order by Federal Reserve, Which Called ICP/FFW A Day Late. Bank Beat: ICP Asked IMF of Protests in Suriname, IMF Supports Tariff Rise. UN - Global: ICP Asks Ban's Spox of Ng & Corruption, Request for Q&A, "All the Time You Need.” Enviro: EPA's EJ 2020 Action Agenda. Bronx: Ebling Brewery, Now a Brownfield5/30/16 -- CRA: Old National plays hide the ball with Anchor Bank cut backs. Federal Reserve still withholds FOIA documents. Bank Beat: protests of a bank merger.. in India. UN - Global: As Ban Politics in S. Korea, Hankyoreh Notes ICP's Qs About Kim. Enviro: Vermont chainsaws. Bronx: going market rate in Mott Haven, can you say, gentrification?
5/23/16 -- CRA: Looking at Cash America - First Cash (or, Cowboy and Frontier). Federal Reserve continues FOIA delay. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Protests in Suriname, IMF Supports Cut of Subsidies. UN - Global: UN Censors Q About Ban & Freedom of the Press from Transcript, New Low. Enviro: Metal shredding in Minneapolis. Bronx: Africa films 5/16/16 -- CRA: Huntington FirstMerit documents requested under FOIA still withheld. Federal Reserve questions by ICP, on video. Bank Beat: Franklin Financial Network and Civic Bank & Trust. UN - Global: Press on UN Rape & Genocide Accepted, But Ban's Corruption Triggered Eviction. Enviro: Alabama landfill SLAPP. Bronx: amNY for gentrification 5/9/16 -- CRA: Protest to Huntington Yields “Ex Parte” Notice. Federal Reserve: ICP's Republic Comments Lead to RALs Footnote. Bank Beat: Mergers We Are Watching. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN About Lack of Whistleblower Protections, Miranda Brown, Retaliation. Enviro: EJ Talk. Bronx: Rent Guidelines Board 5/2/16 -- CRA: Challenge to Chemical Talmer, focus on Flint. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago lists no email address. Bank Beat: On Sri Lanka, IMF Reaches $1.5B Program, ICP Asked in Feb, Accountability. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN of US Bill on Peacekeeper Rapes, UN Doesn't Keep Records. Enviro: Demographics of Flint. Bronx: Et tu, Amazon? 4/25/16 -- CRA: On Huntington - FirstMerit, Comment Extended to May 16 New Date, As Federal Reserve Delays FOIA Response to ICP. Bank Beat: KeyCorp's Mooney Brags. UN - Global: After UN Evicts ICP, Ban's Spox Says "You've Been Afforded A Lot of Courtesies". Enviro: Amid Climate Hoopla, ICP Asks NRDC & Oxfam of ICAO and REDD Offset Scams. Bronx: Webster Avenue Changes, Gentrification Must Be Fought4/18/16
-- CRA:
Huntington is
defending closing 107
branches, ICP
re-petitions Federal
Reserve for
hearings. Bank
Beat: Goldman
Sachs' settlement is a
bad joke. UN
- Global: Ban
Ki-moon Has ICP's
Files Thrown Onto
1st Av, Bribery
Audit Names His
Gallach. Enviro:
Hillary in Sunset
Park. Bronx:
Back
to the roots
4/11/16 - CRA: While Huntington proposed to closed 107 branches, Federal Reserve closes its ears? Bank Beat: Mergers large and small. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN of Audit Criticism of DPI's Gallach, Lax on Slavery, Impunity? Enviro: At Apollo Theater, Bernie Sanders Asks Why Kids in South Bronx have to suffer asthma
4/4/16 -- CRA: ICP Zeroes In On Huntington Bank, Shutting Low Income FirstMerit Branches, files request for reconsideration of Federal Reserve approval of Goldman Sachs - GE. Bank Beat: Merger pace sped up in 2d half of 2015. UN - Global: UN's Gallach Says ICP Covers Wrong Things After Orders Eviction by April 6. Enviro: NYS Environmental Protection Fund boosted. Bronx: Evicton Pending for Chronicling the UN “Country Club” 3/28/16 -- CRA: On Huntington, ICP Expands Protest to FirstMerit, Akron Data Here. Federal Reserve: After Taking Goldman Sachs Calls on Sunday, Fed Approves GE, ICP FOIAs. Bank Beat: Anger in Canada at RBC branch closing. UN - Global: On Western Sahara, UN DPI Bans ICP From UNSC Stakeout March 21, Minders March 24. Enviro: Airborne lead north of Minneapolis. Bronx: Gentrification on E 144th Street 3/21/16 -- CRA: Protest to Huntington - First Merit filed by ICP with Federal Reserve, more than 100 branch closings. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Zimbabwe - Loans Not Sure - & Vultures Dart & Singer. UN - Global: ICP Asked About Lorenzo's Bribery, US Cites UN Audit, Not South South News. Enviro: Australia action on Peabody Energy / coal. Bronx: After Ousting Press, Ban Tells Bronxites To Rise Up For Rights, Hypocrisy 3/14/16 -- CRA: Good news in KC, Federal Reserve protest to BNC, Sandy we hardly knew ye. Bank Beat: Merger snafus we use social media to track, list of deals. UN - Global: UN Jan 29 "Incident" Had UNCA Hiding Ng Lap Seng Info, UN Staff at Pioli's Open Bar. Enviro: ICP asks Segolene Royal of Global Compact at UN. Bronx: HPD's Bean in S. Bx, will the Bean bear fruit? 3/7/16 -- CRA: Amid ICP Protest to BNC - Southcoast, Federal Reserve Gives ICP Memo of BNC Meeting, from Jan 28, Faux Ex Parte. Bank Beat: Conciliation deal in Kansas City. UN - Global Exclusive: UN Yemen Envoy Told Feltman Houthis Ready to Meet in Jordan, Saudi Low-ball. Enviro: St. Louis lead. Bronx: South Bronx Love Letter. 2/29/16 -- CRA: On First Niagara, Key Says It'll Address Branches Later, Withholds to Federal Reserve, ICP FOIAs. Bank Beat: Lawsuit against Deutsche Bank National Trust Co for negligence. UN - Global: UN's Ouster of ICP Opposed from Yemen, Burundi, NY, Nigeria, Dominica, Geneva. Enviro: Bridgeport deal. Bronx: Sedgwick Avenue gets its name 2/22/16 -- CRA: Regions Bank Rating Is Cut to Needs to Improve. Federal Reserve: ICP Protests Republic Bank, Key - First Niagara. Bank Beat: Merger blues in F.N.B. Metro glitches. UN - Global: UN Security Ejecting ICP Wouldn't Give Name, Grabbed ID Badge, Pushed Out Gate. Enviro: Spill prevention win in Southern District. Bronx: Taqueria gentrified out of South Bronx reappears in Brooklyn. 2/15/16 -- CRA: Second protest of NYCB - Astoria to Federal Reserve, Which Asks More Questions, to Feb 26. Bank Beat: IMF Tells ICP Negotiating Mission to Sri Lanka Late March, Burundi, Romania Qs. UN -Global: As New UN Rapes In CAR Revealed in Feb 11 Emails, UN Says DRC Troops Still In Place. Enviro: Hats off to the Moral March. Bronx: Where does NYCB have no branches? 2/8/16 -- CRA: Huntington would close 100+ branches if allowed to acquire FirstMerit. Federal Reserve fines HSBC, belatedly. Bank Beat: Chemical - Talmer flying stealth? UN - Global: SG Ban Claims He's a Scapegoat, Press Qs on CAR Rapes, Corruption Ignored. Enviro: is there a global EJ movement? Bronx: Is Chase Bank branch on Arthur Ave closing? Because it is much reduced 2/1/16 -- CRA: Comments on Key / First Niagara; Federal Reserve didn't reply under FOIA in time, asks Republic Bank questions. Bank Beat: Deals in Ohio and Michigan. UN - Global: After Vote, ICP Asks Colombia's Holguín About Urabeños, She Calls Them a Gang. Enviro: On Coal, ICP Asks UNFCCC's Figueres Of Funding by Banks in Global Compact. Bronx: State of the City by de Blasio at Lehman 1/25/16 -- CRA: After ICP's Protest of NYCB - Astoria Bank, Comment Period Extended to Feb 16 by Federal Reserve, where Goldman Sachs Blacks Out Most of Its Jan 18 Fed Submission, ICP FOIAs. Bank Beat: Mergers, mergers. UN - Global: In Burundi, Shingiro Spoke for US Power, Censorship Not Mentioned. Enviro: At UN, Fake Recycling Can Mixes Glass, Paper & Waste, Ban Ki-moon and Scribes Say Nothing. Bronx: Africa art connection, 149th and the Concourse1/18/16 -- CRA: After
ICP's Protest of NYCB - Astoria Bank, FDIC
Denies Expedited Processing. Federal
Reserve: Goldman
Sachs Tries to Withhold GE's Deposits by
State, ICP FOIAs Fed. Bank
Beat: IMF
Answers ICP on Burundi, Had Said
Peacekeeping Income in Budget, Off Track.
UN
- Global:
To
Burundi, UN Cites Small Plane From Addis
to Ban Press, No Deployment Answers. Enviro: Comment
on USDA environmental justice plan, to Feb
14. Bronx:
Silvercup to Port Morris, Good or Bad?
1/11/16 -- CRA: Protest of NYCB - Astoria Merger to Federal Reserve, Which Asks 14 Qs, Extends Its Time on Goldman Sachs. Bank Beat: Kentucky's Republic Bank Tries to Withhold, ICP Challenges Under FOIA. UN - Global: Online Censorship Opposed by ICP, Under EU "Privacy" & DMCA in US. Enviro: Michigan declares emergency about poisonous water in Flint - after playing a role in it. Bronx: No room at the Inn (hotels slated for Gerard and Exterior Streets)
1/4/16 -- CRA: Republic Bank's high-cost cards raised to Federal Reserve by Fair Finance Watch. Bank Beat: Criticism of NYCB - Astoria, more to come. UN - Global: UN Won't Name Staffer Who Was Told of CAR Rapes, Won't Answer on Ban's Travel. Enviro: Hotspots in Denver, and the Mousetrap. Bronx: The Get Down
12/28/15 -- CRA: Bank of the Ozarks inquiry; Federal Reserve Asked BNC for CRA Info, Which Withholds It. Bank Beat: Mere extension on KeyCorp - First Niagara not enough. UN - Global: On Burundi, As Imbonerakure Rally, PR at UN Mocks Countrymen, Bans Press. Enviro: Waste transfer stations, NYC. Bronx: Et tu, Zaro's? Closing in Parkchester amid “cretzel” pitch
12/21/15 -- CRA:
Challenge filed to Bank of the Ozarks - C&S with
Federal
Reserve Bank of St Louis. Bank
Beat: On
ISIS Finance, Talk of Oil and Turkey, Paris
Pre-Paid Cards, No Bitcoin. UN - Global:
ICP
Asks UN & CAR Panel of Ladsous Failing to
Respond on Rights, Ban's UN. Enviro:
Critique of Jerry Brown in Paris. Bronx:
Whose
Streets? NYPD Officer Paid by Deutsche Bank To
Empty Atrium Early
12/14/15 -- CRA:
Challenge to Kentucky-based Republic's Florida move,
Federal
Reserve accepts timely comment. Bank
Beat: IMF
Answers ICP on Malawi Retrenchment, Global Fund
Steps In. UN - Global:
UN
Corruption Association Sells Seats with Ban,
Paparazzi Pioli. Enviro:
On
Paris Agreement on Climate, Grumbles Even at COP
21, of TPP and Ban's Travel. Bronx:
Queens businesses to Hunts Point.
12/7/15 -- CRA:
Fight against
Goldman Sachs - GE Continues, After
Federal Reserve Gov Powell Acknowledges
Wrongful Withholdings. Bank
Beat: BNC
Is Asked, Again, for Information. UN - Global:
IMF
Answers ICP on Burundi, Program Off Track, &
Zambia, No Request. Enviro:
Brownfields blown off for South
Bronx hotel
11/30/15 -- CRA:
Supplemental ICP Comments on Goldman Sachs to Federal
Reserve, Which Declines Comment. Bank
Beat: Redliner Evans Bank revved up by Key -
First Niagara. UN - Global:
With
Saudi Set to Stone Sri Lankan Maid to Death,
Threats to Sue for ISIS Comparisons. Enviro:
EJ in Baltimore, and Paris. Bronx:
With so many lanuages, no UN in sight
11/23/15 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs Uses Small Bank Relief to Defend Pre-Review of GE Capital Deal by Federal Reserve, Which Tries to Close Ears to Comments. Bank Beat: BNC wants to buy High Point Bank. UN - Global: In UN Rights Com'te, Syria, Iran and N. Korea Resolutions Pass Amid Complaints & Quibbles, On Syria Burundi Votes No, Sudan Abstains. Enviro: On Climate Change, ICP Asks UN's Pasztor of Adaptation, GCF & HSBC. Bronx: Thanksgiving on Walton Avenue
11/16/15 -- CRA: More sleaze
by Goldman Sachs; Federal
Reserve has yet to
rule on ICP's Oct 24
FOIA appeal. Bank
Beat: Acquisitive
Ozarks; IMF
Answers ICP on Iraq
and Mozambique, Not on
UN Antigua Corruption
Case. UN
- Global:
On
Libya, ICP Asks For
Whom Leon Queries UAE
(Himself), No Answer
on Feltman. Enviro:
Bill to test near marine
waste transfer stations
in NYC. Bronx:
Improvement like bike
path, but for who? Latin
restaurant evicted
11/9/15 -- CRA:
Key
Bank - First Niagara
Would Trigger Branch
Closing, Lending
Disparities, FFW Says.
Federal
Reserve acts on a
Goldman Sachs staffer,
but still no extension
or hearing on GE
Capital. Bank
Beat: NYCB -
Astoria? We think not. UN - Global:
Dead
in Lahore, Haider
Rizvi Covered
Corporatization at UN,
Opposed “Mafia”. Enviro: More
Pennsylvania. Bronx:
Rip off on top of rip
off
11/2/15 -- CRA:
ICP
Comments on Goldman
Sachs, As Will on Key
& NY Community
Bank, Federal
Reserve staffer
gives Goldman info. Bank Beat: IMF
Answers ICP on
Austerity in Jamaica,
Not on Antigua
Corruption Case. UN - Global:
ICP
Asks Heyns About
Lankans Killed in Sri
Lanka & Saudi,
Killer Robots Talk.
Enviro:
Pennsylvania's EJ
director is lawyer Carl
E. Jones. Bronx:
Gentrifiers' ball, first
reported by ICP on Sept
14, happens: disgusting
10/26/15 -- CRA: FOIA
Response to ICP Shows
Goldman Met Federal
Reserve in May
on GE, Pre-Reviewed.
Bank
Beat: BNC -
Southcoast. UN
- Global:
ICP
Asks DESA About UN
Rapes, Stats for
Disparate Lending to
Women Like HMDA in US.
Enviro:
Pennsylvania's moribund
EJ office restarts, but
can it review fracking?
Bronx:
The Moth at the Museum.
10/19/15 -- CRA: On
Goldman Sachs - GE
Capital Bank, Federal Reserve Ignores Oct
16 FOIA Deadline,
Collusion Like CIT?
Bank
Beat: Another
merger we're looking at.
UN
- Global:
On
Scandal, ICP Publishes
GSF, Kutesa & ITU
Awards to Bongo &
Hasina, Murky. Enviro: On
Climate Change, ICP
Asks UN's Pasztor of
Carbon Tax, Critiques
of OECD. Bronx:
Tour de
10/12/15 -- CRA: Fed
Re-opens Comment on
Goldman Sachs-GE to
Oct 30. Federal
Reserve
Rubber-Stamps RBC
- City
National Which Bragged
of Collusion, FOIA
Finds. Bank
Beat: Predator
Republic eyes Florida. UN - Global:
On
Scandal, ICP What
Ashe's & Kutesa's
Guards Saw, ITU, UNCA
& South South.
Enviro:
Port City disclosure
ordered in Sri Lanka. Bronx: MetroNorth
in Coop City is good,
but excluding passengers
at Fordham Road must
end.
10/5/15 -- CRA:
Fed
Won't Answer ICP's
Goldman Sachs FOIA
Request Until October
16. As Federal
Reserve Blesses
Hudson City
Discrimination, Silent
on Goldman Sachs.
Bank
Beat:
RBC Met Fed Before
City National
Disclosed, ICP FOIA
Shows, UNreal. UN - Global:
UNGA
Ends Empty, Eritrea on
Sanctions, Burundi Not
Present, 4 Replies.
Enviro:
After
Rousseff Lays Out
Brazil's INDC, ICP
Asks of Deforestation,
Livestock. Bronx:
El Maestro
9/28/15 -- CRA: At UN, Financial Inclusion, Now Pitched by IMF, UNsolved in US, SDGs Reviewed. Federal Reserve silent on Goldman Sachs - GE Capital. Bank Beat: NYS Regulations tells ICP of 30 days extension. UN - Global: At UN, ICP Asks Bolivia's Evo Morales About Sovereign Debt Restructuring in UNGA. Enviro: At UN, ICP Asked Peru's Humala If TPP Investors' Rights Provision Undercut Environment. Bronx: NYT pushing gentrification is despicable.
9/21/15 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs, In Reply to ICP, Brags of Releasing Some Withheld Info, Tells Federal Reserve to Ignore Segarra Leak & Settlements. Bank Beat: IMF Answers ICP on Refugees and Tunisia. UN - Global: On S. Sudan, ICP Asks of Fighting in Maridi, Malakal, Leaked Sit-Rep of UNMISS. Enviro: On Climate Change, ICP Asks Pasztor of 3 Degrees C, Murky Climate Finance. Bronx: Child poverty rate 43%, UNacceptable.7/20/15 -- CRA: Now LA Times covers ICP's UNcovering of Royal Bank of Canada's CNB gun-jumping. Federal Reserve on that; Bank Beat on CBSI - Oneida. UN - Global: On Iran Deal July 20 Vote, After ICP Reports, Reuters Blurs US Spox. Enviro: Crude oil by rail. Bronx: Free high-speed Internet in the Mott Haven Houses
7/13/15 -- CRA: On Dodd-Frank, ICP Asks IMF Of Redefining SIFI to $500B, Of Somalia Remittances. Federal Reserve notes BB&T commitment to FDIC. Bank Beat: Proposed mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On Yemen, Ban Ki-moon Was Urged Not to Announce Dubious Pause. Enviro: That time France sunk Greenpeace's “Rainbow Warrior.” Bronx: Multicultural Bronx in display on Allerton Ave6/22/15 -- CRA: Sterling Bancorp calls 14% “immaterial;” Federal Reserve accepts spin, as CBSI violates the law. Bank Beat: First Republic Bank SAYS it's buying Constellation Wealth Advisors. UN - Global: UN Schools in Censorship, Press Ejected by Ban's Guards For Ladsous Commanders. Enviro: On Climate, ICP Asks UN of LDC Fund Under-Funded, South Korea Backsliding. Bronx: Valley National Bank is outed as redliner
6/15/15 -- CRA: More timely comment filed against Royal Bank of Canada - City National; Iowa branch closure games. Federal Reserve: Do any revolving door rules apply? Bank Beat: CBSI - Oneida delay explained. IMF Tells ICP Nepal Applies for RCF, $124 M, Ghana Eurobond Envisioned. UN - Global: From Burundi, Journalists Write to Ban & FUNCA of Crackdown, DSG at AU. Enviro: EPA's EJSCREEN. Bronx: Scam on Tinton Avenue6/8/15 -- CRA: Royal Bank of Canada - City National Comment Period Extended, Banks Jumped the Gun, Federal Reserve Is Told by ICP. Bank Beat: Mergers we are looking at: Heartland, Valley National, etc. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Tells Four States of “Independent” Panel on Central African Republic Abuse. Enviro: ICP Asks UN Why Of CDM's UNspent Funds, South Korea Backsliding. Bronx: River talk and brownfields.
6/1/15 -- CRA: First Tennessee after protest says it will up low and moderate income lending, plan in August, no approval until then? Federal Reserve closed Royal Bank of Canada comment period, now RBC admits information wrongfully withheld. Bank Beat: IMF Tells ICP "No Time Line" on Yemen or Burundi, Is Nepal "Qualified"? UN - Global: In UN's NGO Comt'e, Freedom Now Voted Down 11-4, Move to ECOSOC Predicted. Enviro: ArcelorMittal is asked for document under Promotion of Access to Information Act. Bronx: On the road to Albany and The Egg 5/25/15 -- CRA: As Senate debated deregulation, bank branches closing. Federal Reserve belated releases CIT docs under FOIA. Bank Beat: Looking at CBSI. UN - Global: UN Is OK with Censorship In Burkina, Silent on Killed Journalist in South Sudan. Enviro: New EJ site. Bronx: Waiting for de Blasio explanation 5/18/15 -- CRA: Unenforced but spun by the regulatory captured. Federal Reserve Governor Powell Revealed as Rubber Stamp on FOIA Denials. Bank Beat: Bid to lift SIFI definition to $500 Billion: Predatory Bender II? UN - Global: IMF Tells ICP of Burundi On Hold, Nepal On Ground, Ghana & Jamaica. Enviro: Canada illegal shipping toxic garbage to the Philippines, which... buries it. Bronx: Dudley Do-Wrong5/11/15 -- CRA: Internet Deposit and Branch Closing Information of CIT and OneWest Withheld by Federal Reserve: ICP Appeals Under FOIA (story here). Bank Beat: Mergers of the week. UN - Global: On CAR Alleged Rapes, ICP Asks Samantha Power of CAR Untold, Ladsous v Leaker. Enviro: ICP Asks UN Why Green Climate Fund Will Finance Coal, Of Pension Fund. Bronx: Four pols named at Lehman for MBK
5/4/15 -- CRA: Royal Bank of Canada / City National Bank challenged now from both coasts. Federal Reserve hits new low in FOIA delay on RBC. Bank Beat: Hudson City earnings down, CEO doesn't mention his bank's fair lending problems. On Nepal, ICP Asks IMF If Any Debt Relief, New CCR Trust "Possible.” UN - Global: On Rapes in CAR, Transcript of UN Refusing Say Why Never Told CAR. Enviro: Bushwick Gardens. Bronx: Tish James at C-Town, Obama at Lehman College then fundraisers
4/27/15 -- CRA: CRA Protest to RBC - City National, FFW on Lending Disparities. Federal Reserve waits until 11th hour to extends its time on RBC on FOIA. Bank Beat: Deutsche Bank hammered on LIBOR, not yet predatory lending. UN - Global: As Talk of Next SG Starts, ICP Asks of USG Set-Asides, Ladsous As Nadir. Enviro: Chevron case proceeds. Bronx: the Week kicks off, but who is YoungWoo?4/20/15 -- CRA: After FFW Protest, Hudson City Probed, M&T Slowed, Updated Data Here. Federal Reserve Ask Sterling More Questions, Whither RBC? Bank Beat: On Yemen, ICP Asks IMF of Impact, Ahmed Cites Delay, Hadi Gov Efforts; Deutsche Bank sleaze spreads. UN - Global: For Yemen UN Post, Saudis' Fisherman No Disclosure, UN Vows to Check, A Female? Enviro: EJ 2020 Action Agenda, comment on it. Bronx: Quinoa spells gentrification.
4/13/15 -- CRA: Will more delay for M&T - Hudson City put an end to the ill-fated deal? Federal Reserve failed to instruct or release wrongly-withheld CRA plans. Bank Beat: Focus on Cathay General - Asia Bank, branch closings? UN - Global: In CAR, Ladsous' DPKO Uses Live Fire, Death As In Mali, Withheld As In Haiti? Enviro: Pope Francis set to chime in with encyclical before COP21. Bronx: Eye on the Broadband Taskforce on digital divide 4/6/15 -- CRA: Protest by ICP to Royal Bank of Canada / City National, eye on Pac West - 1 Square. Federal Reserve plays dumb on previous comments. Bank Beat: IMF answers IMF on Ghana program. UN - Global: For Yemen Aid Access, Saudis Want UNSG Support for Offensive, ICP Learns: 2 Hours for a Statement. Enviro: Sunset Park watches Jamestown's Industry City. Bronx: Amid gentrification, public funds for (Trump's) Bronx golf course in Ferry Point Park: priorities? 3/30/15 -- CRA: As branch closings accelerate, they are left murky by FDIC and Federal Reserve: “Public Interest” directors of Reserve Bank all corporate, at least in Cleveland. Bank Beat: When Popular acquired Doral Bank, no comment perior or review: UN - Global: On Yemen, State Dept in Contact with Benomar, Who's Engaged With Houthis, IMF Postpones First Review (and No Answer on Haiti). Enviro: Bakken oil train cars in Houston. Bronx: Unclaimed funds.3/23/15 -- CRA: M&T withholds its answers for more than a week. Federal Reserve must be more transparent. Bank Bank: Eye of Pac West bid for Square 1. UN - Global: On Yemen, Emergency UNSC Meeting After 5 Weeks & Bombings. Enviro: the justice Atlas. Bronx: Gentrification by Chetrit and Somerset in Port Morris.
3/16/15 -- CRA: Fed Belatedly Asks M&T About Discrimination, OCC Asks Sterling on CRA. Federal Reserve more specific on Sterling / Hudson Valley. Bank Beat: IMF Says It Will Answer on Yemen After Stabilizes, As Talks of Calm in Bangladesh; On Sri Lanka, IMF Tells ICP External Debt Cost's Issue for Creditors, Not It. UN - Global: UN Tells Peacekeepers CAR Is Not Dangerous, To Limit Their Pay. Enviro: NEJAC on Clean Power Plan rule. Bronx: Whither Jerome Avenue re-zoning? 3/9/15 -- CRA: Citigroup dumps CitiFinancial on Springleaf, the old American General. Federal Reserve's Tarullo reigns in NY Fed, Eugene Ludwig on complexity. Bank Bank: The Too Big To Fail get bigger. UN - Global: As Bangladesh Cancels Press Accreditations, UN Does Nothing, Not Involved. Enviro: Swine waste case in Carolina. Bronx: What'll Parks & Rec's Silver do with all the Bronx parks ideas? 3/2/15 -- CRA: Testimony against CIT - OneWest. Federal Reserve: More withheld under FOIA, appealed. Bank Beat: Branch closing frenzy, UNnamed financial reporting service. UN - Global: On Bangladesh, ICP Asks UN of Murdered Blogger Avijit Roy, UN-free Press. Enviro: de Blasio in PlaNYC outreach. Bronx: Post Office to be named for Badilla? 2/23/15 -- CRA: CIT's Thain Met Fed 3 Weeks Before OneWest Merger, FOIA Shows, Redactions. Federal Reserve meets insiders, brags of 4 application approvals in a week. Bank Beat: IMF Talks Up Ukraine Program, On Libya No Answer, Of Yemen's Poor. UN - Global: On Bangladesh, ICP Asks UN How Reviews Peacekeepers, If Meet Zia. Enviro: Fight for a creek in Tijuana. Bronx: From “Hunts Point Lifelines” to the Bronx River 2/16/15 -- CRA: Coverage of HSBC money laundering misses Household Finance predatory lending connections. Federal Reserve asks First Horizon questions about TrustAtlantic. Bank Beat: M&T faces pre-trial conference April 7. UN - Global: After Selling UN Jobs in DRC & Haiti, Cote d'Ivoire Deputy Still in UN. Enviro: Tulane EJ conference. Bronx: Why is City opposing waste equity bill? 2/9/15 -- CRA: With CIT OneWest Merger Under Fire, Hearing Feb 26 by Fed & OCC. Federal Reserve belatedly releases its merger schmoozing. Bank Beat: Sterling - Valley National is dubious, highly dubious. UN - Global: UN Jobs Sold By Ivorian Mission in Ladsous' UN Peacekeeping, Leaks to ICP Show. Enviro: Anti-fracking march in Oakland. Bronx: African Advisory Group.5/26/14 -- CRA: First timely comment on the application by Valley National Bank to acquire 1st United Bank. Federal Reserve's crocodile tears about housing. Bank Beat: IMF Answers ICP on Serbia, Says Talking with Bosnia & Yemen. UN - Global: Press & Public Banned from UN Communications Group, Accreditation Mulled, Free UN Coalition for Access (FUNCA) Objects. Enviro: Detroit and demolitions. Bronx: Show about ownership of land benefiting the few
5/19/14 -- CRA: As US Bank Gets Rubber-Stamp to Buy & Close Royal Bank of Scotland Branches, FOIA Pends. Federal Reserve: Down to three Governors? Bank Beat: Deals we're looking at. UN - Global: On “UN” Copter in Ukraine, UN Tells ICP Kyiv Contacted by UN Peacekeeping - more on Beacon Reader here. Enviro: Petroleum coal in Chicago. Bronx: Bobby Sanabria at City Lore 5/12/14 -- CRA: As Valley National eyes Florida, ignores people of color in tri-state? Federal Reserve: Must deal with lawless Mercantile. Bank Beat: IMF Positions on Bosnia & Ghana, Would Talk Opposition, Western Sahara No Answer. UN - Global: After 2 Convictions for 130 Minova Rapes, UN Says Trials Were Enough. Enviro: Study by EJHA, CEG, and Coming Clean. Bronx: World Film Cycle with Video-poems. 5/5/14 -- CRA: On US Bank, FOIA Appeal, and appeal for info on predatory investment in hedge funds. Federal Reserve's Yellen at Nerdprom, Umpqua not so much. Bank Beat: On Ukraine, IMF Will "Take Stock" Of Keeping In Crimea Data- "Until Recognition;" Hudson City's Plan B. UN - Global: On Syria, If Morjane Replaces Brahimi, Ben Ali Crony'd Seek Assad's Ouster. Enviro: Gina McCarthy's pitch. Bronx: Week, schedule 4/28/14 -- CRA: US Bank would close 13 of Royal Bank of Scotland's branches, ICP learns through Freedom of Information Act request, and comments. Federal Reserve asks Old National about public benefit, but bank delays response. Bank Beat: Mercantile CEO lashes out again. UN - Global: As Ethiopia Jails Bloggers, US Talks Free Press Elsewhere, Files Risen Brief. Enviro: Chevron, heavy oil and tar sands. Bronx: Question on City Island Don Coqui 4/21/14 -- CRA: Fight with HMDA Rogue Mercantile in Michigan by ICP. Federal Reserve get ICP's Request for Reconsideration on Umpqua. Bank Beat: Bahrain merger on horizon. UN - Global: On Western Sahara, Outgoing French PR Gerard Araud's "Word" Belied by Acts in 2011 & 2010 MINURSO Renewals. Enviro: Garcia from NY to EPA and onward. Bronx: US Postal Service disparate impact discrimination 4/14/14 -- CRA: Protests to three BancorpSouth proposals, as Federal Reserve delays information 2 weeks. Bank Beat: Mercantile of Michigan is a rogue on HMDA. UN - Global: Week After Burundi Cable on Arming Young, SC Press Statement, What Action? Enviro: Comments for safer chemicals. Bronx: Style Wars revisited 4/7/14 -- CRA: In 2013 Disparities Continued at Citi, Chase, BofA & Wells as Fed Lax on M&T, US Bank & Smaller. Federal Reserve Order on Umpqua. Bank Beat: Royal Bank of Scotland products dropped? UN - Global: On Syria, Kessab Issues Hits LA & DC, UNSC Delay, Why Not Kardashian Arria, more here on Beacon Reader. Environmental Justice issues of moving auto business to Bronx, Hunts Point fights back? 3/31/14 -- CRA: Royal Bank of Scotland Sale of 93 Branches to US Bank Stalled, Info Withheld, CRA Protests. Federal Reserve: HSBC and Santander can't move dividends out of US. Bank Beat: Sumitomo Mitsui on the prowl? UN - Global: On Ukraine, IMF Answers ICP on Gas Price 50% Rise, Citing Kyiv. Enviro: Lawsuit against Kinder Morgan. Bronx: Rights Applied to NY City Council, Haiti Cholera Test, Bronx Scores Low 3/24/14 -- CRA: Payday lending hearing moved to Country Music Hall of Fame. Federal Reserve hits new low on M&T. Bank Beat: Old National WARN Act layoffs. UN - Global: In Ukraine, List of Parties UN's Ban Met Still UNdisclosed, Visa Ban. Enviro: Lead paint in Sri Lanka. Bronx: Sad memorial of Happy Land Social Club fire 3/17/14 -- CRA: Umpqua Bank commits to commit: but will Federal Reserve make it public? Bank Beat: On Ukraine, IMF Defers Most Press Questions While Mission “In Field,” Insiders? Evans Bank NA under scrutiny. UN - Global: Of French Mistrals to Russia, US Urges Restraint on Sale, Of Mayotte Analogy. Enviro: North Dakota crude halted in Albany. Bronx: Hearken back to occupations of Lincoln Hospital. 3/10/14 -- CRA: New M&T comment based on 2013 HMDA LAR filed by ICP. Federal Reserve: Parading big banks as experts? Bank Beat: M&T CEO Wilmers faces pay cut, still too high. UN - Global: In South Sudan, UN Admits "Error" of Trucks of Guns by Road, Haiti Cholera. Enviro: Gina McCarthy offers defense. Bronx: Waterfront games 3/3/2014 -- CRA: State Bank in North Dakota, maybe Montana; UK looks at CRA. Federal Reserve says no jurisdiction over Bitcoin. Bank Beat: Ocwen affiliates under scrutiny in NY. UN - Global: Myanmar Invited for UN Peacekeeping by Nambiar, UN Silent on Law (for ICP's Ukraine coverage, click here). Enviro: Ellison and Grijalva want EJ in Climate Action Plan. Bronx: Sushi shootout on 187th Street. 2/24/14 -- CRA: US Bank - Royal Bank of Scotland, 3d comment; Umpqua responds again, Mercantile is in denial, CFO Christmas in February. Federal Reserve by not commenting, enables? Bank Beat: Huntington spins Ohio branch closing to OCC. UN - Global: In Ukraine, Yanukovych Heads East, Putin - Obama Talk, Hagel Gets His Call. Enviro: GSA quashes probe in Buffalo, where we look at M&T: CRA & EJ. Bronx: Cheap tricks by Paris politician cited 2/17/14 -- CRA: Now Mercantile Bank Grilled by FDIC. Federal Reserve is asked to focus on regulating banks: how 'bout mergers? Bank Beat: M&T to close 10 branches. UN - Global: On FSA Child Soldiers, Amos Says Use Leverage, US Left UNanswered, Until Now. Enviro: Protest in San Antonio old Kelly AFP. Bronx: Mayor at Sanitation Garage 2/10/14 -- CRA: Second Comment on US Bank - Royal Bank of Scotland. Federal Reserve: Third questions to Umpqua - Sterling. Bank Beat: Kearny into Brooklyn? UN - Global: On Nuland & Feltman, UN Tells ICP It Might Be a Third Jeff, Or Geoff Pyatt. Enviro: Crude oil in Albany. Bronx: Tale of two, charter school defense and Osborne Association 2/3/14 -- CRA: Predators return, First Franklin founder is back. Federal Reserve asks Umpqua which branches it would close. Bank Beat: Mercantile says "progress" on acquisition of Firstbank, how? UN - Global: Deal On Rwanda Genocide Description Voted 15-0, US Policy UNexplained; Longer form here. Enviro: Mission Critical at Bowdoin. Bronx: Inaugurations, fundraises, State of the Boro / Union 1/27/14 -- CRA: Stegman Says Obama Wants To Repeal Affordable Housing Goals; First Franklin Andy Pollock is back. Federal Reserve, are they watching off-shore leaks? Bank Beat: Old National's response to ICP/Fair Finance Watch. UN - Global: Syria Represented by Ja'afari in Geneva, Annan to Iran After Ban Disinvitation. Enviro: Chevron in Richmond, Cali. Bronx: FOX's the following gums up Belmont. 1/20/14 -- CRA: Here's why press for disclosure of branch closings before a merger. Federal Reserve puts questions to Umpqua after ICP protest. Bank Beat: ICP comments on Old National. UN - Global: On Mali Gang Rapes, Chad Tells UN Probe's Finished, But Not Result: Longer form, with Video link, here via Beacon Reader. Enviro: Abuses in Bangladesh's shrimp industry. Bronx: Metro-North redlines; sale of General Post Office? 1/13/14 -- CRA: As US Bank Eyes 94 branches from RBS Citizens Charter One, ICP asks how many would close? Federal Reserve should answer on Huntington. Bank Beat: Old National eyes Michigan despite Indiana record. UN - Global: Khobragade "On Watchlist," But US Let French Dip Serman Return as Consul; UN Says Truck in Anti-Kagame Convoy "Taken Over" - But Jeep in Video? Enviro: West Virginia chemical spill. Bronx: no housing, just Red Lobster 1/6/14 -- CRA: Now Mercantile Bank is sued for discrimination, 3 get Needs to Improve from FDIC. Federal Reserve recruits new DCCA chief: groups should play role. Bank Beat: South Sudan plays hard ball. UN - Global: For South Sudan, Ladsous Cited Troops from Haiti, UN Wouldn't Answer, Morocco Follow Ups. Enviro: TPP would undercut protections. Bronx: De Blasio, Farina and Mark-Viverito 12/30/13 -- CRA: Enforcement against PNC, Ocwen and Ally; industry talk. Federal Reserve conditions on United VCB. Bank Beat: Rockville discloses which branches it would close, a long mile. UN - Global: On Killers Armed from Kiir's Armory, UN's Johnson Says It Was Broken Into. Enviro: Ex dry cleaner with tetrachloroethene (PCE). Bronx: Representing at NYC inauguration 12/23/13 -- CRA: After ICP protest, Huntington-Advantage "re-publish," comment to Jan 8. Federal Reserve vice chair from Citigroup? Bank Beat: FIG Partners on Mercantile, listening to management. UN - Global: In South Sudan As Civilians Threatened in Yuai, UN Evacuates Troops, No Briefings, FUNCA protests. Enviro: Critique of Obama climate plan. Bronx: Bloomberg brags about hot-sheet motels? 12/16/13 -- CRA: Mercantile Bank asks borrowers of color for letters. Federal Reserve reviews FirstBank merger application. Bank Beat: Old National closes branches, flies under Dodd Frank. UN - Global: In Mali, UN Peacekeepers Guarding Bank in Kidal Killed by Car Bomb, Questions for Ladsous. Enviro: Koch in Corpus Christi. Bronx: Abu Dhabi sheik and First Gulf Bank want 153rd Street, tax free bonds 12/9/13 -- CRA: Focus Shifts For Now to Smaller Banks, Federal Reserve Imposes Conditions on Investors Bancorp. Bank Beat: Delay for Mercantile and VCBI. UN - Global: France Says Its Troops in CAR Have No Economic Aspect, Power Agrees. Enviro: From Detroit to Nairobi for UNEP. Bronx: Marchiselli raged against the Machine, RIP7/8/13 -- CRA: Deutsche Bank's subprime settlement & spin in LA. Challenge to Investors Bancorp - GCF Bank. Federal Reserve governor Powell speaks before Deutsche Bundesbank: well, he worked at DB. Bank Beat: As Acacia moves on to Stifel, what's up with Customers Bancorp? UN - Global: After Meeting Bashir, UN's Ladsous Tells AFP “I Cannot Accept Impunity;" UN Deletes FUNCA's Thanks to Eliasson From Transcript, But Video Shows It. Enviro: EJ comic Mayah's Lot. Bronx: Gassy land on Locust Ave
7/1/13 -- CRA: In bottom feeding news, First Cash Financial Services buys Valu + Pawn. Federal Reserve typo for Investors Bancorp? Bank Beat: Florida - Arkansas deal. UN - Global: UN Denied DRC Army Links With FDLR, Silent on Sanctions Report; UN Says Layoffs in UNTV Won't Impact Service, in Static-filled Webcast, Live Streams for Sale? Enviro: EJ at 20. Bronx: Intro. 1036 on toxins in schools. 6/24/13 -- CRA: While M&T's money laundering agreement might speed deal, Federal Reserve has questions to answer. Beat Beat: Look to the Deep South again. UN - Global: In Somalia, UN Mine Action's Bax Gives Info to US, Travels Armed with Denel, Whistleblowers Tell ICP: Exclusive. At UN, Ban's Carbon Impact Incalculable, Airline Partners, FUNCA Sign & Space. Enviro: Smoke from Indonesia chokes in Singapore. Bronx: The Discriminatory Profiling Bill 6/17/13 -- CRA: In Virginia, Union First Market Bankshares wants to close 10 branches. Federal Reserve still promoting Bernanke speech from 2012. Bank Beat: Green Dot, GE and Walmart, what could go wrong? UN - Global: On Syria, OHCHR Didn't See Any Reason to Ask Who Paid for Study Ascribed To It; Ban Ki-moon's UN Tries to Impose One Party System, Banning the Press & Dissent, All but One Group's Signs. Enviro: EPA sued on volatile organic compounds. Bronx: Lobbying in Albany, luncheon for sale. 6/10/13 -- CRA: Renasant Bank blames the victim, calls lending barriers "psychological." Federal Reserve's Bloom Raskin pushes Basel III. Bank Beat: Hedge funds gun for Fannie Mae. UN - Global: On Peacekeeper Kidnaps, UN Says No Evidence of Involvement of "States;" UN Censorship Alliance Seek to Ban New Media from Unused SC Space, Speech. Enviro: Buffalo redux. Bronx: Justice for Ramarley Graham: delayed or denied?
6/3/13 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs spins its "Business Practices" without mentioning its subprime and Litton sleaze. Federal Reserve hears that Hinojosa won't report Anchor to Bolivia. Bank Beat: Capital One moves to sell HSBC's Best Buy book to Citigroup: add on? UN - Global: UN Met Syria on New Rep to Damascus, Bank Blockage Raised, Sarin Suspicions; As UN Cuts Media Access, Questions Of Its Partner's Lack of Legitimacy. Enviro: Suez with Al-Jihad to cover up Lebanon dump site. Bronx: Man steals ATM rugs from JP Morgan Chase, gets jail time unlike Dimon
5/27/13 -- CRA: So Bankia is proposing sell City National Bank of Florida to Chile's Banco de Credito e Inversiones. Federal Reserve belatedly acknowledges ICP comments on CRA Q&A. Bank Beat: Bank of America looking to dump NY/PA branches: on CBSI? UN - Global: Uganda Media Closures Brought to Ban Ki-moon's Attention, Free Press Begins at Home. Enviro: EPA spins permitting. Bronx: Young Lords, Boricua history 5/20/13 -- CRA: Comments in, on need for more rigor and transparency on applications. Federal Reserve extends time for FOIA response to ICP on M&T. Bank Beat: Hoosier state deal. UN - Global: On Kidnappings, Ja'afari Told Ladsous To Investigate, Secretariat "Is Involved;" Cameron "Understands" A There's a Syria Question from Reuters & UNCA, Censors on Sri Lanka. Enviro: Pennsylvania plant owners have to pay in neighboring states. Bronx: Return of the North Forker 5/13/13 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley's servicing victims now short-charged by Rust Consulting, Federal Reserve finds. Bank Beat: City National Bank of Florida going to Banco do Brasil over BB&T, PNC, NYCB, TD and... BankUnited? UN - Global: Minova Report Omits Roles of UN & Ladsous, Cover Up & Privacy Violations; On Sri Lanka, UN Panel Met Egeland, De Mistura, Schulenburg, Finish in June. Enviro: LA City Council approves railyard. Bronx: Obama praises cop who "randomly ran into getaway car" 5/6/13 -- CRA: Challenge to Investors - Roma makes (Newark) news. Federal Reserve: Fancy predators Goldman Sachs (Litton) and Morgan Stanley (Saxon). Bank Beat: Deep South moves on Renasant's F&M application. UN - Global: On Minova Rapes, ICP's Privacy Question Garners MONUSCO Response: The Roots of #LADSOUS2013; Behind UNCA "Press Freedom" Speech, Screeching Falk, False Terror Tweets. Enviro: Groups in TX and LA sue EPA on toxic reporting methods. Bronx: Film Festival, we're happy to promote 4/29/13 -- CRA: Absurd FDIC says it will give Renasant Bank application, after comment period closes. Federal Reserve hears spin from Investors Bank, passing the buck. Bank Beat: Kanas of BankUnited defends M&T. UN - Global: Ladsous Won't Say Who'll Disarm MNLA, Minova Rapes, Cote d'Ivoire Drone, MINURSO. Enviro: Houston as key to Keystone. Bronx: Man from Bangladesh beaten, now rally for tribunal. 4/22/13 -- CRA: Laundered buck doesn't stop with M&T's Wilmer. Federal Reserve didn't give documents under rules against ex parte commmunications, FOIA now. Bank Beat: OCC counsel Amy Friend, through revolving door from Promontory. At IMF, S. Sudan on Budget Support, Comoros on Restrictions, BRICS Bank; India Fin Min Chidambaram Tells ICP Obama's IMF Reform Vote Delayed, Will Meet Lew. UN - Global: On Western Sahara, AU Writes to UN, Pushing African View not WW2 Carve Up; France Uses Veto from WW2 to Own UN Peacekeeping, Mention Triggers Threat. Enviro: Tejeda in Buffalo. Bronx: Bill de Blasio in Parkchester, where's Liu & others? 4/15/13 -- CRA: More delay for M&T, more disparities at Citibank. Federal Reserve asks some questions about Anchor Commercial. Bank Beat: Now Banco do Brasil scoping out City National Bank of Florida: BankUnited still in the game? UN - Global: On Minova, Ban Ki-moon Spokesman Admits He Had Answer to ICP's Qs, Gave 1st to Reuters & AFP; After Raiding Press, Ban's UN Shared Photos, Leaked to BuzzFeed. Enviro: ExxonMobil fined in NH. Bronx: Comparing Citi's lending to Manhattan. 4/8/13 -- CRA: In 2012 Subprime Lending Disparities at KeyCorp, US Bank & SunTrust, Denials Elsewhere as Fed Lax. Federal Reserve: Only 78 applications pending: and some already rubber stamped. Bank Beat: IMF Compares Ireland to Florida & California, Tells ICP of Faster Foreclosures; Investors - Gateway. UN - Global: For Mali Envoy, Ban Slates De Mistura, Who Hired His Son in Law in Iraq. Enviro: RIP Emelda West of Convent, LA. Bronx: Sell off (and sell out) of Bronx post office 4/1/13 -- CRA: In 2012 Disparities Continued at Citi, Chase, BofA & Wells as Fed Lax, ICP Studies & Challenges. Federal Reserve goes nameless on FirstMerit. Bank Beat: IMF Defensive on Cyprus & Lagarde Legal Bind, Ignores Africa, Sudan & Tunisia: Then Answers. UN - Global: Ladsous' Refusal To Answer on Congolese Army Rapes Began in May 2012 on Haiti Cholera, UNCA Assisted; Fake Ban Ki-moon Tweets, UNCA Fakers Are Lapdogs, of Citigroup, Reuters. Enviro: Copper smelter closed in Tamil Nadu. Bronx: Premiere of music film Havana, Havana 3/25/13 -- CRA: Of FOIA Withholdings and Revolving Doors. Federal Reserve's Sarah Bloom Raskin cites banks' broken windows. Bank Beat: A Florida attempted deal. UN - Global: Amnesty Says Syria Rebels Shouldn't Be Armed, Yet, of Censorship at UN; After Photographing UN Raid of ICP Office, Falk of CBS & UNCA Sends ICP a Legal Threat About Question in a Story. Enviro: TD hits on Keystone XL pipeline. Bronx: Of Cyprus and Cypress Avenue 3/18/13 -- CRA: Mel Watt for FHFA? SEC lets Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America exclude shareholders' proposal to break up the banks. Federal Reserve provides little notice of branch closing proceeding. Bank Beat: SEC & In Tunisia, IMF Asks of Ennahda Government's Mandate, of Sri Lanka Moody's. UN - Global: As UN Denied Haiti Cholera, It Ignores Questions of Censorship, Ladsous Abuse. Enviro: Lawsuit against oil pollution in Nigeria. Bronx: Operation Clean Halls; Rare UN Link to NYC, Police Shooting Raised by ICP, LA Mayor Responds.3/11/13 -- CRA: Showdown brewing. Federal Reserve: half responds on Investors. Bank Bank: NYCB skanking around OneWest, f/k/a IndyMac UN - Global: On Congo Rapes, Ladsous' Policy Is 3 Strikes & MAYBE You're Out, Botching Ban Ki-moon's? Enviro: Beaver Lake Cree against tar sands. Bronx: New Museum's 1993, with murder cliche
3/4/13 -- CRA:
Challenge to Investors Bancorp - Roma. Federal
Reserve rewards Bank of Hawaii as it moves to
close American Samoa branches. Bank
Beat: Sleazy and foreclosure from BankUnited. UN - Global:
Haiti
Cholera
Dismissal Harms UN's "Corporate Reputation,” Ging
Tells ICP; UN
Won't Explain Its Rules or Complaint to ICP, As
Reuters Ascribes Its Fear-mongering to Unnamed
Diplomats. Enviro:
As Obama approves Keystone XL tar sands pipelines, EJ
impacts. Bronx:
Food insecurity
2/25/13 -- CRA: American Samoa faces March 15 lose of 50% deposit holder Bank of Hawaii, run by former FDIC official Donna Tanoue. Federal Reserve tells ICP the web address it communicates with banks through is “not responsive to your FOIA request.” Bank Beat: HSBC moves to sell off in Panama to Bancolombia. UN - Global: Free Speech, UN Style, Extends to Press Bulletin Boards, Single Standard Urged by FUNCA. Enviro: from North Carolina toxins 1982 to now. Bronx: More clowns into the borough.
2/18/13 -- CRA: Customers Bancorp gets grilled on Acacia, but asks Federal Reserve to withhold all its answers, like Live Oak. Bank Beat: Renasant's proposal to acquire First M&F Corp. Enviro: Marcellus Shale projects protected in PA. Bronx: Hunts Point and Mott Haven, tough to be a kid
2/11/13 – CRA: When Live Oak moved to buy Government Loan Solutions, they told the Federal Reserve to approve even while the comment period was open. Bank Beat: Customers Bancorp gets grilled, Ecuador's Pacific National Bank for sale. UN – Global: Yemen Eclipsed by Weapons Seizure & Iran Sanctions Committee, No Drones; On DRC & Sudan, After Ban Ki-moon Spoke to UNCA's 13 Opaque Apostles, No Transcript? Enviro: Stonewalling on deforestation by Dolce&Gabbana, Chanel, Hermes and Prada. Bronx: Seis del Sur, photos by six, of the South
2/4/13 -- CRA: On fair lending, 80% correct is enough for Customers Bancorp, Federal Reserve will agree? Bank Beat: At Capital One, new CFO Stephen Crawford to take over from Fairbank? Subprime forever. As IMF Stops $240M DRC Loan for Opacity, UN Stonewalls. UN - Global: After Jumping Gun on DRC Drones, UN Procurement Open Through March; At UN Big Media Target Press with Fake Twitter Account Alleging Terror Finance. Enviro: Dutch court hits Shell for Nigeria pollution. Bronx: Anniversary of cop killing of Ramarley Graham. Demise, too, of Umberto's Clam House
1/28/13 -- CRA: Protest to purchase of control of Anchor Commercial Bank, which makes conventional loans only to whites. Federal Reserve extended comment period from October to January 25. Bank Beat: Capital One earning projections down, post HSBC subprime, goes back to ABS. UN - Global: UN Declares War in Congo Via Official Left Nameless by AFP, Reuters & BBC; UN Postpones Trashing FUNCA Fliers, Stonewalls on UNCA's Glassed-In Board. Enviro: New EPA Tejada is asked, but not about FOIA. Bronx: Schools slated for closing in June: outrage
1/21/13 -- CRA: Belated release of some M&T information, ICP will appeal. Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's Lacker re-accuses Geithner of leaking to BofA. Bank Beat: In Greece, IMF Presses For NBG-Eurobank Merger, to 40% Market Share. UN - Global: In Mali France Evaded "Algerian Element" in SCR 2085, Hostage Taking Followed; UN's Delayed Move, Favoritism in Responses & Space Raised by FUNCA, Some Reforms Won. Enviro: Lisa Jackson talks Bay, not FOIA. Bronx: MTA's Select Bus goes dark
1/14/13 -- CRA: Why give the US Treasury to Citigroup-er Lew? Federal Reserve cut its own Live Oak comment period, FOIA filed. Bank Beat: HSBC's "zombie titles" in its US headquarters city. UN - Global: On Mali, France's Bombing Bypassed Dec. 20 Resolution, Ban Scammed? UNCA & VOA Said They Imposed Conditions on Free Press with Reuters & AFP Help, FOIA Shows. Enviro: New EPA head of Environmental Justice. Bronx: Fight to keep St. Jerome School in Mott Haven open
1/7/13 -- CRA: Capital One's (Non) Compliance with Merger Commitments Withheld by Federal Reserve Governor Powell under FOIA. Bank Beat: FirstMerit's hidden Citizens Republic arguments. UN - Global: At UN, South Africa Sangqu on Missions in Somalia, Mali & DRC, Fight for Fairness; After Reuters, AFP, Voice of America & UNCA Tried to Expel Press, FUNCA Fliers Defaced for Coronation. Enviro: Coal plants in neighborhoods of color. Bronx: Housing on old gas station?
12/31/12 -- CRA: Georgia counties sue HSBC for predatory lending. Federal Reserve Governor Powell games FOIA, finding new reasons to withhold M&T filings. Bank Beat: Investors - Roma smells bad in Garden State & NY. UN - Global: As UN Squeezes Press Out, Gives Space to NYT Which "Never" Comes, FUNCA Is Born. Enviro: Lisa Jackson resigned - through scam email address? Bronx: A bridge too far
12/24/12 -- CRA: Customers Bancorp delayed by ICP Fair Finance Watch comments to Federal Reserve, which sits on FOIA requests. Bank Beat: EZCorp pawnshop sleaze. UN - Global: Refusing Rape Questions, Ladsous Has Mic Removed from Press as UNCA Watches; At UNCA, of Lyall Grant & Rice, Sri Lanka & Expulsion Links, Schwarzenegger Prized. Enviro: EPA's e-mail scam. Bronx: leads in fast food, down in banks.
12/17/12 -- CRA: As HSBC settles on money laundering for drug dealers, no jail time. Federal Reserve withholds how to contact it. Bank Beat: Synovus tries to get ready to sell itself- but to whom? UN - Global: UN Elections Scams from DRC, Pension to UNCA, Banning Democracy. On Sri Lanka, UN Review to 2Q 2013, NO Silva Visit Screening & Kilinochchi Questions. Enviro: FirstMerit's "Environmental Matters" section withheld by Fed. Bronx: FreshDirect makes small concession on trucks: not enough
12/10/12 -- CRA: FirstMerit tries to withhold almost every exhibit to Federal Reserve, which calls ICP on smaller deals like Customers - Acacia. Bank Beat: If Bankia sells City National Bank of Florida. UN - Global: FOIA Appeal Shows UNCA Tried to Throw Press Out of UN, So FUNCA. Ladsous Now Admits Minova Rapes, But Won't Say by Whom, If Works With. Enviro: DOJ fines Liberian ship; what about Trafigura? Bronx: Construction worker crushed.
12/3/12 -- CRA: Contempt for predatory lending victim by Bank of America, but judge gives continuance. Federal Reserve goes old school on First Merit. Bank Beat: Hurricane Sandy helps the rotten Apple? IMF Won't Answer on Rwanda, Sudan or Hungary, Does on Bosnia and Sri Lanka. UN - Global: On Rapes in Minova, Ladsous Calls Situation Fluid, Won't Say Which Units, Policy Question Dodged; On Palestine, US Pressure Gets Pacific Abstentions, Scorn at Slovenia, ICC Games. Enviro: Study of coal plants. Bronx: Zaro's fine, like Happy Land.
11/26/12 -- CRA: Now M&T is hit in New Jersey too. Federal Reserve silent on withholding records of pre-announcement meetings until 1 hour before deadline. Bank Beat: How Citizens Republic sold itself anonymous. UN - Global: In DRC, UN Spun Failure As Allowing Monitoring, Then Silent on Minova: Ladsous Must Go; After Gaza Deal, Israel Talks Iran, Susan Rice Opposes Observer State Status. Enviro: Trafigura's piddling settlement for Ivorian dumping. Bronx: MetroNorth rip off, discrimination
11/19/12 -- CRA: On BankUnited, OCC Slow on the Draw, still substandard Web list of mergers. Federal Reserve defers on LIBOR. Bank Beat: ICP challenges FirstMerit - Citizens Republic. UN - Global: On Gaza, Arab Ambassadors Convey Dissatisfaction to SC Prez, Consider Next Move; On Sri Lanka, Malcorra Explains Ban Blacking Out His Position & Accepting Shavendra Silva as Adviser. Enviro: NYS Court rules against school on toxic land. Bronx: Candy's end
11/12/12 -- CRA: Fed Met M&T 10 Days Before Hudson Deal, FOIA Shows, Appeal filed with Federal Reserve as 11th Hour Partial Disclosure. Bank Beat: Challenge to BankUnited and Herald National Bank. UN - Global: At UN, States Get Palestine Resolution for Observer State Status, Vote "Near Future;" At UN on Genocide, Burying Sri Lanka Report, Rwanda's French Connection. Enviro: Cancer in Ecuador's oil producing regions. Bronx: Sandy hits Bruckner, and Turtle Bay
11/5/12 -- CRA: Predatory securitizing by Royal Bank of Scotland presages US sell-off? Federal Reserve slow with questions on M&T - Hudson City Savings? Bank Beat: Suits against FirstMerit - Citizen Republic. UN - Global: On Somalia, With EU & US "Too Cheap" for Naval Component, Amendments? Enviro: HSBC funds destructive logging. Bronx: Tony's Pier is gone.
10/29/12 -- CRA: While Hudson Savings' disparities go unexplained, M&T uses ex Federal Reserve lawyer to respond. Bank Beat: Cynical branch gunjumping by BankUnited. UN - Global: As UNSC Speaks on Ceasefire But Not Terrorism, Al Qaeda OK in Some Places? On Sri Lanka, Heyns on 40,000 Dead and Video Half-Shown in UN, UPR. Enviro: Detroit's Delray and a possible bridge to Canada. Bronx: Redlined in favor of Manhattan and Long Island
10/22/12 -- CRA: Flagship branch of Bank of America has power bar but no beverages like Capital One, OCC's order disappears. Federal Reserve approved anti-competitive merger in Indiana. Bank Beat: UK questions FSA on mergers: what questions in US? UN - Global: Defending Drones at UN, Koh Says Transparency Is Aided by US on HRC, 2d Term Promises. Enviro: Bullard in Tennessee. Bronx: Metro North and Parkchester in planning
10/15/12 -- CRA: As M&T Protest Proceeds, Trustmark Tells Federal Reserve of Delay. Bank Beat: FDIC gives predatory tax refund lender Republic a bank in Minnesota. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, UN's 4 Month Report Not Done in Year, Petrie on to Myanmar. Enviro: Wells Fargo wheels and deal in pollution control too. Bronx: Apple in Denial
10/8/12 -- CRA: Lending Disparities Shown in Protest to M&T - Hudson City, Biggest Merger of 2011. Federal Reserve to deny mergers per Bernanke's baseball analysis? Bank Beat: On Rwanda, IMF Tells ICP It Studies M23-Related Delay in Aid Until Next Week; IMF Tells ICP Welcomes Sudans Deals, Ready to Support Both - Debt Relief? UN - Global: As France Spins Two-Step on Mali, ECOWAS Frustration, What of Algeria and Chad? Enviro: Coal waste in Alaska. Bronx: Felony delay
10/1/12 -- CRA: Capital One announces more post-HSBC layoffs, says fraud is expanding. Federal Reserve belatedly releases basic market share and money laundering information. Bank Beat: Secret LIBOR meetings offered by Mitsubish UFJ. UN - Global: At UNGA's Surreal Stakeout, Swiss Small 5 Lost in Translation, Morocco Runs; As Wittig Takes Abyei Question Ladsous Refused, DPKO Tries Edit UNTV. Enviro: "Legacy" at U Mich. Bronx: Profiling, stop and frisky
9/24/12 -- CRA: Capital One fight continues, M&T - Hudson City starts. Federal Reserve honcho Parkinson cashes out to Promontory. Bank Beat: General Electric & MetLife slither to OCC, evasion. UN - Global: As Ban Ki-moon Meets UAE & Arab League, Roed-Larsen at Both, Ladsous Only UAE. Enviro: Illinois goes soft on Ameren. Bronx: Down at the Occupy Wall Street 1-year Anniversary
9/17/12 -- CRA:
BB&T will close 21 branches after BankAtlantic
rubber stamp from Federal
Reserve, which withholds Mitsubishi UFJ
documents. Bank
Beat: Doubts about FirstMerit / Citizens
Republic, including branch closings in Ohio. Still no
approval for General
Electric buying MetLife Bank's deposits. UN - Global:
After
Benghazi Killings, US Proposed Criticizing
Denigration of Religion, France Said No: Likes
Denigrating; As
3 More Afghan Audits Leak, UNAMA Deputy Says UN
Should Disclose Risk. Enviro:
Scotts kills birds. Bronx:
Occupy
Wall Street is back: Inner City Press YouTube channel
video here
9/10/12 -- CRA: Trustmark is queried about its response to protect of lending disparities, but why doesn't Federal Reserve send questions to Press? Bank Beat: FERC charges Deutsche Bank with electrical manipulation. UN - Global: On UNICEF's Syria Death Count, UN Says It's Not on Ground, Cites Ban Ki-moon in General Assembly; As Feltman Jogs Into US Mission, Need for UN FOIA, & Schedules Online. Enviro: Cali system to rate EJ by zip code. Bronx: Probe the killing of Reynaldo Cuevas
9/3/12 -- CRA: Predatory lending news, Citigroup settlement, World Acceptance, Advance America and Grupo Azteca. Federal Reserve gets more time from Congress on LIBOR while denying ICP's request under FOIA. Bank Beat: SocGen moves to sell Egypt bank to Qatar: Arab Spring? UN - Global: On Syria, UNICEF's 1600 Death Count Came From Media, Not OCHA; Rwanda's Mushikiwabo Says UN Looks for Excuses, Hege is Ideologically Bankrupt (video here). Enviro: Fight on California rail. Bronx: Poe on Courtlandt, Nunca Mas
8/27/12 -- CRA: Trustmark denies African Americans six times more frequently than white in Jackson MS, Wachtell says it's okay, Federal Reserve withholds even deposits market share. Bank Beat: LIBOR paragraph of Mitsubishi UFJ redacted. UN - Global: Returning to NY at 81, Brahimi's Jordan & Anti-Election Links Eyed; UN Confirms Flying DRC Officials to Meet Mai Mai, Says Didn't Know Topic. Enviro: In Philippines, green judge is elevated. Bronx: Redlined from Wi-Fi, what about Crotona Park?
8/20/12 -- CRA:: As NY Regulator does Standard Chartered, offers comment period of negative 2 days. Federal Reserve confirms receipt of Trustmark protest. Bank Beat: Sanctions evasion alleged at Deutsche Bank. UN - Global: Brahimi Is Not a Nobel Laureate, Nobel Foundation Tells ICP, Who Corrects? At UN, Tale of 12 Twitter Feeds, Missions Tweet Stakeouts, Facebook Start-Ups. Enviro: ExxonMobil spill in Baton Rouge. Bronx: Absurd subsidy to Trump golf course
8/13/12 -- CRA: Challenge to Trustmark's bid to buy BankTrust, for lending disparities. Federal Reserve asleep on Standard Chartered. Bank Beat: Brazil's Itau on the hunt, Wesbanco too. UN - Global: On Syria, ICP Puts Ban's Letter Online, No Answer on Brahimi & Feltman; new FOIA Exclusive: Reuters & AFP Sought Ouster from UN of Inner City Press, Voice of America Records Show. Enviro: Lloyd's of London & the Stringfellow acid pits in Jurupa Valley, CA. Bronx: Time for ULURP on City Island Bridge.
8/6/12 -- CRA: Secrets of tax Refund Anticipation Loans held back by Tokyo Mitsubishi, as well as LIBOR scandal. Federal Reserve lets BB&T BankAtlantic off the hook: bygones. Bank Beat: HSBC abandons communities with Community Bank Systems, Greendot rots. UN - Global: On Syria, As Russia Nixes Ahtisaari, India On Abstention, Strange Rights of Reply; At UN, Broken Elevators, Hot Offices, No Drinking Water After Capital Master Plan. Enviro: Tar sands confab. Bronx: Stop n' frisk at Hostos
7/30/12 -- CRA: Appeal under FOIA on BB&T BankAtlantic makes Federal Reserve release documents showing pre-consideration of "Project Palm." Bank Beat: 2 Vendors Who Sold Add-ons for Capital One, Affinion Group Holdings & Intersections, also sell for Citigroup, Wells Fargo and Bank of America: calling the CFPB. As IMF Briefs on Spain, Former Chief Rato Pushed Bankia to Bailout, Safeguards? UN - Global: On Syria, Mood Has Changed, UN Front-Runner, Rwanda Like Exit? Enviro: Pig waste in NC. Bronx: Metro North rip-off; NYC Council districting hearing Aug 23
7/23/12 -- CRA: As CFPB and OCC belatedly fine Capital One, why did OCC let Cap One buy HSBC's subprime cards? Federal Reserve governor Powell releases some under FOIA, withholds more, conflicted? Bank Beat: Deals in Washington, Texas, California, PA and NY. UN - Global: To Extend UN Mission to Syria, West Drops Troops to Barracks Condition; As Ladsous Justifies Refusing Press Qs, Stonewalls on Mercenaries & DRC Killings. Enviro: Alcoa's PCBs in NC. Bronx: Anti-obesity in C-Town.
7/16/12 -- CRA: Ten days of smaller mergers on which CRA should be enforced. Federal Reserve offers "pre-filing" help, then no comment on record to the Press. Bank Beat: Terrorism funding support by HSBC; Losses grow at JPMorgan Chase's losses mount, what Jaime Dimon knew and when he knew it. On Angola's Oil Funds, IMF Tells Inner City Press It's Working on Discrepancies. UN - Global: At UN, Still No Answer to NYCLU on Accreditation Rules, 48 Hours Notice. Enviro: Los Angeles scrap story. Bronx: From the NYT, Crocodile Tears
7/9/12 -- CRA: Capital One - ING documents withheld by Jay Powell, former Deutsche Banker at Federal Reserve which cooks book on FOIA appeals on BB&T. Bank Beat: Germany Probes Deutsche Bank on LIBOR manipulation. UN - Global: After NYCLU Writes to UN, UNCA Files Bogus Report With Government, "Judge" With DSS, New Lows at UN. Enviro: From People's Summit in Rio. Bronx: Triangle sleaze in HUB.
7/2/12 -- CRA: Fee gouging by Capital One, Bank of America. Federal Reserve hides information about Mitsubishi's "Project Pebble Beach," ICP appeals. Bank Beat: JPMorgan Chase London loss up to $6 Billion. In Greek IMF Tragedy & Lagarde Guilt, Africa Ignored As Sudan Protests, Coups in Mali and Guinea Bissau. UN - Global: On Syria, As Clinton Claims Text Ousts Assad, Lavrov Laughs; After Voice of America & UNCA Seek to Oust ICP from UN, Legal Notification. Enviro: NYS regs on power plants. Bronx: Ticket fixing goes global.
6/25/12 -- CRA: Mitsubishi spins Santa Barbara RALs, blacks out information as Federal Reserve withholds 634 pages in full. Bank Beat: Capital One #1 in complaints. UN - Global: Voice of America Complaint to Get ICP Out of UN Violates 1st Amendment. Enviro: Rio+20 blue washes Wal-Mart, Coca Cola and Unilever. Bronx: Metro North discrimination, Sheridan Avenue slumlord
6/18/12 -- CRA: Occupy versus Wells Fargo and US Bancorp; Experian will mine public data for credit scores: Facebook? Federal Reserve withholds 156 full pages about BB&T - BankAtlantic. Bank Beat: Mitsubishi UFJ would close at least 5 Santa Barbara Bank & Trust branches, including Watsonville and Lompoc, policy withheld. UN - Global: UN Now Says Ready to Monitor in Syria, After Memo, Mood is Schizo? Ignoring Syria Scoops, Pioli's UNCA Tries to Pick 2 More Hanging Judges. Enviro: Rio+20 document only 28% ready, war criminals on the way. Bronx: Suit filed against Fresh Direct in Harlem River Yards.
6/11/12 -- CRA: Huntington's in-store branches in Meijer supermarkets is redlining Detroit. Federal Reserve lets Mitsubishi UFJ withhold due diligence of RALs rogue Santa Barbara Bank & Trust. Bank Beat: FDIC splits hairs with General Electric's predatory lender WMC on MetLife. UN - Global: UN Uses UNCA to Ban Free Press for Reporting on Sri Lanka: Hypocrisy Like Haiti, Astroturf like Darfur. Enviro: LaHood delays Detroit light rail. Bronx: MetroNorth conductors cover up, leave Bronxites behind.
6/4/12 -- CRA: OCC's Williams belatedly responds on Capital One, says ex parte A-OK. Federal Reserve Bank of SF sends acknowledgement three weeks after it's dated. Bank Beat: Another sleazy Deutsche Bank buy. IMF Peppered on Lagarde's Linking Greece to Niger, But Sudan UNanswered. UN - Global: As UNCA Pushes Anti-Press Move, Sri Lanka Says ICP Faces Jail. Enviro: In Mexixo, Hansa Urbana pushes harmful Cabo Cortés project. Bronx: Cablevision workers to vote on unionization on June 28
5/29/12 -- CRA: Months later, Capital One - ING information responsive to FOIA requests & appeal of ICP released by Federal Reserve, as FRBNY's Dudley is protected from Dimon on board question. Bank Beat: Citigroup loses money in Facebook, Turkey. UN - Global: At UN, Charges Against Investigative Press Undisclosed, ICP's Feltman Scoop Stolen by Reuters: Policy? Enviro: Chevron's Apoi North field in Nigeria. Bronx: Housing project tenants organize, question NYCHA transparency
5/21/12 -- CRA: Branch closures of HSBC sites by First Niagara covered up by OCC. Federal Reserve widens loophole for foreign governments to buy US banks without review. Bank Beat: JPMorgan Chase's lose grows, as "sufficient regulation" claimed. On Sudan IMF Has No View on Oil Transit Fee, Notes Country's in Arrears. UN - Global: Amid Syria Failure, UN Demands Deletion of its Official's Name, Questions Sources. Enviro: Bloomberg's wetlands protections skips over the Bronx for Staten Island. Bronx: NYC Responsible Banking reviewed
5/14/12 -- CRA: Deutsche Bank pays $200 M for predatory lending, defrauding FHA, after Federal Reserve let DB de-certify. Time for Fed to reconsider? Bank Beat: Spin & hubris by Jaime Dimon after JPMorgan Chase's $2B CDO loss. On Myanmar, IMF Won't Assess Reversion to Repression, Kachin Not Considered. UN - Global: On Libya Sanctions, 5 UN SC Members Fail to File Reports, P5 Threatens S5. Enviro: Hess gas plant approved in Cory Booker's Newark. Bronx rebels against Fresh Direct sweat heart deal in corrupt Harlem River Rail Yards
5/7/12 -- CRA: Challenge to Mitsubishi UFJ - Santa Barbara Bank & Trust. As Deutsche Bank Evades Federal Reserve, Governor Tarullo Alludes to "Some Private Actors," Blurs FOIA & Volcker Rulemaking. Bank Beat: IMF Notes Heglig Impact, Dodges on Sudans Oil Transfer Fee, Answers Romania. UN - Global: In Myanmar, Ban Ki-Moon Praised & Partnered with Spying Company. Enviro: At UN, Right to Info Stripped from Rio + 20, Extra Week Set, Indigenous Silenced? Bronx: Why is the NY regulator DFS less open and responsive even than the FDIC on NY Community Bank - Aurora?
4/30/12 -- CRA: Protest to Lehman's Aurora being acquire by NY Community Bank, appeal to Federal Reserve denying all records about Capital One. UN - Global: UN Admits Cluster Bombs in Sri Lanka, But Still Spin for Shavendra Silva, Ban Ki-moon Silent. Enviro: Marathon Oil in Detroit's zip code 48217. Bronx: Van's deadly fall into Zoo, second time since 2006
4/23/12 -- CRA: On Capitol Hill, taxation of mortgage principal reduction raised. Federal Reserve urges citizen review of banks' performance outside the USA? Bank Beat: Capital One admits $75 million of fraud. At IMF, Canada's FinMin Flaherty Tells ICP Glad for Delay of Volcker Rule, Geithner. UN - Global: Assad's Shabeeha Urged by Annan to Disarm & "Work With UN," More Mood? Enviro: Texas colonias w/o chlorinated water. Bronx: Beaten to death, Koreantown style, in the Melrose Houses
4/16/12 -- CRA: Regulation dodging by GE Capital protested by ICP to Utah, as MetLife tried Federal Reserve registration delisting. Bank Beat: Capital One called destroyer of competition. As IMF Tells Bangladesh How to Regulate Banks, Insiders Rush for Licenses; As IMF Praises and Turns from Iceland, Cites Basel, Calls Hungary Anti-Bank. UN - Global: On Syria, Mysteries of Mood, UK on Transition, Morocco Asked of Free Movement; On Syria, Annan Spokesman Tells ICP Mood Is Out of Game, Colonel In. Enviro: Lead paint violations in Bridgeport, CT. Bronx: Culinary gentrification in Port Morris.
4/9/12 -- CRA: Disparities at Bank of America which provided data late. Federal Reserve told to extend comment period. Bank Beat: BB&T gives notice of BankAtlantic amendment late. IMF On Sri Lanka Deficit, No Reference to Defense, No Timeline for Egypt Deal. UN - Global: UN Hinders Coverage of Advisory Group & War Criminal Silva's Role, Minders? Enviro: World Bank at Rio +20? Bronx: Ramarley Graham killed, belatedly covered.
4/2/12 -- CRA: In First Study of 2011 HMDA Data, Subprime Lending Continued Disparate at Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, US Bank and Wells Fargo while Federal Reserve Lax on Deutsche Bank and BB&T. Bank Beat: Capital One and Bank of America Late With Data. UN - Global: At UN, Quotes of Peacekeepers to Syria Point to DPKO Chief & His Country's Perm Rep? Enviro: Texas hydrofloric fight. Bronx: NY behemoths
3/26/12 -- CRA: Tax Refund Anticipation Loans, Republic Bank & Trust fought to keep 'em this year. Deutsche Bank moves to evade regulation, Federal Reserve's Tarulla says will act. Bank Beat: Turkey Akbank sale explained by Basel III. IMF Says Consults Broadly in Egypt, Focus on Democracy Doubted, Mali Silence. UN - Global: As UN Proposes Peacekeeping Surveillance, Opposition to DPKO's "Spymaster" Ladsous and His "Drones." Enviro: Keystone XL redux. Bronx: Foreclosure Auction Blockade.
3/19/12 -- CRA: Japan based Mitsubishi UFJ moves to buy tax Refund Anticipation Loan predator. Federal Reserve Board goes on Twitter late and stiff, CFPB greets it. Bank Beat: Deutsche Bank in Peru, subprime covered in France. UN - Global: As Annan Briefed UN SC, Syria's Six Point Response Put Online by ICP. Enviro: Raiding clean energy like mortgage settlement. Bronx: Police Push Occupy Wall Street Out of Zuccotti Park Again, American Spring?
3/12/12 -- CRA: As OCC approves Capital One - HSBC, weakness on HMDA and due process. G20 under Mexico is against Volcker Rule, as Mexico-based subprimer tries to buy Advance America. Federal Reserve cracks down - too late. Bank Beat: Another Florida echo of Bank Atlantic. IMF Says Hungary's Fillegi Will Not Meet Management, of CB, Philippines. UN - Global: UN's Pascoe Admits Failure on #Kony2012, Joins Ocampo in Praise, Ban Ki-moon Silent. Enviro Justice: No existe, en El Salvador. Bronx: Subsidized gentrification on Brook Avenue, Via Verde.
3/5/12 -- CRA: Bailout sued by ING as requests for reconsideration pend at Federal Reserve which meets with banks on Volcker Rule. Bank Beat: BankAtlantic slammed by judge, at BB&T application pends. UN - Global: As UK Lyall Grant Regrets UN Envoy Banned from Sierra Leone, Of Meece's Meekness, Frechette in Breeze. Enviro: justice of EPA in New Bedford? Bronx: All 1.4 million support Congressional lines?
2/27/12 -- CRA: Reconsideration is requested of Capital One - ING approval by Federal Reserve: segmentation, mortgage lending drop, insider process and violations of FOIA. Bank Beat: IMF Spins Egypt's Need, Half Answer on Unelected Military SCAF, Pledge. UN - Global: In Asia Group, Sri Lanka Says Stands Behind Silva, Group Letter Not Agreed To. Enviro: Now EPA's Jackson says fracking can be safe. Bronx: Signs of the time: prostitution vodka, Storage Post nits.
2/20/12 -- CRA: After Delay and Document Dump, Capital One - ING Approved by Federal Reserve, Reconsideration Next? Bank Beat: Second timely comment on BankAtlantic. UN - Global: On Silva, Ambassadors Meet With UN Peacekeeping, Rice Says Concerned, Immunity Letter from USUN Surfaces. Enviro: Rio + 20. Bronx: Baby stabbed with pen, man shot, both to Lincoln
2/13/12 -- CRA: Capital One spun delay, made improper contacts with the Federal Reserve: through the revolving door. Bank Beat: ICP gets comment period on takeover of Bank Atlantic extended. UN - Global: As Sri Lanka Letter to ICP & Ban Ki-moon Spokesman Blurs Shavendra Silva Role in Ban's Experts Report, UN Omits to Check. Enviro: Canadian tar sands bitumen on the move. Bronx: DA demands that teen beaten by police give statement on the charges against him.
2/6/12 -- CRA: More Capital One withholding about its lending and Federal Reserve claims. Bank Beat: Challenge to BankAtlantic deal. UN - Global: At UN, Amid Possible Switch From Sri Lanka War Criminal Silva to Kohona, Ban Dismisses Predecessor Criticism. Enviro: On (and against) mountain top coal removal. Bronx: 13 years after Amadou shot, 149th is taken
1/30/12 -- CRA: Capital One - ING still protested, now based on Federal Reserve withholding 590 pages from ICP under FOIA, blacking out others. Bank Beat: First Niagara still says it'd close 30 to 35 branches. UN - Global: In AU Summit in Addis, Ban Spins "Negligence" in South Sudan As UN Stonewalls, Migiro Out. Enviro: FirstEnergy closing coal plants in Ohio. Bronx: March against warrantly stop and frisk.
1/23/12 -- CRA: Predatory lending pigeons come home to roost at General Electric and RSB (Fred the Shred's knighthood in question); ING - Capital One documents withheld by OCC after referral from Federal Reserve as Fairbank brags of 1st quarter closing. Bank Beat: the DOJ connection with Covington & Burling explains lack of enforcement? UN - Global: UN's Ban Knew Had No Copters in South Sudan for 6 Weeks, Now Passes the Buck; Still No UN Count, "Not Smooth" But When Did Ban Take Action? Enviro: Clean up of coal tars, cyanide-contaminated purifier waste. Bronx: a history in beer.
1/16/12 -- CRA: Capital One Is Asked About Breaking Bankruptcy Laws. As Morgan Keegan Sells Out to Raymond James, Recess Appointment for Federal Reserve Board? Capital One Withholding Challenged under FOIA. Bank Beat: Fee madness at Citigroup, TD, Bank of America, PNC, RBS, US Bancorp. As IMF Spins on Greece & Hedge Funds, No Answers on Ukraine, Sri Lanka. UN - Global: In South Sudan, As UN Downgrades Pibor Dead to 15, It Stonewalls On Russian Copter Contract Lapse. Enviro: EJ clean up (too) fast at Happy Land gas up site. Bronx: will Teamsters Local 202 go on strike at Hunts Point Market?
1/9/12 -- CRA: Capital One withholdings answers, comments to Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve FOIA challenge. Bank Beat: Bad karma for Citigroup (not) selling its subprime unit. UN - Global: At UN, Trip by Ban to Palestine & Lebanon Confirmed, Saleh Speaker, Questions of ICP's AlexWolff to DPA Scoop & Who Pays Planes? Enviro: EJ in St. Lucie, Florida. Bronx: remediation, shooting
1/2/12 -- CRA: Capital One's ING proposal stalled since June, new comments requesting OCC public hearing on HSBC - Capital One. Federal Reserve Seat Slated for Ex-Carlyle Hedge Funder Powell, Naked Fox in Henhouse? Bank Beat: MetLife sells, GE buys - what? Trouble? UN - Global: Ethiopia's Incursion into Somalia Draws No UN Comment, Garowe Sideshow? Enviro: Claims to NRC against Entergy's application to re-license Indian Point. Bronx: Football at the stadium, hardball at the Sheraton in Bloomberg's New York
12/26/11 -- CRA: On ING - Capital One, information blacked out. Federal Reserve and Bank of America Let Off Hook by DOJ Settlement, As BofA Bluewashed by UN. Bank Beat: ICBC and Patrikis ex of AIG withholding. UN - Global: UN Budget Adopted at Noon on Christmas Eve, R2P Fight, Distant Claims of Savings. Enviro: PCB bill in NYC. Bronx: Voting scams not acted on, Sheridan slumlord runs free
12/19/11 -- CRA: Capital One hit again to OCC, which withholds exhibits in full, appeal. Federal Reserve blesses a bank which made no loans to African Americans. Bank Beat: IMF Eyes Hungary, Has Adviser in South Sudan, Complaints on Lagarde Access. UN - Global: After Sri Lanka Whitewashes War Crimes, UN's Ban Welcomes It, Counts on Government. Enviro: EPA blows off environmental justice. Bronx: Books in the Hood, RIP; After Arrests, OWS Testifies in Times Square, B of A, Occupy Won't Go Away
12/12/11 -- CRA: Capital One increases 3rd quarter federal lobbying by 74%: sleaze. Federal Reserve is lied to, response due Nov 14 was mailed on Dec 5. Bank Beat: BNY Mellon moves to evict OWS; First Niagara prepares HSBC branch sell off. UN - Global: Amid Jau Dispute, Sudan Beats S. Sudan to Stakeout, UN's Ladsous No SOFA. Enviro: TransCanada, owner of proposed XL Pipeline, silent on NY noise pollution. Bronx: Police make arrests at OWS community garden defense
12/5/11 -- CRA: Capital One tries to withholding info about its subprime lending, Federal Reserve hit with FOIA request, adding to its backlog. Bank Beat: RBS selling its business in India to HSBC. On Yemen, IMF Welcomes GCC Immunity Deal, Ready to Support. UN - Global: At UN on Ban's Shake Up, Short Lists Unclear, Applies to DSG & Nambiar? Enviro: Brownfield notice doesn't note Happy Land Social Club mass murder. Bronx: Scams of J Lo and copyright law
11/28/11 -- CRA: Capital One - HSBC comment period extended by OCC. Federal Reserve Bank of NY has as "community" representative a flack for banks, OWS critic. Bank Beat: Shareholders' lawsuit against BB&T - BankAtlantic. UN - Global: As Helen Clark "Opts Out" of UN Financial Disclosure, UNDP Brags About Its Own. Enviro: UN won't criticize Obama blow off of Green Climate Fund. Bronx: Fight against post office closures. Even on Thanksgiving, Police Threaten Arrest at Occupy Wall Street, Egypt Protest
11/21/11 -- CRA: Capital One / HSBC is a test for OCC. Federal Reserve gets open letter on its FOIA non-compliance. Bank Beat: Sumitomo enters the fray. UN - Global: At UN, Yemen Nobel Winner Tells Press PGA To Help Freeze Saleh Assets. Enviro: EPA's EJ rules. Bronx: As part of Occupy Wall Street in exile
11/14/11 -- CRA: Capital One in denial on Basel III, ICP files with OCC and Federal Reserve, which keeps extending its time under FOIA. Bank Beat: First Niagara reaches bogus HSBC branch antitrust deal with DOJ, game on? UN - Global: As Sudan Claims Media Lies about Bombs, Ladsous Spins SOFA, Refuses Haiti Query. Enviro: Polluters of Chester, PA. Bronx: Set to lose sausage jobs?
11/7/11 -- CRA: Capital One's HSBC application subject to amateurish treatment by OCC so far. Federal Reserve responses turn 180 degrees on subprime. Bank Beat: Rabobank Admits Subprime Exposure & Purchase of Failed Banks, Desjardins on Citigroup Deal. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Defends Chair of Bank of America, Mountaintop Removal, Orr Unaware. Enviro: Cree versus Obama on Keystone XL. Bronx: Was the murder of Bengali Bimal Chanda a hate crime?
10/31/11 -- CRA: Of whistleblowers retaliated against by Citigroup, and OCC to at least November 7 on Capital One, which the Federal Reserve defends by "rejecting" FOIA requests. Bank Beat: Sleazy MF Global runs to Goldman Sachs, sucks up to JPMorgan Chase, targeted by Occupy Wall Street? As Occupy Wall Street Reaches Banks in Midtown - JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America, Paper Planes & UN Response. UN - Global: For ICC, France Offered to Support Unqualified Judge Quid Pro Quo for Its Candidate Bruno Cathala. Enviro: Rising groundwater in Jamaica, Queens. Bronx: Just get it done, DOT and Amtrak
10/24/11 -- CRA: Capital One - HSBC protested to OCC. Federal Reserve asks Industrial & Commercial Bank for China a consumer compliance question, and ICBC tries to withhold the whole response. Bank Beat: At Occupy Wall Street, People's Trial of Goldman Sachs Set for Nov 3. UN - Global: Yemeni Nobel Winner Visits UN with Press, Ban's Member State Requirement Bypassed. Enviro: UK violates Aarhus Convention - now what? Bronx: Increase in shooting falsely blamed on OWS - bogus
10/17/11 -- CRA: More than 300 Protests to Capital One - ING DIRECT, but Federal Reserve closed comment period, ignores FOIA requests. Bank Beat: Occupy Wall Street Visits JPMorgan Chase with Police, Goldman & Capital One Next? UN - Global: At UN, Top Peacekeeper Ladsous Dismisses Tunisia Scandal, Haiti & Rwanda Comments. Enviro: Bank of America Protested, including on Mountain Top Coal Removal, on Occupied Wall Street. Bronx: Health Care as Human Right, Bronx Doctors Say, as Riot Police confront demonstration in Times Square
10/10/11 -- CRA: At Occupy Wall Street, Baldwin Flacks for Capital One, Of Chase & Desperate Housewives. Federal Reserve now refuses to process FOIA request about Capital One. Bank Beat: Sleaze and nepotism: BofA gives Krawcheck $6 million, Sandy Weill laughs. UN - Global: At UN Palestine Application Stalled In Procedures, Strong 6, Shaky 3, Germany. Enviro: In (Occupied) Chicago, the fight against coal-fired plants. Bronx: Bloomberg's Burden, of defending gentrification with the NY Times
10/3/11 -- CRA: As Capital One Plays Chicago, Federal Reserve Plays Hide the (Predators') Ball, asks for new FOIA request. Bank Beat: As Police Arrest Occupy Wall Street Protesters, Focus on Banks, Benghazi? Occupy Wall Street Target JPMorgan Chase Paid Police Monitors, Paid Blair for OPT UN - Global: For Palestine in UN SC Only 6 Votes, Sources Say, Mere Update in 2 Weeks. Enviro: Getting ready for Rio +20. Bronx: Yes chicken farms, no burnt-out lots.
9/26/11 -- CRA: Pledge by Capital One could be predatory lending through ex-Household International platform it seeks from HSBC. Federal Reserve can't put up a transcript in five days? Bank Beat: UBS rogue trader, Bank of America correspondent mortgage business sell off. UN - Global: Libya TNC's Jibril Tells Inner City Press NATO Almost Done, Catching Gaddafi Is Key. Enviro: REDD Under Fire. Bronx: Profiled by algorithms
9/19/11 -- CRA: Eighth comment against Capital One from ICP. Federal Reserve withholds documents, prejudges applications. Bank Beat: First Niagara preps to ID secondary buyers of HSBC branches on which it wants to be middleman. UN - Global: At UN on Libya, As Khatib Resigns, TNC Wins Credential, Dabbashi No Vote Hope Dashed, SADC Deferral Rejected; As Sudan Breaks Abyei Agreement, Susan Rice Says Obama Will Meet With Kiir, Focus Lost? Enviro: Superfund victory. Bronx: Obama's Carney "doesn't know the district," more soon
9/12/11 -- CRA: On Capital One, Layoffs in NY, New Orleans excluded. Federal Reserve asks questions, but answers not received. Bank Beat: Branch closures by BofA, Lebanese deal by Soc-Gen. UN - Global: In Libya, UN Wants to Train Police, Confers with EU, Martin May Have 2 Rivals; For UN Peacekeeping Post, How Ladsous Replaced Bonnafont, Who Now Returns Favor Under Juppe, Alliot-Marie Role? Enviro: White House without solar panels. Bronx: who supported Capital One?
9/5/11 -- CRA: Sixth comment on Capital One - ING, why no hearing in New York, where Cap One is more disparate than elsewhere? Federal Reserve delays rules, withholds info. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo moves for predatory settlement in Memphis. UN - Global: In Haiti, As Uruguay Repatriates 5 UN Peacekepers, New DPKO Chief Ladhous' Role During Aristide's Ouster Questioned; As UN Hands Libya to Ian Martin, His Deputy'd be Finn Georg Charpentier, Who Hid Sudan Abuse, Sources Say. Enviro: Obama, 2012 & the environment. Bronx: History of Serbia versus Kosovo in Belmont
8/29/11 -- CRA:
As
Three Public Hearings on Capital One - ING Direct, ING
& HSBC Subprime Card Filings Missing at Federal
Reserve, Which Still Withholds Info under FOIA. Bank
Beat: As Old National Bancorp plans to close nine branches
of failed Integra Bank, what does FDIC consider? UN - Global:
On
Libya, Leaked UN Report Sees 200 Military Observers,
NATO but Not AU Role Given by Ban Ki-moon: ICP Exclusive.
Enviro:
US rushes Keystone XL tar sands pipeline EIS. Bronx:
Amid Irine hype, no plans for Rikers Island
8/22/11 -- CRA: Questioning of Capital One - ING gathering momentum. Federal Reserve withholds info of its own rulings. Bank Beat: Sleaze loan shark deal by Advance America. UN - Global: At UN, Bonnafont Has Kudos of French Pol Bockel - & Peacekeeping Post? Enviro: Opposition to bus cuts in LA. Bronx: Real estate crime by Milbank, BofA & Deutsche Bank
8/15/11 -- CRA: As Capital One Eyes HSBC's Predatory Credit Cards, Federal Reserve Tries to Sweep ING & Violations Under Carpet. Bank Beat: First Niagara would close 33 branches, try to sell on 67, cynical transaction will be opposed. UN - Global: At UN on Syria, War of Spin & Briefings, Doubts on SyriaTel Sanctions, Ban's Call; At UN on Sudan, Darfur in Darkness, Kordofan Report Delayed, Will Pillay Explain? Amid Conflicts in Libya, Syria, Sudan & Kosovo, Horn of Africa Famine, UN Reduces Q&A by 40%, Has "Nothing to Say." Enviro: Michelin's being using tolulene in Rubbertown, KY. Bronx: Where Stella d'Oro was, BJ's will pay $8.80 an hour?
8/8/11 -- CRA: Cynical sale of 195 branches by HSBC to First Niagara, which would close 33 and sell on 67. Capital One opposition grows. Federal Reserve FOIA denial on Capital One. Bank Bank: ING investigated for sanctions violations in Iran & Sudan. UN - Global: As UN Admits Abyei Medevac Delay Was For Copter from Wau in South Sudan, What Safeguards Are In Place? As UNSC Statement on Syria Opposes Attacks on State, Does UN Deem Assad More Legitimate than Gaddafi? Enviro: Cali EJ lawsuit. Bronx targeted for 17 of NYC's 34 post office closings, list here
8/1/11 -- CRA: Capital One's application to buy ING Direct would create a fifth Too Big To Fail bank, with comment period only to Aug 22. Federal Reserve can't even keep its FOIA form working. Bank Beat: HSBC wants to ditch branches to First Niagara. UN - Global: South Africa Confirms Action on Syria with India & Brazil, IBSA Deputy Ministers on the Road to Damascus? As UN Sits on S. Kordofan Report Until August, Silent on Mass Graves, Sudan Blocks Visas to Abyei for Rights Monitors. Enviro: Bad coal plant in Bridgeport. Bronx: Kids shot and bitten by pit bulls
7/25/11 -- CRA: As Fed Fines Wells Fargo It's Too Little, Too Late, Focus Turns to Capital One - ING: application filed with Federal Reserve, whose e-FOIA form is not working. Bank Beat: Banco do Brasil makes its move, but not so fast. UN - Global: Sudan Slaughter of 150 Nubans Frozen in UN Edit Room, Rudderless Peacekeeping; at UN, Eritreans Grilled in Sanctions Committee, interview video here. Enviro: In Granite State, TRI targets PSHN's Merrimack Station as the worst. Bronx: Post over-focuses on those working in private sector.
7/18/11 -- CRA: As Obama Taps Cordray Over Warren for CFPB, Retreating on Consumer Protection, on Mergers Like Capital One's? Federal Reserve ignores 2010 HMDA data in handing Comerica approval. Bank Beat: HSBC preps sell off - and branch closures. UN - Global: As South Sudan Celebrates Its Touchdown at UN, Darfur & S. Kordofan Face Deadly Blitz from Al Bashir. After UN's Nuclear Meeting on Syria, Russia Calls It History, Damascus a Campaign: InnerCityPress YouTube video here. Enviro: Toxic coal plants in Indiana, Duke Energy & Dominion Resources. Bronx: Gentrification described and promoted by Daily News without using the word
7/11/11 -- CRA: Geithner favored Citigroup for Wachovia, HUD's Donovan not asked about bad servicers. Federal Reserve gets another timely protest on exempting foreign governments from BHC Act. Bank Beat: Amanpour sweeps Lagarde under the Tapie, Brazil sues HSBC and Santander. UN - Global: While France "Parachuting" Weapons into Libya is Criticized, UN Committee Does Not Act: Not "Masochistic," Chairman Says. Enviro: bad coal in Michigan. Bronx trails Upper East Side 90-1 in Starbucks, and 42-10 in Bloomberg visits
7/4/11 -- CRA: While Chinese government should be required to apply to buy 80% of Bank of East Asia (ICP American Banker op-ed here), Federal Reserve extends comment period to July 11. Bank Beat: BofA settlement stole AGs thunder, but shouldn't absolved BofA. UN - Global: Gaddafi Gone By Mid-July, Libyan Rebel Diplomat Tells Press at US Barbeque in NY Zoo, of Penguins & Sudan. Enviro: Rich Upper East Side plays housing project card. Bronx: Fulton halfway house to close, confiscated fireworks at Rodman's Neck
6/27/11 -- CRA: Capital One's ING Direct proposal trashed by consumers and analysis, but has $270 M breakup fee. OTS to go. Federal Reserve confined Bank of Montreal - M&I harm to footnotes. Bank Beat: US Bancorp named as possible buyer of BNP's Bank of West. Distracted by DSK & Hacking, IMF Ignores Sudan & Afghan Banks. UN - Global: While Rebels Oppose Darfur Deal, US Supports It, Bassole to Send Letters, incl to Khalil Ibrahim in Tripoli. Enviro: Solid waste threat against Union Pacific. Bronx: Intervale Avenue called dull, social club defunct.
6/20/11 - As Fed Approves Bank of Montreal-M&I, Ignores FOIA & CRA, Capital One Looms
6/20/11 -- CRA: Capital One's proposal to buy ING Direct will be hit. Federal Reserve excuses Morgan Stanley for overchanging soldiers. Bank Beat: PNC eyes RBC branches, BNP Paribas to sell in US? UN - Global: UN Admits Kadugli Peacekeepers Refused Convoy Escort, France Downplays It; Hiring of Ban Ki-moon's Son in Law to Lobby UN Confirmed by IFRC, No Safeguards. Enviro: EJ settlement in Ponce, PR. Bronx: Trashed by tattoo man in Altoona, PA
6/13/11 -- CRA: Fair lending info withheld by Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, Federal Reserve is asked to release it. Bank Beat: For ING Direct, aside GE and KKR, Capital One should be left out? Amid Lagarde & DSK Scandals, IMF Won't Answer on Belarus or Jamaica. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon 2d Term Set June 16 in Council, June 21 in GA, Amid One Candidate Anointment, Global Model UN Had 10, Staff Union Charged With Just What Ban Does. Enviro: Waste transfer, if not E. 91 St, where? Bronx: Only three of NYC's 20 free wi-fi parks
6/4/11 -- CRA: Twisted mergers by Kanas' Bank United, Ohio branches. Federal Reserve lets Comerica evade its rules. Bank Beat: Gaddafi's favorite Goldman Sachs to sell Litton to Ocwen? UN - Global: At UN on 2d Term for Ban, “No One Else Wants the Job,” a P-5 DPR Tells Press, Pre-Coronation Prejudges IMF Race? Enviro: Brazil Says Advocate Against Dam to Displace 12,000 Could've Come to UN “on Vacation.” Bronx: MIT run Bronx Brewery's pale ale is actually made in Connecticut: Metro North Malty
5/30/11 -- CRA: As Bank of America forecloses on itself and Zions closes in East Palo Alto, Federal Reserve has only itself as authority for waiver for foreign governments from the BHC Act. Bank Beat: Gaddafi's funds with HSBC Goldman Sachs. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, Ban Passed Buck to GA, Whose Leader Passes It Back, Letter to US. Enviro: EPA petitioned on Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. Bronx: Post office fight
5/23/11 -- CRA: Sell off moves by HSBC may benefit JPMorgan Chase and others. Federal Reserve has no rules to prohibit lobbying by its former officials? Bank Beat: Amid DSK Case, Theory of Replacing Ban & US Taking IMF, China World Bank Revived. NY targets Ambac, Assured Guaranty, MBIA and Syncora Holdings. UN - Global: As UN Council Cancels Abyei Trip, Georgian Echoes Amid AU Diagnosis of Narcissism. Enviro: EU logging rules don't cover indirect trade. Bronx: Photos and arguments in the street.
5/16/11 -- CRA: Morgan Stanley pitches Saxon secret settlement in response to FFW challenge to Mitsubishi UFJ deal. Federal Reserve airbrushes Hancock - Whitney lending disparities & antitrust in Biloxi. Bank Beat: As IMF Chief Strauss-Kahn Is Arrested, Denials of Rule-breaking Recalled, Immunity & Air France Arrangement Questioned. UN - Global: On Myanmar, as Nambiar of UN “Neglects Justice” & Minorities, Q&A Requested. Enviro: Decision by European Court of Justice. Bronx: Goodbye, jobs
5/9/11 -- CRA: Predatory lending and slumlord lawsuits filed against Deutsche Bank: it's nationwide. Federal Reserve's Bernanke sounds like Greenspan, versus regulatory burden. Bank Beat: SEC probes JPMorgan Chase for fraud. UN - Global: UN Council Will Not Travel to Darfur, Meeting Gambari Outside Sudan, Doha Process "Collapsing.” Enviro: As UNEP Prepares Award for Calderon, Drug War Protests, LG Pollution. Bronx: Taxi of the Future choice smells fishy
5/2/11 -- CRA: Bank of America jacks up fees, Governor Raskin abstains from Federal Reserve order on M&T / Wilmington Trust. Bank Beat: Citigroup accused of involvement in death of borrower. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, Ban Hasn't Asked UN Security Council, General Assembly or Human Rights Council to Act on War Crimes Report, No Comparisons. Enviro: EPA Office of Civil Rights under fire. Bronx: WSJ joins NYT in bemoaning gentrification's slowdown
4/25/11 -- CRA: Predatory lending underwriting and purchases ignored by Federal Reserve, including at Bernanke's April 27 presser? Bank Beat: At Citigroup, declining shareholders interest amid rising interest rates. UN - Global: Sri Lanka Report Withheld by UN's Ban & Nambiar Partially Describes White Flag Killings Nambiar Involved In: Conflicts of Interest. Enviro: BP's oil dumped in communities of color. Bronx: 17 year old killed for $10, 61 year old stomped
4/18/11 -- CRA: Pols in DC say they didn't know budget deal cut housing counseling funds. Bank of Montreal tells Federal Reserve its withheld fair lending information is not related to M&I application. Bank Beat: IMF Promotes Bank Mergers, Says Bigger is Better, Politics & Portugal Dodged. SILO tax fraud by Wells Fargo. UN - Global: On Libya, US Says Arming Rebels Is Legal, Deferred Answer on Visas of d'Escoto. Enviro: Bloomberg's unfair Solid Waste Management Plan. Bronx: Local residents excluded even from low income housing, NYCHA to face new foe
4/11/11 -- CRA: Comerica responds to ICP Fair Finance Watch protest by throwing its customers under the bus. Federal Reserve yet to rule on FOIA challenge to Bank of Montreal's withholding of its and M&I's fair lending info. Bank Beat: Genocide resolution at JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup under fire for rip offs in Indonesia. UN - Global: After Fleeing NY Cocaine Charge, French Diplomat Serman Resurfaces in SF As Leaked French Documents Show Cote d'Ivoire Strategy at UN of France on Liberia & Mali. Enviro: Lead paint case in Sri Lanka. Bronx: Protests against NY Community Bank as slumlord, under Dodd-Frank.
4/4/11 -- CRA: In 2010 Subprime Lending Continued, More Disparate, at Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America & Others. Federal Reserve extends comment period on Bank of Montreal / M&I, but only once. Bank Beat: Challenge to Comerica / Sterling. UN - Global: As Susan Rice is Asked by Press About Obama Order for CIA in Libya, Were Security Council Resolutions & Members Skirted? Enviro: Brownfields as (dirty) business. Bronx: 12 year old girl handcuffed by NYPD sues.
3/28/11 -- CRA: Amid protests to Bank of Montreal's application to buy M&I, Federal Reserve extends comment period to March 31 (click here for Fed letter), for some. Bank Beat: Big Four and GMAC's Ally summoned to DC, but who's representing the public? UN - Global: UN Now Says Envoy to Libya Khatib Still Has Responsibilities in Jordan, His Contract In Flux Amid Financial Conflicts. Enviro: NYC's Bloomberg leaves waste injustice. Bronx: Empanadas chased from Belmont by academic gentrification?
3/21/11 -- CRA: Bank of Montreal /Harris Hides Reply to M&I Merger Protest Under CRA, Inner City Press / Fair Finance Watch Challenges. Federal Reserve lets Japanese banks off hook on predatory lending. Bank Beat: After Japan nuclear disaster, Citigroup predicts easy GE treatment. UN - Global: At UN, As Libyan Resolution Passes With Five Abstentions, Half Answers by Lebanon & Dabbashi, Rice Chats with Sudan. Enviro: a set back here DC. Bronx: Bloomberg Plans to Double City Gym Fees Despite Health Ad Campaigns.
3/14/11 -- CRA: New Orleans coverage of ICP protest to Hancock - Whitney. Federal Reserve ignores Litton in Goldman Sachs approval. Bank Beat: Citigroup would keep a stake in predatory One Main. UN - Global: UN New Libya Envoy Al Khatib Torn Between Politics & Aid, Too Big For Photos, Wants Via Rome Not Malta, Business Conflicts UNvetted. Enviro: Denmark overcharges activists. Bronx: NY Community Bank's sleazy sale.
3/7/11 -- CRA: Dodd becomes movie lobbyist, HSBC took Gaddafi's money. As Connecticut holds First Niagara hearing, Federal Reserve does nothing. Bank Beat: ICP protests Hancock / Whitney. UN - Global: UN Admits 2d Flight of ICC Darfur Indictee Haroun to Abyei in Sudan, Impunity. Enviro: EPA sells out on boilers. Bronx: What good would Council's bank classification bill do?
2/28/11 -- CRA: Golden parachutes deployed for M&I execs by Bank of Montreal despite still unpaid TARP bailout funds. Federal Reserve extends FOIA response on M&T - Wilmington Trust until after comment period closed. Bank Beat: JPMorgan Chase's Madoff cover up, and the regulators'. UN - Global: In UN Libya Resolution, US Insistence on ICC Exclusion Shields Mercenaries from Algeria, Ethiopia. Enviro: West Dallas smelter. Bronx: beaten by police for riding a bike on the sidewalk
2/21/11 -- CRA: Comments to Canada on Bank of Montreal / Harris - M&I. Will Federal Reserve hold hearings, as Connecticut is on First Niagara? Bank Beat: Predatory lending unit CitiFinancial renamed OneMain Financial as Citigroup tries to sell it to Blackstone. UN - Global: As Sudan Bombs Jebel Marra & Blockades Darfur IDPs, UN Won't Respond. Enviro: Vitriol on Ecuador vs Chevron. Bronx: who dropped the ball on Hunts Point Market to NJ?
2/14/11 -- CRA: Needs To Improve rating blocks Clifton Savings stock offering; Bank of Montreal - M&I application now filed at Federal Reserve, 30 days to comment. Bank Beat: Shark bait include KeyCorp, National Penn and Regions.. CIT? Political contribution disclosure vote on Citigroup April 21. UN - Global: UN Mission in Sudan Flew ICC Indictee Haroun on Special Copter, Contrary to UN Claim, "There Are No Regular Flights,” Menkerios Says. Enviro: Canadian generators to Sweden via Great Lakes and UK, Norway and Denmark: the fight is on. Bronx: Protest for closed circuit TV in the projects
2/7/11 -- CRA: Bank of Montreal update; “The Subprime Virus” Omits the Activist Cure, and the CRA (Book Review). Federal Reserve won't respond to request in comments, or questions. Bank Beat: Merger buzz at BB&T and Regions. UN - Global: Blocked from Sri Lanka, UN Panel Now Offers Video Conference or Written Questions. Enviro: petition to UN FAO to register fishing vessels. Bronx: why El Barrio methadone clinic for Norwoodite at 4 am?
1/31/11 -- CRA: As tax season begins, Liberty Tax Service claims its RALS are “part of Bank of America.” Federal Reserve's Loan Officer Compensation rule to hurt CRA? Bank Beat: Susquehanna wants Abington despite disparities, JPMorgan Chase and others screw Servicemembers. UN - Global: As Egyptians Push for Change, UN Ban Warns of “Political Instability” , As in NYC Police Guard UN Mission of Egypt, UNDP Banned Rights Advocates , Amid Egyptian Protests, UN Dormant, Ban Silent on Emergency Law. Enviro: Canadian grassroots win over GE. Bronx: SoBro asks local Press to do News Corp's work for it
1/24/11 -- CRA: A Bank of Montreal campaign begins. Federal Reserve: some call to break up behemoths. Bank Beat: 10% on US liabilities to impact Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America? UN - Global: Retaliation by Spokesman for "Transparent" Ban Ki-moon Typifies UN Decay. Enviro: Mauritius sues UK about Chagos. Bronx: NYT demographic maps misplace Morrisania
1/17/11 -- CRA: M&I in six states: we'll be there. Federal Reserve gets M&T application for Wilmington Trust: when will we? Bank Beat: Citigroup's fraud in India, Deutsche Bank fire sale. UN - Global: As JPMorgan Chase Cuts Off UN Missions, US State Department Says Bailed Out Banks Are Free. Enviro: Chicago's Hazel Johnson, remembered by some. Bronx: Daily News re-assigns their main borough asset
1/10/11 -- CRA: Court hit at Wells Fargo and US Bancorp involves subprime sleazer Option One. Federal Reserve Bank of NY's Dudley talked to Chase, Goldman and Morgan Stanley during FOMC black out period. Bank Beat: Indian investigation of Citigroup fraud. UN - Global: On Sudan, Questions of Expulsion of Darfur Rebels & Ocampo on Bashir's Billions. Enviro: Lockheed Martin, cadmium and kidneys. Bronx: Pit bulls on Fordham Road, AIG under NY regulatory merger
1/3/11 -- CRA: After protest, First Niagara says it'll lend $1 billion, but public hearing requests continue. Federal Reserve has YouTube channel, no comments allowed. Bank Beat: Ponzi scheme lawsuits against JPMorgan Chase. UN - Global: On Sudan, UN Ends 2010 in Dream World on Darfur & Rape, Praising ICC-Indicted Bashir's "Leadership" & Courage. On Sri Lanka, Amid Confusion About Ban's Panel, UN Has "Nothing Further to Say." Enviro: New Haven activist move on. Bronx: Yankee Stadium's Hard Rock Cafe hardly help the 'hood
12/27/10 -- CRA: Payday lending story in WSJ misses JPMorgan Chase's enabling of the industry. Federal Reserve promotes Bernanke 60 Minutes outtakes. Bank Beat: Deutsche Bank wheels and deals. UN - Global: Susan Rice Denies Being Told Sudan's Bashir Stashed $9B, Despite WikiLeak. Enviro: South Texas nuclear. Bronx: Secret video in Bronx police precincts.
12/20/10 -- CRA: Watch of Bank of Montreal's M&I proposal starts. Federal Reserve hits new low with rubber stamp of Caja Madrid. Bank Beat: Orszag to Citigroup, like subprime Rubin? UN - Global: Darfur Seems An Afterthought In Ban Ki-moon's UN, Defense of Gambari, Withholding of Massacre Reports. Enviro: Tennessee landfill. Bronx: East Tremont rebuilt at high density
12/13/10 -- CRA:
Protest by ICP to First Niagara / New Alliance joined by
CT pols. Federal
Reserve considers Spanish merger with amusement park
& deteriorating lending. Bank
Beat: Profile of HSBC's
Household fiasco misses Brazil for China. UN - Global:
On
Darfur, As UNAMID Covers Up Killings by Sudan, ICC
Reports Them. Chez
Susan Rice, Cote d'Ivoire Plots, Sudan Greets and Meats,
UN Holidays. Enviro:
EPA's criminal prosecutions are declining. Bronx:
Delayed trial for 2003 murder, 2007 indictment: better
late than never?
12/6/10 -- CRA:
Protest to First Niagara / New Alliance filed by ICP with
Federal
Reserve and OCC. Bank
Beat: IMF
Fudges on Ireland & Democracy, on Africa's Reduced
Votes, Maldives Deferred. Wikileaks to go after Bank (of
America?). UN
- Global:
At
UN, US Susan Rice Confirms Stealth Myanmar Briefing,
Speaks on Sudan Sit-Reps, Darfur Mission "Impediments.”
Enviro:
EPA Region IV pushed on Alabama landfill. Bronx:
At
Gracie Mansion, Jokes of Cathie Black & Bloomberg,
Moses History & Onion Tart
11/29/10 -- CRA:
Foreclosure data lacking. Federal
Reserve sued by TCF. Bank
Beat: Amid foreclosure restart snags, Bank of
America & JPM Chase are in denial. UN - Global:
On
S. Sudan Vote & Ban's Panel, UN Dodges Questions of
Payment, Diaspora Visits. Enviro:
Whittier CA oil impact. Bronx:
80 Blocks reveals the Savage Skulls
11/22/10 -- CRA: Administration critiqued by retiring Bill Brennan. Federal Reserve's Duke says foreclosures hurt market- but how 'bout a moratorium? Bank Beat: Cititgroup has to review foreclosures. UN - Global: At UN, Turkish Cypriot Leader Denounces EU, Calls Downer and His Team Fatigued, Looks to January. (video here) Enviro: Car crushing EJ in PA. Bronx: Hunts Point and tight credit
11/15/10 - CRA: Lawsuits against JPMorgan Chase; First Niagara - NewAlliance comment period before the Federal Reserve until December 3. Bank Beat: Caja Madrid and City National Bank of Florida may draw fire. UN - Global: On Sudan, Susan Rice Defends Decoupling Darfur from Terror Sanctions. Enviro: Dead whales off Ireland. Bronx: Photos of blasted buildings, including Madrid. In NY, Spanish Civil War Photos Scream of Propaganda, Echo Sudan & Sri Lanka- & the Boogie Down.
11/8/10 -- CRA: Election impacts on House Banking Committee, more on Deutsche Bank foreclosures. Federal Reserve gets First Niagara - New Alliance application. Bank Beat: Subprime lawsuits against Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, H&R Block, JPM Chase. UN - Global: Amid Darfur Force Build Up by Sudan, UK is Cautious, UN Cuts Off Questions. Enviro: EPA appoints Lisa Garcia. Bronx: on election night, of chips and members privileges.
11/1/10 -- CRA: Foreclosure scandal focus expands to Deutsche Bank, while Citigroup threatens branch closings. Bank Beat: Citigroup acquisition unreviewed by Federal Reserve, 11% means nothing? UN - Global: UN Panel on South Sudan Vote Said “Independent from UNMIS,” Which Pays It $4.3 Million. Enviro: EPA's EJ tour's fifth stop is Oakland. Bronx: From Soho to Brooklyn, Must Alternative Arts Just Mean Gentrification? Of Fashion MODA
10/25/10 -- CRA: Foreclosure moratorium opposed by Administration to keep churned houses for sale. What will Federal Reserve new Governors do? Bank Beat: When HSBC met Household. UN - Global: As UN Gambari Plans Hand Over to Bashir in Sudan, Torture Complaint Mulled at UN. Sudan Blocking Malnutrition Data, Allowed by UN, Raised to Right to Food Rapporteur. Bronx: Compared to Broadway in Brooklyn
10/18/10 -- CRA:
Protests to Morgan Stanley withheld by staff from Federal
Reserve governors, Bernanke is told. Bank
Beat: Administration reasons for not imposing
foreclosure moratorium focus on Reid's Nevada? UN - Global:
As
UN Admits Burning of Darfur Village, It Had a Health
Center But Now “No Access.” Enviro:
Superfund and St. Louis' Carter Carburetor. Bronx:
Gun Hill fish fry, FDNY accents
10/11/10 -- CRA: Sell out Citigroup settlement with SEC seen by US District Judge - why was Federal Reserve's settlement on the cheap with CitiFinancial allowed? Bank Beat: NC AG hitsBank of America and others. UN - Global: In Darfur, Sora Village Destroyed and Kalma IDP Camp Dismantled Before Blind UN Security Council Visit to Sudan. Enviro: Fair share on NYC ballot in November. Bronx: Willis Ave Bridge has typo despite $ spent
10/4/10 -- CRA: Predatory lender in Japan Takefuji goes under, just as First Niagara's CRA officer might. Federal Reserve's Bernanke chides press, but ignored warning signs in comment about Citigroup and others. UN - Global: Sudan Trip by UN Security Council and Press Set for This Week, Last Minute NCP Questions, Did Bashir Say Yes? Enviro: Focus beyond Newtown Creek (Superfund?) to tributary Dutch Kill. Bronx: Post office tales of ex cons and registered mail.
9/27/10 -- CRA: Norway Central Bank sued Citigroup for subprime sleaze. Federal Reserve spins on HMDA, while it ignored patterns of discrimination. Bank Beat: Doug Flint of HSBC and his role in Household International fiasco. UN - Global: On Sudan, Border, Darfur & Abyei Issues Fester, Obama Does Not Mention Bashir, Whose VP Taha Praises Obama at UN Sudan Meeting. Enviro: Lead poisoning kills 200 kids in Nigeria. Bronx: Why the murdered Nicaraguan diplomat was living on 180th Street
9/20/10 -- CRA: Fight gears up on First Niagara - New Alliance, while safe harbor idea resurfaces. Federal Reserve picks Bank of America and ASF on HMDA. Bank Beat: JPMorgan Chase's online outage. UN - Global: On Sudan, UN to Name Panel This Week, Obama's 5 Minutes on Darfur & Bashir Photo Op? Enviro: Eminent domain in Cleveland. Bronx: Heroin Valentine.
9/13/10 -- CRA: Too small settlement with Citigroup defended by SEC. Federal Reserve's Bernanke defends Basel III. Bank Beat: Arms manufacturer BAE hires JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo. On Pakistan, IMF Won't Explain Lack of Debt Relief, Why & When Loans, MDG Games. UN - Global: On Sudan, UN Ban Admits Limits on Peacekeepers, Gambari Summoned, Change Pledged. Enviro: Chevron sleazes into Turkmenistan. Bronx trattoria re-opens for Ferragosto
9/6/10 -- CRA: New Alliance disses New Haven, First Niagara jumps the gun. Federal Reserve takes lobbying from Goldman, Citigroup and Visa. Bank Beat: Foreclosure moves by Bank of America and US Bancorp on Stuy Town. UN - Global: As Darfuris Lay Dying, UN Leak Shows Failure to Respond, Stonewalling, UNSC Soon? Enviro: Katrina viewed through rights and EJ lens. Bronx: Baby Bomber of Staten Island please people, end season 8/30/10 -- CRA: Scams by JPMorgan Chase on HAMP, Geithner's spin to bloggers. Federal Reserve's self serving conference. Bank Beat: Regions sues Wells Fargo about NASCAR loan, no honor among thieves. UN - Global: On Congo Rapes, UN Can't Find E-mail, Won't Say Where Expert Wallstrom Was. Enviro: EPA's Title VI cases. Bronx: Entering on Willis Avenue, of windows and empires 8/23/10 -- CRA: Sweetheart deal by JPMorgan Chase to buy Washington Mutual not finalized by FDIC. Federal Reserve's Duke likes arbitrary power? Bank Beat: First Niagara - New Alliance needs scrutiny. UN - Global: In Darfur as Kalma Camp Faces Closure and IDP Sorting, UN Spokesman & DPKO Silent, OCHA in Sudan Concerned. Enviro: ArcelorMittal sleazy in South Africa. Bronx: In Near Empty UN, Four Yankees Shine Light on Sierra Leone and Refugee, GM Cashman on Sox, Rays and AL Headaches 8/16/10 --CRA: Predatory dreams of Citigroup persist. Federal Reserve calls ex-JPMorgan Chase an academe. Bank Beat: Subprime sale of AIG's American General to Fortress will wall off HMDA reports? UN - Global: Sudan Was Emboldened By UN Silence on Jebel Marra and IOM Expulsions, US Susan Rice Darfur Focus Not Shown. Enviro: EPA's dispersant spin in Biloxi. Bronx: homemade wine and mysterious bento box connections 8/9/10 -- CRA: Tim Geither who didn't pay taxes, ex of the Federal Reserve, blows off Volcker - Levin: should he leave? Bank Beat: Colombia banking Citigroup and HSBC. UN - Global: Amid Sudan Blockade & Shelling of Kalma Camp, UN Vacation from Advocacy Recalls Bloodbath on the Beach in Sri Lanka. Enviro: EPA vague on EJ. Bronx: In NYC's Central Park, The xx and Chairlift Raise Hipsters' Spirits, Bronx Death Continues 8/2/10 -- CRA: As Wells Fargo is charged with 2008 predatory lending (2009 was worse, we show) Federal Reserve puts Wells on HMDA panel. Bank Beat: SEC's fine of Citigroup for subprime: much too little, much too late. UN - Global: On Darfur Camp Violence, Nur's Role as Unclear as US Stance on Doha, Sudan Says Camp Is Under UN Control, Lobbies. Enviro: BP's oil waste going to communities of color. Bronx: gentrification pitched by NYT and now NYPost. 7/26/10 -- CRA: US Gov't into subprime auto loans, GM buys AmeriCredit. Citigroup conflict of interest. Goldman Sachs' “Tax Evasion” Hit by Rep. Doggett, Citi's and Transocean's Offshoring. Federal Reserve whitewashes Toronto Dominion HMDA disparities. Bank Beat: IMF Cuts Off Funds for Central Africa, Goes on Vacation, Ignores Guinea Bissau, Ukraine, Hungary and even Haiti Questions. UN - Global: At UN, As Ban Ki-moon Switches from S. African to Canadian As New OIOS Chief, Post-Ahlenius Rebellion Spreads, Sources Say. Enviro: HSBC partners with Total on energy- and rights violations? Bronx: Graffiti artist's son gun down, RIP 7/19/10 -- CRA: As US goes light on its bank, UK grills HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays. Federal Reserve's Duke says HMDA gauges racism, but Fed orders dismiss it. Bank Beat: JPMorgan Chase fined, Citigroup takes predatory lending on the road. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, UN Panel's Problems, of Blackmail as Guatemala Cites R2P, NAM Games of Iran, Venezuela to Head G-77? Enviro: EPA coal ash hearings bypass Tennessee, Pittsburgh and Atlanta. Bronx: Street fair in Belmont, South Bronx and Steinbrenner, used by Al Pacino 7/12/10 -- CRA: Toronto Dominion admits 74% denial rate in 2009 for African Americans, 65% for Latinos, in response to protest. Federal Reserve serviced AIG and Goldman Sachs on a delegates Reserve Bank basis. Bank Beat: Top “private” banks in 2009 includes Bank of America and Wells Fargo, USB, CS and secretive Morgan Stanley. UN - Global: Sri Lanka's Blocking of UN War Crimes Panel Visas Unremarked on by Ban Ki-moon. Enviro: Canada's blind eye to naphthenic acid, for oil sands. Bronx: NYT on Belmont misses other Latinos 7/5/10 -- CRA: Morgan Stanley improperly withheld from Fair Finance Watch its business plan, which the Federal Reserve partially released after handing out approval despite MS' subprime Saxon. Bank Beat: As Romanian Court Rules Against Pension Cuts, IMF Nods at 5% VAT Increase. Citigroup gets back into mortgages, HSBC gets deeper into India. UN - Global: As Sri Lanka Party in Power Threatens UN Staff, Ban Stays Silent, DPR To Go. Enviro: Anger at EPA on W. Virginia mountain top removal. Bronx: few “Play Me, I'm Yours” pianos, broken. In NYC, Fireworks Are For Tourists, Afghan Iraq Echoes, Illegal Bronx Fight Back 6/28/10 -- CRA: Protest to Toronto Dominion - South Financial. Would Federal Reserve actually enforce Volcker Rule on Citigroup and JPM Chase on ForEx? UN - Global: Sri Lanka Block of Visas Unfortunate, Darusman Says, UN Says Visit Not Needed, How Panel Staffed Is Unclear. Enviro: Oil sands issue at G-20. Bronx: World Cup blues 6/21/10 -- CRA: Volcker rule fought by JPM Chase, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup's $3.5 billion end-around fund. Federal Reserve regional presidents' elections only partially reformed. Bank Beat: As Romania's Wage Cuts Challenged in Court, IMF Says Not Concerned, Lead Nowhere. From the Taylor Bean subprime indictment. UN - Global: To Uzbek Karimov, UN's Ban Does Not Raise Border Closure or Maxim Popov, Omitted from Transcript. Enviro: Detroit's zip code 48217, Shell's new flaring in Nigeria. Bronx: Pete's Cafe without Pete, Belmont without FEAR 6/14/10 -- CRA: Bulk sales of loans trashed communities of color. Will Waters push on CRA? Federal Reserve's Kohn stays on as lame duck. Bank Beat: Card sale by Citigroup snubbed by HSBC and GE Money, Santander may be hungry. UN - Global: Somali Diaspora Questions UN's Moves, from Twin Cities to West Bank. Enviro: Biggest shareholder of BP is JPMorgan Chase, they of mountain top removal mining. Bronx: Destruction in descriptions of "The Fires" misses role of redlining, which sped up the incentive for arson. 6/7/10 -- CRA: Subprime expansion by CitiFinancial and GE Money in the UK. Federal Reserve's CAC will meet June 17 on CRA, too little too late. Bank Beat: Record fine on JPMorgan Chase by FSA. UN - Global: While on Gaza UN's Ban Speaks of Terms of Reference, 3 Month Delay on Sri Lanka Panel, Kohona in Israel Probe. Enviro: Clinton Admin's Gorelick to defend BP. Bronx: On eve of Kerlikowske visit, to Obama drug office NY is New Mexico 5/31/10 -- CRA: Morgan Stanley dismissive to Federal Reserve on FFW protest of Saxon predatory lending and cluster bombs. Bank Beat: Cemetery Scam by Citigroup. UN - Global: Sri Lanka's Kohona Denies Assuring UN's Nambiar Rebels Would Not Be Executed, Qorvis told Peiris to Leave NPC in DC. Enviro: As Palau and Pew Fight To Save Sharks and Tuna, Japan Counters with Sushi and Conditional Aid. Bronx: New sushi, with fried Oreos, on Arthur5/24/10 -- CRA: Protests of JPMorgan Chase on Wall St, of Predatory Loans and Mining, Laissez Faire. Federal Reserve could give emergency funds to clearing houses, under new bill? Bank Beat: Amid Protests, IMF Says Wage Cuts Were Romania's Choice; Citigroup costs public. UN - Global: As Sri Lanka Names Its Own Palihakkara as Investigator, UN Panel Would Not Look at UN's Role in War Crimes; Peiris Visit. Enviro: Vermont nuclear mishap, Trafigura perjury? Bronx: Murder in the Melrose Houses
5/17/10 -- CRA: On under regulation of Citigroup, Federal Reserve Board in kibuki fight with FRBNY's Dudley. Bank Beat: Unsure of prop trading, JPM Chase and Deutsche Bank drop out of bidding for RBS Sempra. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka War Crimes, US' Rice Supports UN's Ban, So Panel Without Delay? Enviro: NJ nuke leak, EPA Shanghai-ed in China? Bronx: After protest of gun violence, a teen is killed with knife
5/10/10 -- CRA: Lobbying against financial reform by Federal Reserve, one hopes too little too late. Bank Beat: Citigroup faces too big to fail hit. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, UN Soft Peddles Humanitarian Law, Still No War Crimes Panel for Ban Ki-moon after Gota Rajapaksa Threats. Enviro: California suits, Bolivia nationalizes. Bronx: Gentrification and broccoli rabe.
5/3/10 -- CRA: Protest to a Goldman Sachs application to the Federal Reserve, citing "poor subprimes" email. Bank Beat: Lawsuit against Wells Fargo as slumlord. UN - Global: In Anti-Nuclear March, "Free Palestine" Chants Trigger Questions of Iran, Ahmadinejad in Wings. Enviro: Yucca mount nuclear waste delay. Bronx: BP and Councilman fight relocation of high school to South Bronx
4/26/10 -- CRA: Protest to Morgan Stanley filed with Federal Reserve, Saxon, land grabs and cluster bombs. Bank Beat: Citigroup's cheapskatery gave WaMu to JPMChase, FOIA shows. UN - Global: As Sri Lanka AG Met With UN's Ban, War Crimes Panel Unnamed for Six Weeks; Kabul Death Cover Up, Video Debate. Enviro: Hydrofracking in the Catskills. Bronx: Nehemiah echoes in parks fight, downtown tarts
4/19/10 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs charged with misrepresentation of predatory loans, like Al Capone for tax evasion. Federal Reserve's Tarullo invented a safe harbor. Bank Beat: Loans from Citigroup and Deutsche Bank slammed Iceland like a subprime borrower. Ex-Chasers chase banks. UN - Global: UN Admits Afghan 'Friendly Fire' May Have Killed US Staffer, US Mission Dodges. Enviro: Texas toxins, Khartoum's accounting fudge. Bronx: Melrose Credit Union's benign redlining, even after 20 innings, Mets get no respect
4/12/10 -- CRA: Disparate High Cost Loans in 2009 by Citigroup, Wells, BofA and JPM Chase, Will Worsen Without CFPA Independent from Federal Reserve, Banks Too Big To Be Fair. UN - Global: As UN Paid Darfur Rebel Leader Ateem, UN Claims It Didn't Know What Bassole Did: Scandal Grows. Enviro: Vermont nuclear (power), Monsanto blocked in Kenya. Bronx: Times on Bronx? No Thonx, as Cross Bronx Honks
4/5/10 -- CRA: Robert Rubin, Chuck Prince of Citigroup to face Angelides on Federal Reserve pre-approval. Bank Beat: Jaime Dimon of JPM Chase blasé about bailout. UN - Global: In Central Asia, UN Ban Blind to Corruption, Skips Prisoners Rights and Water Wars. Enviro: Louisiana case to Inter-American court. Bronx: Surreal karaoke and bootleg DVDs
3/29/10 -- CRA: Yard sale by Citigroup stalls on toxic CitiFinancial, private label cards. Federal Reserve belatedly concerned by First Niagara gun jumping. Bank Beat: Pointing at China, will BofA leave NC for Boston? UN - Global: For UN's Sri Lanka Panel, Nambiar Meets with Kohona, "Two Foxes," Sources Say. Enviro: Pachauri's Opaque Moonlighting Critiqued by Figueres, of 2 Costa Ricans and the Alba Group, UNFCCC. Bronx: Dominican salads, Bulgarian cheese
3/22/10 -- CRA: MoneyCenters of Wal-Mart should be under the CFPA. Federal Reserve slapped down for withholding info about gift of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase. Bank Beat: With Euro Tanking On Reports of Greece Turning to IMF, of Half Answers, on Dodd Bill. Abusive phone calling by Citigroup expands. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, As UK Disagrees With NAM Letter, IMF, Pascoe and Panel After Election? Enviro: Holes in TSCA Inventory. Bronx: Mis-spelled menus, corny empanadas and Balkan tales on Hughes Avenue
3/15/10 -- CRA: As Congress Dithers for Payday Lenders, CRA Activists Raise Stakes in KC and St. Louis. Federal Reserve seen as weak on consumers even by its own advisers. Bank Beat: Barclays hunts Fifth Third, Suntrust, Comerica or PNC. Citigroup, HSBC and JPMorgan Chase caused Lehman failure. UN - Global: Staged Leak of UN Somali Sanctions Report Echoes Bogus Shabab in Lebanon Claim of 2006. Enviro: Saccharine politics in Florida. Bronx: According to the Sunday Times
3/8/10 -- CRA: Weak payday lending guidance by OCC benefits JPMorgan Chase and HSBC. Federal Reserve ignores comments, but claims consumer protection. Bank Beat: IMF Says "No Agreement" With Sri Lanka, Meets in Hungary, Omits Bulgaria, Angola and Hugo Chavez Questions. Concealers of Greek debt bomb included not only Goldman Sachs but also Deutsche Bank. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka War Crimes, UN's Ban to Name Panel to Advise Only Him, No Pascoe, Nambiar Nepotism Follow Up. Enviro: Oil sander Syncrude confronted by raven eating stuck duck. Bronx: Misuse of Yankee funds is in Hudson Valley Bank.
3/1/10 -- CRA: JPM Chase and Bank of America enable subprime bottom feeders like World Acceptance. Federal Reserve Bank of NY's Friedman profits from AIG bailout, Corrigan spins Goldman Sachs' Greek deception. Bank Beat: Funding illegal settlements raised to regulator: now what? As Citigroup puts Zedillo on board, questions of Acteal massacre in Chiapas arise. UN - Global: UN Official Tony Banbury, "Elated" by Rapes, Says Corruption Watching is Up to Haiti's Preval. Enviro: 1st Amendment burned like dirty coal in W. Virginia. Bronx: Dead last in health, place of corruption? Promoters of Belmont gentrification.
2/22/10 -- CRA: Public Comment Period on Merger Only a "Technicality," Bank Law Insider Argues. Federal Reseve Bank of NY's Dudley muses in Puerto Rico. Bank Beat: IMF on Zim, Backtracks on Greece, Rebuffs Questions About Sri Lanka, Terse on Pakistan and Gbagbo. JPM Chase's sleaze for Carlos Slim. Finance Watch: Denying Corruption of Citigroup, Wells and BofA, Obiangs Cite Obama, ExxonMobil's Investment. UN - Global: CPJ on Pariah States N. Korea and on Sri Lanka, Buying Tickets, Iran's Eye. Enviro: Mining in West Virginia and Guatemala. Bronx: NYT's S. Bronx view is from Metro North, iPhone re gentriciation
2/15/10 -- CRA: Subprimers from Fremont resurface as bottom feeders buying foreclosed home = impunity. Ex-Federal Reserve's Geithner had a sleeping man behind him; business press asks and finds out who. Bank Beat: Fifth Third, from foreclosures to horse loans, scrutiny is needed. UN - Global: Amid Tear Gas, UN Lets Stand Sri Lanka Claim of Its Congratulations, UN's "Good Journalism" Guide. Enviro: Did EPA Region IV not get the memo? Bronx: Signs change, storefronts don't.
2/8/10 -- CRA: Hank Paulson, CRA hardly knew ye. As Russia Denies Paulson's "Dump Fannie Mae" Story, Chinese Tricks Explored. Federal Reserve's Bernanke claims transparency despite FOIA denials. Bank Beat: New.Citi.com omits predatory CitiFinancial, B of A shifts to the right? IMF's Strauss-Kahn Coy on Opposing Sarkozy and Intervening in Greece, IMF and Greek Denials, Yemen Deferrals. UN - Global: As Kofi Annan Wins a Double UN Pension, Ban's Nesirky Claims UN Pension Fund Not Part of UN, No Answers on Africa. Enviro: Kentucky whistleblower. Bronx: highest unemployment.
2/1/10 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs blacks out response on subprime Litton, document here, while Federal Reserve didn't even require one. Bank Beat: GSEs demand buybacks from JPM Chase and B of A, WaMu and Countrywide fallout. Citigroup and Banco de Chile: where are the regulators? UN - Global: As Sri Lanka Expels Journalists and Raids Opposition, UN's Ban Still Relieved. In Haiti, UN of Two Minds on China, NFL Games Blocking Medical Flights. ICP's Haiti Poem, here. Enviro: Big coal in Congress. Bronx: Former NY Cosmo Beckenbauer trashes the South Bronx
1/25/10 -- CRA: As Obama Proposes Goldman De-Bank and Liability Cap, of Dodd and BofA's Evasions. Federal Reserve under fire, with Geithner on outs, Bernanke on grill. Bank Beat: Crisis Commission turns from JPM Chase, B of A and Goldman over to Citigroup. UN - Global: On Haiti at UN, Dominican Dodging on Immigration, UNICEF on Staffing, IFAD to Forgive? BloggingHeads.TV on Haiti, etc. Enviro: Transportation cuts are disparate in Chicago - and NYC? Bronx: no green jobs, just automotive at Alfed E. Smith High School
1/18/10 -- Bank Beat: As Obama's Bank Fees Under-Target Citigroup and AIG, Geithner's Federal Reserve Days Questioned. CRA: Goldman Sachs seeks secrecy for branch opening. UN - Global: On Haiti, Ban Says All Through UN, Through U.S. Not, Watchdog Possible, National Staff Questions Dodged. Enviro: Cadmium in Chinese toys. Bronx: Diner arson, Melbourne slander
1/11/10 -- CRA: Branch closing spree, Regions and PNC. Federal Reserve Bank of NY's Geithner told AIG to withhold info: the last straw? Bank Beat: Of Citigroup's deadwood directors, with spook Deutch out, one down, six to go. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, Last Act of UN's Ban Was Three Months Ago, Despite War Crimes, Authentication by Alston. Enviro: EPA's self-defense on Hunters Point. Bronx: Vodka in bodegas, Stoli gushes on Twitter
1/4/10 -- CRA: Predatory lending by Citgroup to continue in India, FDIC's belated crackdown on payday lending, new Kentucky law. Federal Reserve's Bernanke's mortgage muddle. Bank Beat: New lawsuit against Wells Fargo for discriminatory lending. UN - Global: UN's Afghan Selection Colored by Nepotism and No-Show Jobs, Karzai Veto Threats. Enviro: Luke Cole, RIP. Bronx: Racial profiling, cop on cop
12/28/09 -- CRA: Challenge to Goldman Sachs NY branch application, while Federal Reserve still uses kid gloves. Bank Beat: UN IPCC's Pachauri's Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse Links Unexamined. UN - Global: Unauthorized Entry into Ban's Home and Party Dodged by UN, Disputing Obama Analogy. Enviro: UK Zara and H&M hit for use of Uzbek child labor cotton. Bronx: Ready for hibachi?
12/21/09 -- CRA: Toward a HMDA in the UK? Federal Reserve's Bernanke passes Senate Finance Committee 16-7. Bank Beat: IMF Silent on Climate Change Proposal to Use Its Gold and SDR Interest. Citigroup called fraudster, not only by consumers. UN - Global: As UN Cameras' Footage Can Be Used to Identify Whistleblowers, They Remain in Place. Enviro: Monsanto spread PCBs. Bronx: Double slander
12/14/09 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs' target ignores low income as Federal Reserve belated releases Goldman's chart. Bank Beat: IMF Studies Congo Deals by India and China, Quid Pro Quo by Canada at Paris Club on Mining, UN's Kivu Spin. Citi's secret sleaze. UN - Global: Sri Lanka Falls Off Radar of UN and US, Despite Rapp Report and Disappearances. Enviro: As UN Flies 700 Staff to Copenhagen, Coup Leader Set to Speak, Major Emitter Excluded. ExxonMobil sued. Bronx: As Bloomberg Jokes of Media's Death, UN's Ban Lives It, Asbestos Links the Two.Cold empanadas replace Chinese on Fordham Plaza
12/7/09 -- CRA: Unbanked in US go worldwide, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac repurchases by Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Hold in Federal Reserve re-nomination of Bernanke makes audit of Fed more likely. Bank Beat: IMF Rebuffs Stanford Victims on Antigua Despite Iceland, and Romania, Ukraine and UN. Exit from Citigroup by Kuwait and UAE. UN - Global: On Darfur, Gambari To Be "Vigilant," U.S. Belatedly Says, No Comment on Blackmail or Myanmar. Enviro:BP leaks beyond petroleum. Bronx: compared to Mindinao and Somalia, the Mission
11/30/09 -- CRA: Praised in Dublin, dissed in London. Goldman Sachs and Stella D'Oro layoffs while Federal Reserve wants to continue to regulate while kid gloves on Goldman. Bank Beat: IMF Murky on Angola's Oil, Bond and China Deals, Doles Out $1.4 Billion. Suits by Deutsche Bank and BNP against Bank of America for Taylor Bean. UN - Global: As Africans Threaten Ban on UNDP Post, Panel Unnamed Beyond Diarra, Downgraded Conference. Enviro: African position for Copenhagen, strange ExxonMobil sponsor. Bronx foreclosures.
11/23/09 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs tries to buy off CRA while misdirecting response to Federal Reserve protest. Bank Beat: Amid Reports of War Crimes, IMF Gives More Funds to Sri Lankan Government and Spins on Human Rights. Citigroup closing branches... in London. UN - Global: At UN, As Diplomat from Cameroon Is Rebuffed by UNDP, Ban Ki-moon Faces African Challenge on Agency's Deputy Post. Enviro: Alcoa closes Italian smelters. Bronx: Italian flags displaced by Albanian
11/16/09 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs refuses any substantive answer to Federal Reserve on predatory lending issues. Bank Beat: House of cards, HSBC sells its buildings. UN - Global: As Blair Lobbies for Wataniya, Do Kuwait and JPM Chase's Arranger Role Spell UN Conflict of Interest? Enviro: Myths of jatropha hit in Mozambique. Bronx: Opposition to eminent domain to widen Major Deegan
11/9/09 -- CRA: As predatory Citigroup unravels, Primerica IPO. Federal Reserve threatened by Dodd bill, no action on Goldman Sachs. Bank Beat: Dimon's father given job at JPMorgan Chase, is it nepotism? IMF's Report Buries Its Icesave Conditionality, Enforcer's Duplicity? UN - Global: UN's Security Phase Confusion in Af-Pak Shown at Stakeout, Ban and Nambiar. Enviro: As UN's Ban Admits Copenhagen Deal Unlikely, His Story Is Re-Written. Bronx: Foster care shut down
11/2/09 -- CRA: Dimon of JPMorgan Chase opposes CFPA. Federal Reserve's CIT goes bankrupt. Bank Beat: Stock of Bank of America hyped by Citigroup, TARP for TARP-ers. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, UN's Alston Probes Execution Video, Kaelin Says His Praise Was Misquoted. Enviro: In NJ, Corzine threatens his patron's Corps of Engineers. Bronx: Masks and prison overalls.
10/26/09 -- CRA:
Goldman Sachs takes money for nothing from New Jersey but
hasn't responded to Federal
Reserve on ICP's protest. Bank
Beat: Ranieri moves on Taylor Bean, Citigroup
runs scared, JPM
Chase's contributions. UN - Global:
Pay
for
Play on UN Day, UN Sings For Its Supper as Sponsors
Strut in Green Room, Photo Ops for Sale? Enviro:
Chinese water evictions. Bronx:
NYT misses African - Caribbean co-existence on Webster
10/19/09 -- CRA:
Challenge to Goldman Sachs application for share in four
banks to the Federal
Reserve, which let Goldman in without public
comment. Bank
Beat: HSBC
gunning for Shanghai, watch for predatory. UN - Global:
UN
Assembly
President Treki Hires Daughter and Cousin, For Family
Values. Enviro:
Even UN's Jeffrey Sachs predicts no climate change action
in Coperhagen. Bronx:
Overpriced wood burning by drinkers' corner
10/12/09 -- CRA -- Predatory lending by Citigroup continues, as do Geithner's calls. Federal Reserve delays 9 months to give GMAC and CIT applications under FOIA. Bank Beat: UK mulls breaking up Royal Bank of Scotland and others. UN - Global: At UN, Rebellion and Retaliation in Political Affairs Unit, Pascoe's Transfer Questioned, Faces French - Obama Switch? Enviro: Iraq oil contracts to BP and PetroChina. Bronx dissed in comic review.
10/5/09 -- CRA: Cut back to six markets denied by Citigroup, predatory everywhere. Federal Reserve now says hands off hedge funds. Bank Beat: With Lewis out at BofA, Fleeters choose successor. UN - Global: UN Counters Galbraith Afghan Fraud Fallout with Unnamed Official, Sampler Next for Kabul? Enviro: Lead poisoning in China. Bronx: Post offices face the chopping block
9/28/09: CRA: Predatory lending charges against Deutsche Bank and SunTrust. Citigroup mulls Portugal sale to Barclays, focus is subprime in emerging markets, as HSBC moves CEO to Hong Kong. Federal Reserve audit bill advances, Fed's counsel threatens. Bank Beat: IMF Disappears Questions on Post-Coup Honduras, Sri Lanka Withholding and Jamaica. UN - Global: At UN Entrance, Chavez on Zelaya, Mugabe, Obama Watch, Turkmen and Entourage; Iran Denounces UAE, Serbia Mocks Albania, Congo War Forgotten. Enviro: Mining problems in Utah, ENI deal for Tullow, in Uganda and Ghana, called off. Bronx: Hartford Courant trashes the boro
9/21/09 -- CRA: As PNC' s National City shuts down Youngstown branch, Federal Reserve belated says it will look at non-banks subsidiaries like CitiFinancial: too little too late. Bank Beat: After Household counseled fraud, HSBC plays the victim. UN - Global: With UN's Ban Shielded from Nepotism Questions, Scandals Brew, Defenses Outsourced to Mission. As UN's Bed Bugs Spread, Incoming Diplomats Warned of Itching, No Answers, Talk of Gaddafi's Tent Enviro: Oil find in Uganda. Bronx: in blotter, Gun play in Belmont
9/14/09 -- CRA: Foreclosure site parties by Wells Fargo, bloodbath profits for HSBC in Sri Lanka. Federal Reserve's Tarullo says listen to the news, but CAC. Bank Beat: IMF Still Murky on Honduras and SDR Use, Critique on Georgia, Serbia, Hungary and Latvia. In India, CitiFinancial will keep predatory lending. UN - Global: Crackdown on Somali Pirates, Based On Letter to UN by Ex-Prez Yussuf, Questioned. Enviro: Agent Orange remnants in Viet Nam. Bronx:: Burned out buildings and Sunkin Donuts
9/7/09 -- CRA: Predatory lending continues to expand, CitiFinancial in Indonesia. Federal Reserve loses FOIA case, sought to keep its bailouts secret. Bank Beat: G-20 nations agree money laundering havens shouldn't get IMF loans. UN - Global: In China, Misuse of UNDP for Chief Khalid Malik's Family Foundation, Local Whistleblowers Complain. Enviro: EPA and RCRA loopholes. Bronx: What kind of New Yorker is "The New Yorker" for?
8/31/09 -- CRA: Obama's status quo re-nomination of Ben Berkanke to chair the Federal Reserve is Geithner redux. As IMF Funds Latvia, It Props Up Swedish Banks and Evades Questions of Conditions. Bank Beat: Even FIRA hits Citigroup predator, B of A sues FDIC. Seeking IMF Loans, Service Cuts in Jamaica, Serbia, Congo Changes China Deal. UN - Global: Executions by Sri Lankan Army To Be Raised to UN's Ban in Norway. Enviro: Sterling Oil pollutes Michigan, EPA watches. Bronx: Armory or supermarkets, a plague on both their houses
8/24/09 -- CRA: Contempt for public by FDIC, losing bids secret. Federal Reserve keeps citing Bagelot. Bank Beat: Citigroup lied about Ned Kelly being chased out. UN - Global: Reports of Nepotism for UN's Ban Ki-moon Removed From Internet After Legal Threats by Ban's Son in Law. Enviro: HK-based polluter of SF bay. Bronx: On Iran and Vendex, Sudan to No Bid Contracts, NYC Comptroller Candidates Square Off
8/17/09 -- CRA: As Colonial Bank is Handed to BB&T, Regulators Ignore Community Reinvestment Act and BB&T's Predatory Lending. Federal Reserve: Two CIT agreements too late. Bank Beat: Citigroup spins TARP for abusive loans and bonuses. Pittsburgh transfer by FDIC to PNC in G-20 run up. UN - Global: UN's Ban Expects Nepotism Report Aug. 18, As His Daughter's and Son in Law's Promotion Questioned. Enviro: Exxon Mobil (not) for the birds. Bronx: Post offices to close, smoothie de mamey
8/10/09 -- CRA: Taylor, Bean's HMDA run around foreshadowed sleazy Colonial role. Federal Reserve's Tarullo does not even mention consumers. Bank Bank: Congress demanded Merrill emails from Bank of America, by August 14. UN - Global: UN Nepotism from Congo to NY Criminal Court, UNDP Biter Case Set. .Enviro: Browner is opaque, Guzy asked in Senate. Bronx: Casita Poblana in a former garage
8/3/09 -- CRA: Predatory Lending Persists, Despite Rosy Views from DC and IMF, CitiFinancial's Dark Side in Knoxville. Federal Reserve rifts seen from the IMF. Bank Beat: Sri Lanka's Ethnic Cleansing Bonds Touted by StanChart and HSBC, IMF Silence on Vote Is "Policy." UN - Global: At UN, Biting Incident Reveals Nepotism of UNDP and Congo Envoy, Whistleblower Maced. Enviro: Nuke plant in Ohio pushed by USEC. Bronx: Bloody shooting called clean by NYPD
7/27/09 -- CRA: Board shift from Wells Fargo to Citigroup, no conflict of interest? Federal Reserve ex-Geithner's hypocrisy. Bank Beat: After IMF Vote, Sri Lanka Releases Letter of Intent, Drops IDP "Target" Release from 80 to 60%. UN - Global: At UN, Questions of Ban's Son in Law's Hirings and Promotion Unanswered, In Denmark. Enviro: Chinese buy Angola oil field. Bronx: Fire on 187, grill cooks on 189.
7/20/09 -- CRA:
JPMorgan
Chase funds mountain top removal in its CRA zone. Federal
Reserve gives more exemptions to Citigroup's
ICE Trust credit default swaps. Bank
Beat: ICP filed comments opposing suibprime CIT's
application for bailout. UN - Global:
Proponents
of R to P Say That UN's D'Escoto and Sen Are Opposed -
But Is Honduras An Exception? Enviro:
Appalachian coal. Bronx:
Frankie's Franks on the Berry Go Round
7/13/09 -- CRA:
Despite bailouts, Citigroup,
JPM
Chase, B of A
and Wells
Fargo decline California's IOUs, banks oppose more
HMDA disclosure. Federal
Reserve watch, Bernanke supported by Geithner, who
poll says should go. Bank
Beat: At CIT, subprime comes home to roost. UN - Global:
At
UN, Turkey Admits No Move to Put Xinjiang on Agenda,
Ergodan Quote "Not Based on Realities." Enviro:
Sunoco refinery fined. Bronx:
Park closed mid-summer for crew of four workmen
7/6/09 -- CRA: Card rates spike at Citigroup, Ditech keeps on trucking. Federal Reserve Bank of New York dodged M&A lawyer Cohen and went for the Goldman. Bank Beat:: Belgium bars depleted uranium investments. UN - Global: Burmese Days of UN's Ban Are a Failure, By Ban's Own Measure, N. Korea Fires. Enviro: Climate fight move to U.S. Senate. Bronx: LoCo rezoning is too expensive.
6/29/09 -- CRA: Capitol Hill hearing questions credibility of Bank of America and Federal Reserve's Bernanke. Bank Beat: Japan hits Citigroup on money laundering. UN - Global: UN Runs Scared of Sri Lanka, Says National Staff Not Immune -- But Genocide Suspects Are. Enviro: SF oil leak fines. Bronx questions to Bloomberg, small business told to change products = gentrification?
6/21/09 -- CRA: Obama's Proposal By Splitting CRA from Mergers Could Cut Enforcement, Lost in Federal Reserve Sauce, the Hedge Fund Litmus Test. Bank Beat: Despite Human Rights Abuses, HSBC Gushes About Sri Lanka, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank Also Reportedly Hungry for Bloodbath Bonds. UN - Global: UN's Ban Tips Hat to Protesters from High Above NY, Claims He Met With Tamils. Enviro: Will EPA withhold coal ash disposal site locations? Bronx: merchants hurt not helped by new Yankee Stadium
6/15/09 -- CRA: Tales from the Subprime Meltdown Resonate from Coast to Coast as Regulators Spin. Bank Beat: While at Federal Reserve, Geithner opined on Bank of America -- and Citigroup too? UN - Global: UN's Ban Questioned on Record, on Sri Lanka, Half Time Pep Talk; In UN (Non) Walls Would Have Ears, Under Kane Whistleblowers Beware. Enviro: In Kentucky, landfill and the Sunshine Act. Bronx: Street fair, smooth transition from Albanian to empanadas
6/8/09 -- CRA: Why would Bank of America be saved by those who mis-regulated, FDIC's Powell and Federal Reserve ex-Governor Susan Bies? Bank Beat: At Citigroup, with ex-US Bancorp's Jerry Grundhofer, of subprime New Century fame, take over from Pandit? UN - Global: Sri Lanka Denies IDP Reduction Reported by Inner City Press, Raises to UN, Crackdown Explained? Bronx: Questions of Rep. Engel in predators' wake
6/1/09 -- CRA: Loan sharks lick their lips, in the UK. Federal Reserve favored as super-regulator by vulture investors. Bank Beat: Predator promoter McCollum faces Bank of America CFO in Florida gov race. UN - Global: Back at UN, Sri Lanka Sinks Lower than the Basement, Ban Criticized on Human Rights. Bronx: Are Sotomayor's Bronxdale Houses in the South Bronx?
5/25/09 -- CRA: Even in crisis, BBVA eyes US banks. On Bank of America, what explained the Federal Reserve's lack of public notice? Bank Beat: High rate subprime accounts are one third of book at Citigroup and B of A. UN - Global: In Sri Lanka, UN Shown Blown Out Land Devoid of People, UN Preaches Partnership Not Prosecution. Enviro: Small EPA fines in California. Bronx: Fight against Sheridan Expressway on PBS, bikes promoted in Denmark, dissed in Bronx
5/18/09 – CRA: Comments filed on application by Bank of America to Federal Reserve, lack of notice. Bank Beat: Even to airports, Citigroup can't deliver. UN – Global: In Sri Lanka, No Access to Carnage Until Victory Speech, UN Lowers Expectations, Prepares. Enviro: Chinese pollution by Jilin Chemical. Bronx: Before Yanks, Citi (TARP) Field, Puebla on 186 Street
5/11/09 -- CRA: Tenants evicted as landlords foreclosed on, by Deutsche Bank and others. Federal Reserve let Goldman Sachs fox into NY Fed chicken coop, backed down to Wells Fargo, let Bank of America $16 billion off the hook. Bank Beat: Sell off in Japan by Citigroup to Sumitomo. UN - Global: As Death Spikes in Sri Lanka and Press is Deported, UN Sees No Evil, Getting Late for Visit; UN Hides As War Criminal Bosco Surfaces in April 4 Congolese Army Minutes. Enviro: CRC on Illinois bad water, Chevon disclosures on Ecuador case? Bronx: Dollar fifty burger, thinking of the El
5/4/09 -- CRA: Ken Lewis stripped of Bank of America chairman's spot, trashes CRA then calls for support. Federal Reserve Bank of SF asks advice from M&A lawyer. Bank Beat: NASCAR TARP, CitiFinancial fields Ford car. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, UN Thinks Envoy's No Help, UK Will Not Punish. Enviro: Freeport McMoRan and Phelps Dodge in zinc smelting suit, Chevron under gas flare fire in Australia. Bronx: Immigration poem
4/27/09 -- CRA targeted by Bank of America, "7% of portfolio, 24% of losses." Wells Fargo Auto rip off, US Bank as well. Federal Reserve goes subprime, needs TARP. Bank Beat: Kibuki meeting of Citigroup has no taxpayers, victims bought off.. UN - Global: With 6432 Dead in Sri Lanka, UN Council Takes Over Press Room, UNHCR Funds Detention Camps, "Collective Punishment.” Enviro: DuPont in KY, Saudi Basic Industries loss. Bronx: The bypassing of Fordham, the 18 minute rule
4/20/09 -- CRA: Predatory resolutions at Citigroup and Cash America, TARP for RAL, HSBC's LaFalce for Dodd. Federal Reserve has few public orders in 2009. Bank Beat: Rate ripoffs at Citi and Bank of America. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, With 4500 Dead, UN Won't Ask Cease-fire, Nambiar May Brief Council But in Basement, Mexico Clarifies, Des Browne on the Way. Enviro: W.R. Grace asbestos case (and UN asbestos); Shell fined in Nigeria. Bronx: Spin wars, Yanks' stole parkland and fusilli
4/13/09 -- CRA: Regions Financial's contempt for public and HMDA triggers Federal Reserve complaint. Bank Beat: Citigroup's financial chief leaves, JPM Chase kills WaMu branches. UN - Global: UN's Ban Puts Convicted Korean Businessman Chey Tae-won on Global Compact Board, Dismisses Complaints. Enviro: In New Mexico, EJ filing v. new DC administration. Bronx: compare to Bushwick, Brooklyn, fewer hipsters, lower rents
4/6/09 -- CRA: Subprime
Survivors Wells,
BofA and JPM Chase
Were More Disparate By Race in 2008 than Wachovia or Countrywide,
Citigroup, US Bank and
SunTrust
also Disparate, Trends Will Worsen Under Federal
Reserve, It's Bank Beat
blues. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, UN's Ban
Drops Call for Suspension of Fighting, Vague on Aerial Bombing. Enviro:
Asarco El Paso smelter proposed settlement open for comment. Bronx
BP debate April 8
3/23/09 -- CRA:
Early protests of AIG were
fended off by Patrikis of Federal
Reserve, Geithner on the grill. Bank Beat:
Bailout spin by Citigroup's
Pandit and Bank
of America's Lewis. UN - Global:
On
Sri Lanka, Leaked Document Calls for UN Council Briefing,
ICC's Ocampo Queried, UNESCO Silent. Enviro:
American Smelting and Refining Co skips Superfund bill. Bronx:
Columbia's Beat is beaten down
3/16/09 -- CRA: In DC,
Obama Officials Defend Bailouts of Citigroup
and AIG,
as Federal
Reserve Still
Refuses to Say Whom it Paid. Bank Beat:
In
DC, "Inevitable" Fraud as Obama Jokes with JPM Chase,
Meets ExxonMobil. On
Sri Lanka, IMF Says Its Pending Loan Would "Support Government
Policy Goals," To Wait and See. UN - Global:
Ban
Ki-moon
on Capitol Hill Grilled about Reform, "Deadbeat-Gate"
Begins, But
Where Will It End? Darfur
Raised. Enviro:
Ecuador vs. Accion Ecologica, on mining? Detroiters vs.
incinerator operators Covanta and Energy Investors Funds. Bronx:
Lack of bank branches covered,
in a way...
3/9/09 -- CRA:
Bailout of AIG
benefited Deutsche Bank, HSBC,
Societe Generale and Royal Bank of
Scotland, as Federal
Reserve hides names. Bank Beat:
Storefront's of
HSBC's Household to close, Citigroup's stock goes below
$1. UN-Global:
As UN
Council Meets, NGOs' Eviction from Darfur Called "Only the First
Step," Bashir Indictment Freeze Requests
3/2/09
-- CRA:
Directors sleaze in Citigroup
partial nationalization. KeyCorp's TARP use critiqued. Federal
Reserve's Duke admits deregulatory past. Bank Beat:
Asia saves HSBC
from Household, subprime included. UN - Global: On
Sri Lanka, UN Meeting Called One-Off, UK Makes No Proposals,
Holmes Differs from Ban. Feb. 26 video
debate on UN, Sri Lanka, etc Enviro:
ExxonMobil LNG off NJ. Bronx:
Slumdog in the boro and crime stats.
2/23/09 -- CRA:
Firms seeking bailout funds ask for FOIA withholding, OTS for
Genworth and Federal
Reserve for the CIT Group. Bank Beat:
In Brazil, Itau and Unibanco hook up, Citigroup
says its future's in Latin America (if it has one). UN - Global:
On
Sri Lanka, UK's for UN Council Session Upon Holmes' Return,
"Shocking," Mary Robinson Calls It. Enviro:
As Power Shift(s), BP pays for Texas killings. Bronx:
As Metro North exclusion continues, corruption alleged
2/16/09 -- CRA: Subprime Non-Bank Lenders Ask Obama and Geithner for Bailout, in Guise of Stimulus. Federal Reserve Is JPM Chase's Self-Serving Choice for Meta-Regulator. Bank Beat: Ken Lewis of BofA claims no power over bonuses, Citigroup calls in favors for stadium name, why not jet too? UN - Global: At UN, Russia Maintains Sri Lanka Issues Not in Council, UK Disagrees But Does Not Act, No Ceasefire Call, Even by Holmes. Enviro: Honduran forest protection, Florida crack-down on protest. Bronx: From trattoria to street crime
2/15/09 -- As UN Makes Play for Bailout Funds, Currency Exchange Losses to Dictators Undermine Its Pitch2/9/09 -- CRA: After
Bailout,
ING's Kok Blames Regulators, including Federal
Reserve, for pumping
up subprime, food inflation. Bank Bank:
As RBS slaps
on bonuses, JPMorgan
Chase pays them out. Citigroup
sued by American Eagle. UN - Global:
On
Sri Lanka, UN Won't Confirm its Own Reports or Call for
Ceasefire. Enviro: AIG drops climate lobbying, still stands to
profit. W. Virginia water settlement scam. Bronx:
Zoo cuts Skyfari, bad Madagascar timing, boro restaurants dissed
2/2/09 -- CRA: Banker
Allison
of BB&T in Meltdown Misdirection, Federal
Reserve Shielded BB&T's Lendmark's Subprime Loans. Bank
Beat: Weill slinks away from Citigroup,
more branch closing by JPMorgan
Chase. UN -
Global:
With
UN Silent on the Missing Robert Fowler, Ambassador Whispers,
"He's Alive" in Niger. Enviro:
Mining under fire in Nevada and Australia. Bronx
makes an appearance in Kuala Lumpur, Key Foods helped by crisis
1/26/09 -- CRA: Behind
Bank of America's Toxic Assets, Subprime Links Obscured But
Continued. Bank Beat:
As
JPMorgan Chase Shutters WaMu Branches, Commitments Gone, Federal
Reserve Missing. UN
- Global:
Under
Obama, UN's Lynn Pascoe May Stay, UNICEF's Ann Veneman Not,
Consultant Hired. Enviro:
NRC whitewash in Delaware, BHP Billiton cuts Chile copper,
Aussie uranium. Bronx:
At Fordham, stalking a deadly gang... of geese?
1/19/09
-- CRA:
Geithner
Evaded
Taxes at IMF, Used Statute of Limitations Later, Mishandled
Citigroup
while at Federal
Reserve. Bank Beat:
Lawsuits against Bank of America,
problem for HSBC
with capital. UN - Global: At
UN, Egypt's Gaza Text Beats Ecuador's, No Vote for Cape Verde.
Enviro:
FERC imposes LNG on Baltimore and Pennsylvania. Bronx:
Foreclosures by Wells Fargo,
pizzeria gone.
1/12/09
-- CRA:
Chicken come home to roost at Citigroup,
Rubin out, spin off to Morgan Stanley. Federal
Reserve's web site goes offline. Bank Beat: Lawsuit
against HSBC
for involvement in Madoff Ponzi scheme? UN - Global:
UN
Council
Passes Compromise Gaza Resolution, US Abstains, Withdrawal
Unclear. Enviro:
NYS Gov's land plan in the City. Bronx
to go the way of Bushwick, by Bloomberg gentrified?
1/5/09
-- CRA:
Treasury puts fig leaf on its Citigroup bail out. Federal
Reserve has NYCB, with contempt for HMDA, as advisor. Bank Beat:
Bogus $103,000 shack mortgage bought by HSBC and Wells Fargo.
UN - Global:
As
Tanks Roll Into Gaza, UN Council Meets, Fireworks at Stakeout.
Enviro:
NY test air as parkland given away. Bronx:
Family beaten by NYPD on Brook Avenue
12/29/08
-- CRA:
Even Capital One beat Citigroup
for Chevy Chase. Federal
Reserve pretends it hear the Press on GMAC and the CIT
Group. Bank
Beat: HBOS cuts of Oz Minerals. UN - Global: UN
Wastes $3 Million on 30,000 Oracle Licenses Left Unused,
Sources Say, As Budget Committee Meets, No Ban Comment. Enviro:
NY Parks Dep't closed park for lead. Bronx:
City workers with sticks and drinks
12/22/08
-- CRA:
Morgan Stanley's stealth move into banking, Citigroup
lends to Dubia, skates on thin ice. Federal
Reserve needs to be covered by HMDA, is contemptuous of
public on PNC. Bank Beat:
Capital One's redlining wallet. UN - Global:
At
UN, Korean Staff Rise from 51 to 70 in Ban's Two Years, on
Pianos and Lobbyists, An Evolution. Enviro:
Listening with one ear in Posnan. Bronx:
Of quesadillas and flocking to DC
12/15/08
-- CRA: Swept Under the TARP by
the Federal
Reserve, Grabs by GMAC, PHH and CIT, Wells' Wachovia's
Sewers.
Bank Beat:
Citigroup
settles Egg and auction rate securities claims; Bank of America
hit by $141 M verdict. UN
- Global:
ABN-AMRO
and
ING Are Facilitators of Congo Sanctions Violations, ICC
Disclosure Not Solved. Enviro:
Financial downturn means warning in Texas, gas war heats up in
Ukraine. Bronx:
At HUD, it's not Carrion but an evictor
12/8/08
-- CRA:
Of Junkets and Spanish Highways, Citigroup
Sleaze with Bail-Out. Royal Bank of
Scotland in US and UK. PNC and Ocwen Need Hearings by Federal
Reserve. Bank Beat: HSBC
insists it will not reform. UN - Global:
When
UN Loses Money to Dictators, It Resists Disclosure, Unlike
Even Corporations; Global Compact mulls the OECD complaint
against BHP Billiton. Enviro:
Uranium flip-flops, PetroChina finds. Bronx:
SEBCO's Cantillo praises "upscale" development
12/1/08
-- CRA:
Rubin of Citigroup
claims he has no ax to grind, brought in Ameriquest.
Horror story of Wells Fargo.
Federal
Reserve under-regulates, under-discloses under Bernanke. Bank Beat:
HSBC's
environmental sins. UN
- Global:
UN
Accepted Mugabe's Exchange Rate in Zimbabwe, Refuses to Disclose
Losses As In Myanmar. Enviro:
Debate in Cincy, harm of oil palms. Bronx:
Metro-North and the under-served, tree tale and "seedy
atmosphere."
11/24/08
-- CRA:
Crony capitalism tinges PNC's capture of National City. HSBC's
re-aging began earlier than reported. Federal
Reserve's Geithner did not act on predatory lending, Rubin
/ Citigroup
ties. Bank
Beat: AIG's
grueling
meetings in luxurious climes. UN - Global:
As
Spain Admits It Used International Cooperation Funds for UN's
$25 Million Dome, UN Denies and Ban Ki-moon Ignores. Enviro:
On
Climate
Change, UN Lobbies Itself. Bronx:
NYT misplaces 2 train in Port Morris
11/17/08 -- CRA:
Global fragments of the predatory lending meltdown, Citigroup in
Japan,
General Electric
in Taiwan. Federal
Reserve's Bernanke praised by conflicted JPMorgan
Chase. Bank Beat:
Oversight needed of HSBC, Royal Bank of
Scotland, BNP Paribas and
Deutsche Bank.
UN - Global: UN's Larsen Refuses Ban-Requested Financial
Disclosure As Conflict Questions Raised on "Peace" Event and
Lebanon. Enviro:
Pfizer sued in Indiana, pollution in Vietnam. Bronx: Team
Bloomberg
Evicts Without Due Process
11/10/08
-- CRA:
Lobbying by Bank
of America, Wachovia
and Wells
Fargo, use of bailout funds. Federal
Reserve shields & sleazes with Goldman Sachs, Morgan
Stanley and Merrill Lynch. Bank Beat:
Which WaMu
branches does JPMorgan
Chase plan to close? HSBC's card
solicitations down. UN
- Global:
On
Obama vs. Osama, UN's Ban Says Bombs Away, Some Opine, Second
Term in Mind, Questionless Town Hall Meetings. Enviro:
Maryland wind farms; UK car sales down. Bronx:
Term limits sweep, NY Times promotes gentrification, ignores
rest of borough. See this ICP debate
11/3/08
-- CRA:
At
UN, Stiglitz Slams JPMorgan
Chase For Misuse of Bailout, Federal
Reserve for Allowing Predatory Lending. RSB and arms
trade, HSBC
and cluster munitions. Bank Beat:
Pandit's Citigroup's
second rate, US Bank
horror story. UN -
Global: As
Congolese Army Loots and Flees, UN Patrols Goma But Says It's
Not Responsible. Enviro:
Norfolk Southern's dangerous ethanol, Gold Hawk threatens
Lima,Peru. Bronx:
Marathan set-up, goat soup for immigrantes
10/27/08
-- CRA:
US Bailout Will Subsidize Bank Monopolies, PNC and Chase,
Excluding CRA and Public Review. Federal
Reserve covers up hearing request on Wells Fargo
- Wachovia
by Fair Finance Watch; Fed subsidizes General Electric,
Greenspan's too late. Bank Beat:
HSBC
falls, National City's scooped up. UN - Global:
UNDP's
Dervis
Admits Paying Saakashvili Unwise, Dodges on Congo Security and
Kosovo Fees. Enviro:
Penn anti-corporate law? Ivory Coast toxic waste case. Bronx:
Hip hop shop in Belmont
10/20/08 -- CRA: As FDIC Offers Bail-Out, Its Conference Calls Are Full Then Off the Record. Federal Reserve's shameful Caja Madrid rubber stamp. Bank Beat: Losses or loss of book value at Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPM Chase, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, State Street, Wells Fargo and others. UN - Global: On Sudan and ICC, Uganda Likes Deferral, Austria and Mexico Want Justice, Iceland Denounces UK Enviro: AIG slow pay, Myanmar sells endangered species. Bronx: Whole 4 train line shut. And see this Oct 17 (UN) debate
10/13/08
-- CRA:
On Wells
Fargo- Wachovia,
no FDIC = no emergency. Federal
Reserve gives Inner City Press a Bear Stearns - JPMorgan
Chase response, five months late. Bank Beat:
As Citigroup
vows predatory lending in Asia and Europe, Royal Bank of
Scotland begs for UK bailout. UN - Global:
Mass
Evictions
Ignored by UN in World Habitat Day in Angola, As Arms Trial
Begins. Enviro:
Honeywell fund diversion averted; Alabama company grabs gas in
Colombia. Bronx:
NYTimes' skewed view of the boro
10/6/08
-- CRA: In Wachovia
War, Wells
Fargo Would Require Public Notice and Comment, With FDIC
on Citigroup,
There's No Emergency. Federal
Reserve reviewed by AIG's
overseas regulators. Bank Beat:
Would failure be better for Germany's Hyper Real Estate? For an
debate by Inner City Press on the bailout, click here
9/29/08
-- Article:
Citigroup -
Wachovia
Approved
by
Fed and Bush, Public and CRA Excluded, Laws Repealed? CRA: Subprime
Stoked
By Regulation and Bipartisan Greed, not CRA, as Citigroup
Shows. Federal
Reserve claims it will not control AIG, despite
warrants. Bank
Beat: WaMu
scooped by bottom-feeder JPM Chase.
UN - Global:
Iran's
Ahmadinejad
Denies Locking Up Journalists, Unless They "Infringe on Rights
of Others." Enviro:
Much
of Green Funding Is Blood Oil Money, As In Norway's Case.
Bronx:
Shot deliveryman needs justice
9/22/08
-- Fed Snubs Any Public Review In Making Goldman
and Morgan Bank Holding Companies.
In DC, Bailout Bill Pushed Beyond US, to HSBC, Barclays, Deutsche
Bank and Nomura. CRA:
As Wachovia
eyes Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup
looks at WaMu,
remember the law, Federal
Reserve should apply to control AIG. Bank Beat:
Cutting loose Korea, HSBC denies
other interests too. UN
- Global:
At UN,
Freezing Indictment of Al Bashir Discussed by France, Sharing
Evidence with ICC Dodged. Enviro:
Virginia coal protests. Bronx:
R&S Strauss silence, White Castle slow food
9/15/08
-- CRA: As Cox's SEC did nothing, HSBC in
talks for Lehman bail-out the Federal
Reserve tries for. Finance
Watch: As US
Tightens Insurance Sanctions on Iran, Lloyd's of London Writes
Myanmar Policies. Bank Beat: Fishman brings an
Independentista to WaMu. Citigroup's
Fannie and Freddie losses. UN - Global:
UN's
Ban
Avoids Questions of New Cold War, U.S. War on Terror, Excluded
Journalists Speak. Enviro:
Kentucky mines, Norway oil. Bronx:
Boro's lack of FedEx / Kinko's explained as "lack of demand"
9/8/08 -- CRA: As
Freddie Mac Is Handed by Paulson to Moffett of Carlyle and
US Bancorp,
Subcrime Questions previously dodged by Federal
Reserve on New Century. Bank Beat:
SEC hits General
Electric on accounting, Merrill mis-chooses Citigroup
mortgage trader . UN
- Global:
UNDP
Admits Herfkens Broke Rules, Dodges on Currency Exchange
Losses, Whistleblower Left Waiting. Enviro:
Bayer blow up in West Virginia, nuclear Bulgaria. Bronx:
Street fair features cheese and real estate scams. New debate
9/1/08
-- CRA:
The saga of Citigroup's
predatory
lending and retaliation continue, as Rubin's title
changes. GE
Money in Australia. Federal
Reserve's Geithner gunning for
Treasury, on strength of bail-outs. Bank Beat:
Commerzbank - Dresdner, HSBC in
Vietnam. UN - Global:
UN
Whistleblower in Tokyo Raises Questions of Fraud, Cover-Up and
Retaliation from Below. Enviro:
NEJAC on September 11? Bronx:
Ecuadorian restaurant, auto parts are gone.
8/25/08 -- CRA: Subprime fallout for Citigroup and Huntington, Wells Fargo's predatory servicing. Federal Reserve's answer to JPMorgan Chase bailouts? More secrecy. Bank Beat: HSBC and Russian corruption, GE Money's Guatemalteco moves. UN - Global: UN's Gambari's Trips to Myanmar Questioned, Without Answers, Photo-Op With Aung San Suu Kyi Denied. Enviro: Alaska uranium, Chinese Kazakhstan oil. Bronx: Webster memorial, just south of Carvel. Watch this site. And this (on South Ossetia), and this, on Russia-Georgia
8/18/08
-- CRA:
If Citigroup
writes ARS settlement on taxes, what happened on its predatory
lending settlements? Federal
Reserve gives JPM Chase-Bear
Stearns a legal patina. Bank Beat:
Layoffs by HSBC,
Goldman buys ex-AMRO. UN
- Global:
On
Currency Exchange Losses, UN Starts Cover-Up in Myanmar and
Beyond. Enviro:
Honeywell's Arizona scam; Ecuador versus Chevron. Bronx:
Nitty-gritty changes in the Hub.
8/11/08
-- CRA:
Subprime fallout for Royal Bank of
Scotland and National City. Federal
Reserve swears in Duke but no Capital Oner. Bank Beat:
Citigroup
sleazy with SEC, GE Money
layoffs in Ireland, HSBC
Household woes. UN
- Global:
At
UN, Georgian Protesters Demand Council Action on South Ossetia
But Veto Seems Likely. Enviro:
Exxon dominates Alaska, Norway wants the Arctic. Bronx:
Hunts Point Wiki-Hype, Trash Talk in Jamaica
8/4/08
-- CRA:
Inappropriate joint presser by Citigroup,
JPM Chase, Bank
of America, Wells Fargo
and their regulators. Federal
Reserve rubber stamps Azerbaijan. Bank Beat:
Seoul hard-ball by HSBC; for GE, Canada's
too regulated. UN -
Global:
Leaked
Minutes
Show UN Knew of 20% Loss in Myanmar 2 Weeks Before $300
Million Request. Enviro:
Kentucky mustard gas, Bulgarian gold. Bronx:
More businesses closing
7/28/08
-- CRA:
Foreclosure tale of woe caused by JPMorgan
Chase and Wachovia's
HomEq. Federal
Reserve favor for SunTrust
on Coca-Cola stock. Bank Beat:
more failures and seizures. Citigroup (in
London), HSBC
(in South Korea) and GE (in Abu
Dhabi). UN
- Global:
As
UN Admits 25% Currency Loss in Myanmar, Demand for Return of
Cash Grows, No UNDP Answers. Enviro:
Mining deal and oil fight between China and Vietnam. Bronx:
noxious smells and closed-down restaurants
7/21/08
-- CRA:
Foreclosures in Ireland by GE Money,
fest by Federal
Reserve in stadium with Bank of America
and IndyBank, from beyond the grave? Bank Beat:
Why did Holbrooke quit
AIG? CitiFinancial
slinks out of Slovakia. UN
- Global:
In
Darfur, Lockheed is Late and Poor Performer, UN Admits of No-Bid
Contract. Enviro:
NC suit v. Duke, Lula's biofuels deal with Indonesia. Bronx:
In a Bronx Juror's Eye View,
Gypsy Cab Whip Lash Crash 9 Years Ago Gets 1-Day Trial
7/14/08
-- CRA:
Prince and Steel, revolving doors from U.S. Treasury to Wachovia
and from Citigroup
to Xerox, Synovus downgraded. Federal
Reserve keeps rubber-stamping JPM Chase
- Bear Stearns. Bank Beat: GE Money sell
off in Japan, HSBC
still longing in Korea. UN
- Global:
UN
Admits Losses to Myanmar Junta Through Currency Exchange, NGOs
Skirt with Hawala. Enviro:
French uranium leak; Cali chem plant whistleblower. Bronx:
MLB ignores local media, religious tuba in Belmont
7/7/08
-- CRA:
Subprime send-up of HSBC, the
take-down of IndyMac. Federal
Reserve gives off-the-record speeches to hedge funds. Does the FRB need Reg FD?
Bank Beat: Pandit's pipedream, Citi and Chase,
GE Money and
Capital One make predatory loans for plastic surgery, teeth
whitening and pets. UN
- Global:
On
Darfur,
While U.S. Lobbies for Lockheed, Sudan Says No, UK On
ICC Moves. Enviro:
Fuel fights in Bangladesh and Haiti; Utah yellowcake. Bronx:
Restaurant closed for health, bakery back open.
6/30/08
-- CRA:
Countrywide sued, Bank of America
to layoff 7500. Federal
Reserve's late FOIA response admits flawed JPM Chase -
Bear bailout vote. Bank Beat: Unions pressure Citigroup's
Germany sale, probably to Deutsche Bank.
Desperate sales by GE, buys by RBS. UN - Global:
Darfur
Envoys
Question ICC's Timing, Call for Chad Solution, Don't Know of
Lockheed; click here
6/23/08 -- CRA:
Predatory spread by GE Money,
fall-out from closed-door meetings of Federal
Reserve. Bank Beat: Citigroup
buy and spin, JPM Chase
sues its own. UN -
Global:
On
Darfur, Need for "More Activity from UN," US Envoy Says,
France's Chad Support as a Problem. Enviro: L.A. garbage, British deadly sonar. Bronx:
Torn-up playgrounds and condos in Melrose
6/16/08
-- CRA:
Challenge to insider access of Citigroup,
JPM Chase,
HSBC, Deutsche Bank,
BofA, Wachovia,
RBS et al. with the Federal
Reserve. Bank Beat:
CompuCredit finally gets sued, protest to Caja Madrid's deal for
City National Bank. UN
- Global:
On
Darfur, Mia Farrow Pans Ban Ki-moon, Calls for UN Action, Says
JEM and Chad's Acts Are "Less Important." Enviro:
DuPont cancer, PetroChina bond. Bronx:
Street fairs in the rain, leaking underground storage tanks.
6/9/08
-- CRA:
The spin of Citigroup's
subprime, predators cracked down on in Massachusetts (H&R
Block's and Wilbur Ross' Option One) and Australia. Federal
Reserve vacancies to be filled by Bernanke? Bank Beat: GE Money buys
200 branches in Poland, spreads sleazy lending. UN - Global:
Eastern
Congo
Violence Allowed by UN, Fancy Uvira Camp as Council Visits
Goma, Gold and Guns Denied. Enviro:
Maryland coal ash; Cote d'Ivoire citizens sue Trafigura, Gbagbo
speaks to UN. Bronx:
Gentrification blithely promoted by
the New York Times
6/2/08 -- CRA:
Subprime fallout, hedge funds profit, Citigroup's
mortgage head leaves, HSBC urged
to sell. Federal
Reserve considers permanent bailouts, ignores JPM Chase
and Citi's
Libor games. Bank Beat:
GE beat
Nataxis for Interbanca, gives UK cards to Santander. UN - Global:
As
UN Council Heads to Africa, Justice in Confidential Meetings,
Impunity Not Mentioned.
Enviro:
Russian metal magnates, Alabama uranium enrichment. Bronx:
Times sees Mott Haven fire from Upper East Side, more UK barbs
5/26/08
-- CRA:
Baltimore calls Wells Fargo
a predator, Citigroup
lays-off by conference call, Delta's Miller re-emerges. Federal
Reserve's Bernanke hit on Bear Stearns, focuses on trees
not forest. Bank Beat:
Privatization games by HSBC in
Nigeria, GE
Money in Australia. UN - Global:
UN
Peacekeeping
Gives CISCO Access to Its Cairo Meetings, Roots of No-Bid
Contracting. Enviro:
Suez dams the Amazon, trichloroethylene in Texas. Bronx:
Stadium parkland delayed, Rao's moved, pols pander on gas.
5/19/08
-- CRA:
Foreclosure moratorium, Citigroup's
commitment to predatory lending, KeyBank hit on student loans. Federal
Reserve's Mishkin, missing on JPM Chase,
muses on bubbles. Bank Beat:
Russian money
laundering cover-up fought by Moldovan reporter. HSBC in
India, GE
out of Kentucky. UN
- Global:
In
Wake of UN's Darfur Contract with Lockheed, Promotions and
Partying But No Peace. Enviro:
DC arsenic, Petronas and Uzbek oil. Bronx:
Slander in UK, Bloomberg's swingless playgrounds
5/12/08
-- CRA:
Whistleblower from inside Wells Fargo,
predatory lending at Chase
and Citigroup,
on the auto tip. Federal
Reserve talks of foreclosures while cities file suit. Bank Beat
considers Sweden, GE Money and
ABN Amro. North Korea still on U.S. terror finance list. UN - Global:
On
UN's Congo Scandal, Ban Defers to OIOS, Which Itself Stands
Accused. Enviro:
Areva in Idaho, Ghana exports ethanol to Sweden. Bronx:
Vornado moves to shutter supermarket
5/4/08
-- CRA:
Predatory lending by CitiFinancial
and Wells
Fargo, quiet Countrywide shutdown as Bank of America
looms. Federal
Reserve chooses Wall Street over the hungry. Bank Beat:
Korean market sleaze slows HSBC, Czech
subprime by GE
Money and BNP Paribas'
Cetelem. UN - Global:
Access
to Information Discussed But Not Practiced at UN, Which
Journalists Are Protected? Enviro:
On NY merger, Senator Green as in money. Shell bombed in
Nigeria, Exxon by Norway's SWF. Bronx:
Board of Ed's rubber rooms exposed, but what of District 75?
4/28/08
-- CRA:
Disparities in California by Bank of America
and Countrywide. Federal
Reserve defends no-action on sovereign wealth funds'
states in Citigroup
and Merrill Lynch. Bank Beat:
Korean capitulation to HSBC, GE under
fire. UN - Global:
WFP's
Sheeran
Says Speculators Are a Cause of Food Price Crisis, But Has No
Suggestions. Enviro:
Exxon Mobil insiders, Occidental sleaze. Bronx:
Courthouse demolished, strip mall in its place
4/21/08
-- CRA:
Data show combining Bank of America
and Countrywide would worsen disparities. Federal
Reserve lets JPMorgan
Chase buy Bear Stearns Bank & Trust with no public
comment. Bank
Beat: Subprime expands at Citigroup,
private banking at HSBC in
Ireland, GE
Money grows in Latvia. UN - Global:
Gordon
Brown in Sea of Snubs, In Private Press
Conference, Zimbabwe Election Observers Called For. Enviro:
Strip mining in Pennsylvania, radioactive Catalonia. Bronx:
Pope
visit, Yonkers hot sheet motels
4/14/08 -- CRA: 2d subprime study finds HOEPA loans at HSBC and Wells Fargo, disparities at M&I and GMAC. Federal Reserve's secret deals with JPM Chase and Blackrock on Bear Stearns dodge Delaware judicial review. Bank Beat: Four board members at Citigroup under fire. UN - Global: UN Censors Internet In Its NY Headquarters, Blocking Media Critique and Non-Google Video Sites. Enviro: Puget gas fraud, Naples mobbed-up garbage. Bronx: Of police sweeps and chicken wings in Belmont.
4/7/08 -- CRA: First
Study of 2007 lending data, disparities at Chase,
Citigroup,
WaMu, Wachovia,
Bank of
America and Countrywide, in run-up to Federal
Reserve public hearings. Bank Beat:
Disparities at targets National City and KeyCorp, US Bancorp's
HOEPA
loans. UN - Global:
UN
Development Program "Launders Money" in Latin America, Chart
and Sources Say. Enviro:
Impunity in NOLA; coal-fired plant scrapped in Malaysia. Bronx:
Yankee Stadium railroad waste, predatory lending slows the
market.
3/31/08
-- CRA:
Second challenge to JPM Chase
- Bear Stearns filed with Federal
Reserve, two-faced on too big to fail. Bank Beat:
Work-outs rejected by Citigroup;
in Australia, GE
Money is highest-cost lender. UN - Global:
UN's
Top
Lawyer Calls for Pension Reform, Says Ethics Office Decided
Not to Mention His $10,000 Monthly Swiss Subsidy. Enviro:
Corn ethanol in Cali, Afghan water tests. Bronxites
Are Excluded from Metro-North Trains, As Congestion Pricing
Looms
3/24/08 -- CRA: Discrimination by Citigroup's Argent. Federal Reserve has stake in JPM Chase - Bear's subprime portfolio. Bank Beat: High-cost tire loans by GE Money, Russian HSBC predatory expansion. UN - Global: How GA President Kerim Spends Money Questioned as Part of Reform by France and Indonesia. Enviro: Wyoming trichloroethylene; France's Total leaks oil. Bronx: Latin music obit, Francophony in Williamsburg (music and hot sauce review)
3/17/08 -- CRA: Predatory lending by Citigroup exposed on Capitol Hill, exported by GE Money. Challenge to bailout of Bear Stearns via JPMorgan Chase filed with Federal Reserve and SEC. WashPost - Guardian (UK) Bank Beat: Tax evasions supported by HSBC; Spitzer's alleged money laundering was through North Fork. UN - Global: UN's Censorship and Punishment of Press Criticized by Staff Union, From Google to Crackdown on Photos of the Dead. Enviro: Coal plant soot in Maryland; Ukraine gas flap. Bronx: Goat and lamb in Mott Haven
3/10/08 -- CRA: Foreclosures by Citigroup on Ameriquest loans continue. Federal Reserve flashes then pulls back the data. Bank Beat: Terror finance disclosures by Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays; HSBC in Vietnam and Tehran. UN - Global: In Darfur, UN Gave Lockheed $12 Million No-Bid Food Contract, Leaked Minutes Show, Breakfast in Nyala. Enviro: Arkansas rivers, rubber bullets in Brazil. Bronx: Courthouse to lost charter school, predatory Wells Fargo, UN trees to NYBG?
3/3/08 -- CRA: Predatory lending, by GE in Russia, counting costs at Chase, Wells, HSBC, US Bank. Citigroup's branching games. Federal Reserve plays hide-the-application with Bank of America. Bank Bank: Wikileaks lives. UN -Global: In UN's Corporate Frenzy, Western Union Dismisses Boycott, Coke Exonerates Itself, UNICEF Plays Footsie. Enviro: Indiana Super-fund, Samsung cheap with oil. Bronx: Zip(per) drive on the Concourse
2/25/08 -- CRA: Predatory lending by GE Money in Russia and Australia, Citigroup's Department of Defense cards deal questioned. Federal Reserve remiss again on HMDA guidance. Bank Beat: In the face of bank-requested injunction, here's to www.wikileaks.de. UN - Global: UN Official Speaks of Punishing the Press, Alleging Cowardice, Ouster for 1 or 2 Critical Accounts. Enviro: ArcelorMittal's Kazakh negligence, NY utilities conflict. Bronx: Snowy dancing and hubcaps, years-old FOIL request
2/18/08 -- CRA: While GE Money exports predatory lending, risks of climate change called like those of subprime lending, more disclosure sought, Federal Reserve is a next target. Bank Beat: Commerce Bancorp's Hill talks trash, which TD Banknorth wants to buy. UN - Global: Google, Asked at UN About Censorship, Moved to Censor the Questioner, Sources Say, Blaming UNDP. Enviro: Texas smelter, Nepal fuel shortage. Bronx: Kosovo celebrations, "Death on UN Lawn Leaves Photos Unexplained"
2/11/08 -- CRA: Predatory GE Money moves offshore, Merrill cuts out, funds sleaze at UN, CitiFinancial's arbitration clause struck down. Federal Reserve's blind eye to Royal Bank of Canada's lending to pawnshops. Bank Beat: Santander bites Sovereign bullet, HSBC admits UK losses. UN - Global: UN's Lute Admits No-Bid Lockheed Deal Caused "Confusion," No Conflict of Interest in Iraqi Overlap. Enviro: Frisco sewage, Mexican biofuels. Bronx: Long lines and trees cut down in Fordham
2/4/08 -- CRA: Time and money spending by CitiFinancial in buy-offs; aboriginals gouged, Mizuho gored. Federal Reserve's Volcker goes for Obama. Bank Beat: Predatory expansion by GE Money in UAE, HSBC in South Korea. UN - Global: At the UN, George Clooney Says that in Lockheed Martin's Sole Source Darfur Deal, Mistakes Were Made; click here for video debate. Enviro: Dow's Michigan dioxin, France lusts for Spanish utility. Bronx: Slumlord jammed onto NY National Bank board
1/28/08 -- CRA: Royal Bank of Canada Conceals Fair Lending and Layoff Response to Merger Protest. Federal Reserve spooked by SocGen trader. Bank Beat: Merrill's arrogant Thain. Citigroup in India, GE's Money in Australia. UN - Global: Senate Report Confirms North Korea Violations of UNDP While Letting Wider UN, Kemal Dervis and U.S. Allies Off the Hook. Enviro: ConAg chased out of Clovis, BG Group on the brink in Brindisi. Bronx: Smuggling with Schmuger's Hardware.
1/21/08 -- CRA: Congress summons Citigroup's Chuck Prince. Predatory investor hired Greenspan of Federal Reserve, where Toronto Dominion starts over. Bank Beat: Lost info of GE Money consumers, Bank of America loses jobs, HSBC's bottom-feeding. UN - Global: After Botched Procurement in Burundi, UNDP Denied Documents to UK & Belgian Board Member, Who Was Then Hired. Enviro: DuPont, Xerox and Kodak's Rochester dumping; lead in Saudi pipes. Bronx: Bloomberg's radio claims, cop shop on the El
1/14/08 -- CRA: Bank of America makes mockery of 10% deposit cap, Countrywide's predatory profits. WaMu-Chase rumors. Federal Reserve puts Wells Fargo on "consumer" board, as Wells is sued by Baltimore. Bank Beat: GE's corporate welfare, Citigroup's subprime loophole. Terror money laundering at BB&T triggers miniscule fine. UN - Global: Tony Blair's UN Role May Conflict with New Job with JP Morgan Chase, UN's Subprime View. Enviro: Maryland fly ash; Nigerian gas flaring. Bronx: Food wars, hardware to Bathgate, Dion to Wall Street.
1/7/08 -- CRA: Protest to TD Banknorth grows; Citigroup sued for subprime. Federal Reserve admits communications chaos. Bank Beat: Foreclosure losses of National City, Keycorp, Fifth Third and Royal Bank of Canada soon. HSBC and tax. UN - Global: UN's Darfur Contract with Lockheed Troubles General Assembly, Of Coded Cables and Copters. Enviro: Kentucky mountaintop-removal; Uganda rainforest sell-off. Bronx: Bloomberg from Oklahoma closes day care center
12/31/07 -- CRA: Challenge to TD Banknorth - Commerce. CitiFinancial and HSBC's Household look at credit reports of non-applicants. Federal Reserve allows five year prepayment penalties. Bank Beat: Protest of Royal Bank of Canada's Alabama foray. UN - Global: After Bhutto's Killing, UN Statements Watered Down, Omitting Need for Speed and Rule of Law. Enviro: Sarin in the Blue Grass State. Bronx: Demographics and crime, redlining
12/24/07 -- CRA: Subprime evictions subject to spin in Deutsche Bank memo. Citigroup advocates for hard lenders AFSA. Federal Reserve defends kids-gloves on YSPs. Bank Beat: HSBC's Colombian infusion, GE's investment in Brazilian oil search. UN - Global: UN Budget Approved, 142 versus U.S., Long Night's Saga at Ban Ki-moon's UN. Enviro: Missouri mergers, Mongolia moral rights. Bronx: Animals missing in Belmont, street hassles
12/17/07 -- CRA: UBS's subprime hit; Citigroup is shrinking, Ameriquest is late. Federal Reserve to punt on prepayment penalties. Bank Beat: Bottom feeding by HSBC, cards to be sold by GE to JPM Chase? UN - Global: Reticence to Vote Confines Kosovo to Private Meeting, No Room for Transparency on Budget or No-bid Contract. Enviro: Toxic tanks in NOLA, kebab crackdown in Beijing. Bronx: As Carrion Downshifts to Race for NYC Comptroller, Human Rights Disinvestment Balanced by Returns
12/10/07 -- CRA: In subprime shakeout, Delta Funding fails and Goldman scoops up Litton. HSBC's cards and GE's fraud. Federal Reserve wants cap on predators' liability. Bank Beat: Deals slow, TD Banknorth finally files for Commerce. Citigroup's SIVs. UN-Global: Behind Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract, Condi Rice and UN's Guehenno in Late 2006. Enviro: Toxic ships in Baltimore, China's Myanmar dam. Bronx: Bloomberg shuts Bronx school on way to Bali
12/3/07 -- CRA: After claiming to be out of subprime, Bank of America and Wachovia announce write-downs. What will Federal Reserve do? Bank Beat: SIV shenanigans at HSBC and Citigroup; Japan GE bribes. UN - Global : UN Confirms Lockheed's Contracts of $36 Million in Congo, $250 M in Darfur, Questions Multiply. Enviro: Coal protest in Utah, Chilean oil rights. Bronx: Albanians on Arthur, mad music on 187
11/26/07 -- CRA: Subcrime sell-outs praise bottom feeders, exported by HSBC, rudderless Citigroup. Federal Reserve bank president Stern against over-regulation. Bank Beat: Singapore dismisses anti-money laundering and tax, General Electric dismissed human rights in Turkmenistan. UN - Global: On UN's No-Bid Lockheed Contract, Russia Demands Investigation, Why Was Security Council Misled? Enviro: Toxins in NJ, global warming in Brazil. Bronx: Glimpses in American Gangster; some good news on South Brother Island
11/19/07 -- CRA: Predatory Lending Bill Draws Praise from Brokers, Analysis of H.R. 3915, Citigroup's decline. Federal Reserve governors stalled in Senate. Bank Beat: Spin of HSBC, Korean laundering talks, GE Money in Singapore, UN - Global: UN Controller Called No-Bid Darfur Contracts a "Troubling Pattern," PAE Benefited in the Congo. Enviro: Able UK's asbestos, Kentucky gag order. Bronx: As Bloomberg Repeats Threat to Cease School UN Visits, Does Real Estate Explain? Bronx Footnote
11/12/07 -- CRA: Subprime Citi's fast buck Prince hits the road, H.R. 3915 slinks to House floor. Federal Reserve's Kroszner zeroes in on escrow. Bank Beat: U.S. seeks Iranian sanctions in Greece; GE Money trolls for Vietnam buy, UN - Global: NATO Staff Designed Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract, French and Legal Questions Arise. Enviro: Coal in Iowa, Idaho and Indonesia. Bronx: PR firms seek Astroturf support for congestion pricing, which diplomats avoid
11/5/07 -- CRA: Predatory mark-up predictions, HSBC documents release three years too late. Federal Reserve takes calls from Rubin of Citigroup. Bank Beat: Sleazy collections by Bank of America and GE. UN - Global: Behind Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract, State Department Timing, DynCorp, Dissent. Enviro: Minnesota pesticides, UAE denials. Bronx: Visions from the train, slag heap and Typhoid Mary. Review: Bolton Memoir Settles Scores, Dishes Dirt, Ignores Kosovo and Uganda
10/29/07 -- CRA: Predatory lending in Hungary by Citigroup and GE Money. Federal Reserve's Kroszner defends sleazy securitizers. Bank Beat: Merrill's Wachovia outreach, sanctioning Iran's Saderat, Melli and Mellat. UN - Global: Lockheed Shifts Risks to UN in its No-Bid Darfur Contract, Yet To Be Disclosed. Enviro: Polycythemia in the Keystone State; Afghan herbicides. Bronx: Times follies, sadness of P.S. 205.
10/22/07 -- CRA: Subprime bailout fund pits JPM Chase against Citigroup, Bank of America spoofed by Guy Noir. Federal Reserve, not using it, loses it in Miller Watt Frank. Bank Beat: Strike by HSBC workers in Colombia. UN - Global: The $250 Million No-Bid Lockheed Contract for Darfur Mission Infrastructure that the UN Refuses to Disclose. Enviro: Vulcan's perchloroethylene, BHP Billiton seeks Falklands oil. Bronx: Two squibs in donor-gate, NYU's sell-out remembered.
10/15/07 -- CRA: In Subprime Sideshow, Paulson vs. Paulson in Proxy War, SIV sleaze. Federal Reserve: Greenspan's first class tastes. Bank Beat: Through revolving doors, money laundering lobbyists for Citigroup, GE Money, JPM Chase, Bank of America and Merrill. UN - Global: At the UN, Job Favors Cloud Management Audit, Issues Rise to 38th Floor, Investigator's Questioned but Mute. Enviro: W.R. Grace's sleaze; Cyprus sewage. Bronx: Trattoria, wings and B&N ejects those who question Vicente Fox. Review: Of Wine and Cyanide in Queens Plaza Gentrifying Museum of Fake Art -Modell's Magnate Makes Hipsters Gotta Go To MOFA
10/8/07 -- CRA: Flexibility by HSBC is overblown. Citigroup swallows Ameriquest. Federal Reserve talks ILC while Wal-Mart opens bank in Mexico. Bank Beat: Is Barclays for sale and will Bank of America buy it? GE puff piece by NYT. UN - Global: At the UN, Job Favors Asked and Given between Management and Chief Investigator, E-mails Show. Enviro: DuPont's dirty zinc. Bronx: Bloomberg's grants and rants from the S Bx; outer borough falafel. Review: Pere Portabella's circular take on Bach
10/1/07 -- CRA: Predatory cosmetic surgery loans by Citigroup, GE Money and Capital One, whose Larry Klane's head to Federal Reserve. Bank Beat: HSBC spreads to Peru, UAE and China. UN - Global: Big Eyes Over the Railing, Kouchner on Myanmar and Gbagbo, on War, on the Press, Sarkozy Excludes Non-French. Enviro: ADNOC oil slowdown; Baucus carbon offset. Bronx: Late night street walkers, Wall Street profits
9/24/07 -- CRA: Consumers' data leaked by Citigroup on Lime Wire, HSBC closed Decision One. Federal Reserve's Greenspan closed his eyes on subprime. Bank Beat: Deal by GE Money for BPH. UN - Global: UN's Iraq Meeting Ends with Whimper, Wiesel Breathes Fire, Work and Japanese, Jerk Junkets Abound. Enviro: Schwarzenegger bites the bullet; capping Chernobyl. Bronx: Dead last in response time to fire
9/17/07 -- CRA: Re-opening space for Citigroup's predatory lending; Citi eyes an airline while Federal Reserve ignores Bank of America's compliance violations, including money-laundering. As Fed Releases Mortgage Study, Subprime Disparities Worsen at Citigroup, HSBC, Wells Bank Beat: Used car funding by GE Money in New Zealand, HSBC into Vietnam. UN - Global: UNDP's Dervis Foretells New Panel's Findings, Whistleblowers Left Exposed, Development Mis-served. Enviro: NRC visits Duke Energy, Iran-Turkey pipeline explodes. Bronx: Memories of burning, Bohemian over the bridge
9/10/07 -- CRA: Countrywide shifts its disparate subprime to bank (of America?), GE Money's take on the meltdown, Citigroup's warehouse sleaze, OKC horse. Federal Reserve wanna-be Larry Klane's HOEPA-rich eSmartLoan. Bank Beat: HSBC under attack, not yet for the right reasons. UN - Global: Errors in Promises to Congress of UN Whistleblower Protection Go Uncorrected, Shooting Messengers. Enviro: DuPont toxins, Chernobyl's cesium-137. Bronx: Ferragosto and predators to the NYBD. Review: Manda Bala, frogs and ears in Brazil
9/3/07 -- CRA: With Subprime Hot Air in DC, Cold-Blooded Citigroup Buys Ameriquest. Federal Reserve's hands-off on consumer protection. Bank Beat: Barclays' predatory hungers come to cost it, HSBC into Korea, GE into Oil. UN - Global: In UN's Chad Preparations, Mystery of Tiger Team Dodged by France, Reverberates in Near-Empty Security Council. Enviro: ExxonMobil refinery suit; polluters behind 9/11. Bronx: Bloomberg to the right on Bush on fair lending?
8/27/07 -- CRA: Countrywide's disparities inherited by Bank of America, while GE Money is frustrated by Japan's consumer protection. Federal Reserve meets with Dodd, hot air ensures. Bank Beat: Withholding of Royal Bank of Scotland's anti-money laundering policy overcome. HSBC eyes South Korea. UN - Global: At the UN, Whistleblower Loopholes Defended, Ban's Fragmentation Called Ludicrous (with video). Enviro: Citgo's oil spill, toxic mercury for gold mining in Guyana. Bronx: Leave the tamale sellers alone, looking at Mount Vernon
8/20/07 -- CRA: Royal Bank of Scotland files merger response on predatory deal with New Century. Dodd pegged in the crosshairs. Federal Reserve covers-up with rate cut. Bank Beat: Citigroup defends subprime, hides its costs. GE in Colombia. UN - Global: Somalia Discussed As Journalists Are Killed, White Phosphorous Used -- (Somalia video here) Enviro: Cali pushes pollution to Mexico, and Vietnam. Bronx: We are not Westway
8/13/07 -- Greenspan's Shameless Cash-Out to Deutsche Bank Is a Sub-Crime, Consumers Complain CRA: As BNP freezes, Dodd dodges. GE predatory in UK. Federal Reserve claims powerlessness. Bank Beat: Bank of America's payday lender sued. HSBC in China; Citigroup's soda. UN - Global: At the UN, Protesters Ask Ban Ki-moon to Do More to Help Free Hostages in Afghanistan. (and video) Enviro: Tesco's hot air. Bronx: Music fairs, de Panama and Sierra Leone. In UN - Bloomberg Fire Safety Stand-Off, Freedom of Information Is Lacking.
8/6/07 -- CRA: Bank of America evades questions from Federal Reserve, Larry Klane's false claims. Bank Beat: Fortis' dissed, Citigroup and TXU; HSBC funds "slave-driver" in Brazil. UN - Global: At the UN, Darfur Resolution's Ambiguity May Spell Trouble, Sudan Says It's Happy (and video). Enviro: EnCap's methane; E. Guinea Kyoto scam. Bronx: Methadone oblivion
7/30/07 -- Bank Beat:
Challenge to
Royal Bank of Scotland / Santander / Fortis application for
ABN Amro. CRA:
How many fair lending referrals? Will Federal
Reserve take note of Santander's dealings with sanctioned
Sepah? UN - Global: UN Mulls
Banning Bloggers, Leaked Minutes Reveal, Fearing Coverage Not
Easily Controlled. Enviro:
Wicheta toxins, Belarus' gas bill. Bronx:
Tattoo parlor opens, bike shop shuts down.
7/23/07 -- CRA: Blame for subprime lending losses cast by, and on, Federal Reserve. Volker-style investigation needed. Bank Beat: HSBC eyes Korea, GE stays only for corporate welfare. UN - Global: At the UN, Team Ban Accused of Undermining Africa, Leaking of Letter Is Counter-Charged. Enviro: Shell in Colombia, Illinois PCBs, Serbian ammonia. Bronx: Steam Pipe Incident Raises Underlying Questions, in The Bronx and at UN.
7/16/07 -- CRA: From Ameriquest, predatory notices. From HSBC, predatory spread to Vietnam. GE flees subprime, Nomura hurt by it. Federal Reserve faces loss of unused consumer protection functions. Bank Beat: New arrogance from Bank of America, while Citigroup looks to Toyko. UN - Global: In Somalia, Despite Mortars the Show Must Go On, For Funding (also on Reuters AlertNet, here). Enviro: Dupont's self-investigation, uranium in the Congo. Bronx: Zeppole war? Let the brother go.
7/9/09 -- CRA: Challenge to Bank of America - LaSalle. Federal Reserve pleases mortgage bankers, Citigroup and GE served by Fed's money laundering guru. FOIA harmed by Sen. Kyle. Bank Bank: UK FSA investigates GE Money for predatory lending, as HSBC expands it in Dubai. UN - Global: At UN in July, China's Changed Position on Myanmar and Faith in Somali "Brothers" Among Tests. Enviro: Mongolian mines, oil merger blockage. Bronx compared to downtown Brooklyn nightlight, City Hall press corps notes
7/2/07 -- CRA: As regulators talk, predators continue. Mellon settles just after rubber-stamp by Federal Reserve, which money launders for North Korea. Bank Beat: Citi and GE in Chile and Guatemala, Wells Fargo dissembles. UN - Global: At UNDP, Hunting Down Leakers and Whisteblowers' Photos, Hiding Disclosure Behind a Bored Board. Enviro: DuPont in C8 denial, Armenian copper-molybdenum mining. Bronx: Carrot juice and miniature NASCAR by Gun Hill Road
6/25/07 -- CRA: Subprime in Seattle. Federal Reserve spins. Bank Beat: BONY prepares Mellon cuts, HSBC accuse small consumers of money laundering in Singapore. UN - Global: In Ban's UN, Human Rights Arguments Can Be Ignored, Journalists Kept Out of the Club. Enviro: Blue birds nest in Seattle. Bronx: Shadows over Fort Apache stand-in
6/18/07 -- CRA: Bank of New York helps predators, looks the other way. Federal Reserve approves, and engages in money laundering too. Bank Beat: JPMChase's subsidized patriotism. Citi and Deutsche Bank face Parmalat trial. UN - Global: On Darfur, Mr. Ban Dislikes "Skeptical Reporting" While Questions Go Unanswered. Enviro: Bay State's ten toxins, Hyundai and Wartsila. Bronx: Fireworks; ads with BP as campaign contributions?
6/11/07 -- CRA: Regulator OTS Switches Republic Applications Dates for Subprime owner Merrill Lynch. Federal Reserve favors Citigroup in prospective India deal. Bank Beat: From predatory lending to mis-managing trusts, Deutsche Bank is under fire in courts in NY, Florida... and Ohio? UN - Global: In Myanmar, Local UNDP Staff Must Tithe To Get and Keep Jobs, Yangon Insiders Say. Enviro: Dioxin in Florida, toxins in Chile. Bronx: Street fair with merengue, challenge to NYCB - Doral
6/4/07 -- CRA: Two thirds of Dodd's top 12 donors do subprime, Citi is #2; who hold stocks of Rent-A-Center. Federal Reserve meets more -- but not for consumers. Bank Beat: HSBC's secret toxins vs. its claims of carbon neutrality. UN - Global: At the UN, Dow Chemical Protesters Detained and Media Sent on a Blue Planet Run; UNDP Evasive on Myanmar Corruption. Enviro: Hungry Rio Tinto and Rubbertown. Bronx: Library branch chief says sayonara
5/28/07 -- CRA: Belated predatory lending action promised by HUD and Federal Reserve, which neuters CRA on Guam for ANZ: "Int'l loan sharks welcome." Nominee Betsy Duke's Wachovia problem. Bank Beat: Citigroup retail turmoil, GE South Pacific subprime. UN - Global: In Ban's UN, S. Korean Nationals Placed in Other UN Offices Avoid "Regular Procedures;" UN's Holmes Regrets Not Meeting Somalia's Hawiye Clan. Enviro: Honeywell toxins, Japan's whaling games. Bronx: Questions for MetroNorth, Arzu questions for the cops
5/21/07 -- CRA:
5/14/07 -- CRA: Stealth subprimer AIG hit for $128 million, what of Lehman Brothers? Citgroup's greenwash. Federal Reserve seat for Capital One and Deutsche Bank's Klane? Bank Beat: Chase's Dimon's Whisperings with Dow's Leveris. UN - Global: UN Counter-Terrorism at Crossroads, From Danish Cartoons to Sunset on Javier Ruperez. Enviro: ExxonMobil fined in Cali; in Nepal the lights grow dim. Bronx: Good doctor, bad doctor, chicken and greed
5/7/07 -- CRA: Dodd, funded by Citigroup, HSBC and Wells Fargo, says no law needed on subcrime. Federal Reserve delays action even on HOEPA. Bank Beat: BofA's petulant suing of ABN Amro, Gramm's UBS gets burned. UN - Global: DSG Migiro Says UNDP's Centrality Not Yet Decided, Condi Rice Theory; U.S. Highlights Bloggers at the UN, While Keeping Them from Amb. Khalilzad. Enviro: Lye in Massachusetts, lie in China. Bronx: Playground closure outrage, Cinco de Mayo in Belmont, Ridgewood's stiff upper lip
4/30/07 -- CRA: Pot accuses kettle, Citigroup calls for GE break-up. Wells Fargo and the defective bed loan. Federal Reserve's Gramlich spins on subprime. Bank Beat: The arrogance of BONY. UN-Global: UNDP's Audi(t); Somali TFG - Blackhawk Down connection. Enviro: Chevron's Arthur Kill; Uganda's DDT. Bronx: Drunken students stumble east to Crotona, simulacra
4/23/07 -- CRA: Prince of Citigroup Eyes Predatory Argent; problems at Wells Fargo Auto Finance. Bank Beat: Shred at Royal Bank of Scotland; Second comment on Bank of New York - Mellon, while Federal Reserve withholds information. UN - Global: Sudan's "White Plane" Was Bought From Russia; UN Rewrites Rwanda Genocide Exhibit. Enviro: Guam toxins, AIG plays cheap, post-Katrina. Bronx: BONY's disparities in boro it wanted to exclude
4/16/07 -- CRA: Predatory Lending in NY Compared to S&L Crisis, As Subcrime Disparities at Citi and JPMorgan Chase Worsen. Federal Reserve's Bernanke walks out on Cheney, invokes invisible hand. Bank Beat: Challenge to Mellon deal by Bank of New York, Enabler through Swaps and Caps of Predatory Lenders. UN - Global: At UNDP, Ad Melkert's Political Hiring Rivals Wolfowitz's; Ban Ki-Moon's 100 Days at the Helm. Enviro: Guam flim-flam; Palladium and acid rain. Bronx: Strike at Promesa, Inc.
4/9/07 -- CRA: Lending Disparities in 2006 at Citigroup, HSBC, Argent, GE, Chase, RBS and Other Large Banks. Wells Fargo cites Federal Reserve, which allowed subprime crisis. Bank Beat: Sloppy New Yorker Defense of Subcrime. UN - Global: Fijian Troops are "Rotated" to UN in Iraq through Loophole in UN Coup Response; UN's Africa Report Embraces Privatization of Banks. Enviro: Toxic sludge and loans in Carlsbad, toxic gas in Congo. Bronx: Around the HUB, no trains but hot dogs
4/2/07 -- CRA: Predatory Wells Fargo. Federal Reserve clings to the past. Bank Beat: GE Money Bank's Polish moves, HSBC's Iran exit. UN - Global: UNDP Officials Summoned to SDNY in N. Korea Case; UN Threats Against Dubai Corruption Whistle-Blowers Pose Test for Ban Ki-moon. Enviro: Murphy Oil pays in NOLA, Shell's nuclear loss in Nigeria. Bronx: Sears demolition and mashed plantains
3/26/07 -- CRA: Sen. Dodd Focuses on Brokers, HSBC Blames Its Victims, Citigroup Escapes. Federal Reserve, years late, dollars short. Bank Beat: Barclays Subprime hungers. UN - Global: Ahmadinejad No-Show Through Rashomon Lens, Finance Watch: Impact on Bank Sepah? Enviro: Secret Delaware coal, Total oil bribes, Mozambique climate change. Bronx: MTA follies
3/19/07 -- CRA: Predatory lending notes, on Ameriquest layoffs, Citigroup opportunism, H&R Block's dreaming. Federal Reserve did nothing on New Century. Bank Beat: Wal-Mart drops ILC bid; GE Money talks of worldwide subprime. UN - Global: Questions of Iran Texts, At the IMF, Comment on Global Subprime Contagion Deferred. Enviro: Ohio radium; dam in Sudan. Bronx: St. Barnabas spread tuberculosis, schools threatened with closures.
3/12/07 -- CRA: Barclays' New Century sleaze, Patrick's Ameriquest call to Robert Rubin. Federal Reserve forgets Citigroup - AT&T conflict. Bank Beat: Deutsche Bank in Brazil, HSBC in Mexico, Chase in subprime, GE in Canada, Comerica leave Detroit behind. UN - Global: In Iran Talks, Hope to Shivering Reporters; Ban Ki-moon Dodges Mercenary Questions. Enviro: Qui tam in Denver, Russian corporate cops. Bronx: Movie reviews, Tremont and Bamako
3/5/07 -- CRA: Sleaze redux, Citigroup -Ameriquest and Arnall. Wells Fargo as predator. Federal Reserve: Despite foreshadow, slowdown for BofA means no need to rush. Bank Beat: GE Money spreads, while U.S. Bank echo in New Century meltdown. UN - Global: Suspending Operations in N. Korea, UNDP Slows Audit Called for by Ban Ki-moon; Darfur Falls Into Footnotes. Enviro: Honeywell haz mat, Nigeria oil tour. Bronx: Concourse mysteries, downtown paparazzi
2/26/07 -- CRA: Ex-journalist now defends CitiFinancial's fraudulent 21% loans; HSBC fires Household execs. Federal Reserve's Bies speaks up belatedly. Bank Beat: As U.S. predators fall, JPM Chase buys into UK subprime, Wells Fargo warns of layoffs. UN - Global: More Peacekeepers from Fiji, Cocheme Asked to Face Questions. Enviro: Study of Haz-Mat siting. Bronx: Spitzer's bank pick is TD and Citigroup insider, Sears takes sidewalk
2/19/07 -- CRA: Those who propped up Fieldstone included JPM Chase, Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers. Philly v. Wachovia. Federal Reserve speaks on ad scams. Bank Beat: The arrogance of Bank of America, including on money laundering. GE's Subic call center; Citigroup in the desert. UN Global: Ban Ki-moon Wants Access to Darfur, Has Genocide Office Shortlist. Enviro: BP in Texas, oil and chivas in Ecuador. Bronx: Reviews of tacos and periodic paper
2/12/07 -- CRA: The meltdown of HSBC, abuse by Citigroup as OCC spins. Federal Reserve begrudgingly reconsiders Wachovia's subprime withholdings. Bank Beat: Muni-bond sleaze by Bank of America, also GE Money scams. UN - Global: Head of UN Pension Fund Ignores Investigation, While Whistleblower Speaks to ICP. Enviro: Nigeria oil corruption; KeyBank's Artic sleaze. Bronx: FedEx scams, dollar store daze
2/5/07 -- CRA: A near-dead predator revived? Citigroup - Ameriquest would mirror HSBC's Household. GE Money fined in Britain. Federal Reserve want to bend antirust rules. Bank Beat: Subprime animal JPMorgan Chase, money laundering by Bank of America, pre-US Trust. UN - Global: Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army in Sights of UN Security Council President, for Action on War Crimes. Enviro: Hired guns for LNG, Davos pittance. Bronx: Bee-line to Rent-a-Center
1/29/07 -- CRA: Barclays goes predatory, Ameriquest gets sued. Federal Reserve defends payday lenders. Bank Beat: Challenge to Bank of America - U.S. Trust. UN - Global: UNDP Backslides on Audits As Scope Expands to UNICEF, WFP, and UNFPA, FAO and U of Peace, DSA of Vitaly Vanshelboim. Enviro: Indiana ethanol, BP's Azeri gas. Bronx: Bad-mouthed in Georgia, arrested to the north
1/22/07 -- CRA: Using Experian, AIG's American General spies to prevent payoffs. Bank Beat: Barclays buys Regions' subprime and stadium naming rights. UN - Global: In the Face of UNDP Scandals, Ad Melkert Says "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet." Enviro: San Diego pollution, Azeri repression. Bronx: Dissed again by elitist media, not BBC, but WYNC, on branches
1/14/07 -- CRA: Predatory lending spread by HSBC, while CitiFinancial's wings clipped in Japan and Ireland; Ameriquest and Gates Foundation. Federal Reserve lets PNC whisper insider secrets. Bank Beat: Missiles and money laundering, U.S. at UN alleges; GE Money's Honduras deal. UN - Global: At UNDP, As Corporate Dealings Grow, Standards Are Lacking, With Coke and Cisco, Koc and Karimov. Enviro: ConocoPhilips oil flaring, Fiji's gold (mining) coup. Bronx: How and for whom is progress defined?
1/8/07 -- CRA: Predatory enablers of OwnIt included JPM Chase, Credit Suisse, Countrywide and Nomura. Bank Beat: The meltdown of HSBC, corporate welfare to GE Money in Hungary. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Demands Resignations, Then Won't Release the List; Kosovo Warnings. Enviro: Ohio solvents, Chevron in Ecuador. Bronx: Chicken wars in Hunts Point and decapitation
1/1/07 -- CRA: Predatory lending in Ireland, including by CitiFinancial. Challenge to PNC - Mercantile, beating Federal Reserve's absurd deadline. Bank Beat: The I-Kiosks of GE Money, a victim of HSBC. UN - Global: Inaction as Ethiopia Invades Somalia, UNDP's Dubious Russia Dealings. Enviro: Highway in Milwaukee, power plant in Chelsea. Bronx: Riverside park and James Brown's funeral
12/25/06 -- CRA: Subprime scoop picked up, now JPM Chase linked to OwnIt. Federal Reserve hides Citigroup's sins. Bank Beat: Even the City trashes HSBC's Household move. UN - Global: Mysterious Deletion from Iran Sanctions List, UN's Revolving Door. Enviro: Oak Ridge nukes, birds fooled in Finland. Bronx: Pro-development NY1 can't spell, bike lanes have holes
12/18/06 -- CRA: Philly vs. Wachovia, HSBC's subprime losses but RBS wants in. Federal Reserve lags even UK's FSA. Bank Beat: More Central American moved by Citigroup, Chase to sell Ameriquest; GE in China. UN - Global: UNDP's Ad Melkert Says He Will Finally Increase Transparency, Dodges Uganda Funding of Violent Disarmament. Enviro: DuPont toxins, California dumping. Bronx: The closing-down of Sears
12/11/06 -- CRA: Predatory lending by GE Money, in Singapore. Royal Bank of Scotland dissembles, and HSBC declines. Bank Beat: ACC / Ameriquest sells off subprime auto unit, Deutsche Bank looks for a servicer. UN - Global: UNDP as Vanity Press, attacking independent media while withholding its audits. Enviro: Ohio nukes, Sakhalin blues, where are the banks? Bronx: Foreclosures up, a Bronxite's death in Iraq, RIP
12/4/06 -- CRA: Irish loophole used by GE Money and CitiFinancial. HSBC covets predatory Champion. Federal Reserve sucks up to WaMu, ING and AmEx. Bank Beat: Who will buy Ameriquest? AIG takes subprime overseas. UN - Global: Taking a Look at UNDP, Brian Gleeson, Kalman Mizsei, Vietnam and Russia. Enviro: ConocoPhillips oil spill; Indonesia gas pipe explosion. Bronx: Meth labs and unlicensed shippers
11/27/06 -- CRA: Agencies' weak reactions to HMDA disparities, Wachovia's branch closing. Federal Reserve's Bernanke rides shotgun to China, free pass for Citigroup and BofA? Bank Beat: Capital One insider trading. UN - Global: UNDP Dodges Questions of Disarmament Abuse in Uganda and of Loss of Togo AIDS Grant, Dhaka Snafu. Enviro: Haz Mat Jazz and Tasmanian pulp. Bronx: Melrose Commons spreads blight. Review: Elite against I.F. Stone
11/20/06 -- CRA: National City and Chase take the money and run; subprime auto from Wells Fargo and Wachovia, for which a Philly fight is brewing. Federal Reserve blows off comments while mis-serving the public. Bank Beat: Predatory lending spread by Citigroup, HSBC and GE Money. UN - Global: Nagorno-Karabakh President Interviewed, click here for the video. Enviro: Urenco moves the nukes; haz mat to Michigan. Bronx: Foot Locker Fire and Flushing
11/13/06 -- CRA: New Congress has oversight fodder in Chase - OCC, Federal Reserve's Capital One and Regions rubberstamps. Bank Beat: Foreign policy by HSBC, predatory GE Money spread. UN - Global: On Water, UNDP Talks Human Rights, While Enabling Violators; Deutsche Bank Collects USG. Enviro: Toxic waste in Gettysburg, GE's PCBs. Bronx: Broken Battery, park race debate in Times
11/6/06 -- CRA: Predatory expansion by Latin Citigroup and GE in the UK. Fed Watch: Capital One in the crosshairs? Bank Beat: Polish moves by HSBC and Fortis. UN - Global: Musical Chairs at the UN, U.S. Candidate for WFP Praises Mega-Corporations. Enviro: Jersey toxins. Bronx: Toxic political reflux. Review: Rory Stewart, Colonial Hipster
10/30/06 -- CRA: Payday lender and GE Money head east to Asia, CitiFinancial misuses micro-credit card. Bank Bank: Pinochet's money-laundered gold found in HSBC? JPM Chase chooses subprime for mortgages. UN-Global: A Tale of Two Americans Vying to Head the World Food Program, Banbury and Sheeran Shiner. Enviro: Mercury in Delaware, protests in Peru. Bronx: On Webster Avenue, slow busses and African movies and food
10/23/06 -- CRA: Predatory lending by GE Money and Citigroup in Japan, Provident in Hungary. Federal Reserve rubber-stamps Regions-AmSouth. Bank Beat: Wall Street goes subprime; Myanmar off FATF money laundering blacklist, no comment from U.S.. Global: As Turkmenistan Cracks Down on Journalists, UNDP Works With the Niyazov Regime. Enviro: ConocoPhilips fined for oil spill. Bronx: Kingsbridge musing, diss from New England
10/16/06 -- CRA: Subprime moves by Citigroup and Bear Stearns. Ameriquest impunity. Federal Reserve covers up predatory National City. Bank Beat: Latvian incursion by GE Money. In Abkhazia, money laundering alleged. UN - Global: Votes on North Korea and Slippery Eel; of Georgia and Sun Microsystems. Enviro: Texas toxins, nukes on the move, HSBC's green-washing. Bronx: Fire musings on Valentine; Metro North's profiling by station location
10/9/06 -- CRA: Predatory lending by GE Money in Texas, by AIG in Utah. CitiFinancial in India. Federal Reserve's late questions to Wachovia and National City. Bank Beat. Terror money laundering by RBS and Credit Agricole. UN - Global: Darfur admissions, Gambian whitewash, UN SGs to disclose finances? Enviro: Citgo's Texas benzene; Three Gorges Dam displacement up to 1.4 million. Bronx: Forlorn Times, shelter jobs
10/2/06 -- CRA: Theft of consumer information by Citigroup, JPM Chase and Wells; subprime lending in Japan and Thailand by AIG; oily Snow. Federal Reserve sells out to Wachovia on Golden West. Bank Beat: IT at HSBC seized by predator, BofA money laundering. GE unregulated in Canada as well. UN - Global: U.S. Candidate for UN's World Food Program May Get Lame Duck Appointment, Despite Korean Issues. Enviro: Illinois toxins. Bronx: MTA delays, global grocery is gone
9/25/06 -- CRA: Predatory lending whistleblower, and OCC punts on JPM Chase's branch closings. Federal Reserve gets snapshot of accelerating foreclosure rates by subprime National City. Bank Beat: Regions-AmSouth admit but hide assistance to payday and car title lenders, pawnshops to continue. UN - Global: On Darfur, Hugo Chavez Needs Time to Study, While U.S. Accuses (click here for ICP video). Enviro: Rubber-stamp on the Gulf Coast for Dupont. Bronx comes up at UN, while JPM Chase makes toxic loans
9/18/06 -- CRA: Predators for sale to I-banks. Citigroup as bad employer. Federal Reserve's Minehan talks subprime, with Board closes eyes to Regions-AmSouth. Bank Beat: Who's for sale? UN - Global: As UN's Annan Now Says He Will Disclose, Whether It Will Be to the Public Goes Unasked. Enviro: MBTE in Maryland, Nagorno-Karabakh and oil. Bronx: Dodging the health department and Britain's insults
9/11/06 -- CRA: Targeting of African Americans For High Cost Mortgages Grew Worse in 2005, While Federal Reserve Downplays Its Own Findings and (Fed Watch) excuses Credit Agricole's money laundering and rights violation. Bank Beat: Citigroup's duplicity, HSBC's belated disclosures, GE Money on the Pampas. UN-Global: Micro-States Simmer Under the General Assembly's Surface, a Vote on Nagorno-Karabakh. Enviro: As UN Checks Toxins in Ivory Coast, the Dumper Trafigura Figured in Oil for Food Scandal, with RBS and BNP Paribas as funders. Bronx: Ferragosto and faraway slander
9/4/06 -- CRA: Predatory lending in Australia by GE Money, by Ameriquest in Maryland. Will the Federal Reserve act as Wachovia spreads it overseas? Bank Beat: Sleaze by Citigroup is costing it. In name of anti-money laundering, North Korea is squeezed. UN-Global: Security Council President Condemns UN Officials Getting Free Housing from Governments, While UK "Doesn't Do It Any More." Enviro: Gaseous Kentucky, Port Harcourt in oil-driven flames. Bronx: Four Ballot Marking Devices = Voting Rights Act Violation
8/28/06 -- CRA: Cover-up of Federal Reserve's Mortgage Data Analysis, Which Citigroup Evades; Regions' AmSouth Sleaze. Bank Beat: Italian mega-merger; HSBC in Ukraine, GE Money's live Czechs, CitiFinancial in Poland. UN-Global: Inquiry Into Housing Subsidies Contrary to UN Charter Goes Ignored for Eight Weeks. Enviro: Manganese protests in Vietnam. Bronx: CDCs and gentrification, steam tables and hot sheet motels.
8/21/06 -- CRA: Challenge to Regions - AmSouth, including on Katrina Zone sleaze. Federal Reserve gets World Savings - Wachovia response on low-doc loans. Bank Beat: Partial FOIA win on HSBC, the fight continues. GE hungry for predatory loans in Hungary. UN-Global: Human Rights in Uzbekistan and Among Ship-Breakers in South Asia. Enviro: DuPont's C8 poison. Bronx: Targeted, gelato, sancocho and Organic Fertilizer.
8/14/06 -- CRA: Challenge to National City's subprime and FLA applications. Federal Reserve withholds Wachovia-solicited support letters to end of comment period. Bank Beat: Polish predatory Citifinancial, Czech's GE Money and HSBC hunts Takefuji in Japan. UN-Global: Africa Can Solve Its Own Problems, Ghanaian Minister Tells Inner City Press, in Lebanon's Shadow. Enviro: Gas in Benin; Oak Ridge nukes on the move. Bronx: Loss of electrical power, rotting steel in 149 Street Station
8/7/06 -- CRA: Predatory lending spreads, by Citigroup in Hong Kong, GE Money in Singapore, and Chase in the suburbs of Atlanta. Federal Reserve allows duopoly by Wachovia and BofA in Florida. Bank Beat: Mergers in Ukraine. Global: UN Knew of Child Soldier Use by Two Warlords Whose Entry into Congo Army the UN Facilitated. Enviro: Beyond petroleum? BP's Indonesian gas and Alaskan whistleblowers. Bronx: Old folks swelter as the bus goes by.
7/31/06 -- CRA: Recent Golden West employee tells ICP of predatory practices, now in to Federal Reserve on Wachovia's application. Bank Beat: Stealth New Zealand moves by GE; the buying of power by HSBC, predatory into Brazil. UN-Global: As Congo Election Approach, UN Hastily Exonerates Itself. Enviro: Litigation abuse by Lockheed Martin; ExxonMobil's Sakhalin spill. Bronx: Hollywood does wild dogs; Clay chicken; gentrification on NPR
7/24/06 -- CRA: Protest filed to Wachovia - Golden West. Federal Reserve protects Wachovia, tries to impose FOIA fees. Bank Beat: Earnings roundup of Citigroup, Chase, BofA, and Wells, and HSBC and mining. UN-Global: UN Silent as Warlord who Kidnapped UN Peacekeepers Is Made Colonel in Congolese Army. Enviro: Sewage in Spokane, oil thefts in Iraq. Bronx: Lights out in housing projects and nobody cares; calumny and salsa on The Beach
7/17/06 -- CRA: Savings bank application by global bank Societe Generale, to buy mortgages, challenged by ICP. Predatory lending by RBS exposed in UK. Federal Reserve receives Wachovia - Golden West application; FOIA request submitted. Bank Beat: Export of predatory lending by HSBC to Brazil. UN-Global: Corporate partnerships with UN to be reviewed; Security Council's lawless votes. Enviro: Russian oil, Texas toxins. Bronx: Dominican street fair jumping, 187 less so
7/10/06 -- CRA: Solicitation of deposits by CitiFinancial. Faced with FOIA request on 200 disparate lenders, Federal Reserve withholds five feet of documents. Appeal to follow. Bank Beat: Synovus sleaze confirmed; GE Money lends on used cars in Latvia. UN-Global: North Korea Missile Test; UNDP Stonewalling. Enviro: Massey Energy and Wells Fargo, chopping off the tops of mountains. Bronx: Salsa and subway reviews
7/3/06 -- CRA: On predatory lending, the FDIC does very little, audit says. Federal Reserve delays FOIA response for 8 months. Bank Beat: Sleaze by Citigroup on CitiFinancial and Basel II. UN-Global: UNDP halts programs due to Ugandan army's abusive disarmament but questions remain. Enviro: Delaware toxins; Bolivia to sue Enron. Bronx: Death underground, condos high above.
6/26/06 -- CRA: On Regions - AmSouth, a call for a plan to serve the Gulf Coast, at last. Bank Beat: Countrywide dreams of deposits, while hiring from the Federal Reserve, which dissembles in Wachovia Freedom of Information Act appeal. Global: UNDP's undisclosed role in Uganda disarmament abuse. Enviro: Guam toxins; Sudanese oil games. Bronx: Webster's spine to 149.
6/19/06 -- CRA: The world is a ghetto, per UN-Habitat on way to Vancouver forum. HSBC now admits ripping off soldiers. Wells Fargo's two faces on HMDA. Chase branch closing games. Bank Beat: Challenge to Capital One-North Fork. BofA computer glitch? Federal Reserve ignores predatory lending by BB&T and others. UN-Global: ICP questions UN's Kofi Annan on FOIA and human rights. Enviro: Lead in NC; Haz Mat in Italy. Bronx: Anonymity blown on Fox Street; environmental confusion; Wal-Mart foreplay
6/12/06 -- CRA: Predatory tax Refund Anticipation Loans lie behind HSBC's stealth application to the Federal Reserve, which has delayed on 22 Inner City Press FOIA requests. Bank Beat: Mail on Wells Fargo and Citigroup in India. UN-Global: In Bolton's Wake, Speech and Silence at the UN. Enviro: Critique of EPA on Gulf Coast; Halliburton in Saudi. Bronx: Half the courthouse story, World Cup on the sidewalk
6/5/06 -- CRA: As with Wal-Mart, ICP Fair Finance Watch comments on Home Depot's bank attempt. Bank Beat: Rushing to Russia are Citigroup, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank, whatever the costs. Money laundering in Belarus. Federal Reserve so secretive for Wachovia it stops regulating. UN/Global: Reports on AIDS and pharma's power. Enviro: WMD in Indiana; a powerless nation, Niue. Bronx: Playgrounds plaything, no Thonx.
5/29/06 -- CRA: Challenge to Gulf Coast's Trustmark; more Ameriquest sleaze; JPMorgan Chase's Brooklyn disparities. Fed Watch: When is 25% not predatory? Excuses for money laundering by Santander. Bank Beat: Shorting its workers, Citigroup goes long with CitiFinancial. Global: Conflict Cocoa in Cote D'Ivoire but maybe no election. Enviro: GE in Oregon, gas plant in Rwanda. Bronx: The lye and fried chicken; NYT cool in whose code?
5/22/06 -- CRA: Challenge to redlining info-loser Mercantile. Predatory NovaStar enabled by RBS, Wachovia and Deutsche Bank, not subject to Fed Watch while deeper into subprime. Bank Beat: Silence on money laundering from Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. At the UN/Global: Kinshasa Election Nightmares, from Ituri to Kasai. Enviro: Denver asbestos; copper mine in Peru. Bronx: Conde Nasty? Lack of Prospect Avenue follow-up, and wi-fi below Fordham Road
5/15/06 -- CRA: Delaware's FOIA shielded HSBC's predatory lending; report on appeal. Worsened disparities at BB&T; Capital Hill half-truths from OTS. Bank Beat: After Wachovia's Golden shower, might it be Wells Fargo - 5/3? Citigroup's high-flying predators. Fed Watch: Blind to money laundering in Japan, challenged on FOIA in court. Global: UN Human Rights Council Has Its Own Hanging Chads. Enviro: Toxins from Kentucky to South Africa. Bronx: Missing out on jobs, the Times selective vision
5/8/06 -- Wachovia - Golden State: disparities and fringe finance. CRA: State by state, JPM Chase's disparities. Citigroup's stealth subprime sleaze. Bank Beat: Office closings by HSBC; silence 'til closing by Sovereign. Bank of America's Latin hide-out. Federal Reserve punts on Chase-BONY. Global: Press freedom in Republic of Congo? Child labor litigations against UN Global Compact members Nestle and Cargill. Enviro: Toxic politics in Abkhazia and Transdniester. Bronx: Gentrification watch; pozole street fair.
5/1/06 -- Global CRA: At founding public forum, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank defend their operations. NatCity sued in Detroit for discrimination. Bank Beat: In Brussels, money laundering fears block retail banking. Federal Reserve lets BONY settle again, in lead-up to JPM Chase deal. Global: Report from UN's cut-cost info center in Europe's torn-up heart. Enviro: MTBE in Maryland; Csonka runs wild in Alaska. Bronx: Scam replicate, from Britestarr to Related - old jail, new jail, city for sale
4/24/06 -- CRA: Predatory Lending in the Big Apple, 2005 data worse than 2004, including at Chase, Citigroup, Wells, HSBC and WaMu, study shows. Bank Beat: Data called "too complex" to respond to by Citi's CEO; Lone Star's Korean payola. Federal Reserve lets AmSouth on money laundering and other issues slide. Global: Refugees in Liberia and Burundi, and UNHCR's silence. Enviro: Vinyl chloride and Belgian oil dealings. Bronx: St. Martin of Tours school spared.
4/17/06 -- CRA: Challenge filed to JPMorgan Chase's proposal to buy 338 branches from Bank of New York, and close 50 of them. Federal Reserve asks Santander about Sovereign's links to pawnshops. Bank Beat: Layhttp://www.innercitypress.org/bankbeat.htmloffs as Bank of America moves to close three call centers. UN-Global: Bombs on Chad, blindness in Uzbekistan. Enviro: Uranium in Tennessee. Bronx: The renamed Labs of Bathgate Park
4/10/06 -- CRA: First study of disparities in 2005 mortgage data at Citigroup, HSBC, WaMu, Wells and others. Bank Beat: Testimony on Wal-Mart's application. Federal Reserve defends to appeals court its denial of FOIA request by ICP about Wachovia and subprime. Global: Unexploded remnants of war. Enviro: On the Gulf Coast, EPA finally admits toxins. Bronx: City (and Citi) of the sell-out, borough of (nuclear) secrets
4/3/06 -- CRA: The hidden Wal-Mart wholesale plan. HSBC exports its predatory lending. Federal Reserve holds nose on Lendmark and BB&T. Bank Beat: Sovereign's disparate lending, as Relational drops out. Global: At the UN, Dues Threats and Presidents-Elect; Oil and the Congo. Enviro: Toxic air in Delaware; sulfur dioxide in Alaska. Bronx: Slated closings of parishes and schools
3/27/06 -- CRA: From DC, questions about H&R Block and GE. Staffers on the move; HSBC's predatory lending. Federal Reserve questions Santander about Wells Fargo's subprime Island Finance. U.S. money laundering official jumps to JPM Chase, through revolving door. Bank Beat: BB&T admits aiding payday lender. Global: Kofi (and Kony?) in the Congo. Enviro: Water treatment woes on the Gulf Coast; El Paso's coal-bed drilling. Bronx: In remembrance of the Happy Land Social Club fire
3/20/06 -- CRA: Selective hearing by FDIC on Wal-Mart; BB&T's secret subprime Lendmark; Wachovia to close 65 branches. Bank Beat: From Abkhazia, money laundering complaint involves Citibank-Moscow. Federal Reserve giving M&I credit for projects never built. Global: Refugees in Nepal, oil still unmetered in Iraq. Enviro: Senator vs. science on climate change. Bronx: Mysteries of El train tracks and busted street lamps.
3/13/06 -- Bank Beat: Capital One's North Fork proposal will be opposed, by ICP/FFW. Rumor mill includes Citigroup - SocGen, and even NewAlliance. HSBC "invites" its own press. CRA: The predators of Montgomery County (Maryland). Federal Reserve ignores (Whitney's) unfair lending on the Gulf Coast and money laundering issues for Hapoalim. Global: UN transparency does not extend to AXA's insurance for WFP; in aid, numbers between Davos and Darfur don't add up. Enviro: In Jersey, Dupont's Teflon. Bronx: Jobs losts and hidden; Rudy G for money laundering Santander. Review: Big drop off, from The Shield to The Unit.
3/6/06 -- CRA: Referral down for high cost loans by BB&T; CitiFinancial predatory in the UK; Wells Fargo, JPM Chase, and U.S. Bank help payday lender ACE Cash Express. Fed Watch: Roger Ferguson, we hardly knew ye. Bank Beat: Money laundering and "America's Mayor"™? Santander's new low. Global: ICP in Africa, the Congo and Sudan. Enviro: Move for deregulation in small business' name. Bronx: Organ soup and quickly closed post office
2/27/06 – CRA: Payday lending and stonewalling Ameriquest; the fraudulent housing bonds of Gold Bank / M&I, still given Federal Reserve CRA credit. Bank Beat: European race of General Electric and CitiFinancial; copycat HSBC lags behind. UN/Global: Uzbek deportations; still no oil metering in Iraq. Enviro: On the Gulf Coast, EPA tries to pass the buck. Bronx: Blind item and Interim Story of Disenfranchisement
2/20/06 – CRA: Nose thumbing by OTS for General Electric, and soon H&R Block. Fed Watch: Bernanke talks the talk, but what action on M&I/Gold Bank scam? Bank Beat: Hot wind on the Gulf Coast from Whitney. Citigroup’s J&J lubricant. AIG in Taipei. TD goes subprime. Global: Of Collective Punishment and Electricity in Kosovo. Enviro: Propane tanks of SC. Bronx: Complaints Linger Long After DMV Lease Is Signed
2/13/06 -- CRA: Challenge to BB&T-Main Street. The volume of Ameriquest’s evasive Argent. Bank Beat: Russian deal and money laundering. BofA makes laws. RBS’ Fred the Shred in Ohio. Fed Watch: Passing the (FOIA) buck on Sovereign-Santander. Global: No real answers (yet) on Iraqi oil metering. Enviro: Mercury from NJ to Nevada. Bronx: Mayor’s press fest viewed from Melrose
2/6/06 – CRA: Predatory Super Bowl, Ameriquest and the Big Banks in Detroit. Layoffs by BBVA’s subprime unit. Bank Beat: B of A buys money laundering expert from FinCEN. Fed Watch: Rebuffing the public while whispering with Sovereign. Global: Post-tsunami rights abuse; Abkhazia disputes. Enviro: Amoco post-Katrina price gouging; ABB in Indiana. The Bronx: Beyond White Castle
1/30/06 – CRA: Challenge to subprime lender National City’s St. Louis / Pioneer foray. Updates on M&I, and GE. JDByrider, anyone? Bank Beat: Mid-Sovereign, Santander tries to buy Wells Fargo’s predatory Island Finance. Fed Watch: Following delegation, more comments needed: on the Gulf Coast, on Whitney. Global: At Davos, Citigroup called money launderer and tax evader. Enviro: Beryllium in FLA. Bronx: Friendly fire, roach spray and library wi-fi.
1/23/06 – CRA: Secret favors for General Electric and HSBC by the Office of Thrift Supervision. Abuse by Wells Fargo and MERS. Federal Reserve considers Synovus’ payday lending links (but not Gulf Coast or Florida specifics: lost in delegation). Bank Beat: Citigroup stakes its turnaround on shaky CitiFinancial, while Willumstad resurfaces at AIG, another subprime home. Global: Slovene president talks up Darfur. Enviro: Settling the LAX suits. Bronx: Mad dash for ‘net time in the glass house
1/17/06 -- CRA: Predatory lobbying by Ameriquest, and foreclosures by HSBC and by JPM Chase on the Gulf Coast. Fulton’s response to the Federal Reserve; M&I’s is in denial. Bank Beat: More evasions by Sovereign and Santander. RBS and UK subprime. Global: Who pays for the bird flu fight? Not the corporations, at least for now. Enviro: Hiding from Superfund in Utah, drill or face eminent domain in Alaska. Bronx: Yankees Stolen Places
1/9/06 – CRA: Behind the Mining Disaster, UBS and Lehman Brothers. Predatory Ameriquest. Referrals from Compass, blindness to redlining at Huntington. Federal Reserve FOIA-ed for discrimination list, since it flacked in Philly for Fulton. Bank Beat: Sovereign’s new low, HSBC’s dubious board of directors. Global: Royal Bank of Scotland’s money laundering for terror. Enviro: Cranberries vs. perchlorate? Bronx: Radioactive needles, ill-served by clichés
1/3/06 – CRA: Challenge to strange Santander – Sovereign – Independence troika. EMC gets subpoena while Citigroup no-comments. Fed Watch: While Fed for now makes excuses for Synovus, its targets don’t. Bank Beat: Comments against Sovereign Bancorp’s applications. RBS investment in allegedly money-laundering Bank of China. Global: Iraqis Absent from Oil Oversight Meeting on Development Fund for Iraq. Enviro: EPA arsenic games to avoid Gulf Coast clean-up. Bronx: Daily News praises gentrification
12/26/05 – CRA: Obtained under FOIA (finally), predatory lending cases against H&R Block and HSBC. Challenge to M&I and Gold Bank. Fed Watch: Compass Bank and fringe finance; Citigroup and Nikko Cordial seek to avoid the Fed? Money laundering investigation of Hapoalim not relevant? Bank Beat: ABN Amro’s money laundering in Dubai and Chicago, losing consumers’ information. Global: At the UN, blow-up then budget. Enviro: Nuclear Wisconsin. Bronx: The spy who lived here (in the vein of Sinn Féin)
12/19/05 – CRA: Challenge to GE Money Bank buys Belk; Proxmire remains presente; three rogues named to FDIC, including Synovus on the Gulf Coast, RBS / Citizens and PA’s Fulton Bank. Fed Watch: Sell-out to BofA despite Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act info outstanding. Bank Beat: Export of predatory lending promised by Citigroup; Cathay’s weird approval. Enviro: Dirty air on disparate grounds. Bronx: In transit’s shadow
12/12/05 – CRA: Challenge to Alabama’s Compass Bank and TexasBank. Federal Reserve questions Cathay. Bank Beat: Comments on Hapoalim – Investec USA, on money laundering. Global: Who gives (UN) information? Enviro: Ford’s PCBs in Jersey. Bronx: Petting zoo and book review. JPM Chase in the Katrina zone.
12/5/05 – CRA: Evasion of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act by Citigroup, HSBC, Wells Fargo, JPM Chase, BofA and MBNA. Federal Reserve urged to act. Bank Beat: GAO finds lapses allowing money laundering for terrorism. RBS layoffs; Wachovia sends jobs to India. Global: Total, like Unocal, settles Myanmar human rights charges for $6 million. Enviro: In Kentucky, toxic oil wells. Bronx: Hit by snipers, car bombs, and fees. Review: Empty banks and railroad stations of Detroit.
11/28/05 – CRA: Most disparate in Gulf Coast lending include Citigroup, AmSouth and Chase Manhattan Mortgage. ABN Amro goes subprime Down Under. Bank Beat: Belated disclosure of WaMu’s Providian layoffs; HSBC Private Bank (and money laundering?) in Saudi Arabia. Global: Investing in the Sudan. Enviro: Pollution in Canada; General Electric tries to cap PCBs under the Hudson. Bronx: Slow action on lead paint. Review: Dry talk of social force.
11/21/05 -- CRA:
Challenge to Fulton - Columbia; Citigroup
exporting predatory lending to India. Federal
Reserve questions ABC’s gun-jumping - but not yet TD
Banknorth’s. Favor to JPM Chase,
without notice? Bank Beat:
More money
laundering by Deutsche Bank;
more scams by Fifth Third. Enviro:
Oil spill on the Gulf Coast; ARCO pollution. Bronx:
Thanks on Crotona corners, then and now. Review: A
song of global fight-back
11/14/05 -- CRA:
Disparities and gun-jumping by Toronto Dominion Banknorth. CitiFinancial
fraud in Chicago. Bank Beat:
Challenge to Huntington - Unizan, on mortgage pricing and denials.
Fed Watch: Favors for Bank of Montreal’s Harris
including withheld info (Cathay too). Enviro:
Pfizer spills. Bronx:
Dissed, missed and bussed. Review:
Scrap yards of Augusta; Global
secrets of the UN (building)
11/7/05 -- CRA: The
Nov. 4 predatory lending enforcement action on BBVA’s Homeowners
Loan Corp. is not enough; BofA finally
discloses deals with Ameriquest
and Ownit. Fed
Reserve lets banks withhold their answers. Bank Beat:
Secretive Cathay plays cute with language. Global:
BBVA’s Colombia deal for Granahorrar
challenged. Wolfensohn to Citigroup
shows need for anti-revolving door policies at World Bank. Enviro:
Truck pollution by Wal-Mart
in New England. Bronx:
Small fish and bike repair under the El. Review:
Latinos baseball legends; human rights remedies
10/31/05 -- CRA: TD Banknorth admits disparities, but still wants money laundering
(and subprime) Hudson United. JPM Chase
tale. Fed
Watch: Sky Bank redacts even the Fed’s questions. Bank Beat:
Second ICP filing on hostile Cathay. Global:
At UNEP FI conference, Citigroup’s
spin falls flat. Enviro:
Dumping in Utah and PA. Bronx:
Looking back and north to Yonkers. Review: A
dumbed-down intellectual history of the United Nations
10/24/05 -- CRA:
Challenge filed to TD Banknorth’s try to buy money
laundering Hudson United. Ameriquest’s Arnall on ice? Citigroup
repo. Fed
Watch: While withholding BofA’s fair
lending info, on Citigroup
will the Fed stick to its guns? Bank Beat:
Cathay’s money
laundering; Capital One as Gulf Coast
vulture. Enviro:
Ash and dumping in Jersey. Global:
High cost lending by HSBC in
Brazil.. Bronx:
Predatory lending (help?) also from HSBC. Review: The
tyranny of global finance
10/17/05 -- CRA:
Pyrrhic victory for OCC (& Citigroup, HSBC, JPM Chase
and Wells
Fargo). Federal
Reserve loses FOIA motion to reconsider for Wachovia.
Bank Beat:
BNP slips by
while looking East. Global:
China v. internet and press. Enviro:
DuPont sleaze in SC.
10/10/05 -- CRA:
Predatory lending by General Electric
exposed and exported globally to Turkey and the Philippines. Fed Watch:
Comforting predators like Ameriquest,
hiding BofA’s
information. Bank Beat:
Iraqi moves by HSBC
opposed; Brazilian bank for sale. Enviro:
PCBs by GE in
the Hudson River. Bronx:
Yonkers trip and burning trucks. Hammering Hank at the Stadium. Review: A
guide to money laundering, focused on Citigroup
10/3/05 -- CRA:
Confluence globally of predatory lending and money laundering, at
HSBC and Citigroup. Fed Watch:
Secret(ive) meetings with Bank of America.
Bank Beat:
Soc Gen in the Balkans; the arrogance of Capital One. Enviro
rules on Gulf Coast waived. Bronx:
Civil liberties and crime in Yonkers. Review: A wild card
from San Diego
9/26/05 -- CRA:
Systemic disparities at Citigroup, Washington Mutual
and Wells
Fargo, and in New Orleans.
Federal
Reserve should release Bank of America’s
hidden
fair lending answers. Bank Beat:
From Oil-for-Food to China: BNP Paribas’
madness continues. Global:
Mining pollution in Indonesia. Enviro:
Colorado Superfund. Bronx:
Bombers at home. Review:
Three Chicago books
9/19/05 -- CRA:
Payday news from NC, NV and the redlined
Gulf Coast. Fed:
Extends on BofA-MBNA,
slow on Citigroup-FDS.
HSBC and Wachovia
serve money
launderer for North Korea. Bank Beat:
Deals in Cali and Turkey. Global:
Oil games from Citigroup:
greenwash. Enviro:
Dioxin in W. Va.; Lead poisoning in Chicago. Bronx NY:
While Royal Bank
of Scotland removes 500 jobs, 2004 mortgage data was more
disparate than the New Orleans
MSA. Review:
Roberts in Courtroom 302
9/12/05 -- CRA:
Lehman Brothers’ subprimer BNC accused of discrimination. Ameriquest
complaints, and tale behind Illinois’ database law.
Bank
Beat: North Korea money
laundering scandal has RBS in denial;
the Fed
needs to act. Cap One short-sells Gulf Coast
and New Orleans, with JPM Chase’s
involvement. Global:
Among the NGOs at the UN. Enviro:
SC nukes, coal in Illinois. Bronx:
From Ferragósto to La Peña del Bronx. Review: The
novel Windows on the World
9/5/05 -- CRA:
Pre-Katrina redlining shown by ICP’s Gulf Coast
Watch: Citigroup,
WaMu and
Hibernia. Wells
and BofA
scam and securitize. Bank Beat:
Capital One brings fraud to the Bayou. Money
laundering by North Fork comes home to roost. Global:
Predatory eye of HSBC on
Korea. Enviro:
Rainbows on the river. Bronx:
Jamaican juice on Gun Hill Road. Review: Superbarrio and the Young Lords
8/29/05 -- CRA:
Evasion by Wal-Mart.
Opposition grows to Bank of
America-MBNA, which securitizes for Ameriquest
and enables payday lenders while scamming the Federal
Reserve on the 10% deposit cap. Bank Beat:
Turkish moves by General
Electric; China double dip by HSBC. Global:
Pinochet money
laundered funds in Santander returned. Enviro:
Superfund and ethylene oxide. Bronx:
Insults from Britain, bachata in Belmont
8/22/05 -- CRA:
Predatory lending by AIG’s American
General. SBA guarantees for payday and car title lenders? Federal
Reserve delivers for Capital One, despite investigations by
attorneys general. Bank Beat:
SocGen beats BNP
Paribas at global
game in Egypt; Citigroup
buys oil refinery, Parasito. Enviro:
GAO versus EPA. Bronx:
IHOP in the political orbit
8/15/05 -- CRA: 2004
data show decrease in community development lending by
“intermediate small banks;” Ameriquest
document ruling. Bank Beat:
Online brokers play musical chairs. Global: BNP Paribas
challenged, including on money
laundering, to FDIC -- Federal
Reserve says it has no application nor waiver request. Enviro:
Beryllium swept under Lockheed Martin’s carpet. Bronx:
Report from 161st Street.
8/8/05 -- CRA: Are Washington
Mutual’s disparities “societal”? Bank Beat:
Sleazy is what HSBC
wants. Fed Watch:
Capital One and Hibernia strong arm predict this week approval. Global:
South Korea buy by General Electric,
while indicted in Peru. Enviro:
RICRA in New Jersey. Bronx:
Uprooted trees, factories demolished
8/1/05 -- CRA: Evasive Washington Mutual response; Ameriquest prepares to get off cheap. Fed Watch: Ignore the 10% deposit cap, Bank of America urges. Bank Beat: Commerzbank on prowl while money laundering. Telecom: Surreal hearing on Verizon’s and SBC’s applications. Global: Scams by Citigroup in Germany. Enviro: PCBs left in Hudson by General Electric and EPA. Bronx: Tacos under the El train, station to be closed
7/25/05 -- CRA:
Stealth moves by Wal-Mart
challenged by ICP. WaMu buys
subprime from Ameriquest
and others. Bank
Beat: SocGen’s Turkish intrigue. Citigroup’s
predation is global, so too with HSBC. Cap One
update. Federal
Reserve ordered to release Wachovia’s
subprime due diligence. Global
moves by GE,
Panama will see. Enviro:
NJ toxins, Indiana WMD. Bronx:
Samosas on Lydig, holes in the street.
7/18/05 -- CRA: More
disparities at WaMu,
more secretiveness from Ameriquest
and HSBC’s
Household. Bank
Beat: Yes, BofA
hard-sold to seniors. GE and AIG pass gas
(pipeline). Philly Fed says
card rates move fast. Money
laundering unleashed, in spite of global
terror. Enviro:
Haz-mat in Western NY. Bronx:
Deadly demolisher lent to by Citigroup,
defended by ex-reporter Liff
7/11/05 -- CRA:
Protest by ICP to Bank of America-MBNA.
Bank Beat:
Texas endgame. Federal
Reserve questions Capital One-Hibernia. Global
and UK money
laundering burden pre 7/7? Enviro:
Honeywell’s pollution. Bronx:
Outsourced jobs, still-thick Terminal Market plans, fire on
Featherbed Lane
7/5/05 -- CRA: Challenge to Citigroup’s card deal with FDS, demanding OCC act rather than sue for Citibank; Ameriquest’s spin; FFW comments to Central America on General Electric, human rights and BAC International. Bank Beat: Revving up on Bank of America - MNBA. Federal Reserve allows gun jumping by money laundering PNC-Riggs. Enviro: DuPont cons W. Va; Credit Suisse and Sakhalin. Bronx: A&P shuts plant; street surfing on Kingsbridge
6/27/05 -- CRA: Citigroup
retells HOEPA tale to OCC. Ameriquest
settlement no habla español. Federal
Reserve, like OCC, coddles money
laundering Wells Fargo.
And AmSouth? Bank Beat:
Toronto Dominion’s Waterhouse continues drifting. Capital
One-Hibernia update. Enviro:
DuPont brownfields on the cheap. Bronx:
While NY Times front-pages gentrification,
closure of youth programs ignored, Watch(ovia)
this space
6/20/05 -- CRA:
First challenge
to WaMu-Providian filed, on disparities. Clearing House
seeks to exempt Citigroup,
too, from scrutiny. Ameriquest
tries to withhold records as copyrighted. Federal
Reserve preaches deregulation. Bank Beat:
China moves by BofA;
interior moves by BNP’s Bank of
the West. Enviro:
Nukes in New Mexico. Bronx: Foodless fair, Yankee plan sweeps parks
under rug
6/13/05 -- CRA:
Chief of Ameriquest
and Argent hits the road; book reviews. Citigroup
data loss, job cuts, Enron pay-to-play. Federal
Reserve questions money
laundering PNC/Riggs. Bank Beat:
Unicredito tries to swallow HBV. Human Rights
under the gavel in Congress. Enviro:
BP pays to play; GE’s nukes. Bronx:
Warehouse fire and street fair review
6/6/05 -- CRA:
Redlining by Citigroup,
state by state. Federal
Reserve is told that PNC jumped the gun on swalloiwing money
laundering Riggs - now what? Bank Beat:
Micro deal in NC; Romanian intrigue. HSBC does
business in Sudan. Deutsche Bank
ignores human
rights by banking for Turkmenistan'sdictator.
Enviro:
Fraud in Alabama, dioxin in MN. Bronx:
Smashed car on railroad tracks; burning man on track-marked
streets
5/31/05 -- CRA: Reverse redlining by region, as Citigroup excludes entire states from prime credit. HSBC exports predatory lending to the Far East. Fed Watch: PNC/Riggs money launderer arrested. Bank Beat: Do Argent’s ads mean spin-off from Ameriquest? German bank HVB is up for grabs. Human Rights: Uzbek intrigue; CIA secrecy re Rwanda. Enviro: Appalachian gas; WR Grace asbestos. Bronx: Arsenal and the history of the Muller Army Reserve Center in squibs
5/23/05 -- CRA: The launch of Ameriquest Watch, in search of 41 boxes of withheld documents. Florida lending study. Citigroup’s HOEPA spin an editor’s note, not retraction by Willumstad. Fed Watch: Delayed questioning of money laundering PNC-Riggs; a kind word for Gramlich. Bank Beat: in the Balkans; Fifth Third’s Florida sleaze. Human Rights: HSBC’s non-response to the UN Global Compact. Enviro: PCBs courtesy of U.S. Magnesium. Bronx: Redlined by the banks, ignored by the paper of record
5/16/05 -- CRA:
Ameriquest’s dubious best practices; illusory settlement of tax
refund anticipation loans class action by HSBC and
H&R Block; first-hand account of Citigroup’s
Primerica. Fed
Watch: Inaction, on Fifth Third and others, opens door for
state attorneys general. Money
laundering Riggs let off hook. Bank Beat:
Micro deals in Michigan and NC. word of a FOIA / disclosure win. Human Rights:
Darfur divestiture movement gathers momentum. Enviro:
Xcel fine, BP’s secrets. Bronx:
Street cuts and cheap spicy tacos.
5/9/05 -- CRA:
Drilling deeper in the 2004 data, ICP’s Sixth
Study, Disparities by Race and now also Gender, at Citigroup, JPM Chase,
BofA, Wells Fargo
and Wachovia;
HSBC, WaMu, RBC and
others. Fed Watch:
As revolving doors spin, inaction on SunTrust, Fifth Third and
other data-hiders. Bank Beat:
Micro-deal in Indiana, Scotiabank buys Salvador, sniffs in Peru. Human Rights:
Update from Togo, money
laundering in the vacuum. Enviro:
Norfolk Southern RR toxins. Bronx:
Priest’s jaw broken, your life for fifty bucks
5/2/05
-- CRA:
Comprensive study of
disparities at 12 largest lenders submitted by ICP to over
thirty attorneys generals and the Feds: Citigroup,
HSBC, Wells Fargo,
Ameriquest, JPM Chase,
et al. Payday lending updates. Fed Watch:
On money
laundering Riggs Bank, OCC tops Fed in human rights
details. Bank
Beat: ScotiaBank leaves broken hearts in Mexico. BNP fesses
up late. Enviro:
Exxon Mobil slow to clean its PCBs. Bronx:
Stations opens but unserved; mail from beside the EAU; lame rap
in Memphis
4/25/05 -- CRA: Commitments by Citigroup are broken; Citigroup is in denial. Study of lending in New York - Wells Fargo and JPM Chase are also disparate. Sayonara to Gilleran. Fed Watch: Last minute faxing re money laundering Riggs. Bank Beat: Deals in Florida and Texas, and by the roguish Lehman Brothers. Human Rights: Oil in the Sudan, Total and Cliveden. Enviro: perchlorate in Cali; bankrupt Texas smelter. Bronx: Death from a rooftop; boro by boro study of Citi, Chase and HSBC (& ICP in the UK press)
4/18/05 -- CRA:
Drilling deeper into the data, ICP’s third
study of 2004 mortgage records shows disparities at SunTrust,
AIG and the Royal Bank of
Canada; HOEPA loans at WaMu and
KeyCorp. Fed
Watch: Letting lenders off the hook, Fifth Third gives its
data in PDF Adobe. Bank Beat:
Watching Fortis, enforcement needed on Citigroup’s false
data and HSBC’s
lies. Human
Rights: Son of Sani Abacha extradited on money
laundering charges. Enviro:
California’s soot; BP’s mist of oil. Bronx:
Roosters in Bathgate; redlining continues.
4/11/05 -- CRA: Rate
spread disparities at HSBC, Wells Fargo,
and JP
Morgan Chase. Fed Watch:
Inaction on HMDA non-compliance, ex-Fed AIG, Merrill Lynch and
others. Bank
Beat: Riggs and PNC plays hide-the-consequences on money
laundering; will the world's local
bank Discover? Human Rights:
HSBC and Deutsche Bank
to respond to UNGC. Enviro:
Sludge and smoke in Delaware and Cali. Bronx:
Spring has sprung; NYCB stonewalls.
4/4/05 -- CRA:
First study
of the new 2004 HMDA data, of Citigroup,
NatCity and others; AmSouth tells FFW no accounts for
payday lenders. Fed Watch:
Allowing non-compliance by Wells Fargo,
HSBC, Wachovia,
AIG, JPM Chase
and others. Bank
Beat: BBVA lurches forward; comments on PNC-Riggs: beyond money
laundering and human rights
abuses, Riggs’ redlining. Enviro:
El Paso smelter; WMD in Alabama. Bronx:
Hospital scandal update, North Fork keeps denying
3/28/05 -- CRA: Wells Fargo’s
stealth
servicing (including for Royal Bank of
Canada); OTS hides documents for high-cost H&R Block. Bank Beat:
Continuing Milanese intrigue; Citigroup
follies. Fed
Watch: Those rates are rising, including at payday lenders JP Morgan
Chase enables. Human Rights:
Review of HBO’s Rwanda film; banking in Bishkek.
Money
Laundering Riggs’ love of pro-Pinochet books. Enviro:
Oil flares in Texas, BASF and BP; Indiana pesticides. Bronx: A
tragic hospital story, from leap to stonewall
3/21/05 -- CRA:
Ameriquest as serial settler, still a predatory. Fed’s
Greenspan urges objectivity: for others. Bank Beat:
BBVA and Amro make Italian moves; privatization in Brazil. Human Rights:
Pinochet’s money
launderers included Citigroup, BofA, Royal Bank of
Scotland and Santander. Enviro:
PCBs in New Jersey; mustard gas in Maryland. Bronx:
River still polluted; The Bronx according to the N.Y. Times
3/17/05 - CRA: Ney II is scarcely better (except for predatory lenders); Citigroup is told it can’t “significantly expand” for foreseeable future: ICP’s underlying initial protest and reaction
3/14/05 -- CRA:
Challenge to Capital One - Hibernia; payday lender buys self-help
legal center. Fed Watch:
Helping Wachovia
to hide its subprime partners: the FOIA brief at last. Bank Beat:
A tale of Citigroup
fraud and retaliation against whistleblowers. Money
laundering Riggs appoints new chairman; HSBC, in
North Cyprus, will trim down its board. Human Rights:
Kofi’s Compact; Allbritton’s impunity. Enviro:
The irony of BofA;
toxic news. Bronx:
Courthouse sass; Bee-Line strike; self-storage for the displaced
3/7/05 -- CRA:
Payday lenders’ profits, Wachovia’s
174 branch closings; HSBC’s
Aldinger bails as material weakness is found; CitiFinancial
confirmed as unconscionable. Bank Beat:
Intesa’s Balkans deals; JPMorgan’s
spin-off.
BofA layoff
rumblings. Latex in Geneva; Regions throws mortgages to M&T. Fed Watch:
Huntington brags of vague Unizan-less settlement. Human Rights:
Turkmenistan outlaws copies but funds Deutsche Bank.
Equatorial Guinea profiled by U.S. with no mention of Riggs Bank’s
money laundering. Enviro:
PCBs by General Electric. Bronx:
Realty dreams while bullet flies: a time for E.A. Poe
2/28/05 -- CRA: Wells Fargo’s
stealth
servicing, disparate treatment and push into subprime. Gilleran at
the FDIC; the redlining of Abbey / Santander. Bank Beat:
Mega-merger road show; Citi
downgraded in France; BofA loses
identities. Fed
Watch: A still-blind eye to payday (Synovus); keeping yet
more secrets. Human Rights:
Riggs’ money
laundering payback is less than golden ‘chutes, Africa
ignored. Enviro:
Radioactive medical waste in Memphis. Bronx:
Gunshots over Burnside; the fickle eye of academe.
2/21/05 -- CRA: Two
views of payday, military and surreal. HSBC’s
triple-digit interest rates; Wells Fargo’s
stealth servicer ASC. Bank Beat:
Two mergers in Serbia, and ethics films at Citigroup. On
the Fed
Watch, Chairman’s spouse rode on money
laundering Riggs’ plane. Human Rights:
FFW petitions Ex-Im Bank on Obiang and Togo. Enviro:
Opposition to BFI/Allied Waste. Bronx:
Fires and shootings and locked door at Rite-Aid.
2/14/05 -- CRA:
Pawnbrokers call and response.Wells Fargo
skimps on overtime. Bank Beat:
Novastar like JP Morgan
Chase breaks Reg FD; BNP fired for
food, oil for fools. Fed Watch:
Five more questions for Synovus, but too few for Citigroup and
Riggs/PNC,
about money
laundering including Riggs and Togo,
where human
rights fall to coup. Enviro:
Superfund delays; Clean Air fines in Louisiana. Bronx:
Refugees in Mott Haven; Uzbek lagman in Brighton Beach; housing
vigilance
2/7/05 -- Riggs Bank
and PNC: money
laundering investigations should expand [2/10 update].
Human Rights:
Turkmenistan’s ruler hides in Deutsche Bank’s
vault. CRA:
Reports on Ameriquest, from LA
and Pittsburgh.
Advance American on the grill; payday lending Dollar expands. Bank Beat:
Scandal plagued Citigroup
throws insurance to Met Life. Fed Watch:
Passing the buck on Webster, health savings accounts. Enviro:
Toxins in the Super Bowl’s shadow. Bronx:
From the pampas to City Hall Park
1/31/05 -- Campaign
against Riggs Bank’s cheap settlement for money
laundering for human rights
abusers, and the sale of still-a-crime-scene Riggs to PNC. CRA:
Subprime news from all over. Fed Watch:
Holes in Synovus; contempt for FOIA. Bank Beat:
Criminal prosecution for Citigroup;
Asian back-and-forth for JPM Chase.
Enviro
BP in Delaware; toxins in NJ. Bronx:
After the fire, a focus on parks.
1/27/05 -- Bronx
Reporter: Fire Fallout - Following the Slumlords
1/24/05 -- CRA:
Predatory exports by HSBC and Citigroup;
OTS posts (193) comments, but will Gilleran pay any mind? Fed Watch:
BBVA on the griddle; surprising Gramlich quote. Bank Beat:
Cut-backs by BofA
and Wachovia;
Barclays and Deutsche Bank are expansive. Riggs money
laundering and human rights
in Darfur. Enviro:
Michigan cement dust; NJ lunacy. Bronx:
Obverse of the suburbs; cab driver jacked.
1/18/05 -- CRA: Auto
pawn in Indiana; inside Citigroup.Webster
cries poor, but wants to go nationwide without a plan. Fed Watch:
Not only cost but rates, and Morgan Chase’s
bribery,
layoffs
and NASD fine; SunTrust
gets subpoenaed. Bank Beat:
Toronto Dominion plays hide the ball; HSBC’s
branding. Friedman, Billings goes subprime, Wells Fargo
gets more private information. Human rights:
Abacha’s money
laundering partners.
1/10/05 -- CRA:
Predatory lending, from Citigroup in
Montana and India, to HSBC in
Bangladesh. Wachovia
layoffs. Bank
Beat: Will they? RBS-Amro? Wells Fargo-Barclays?
Morgan Chase
- BB&T? Federal
Reserve: Covering-up Riggs’ money
laundering less easy, given prosecution of Pinochet for human rights
violations. Enviro:
Mercury in Texas; creosote in FLA. Bronx: By
the numbers (churches, cold and crime); RIP Will Eisner
1/3/05 -- CRA: Time
to modernize in 2005. Predatory lending globalized, by HSBC to Asia.
Fed Watch:
Wake up to Toronto Dominion, Royal Bank of
Scotland and Citigroup’s
false denials. Bank Beat:
Loose money-laundering by BofA; JPM Chase’s
Canary.
Global News:
U.N. out of Guatemala; Hotel Rwanda fact-check and
update. Enviro:
Superfund in the Granite State. Bronx:
Slow growth and Orbach’s obituary.
12/27/04 -- CRA:
Predators’ politics; CitiFinancial
in pawnshops; HSBC
in denial. Federal
Reserve defends secrecy for Wachovia’s
subprime
business.
Bank Beat:
PNC settles again; ICP’s supplements on Toronto Dominion and BBVA.
Global:
Pinochet in limbo; money
laundering Riggs and Obiang. Enviro:
Dioxin all over. Bronx:
Fertile Christmas vignettes
12/20-21/04 -- CRA: Pawn and payday links in Pittsburgh law, but embraced by BBVA. Buck passed by Federal Reserve, on Citigroup and Fifth Third, for now. Bank Beat: Toronto Dominion in Boston; BofA out of Panama; BNP into Brazil. Global: Pinochet to stand trial; light on money laundering Riggs. Enviro: Toxins in Stockton; Arkansas blister agent burned. Bronx: Gunplay in Wakefield; donkeys in Belmont, singing Feliz Navidad; Mayor's press reception [12/20-21/04]
12/13/04 -- CRA: Merger fall-out, ICP’s views on Bank of America,
Toronto Dominion, JPM Chase
and others. Bank Beat:
ICP challenges BBVA - Laredo National, including on money
laundering issues. Fed Watch:
Blind eye to Citigroup,
payday lending questions to Synovus. Global:
BBVA’s Latin payments, CitiFinancial
to Russia without love. Enviro:
Wax fire in Houston. Bronx: Big Brother over Fordham Road
12/6/04 -- CRA:
Payday lending madness, with Wells Fargo
and Fifth Third. Bank Beat:
Micro, HSBC
to Iraq; PNC’s ill-fated bid for Riggs and it money-laundering
(and Citigroup’s
empty
denial). Fed
Watch: Inattention to data, time to extend. Human Rights:
Rwanda incursions and FOIA appeals. Enviro:
Brownfields in NY and Maine. Bronx:
Blaming the victim? Murder of 19-year old mother still unsolved
11/29/04 -- CRA: On
nationwide duties, ICP challenges Webster - HSA. Bank Beat:
Balkan mergers, MassMutual buys a scandal, BNP into
Turkey. Fed
Watch: Fall-out from Wachovia;
CIBC’s junkyard faxes. Movement:
It’s payday lending and private prisons, by JP Morgan
Chase enabled, by Citigroup as
well. Human
Rights: Rwanda into Congo, documents withheld. Enviro:
Ford’s NJ pollution. Bronx:
War of the beef patties, long arm of the law (ICP v. TD-Banknorth)
11/22/04 -- CRA:
Chronicle of steering to subprime foretold; Countrywide is tip of
the iceberg. Fed Watch:
Blind eye to HSBC’s
money-laundering
and BNP’s
misdeeds; Wachovia
FOIA answer due. Bank Beat:
Micro M&A; TD interim update; Riggs’ further delay, Pinochet
estimate grows. Global: Citigroup
poisons the micro-finance world. Enviro:
Toxic scam in Georgia. Bronx:
Two ways to die, Bathgate / military training
11/15/04 -- CRA:
Banks’ support of fringe finance results in song and dance, from Wells Fargo
and Fifth Third. Bank Beat:
ICP’s challenge to Toronto Dominion - Banknorth. Human Rights:
Terror in Africa? Money
Laundering Riggs admits investigations grow; PNC vacillates.
Enviro:
Air quality down. Bronx:
Rotting garbage, gridlocked highway
11/8/04 -- CRA:
Payday lenders and check cashers now supposedly spurned by Citigroup;
ICP turns Citi’s claim on Wells Fargo
on Federal
Reserve application for Texas deal. Bank Beat:
Huntington’s bad karma, PNC could be poisoned by money
laundering Riggs. Enviro:
Yonkers spews raw sewage. Bronx:
Death and equal justice on the Grand Concourse.
11/1/04 -- CRA:
Armed Forces Loans-funder Wells Fargo is
challenged by ICP, on its proposed acquisition of First
Community. HSBC’s
Household predatory in Tennessee, GE in
Australia. Federal
Reserve asks PNC questions about Riggs’ money
laundering: but answers are withheld, pending FOIA appeal.
Bank Beat:
Micro deal in Texas; Deutsche Bank
threatens to offshore to Jersey. Human Rights:
Word games in Rwanda. Enviro:
EJ cites in Pittsburgh and NY. Bronx:
Sears to get the boot? The blindness of the Times
10/28/04 - ICP challenges Florida application of Fifth Third, funder of pawnshops, car title and payday lenders
10/25/04 -- CRA: Focus on payday lenders, check cashers and pawnshops, which Citigroup and its Texas prey fund, and are exported to Australia. Federal Reserve subject to FOIA lawsuit by ICP for withholding Wachovia’s predatory connections. Bank Beat: PNC continues backtracking on money-launderer Riggs; Rabobank and Caver deals die. Human Rights: In Rwanda, banks but not free speech. Enviro: Waste Management Inc. landfill holds plutonium. Bronx: Murders up, business for La Paz Funeral Parlor
10/18/04 -- CRA: Predatory lending taken global, including
by HSBC.
Let
banks examine themselves, says FDIC. On money
laundering too? Wachovia’s
ongoing
funding of pawnshops and payday lenders. Fed Watch:
Ignoring human
rights, and BNP in the
oil-for-food scandal. Bank Beat: Micro-deal; a dog ate Citigroup’s
Texas homework. Enviro:
Clean air plan opposed by GE in Kentucky.
Bronx:
Baseball death in Hunts Point; leaks in East Harlem. Unequal
justice.
10/12/04 -- Human
Rights: Challenge to Barclays, Juniper and beyond. CRA:
OCC “accommodates” HSBC,
which like BNP
helped Saddam launder his money. Fed Watch:
While Greenspan meets with Citigroup’s
Willumstad, questions go unanswered. Bank Beat:
Secrets from GE’s
Dillard application; AIG
breaks Reg FD. Enviro:
Sewage in Syracuse. Bronx:
Terminal Market scope finalized; two sides of Rikers.
10/4/04 -- CRA: ICP
files 21-page
challenge to Citigroup’s
First American Bank proposal; Wachovia
keeps lying and hiding. Bank Beat:
Down South targets; BNP and Oil-for-Food.
Fed Watch:
What now that UBS confirms it held Osama’s funds?
Money
Laundering comments on HSBC and
Riggs; Human
Rights, Pinochet as Al Capone. Enviro:
Honeywell and Siemens, PCE and TCE. Bronx:
Yankee “Vision Plan” unveiled in downpour without public notice
9/27/04
-- CRA: Shamelessly betting, J.P. Morgan
Chase leans rightward with Lazio. Lord’s tome tells Tale
of Two Citis.
Fed Watch: Wixted stands pat for PNC; Riggs’
spin. Bank
Beat: What’s in SouthTrust’s
record date? BofA’s
rich move around. Human
Rights: Kagame’s Rwanda silences questions; Pinochet faces
them. Money
Laundering: Games of HSBC and
Santander raised by FFW. Enviro:
Toxins in Ohio and LA. Bronx:
Rezoning SOBE, reopening bank branch as nightclub
9/23/04
- ICP’s anti-money
laundering comment on HSBC and Santander
(and its Abbey National proposal). Glasgow Herald
article; Developing...
9/20/04
-- CRA:
The Orwellian sleaze of Citigroup;
FOIA shows HSBC’s
Household bought political access, to intimidate
witnesses. Fed Watch:
PNC uses ex-Fed Wixted to covet money-laundering
Riggs; Wachovia
FOIA appeal filed. Bank Beat:
BofA’s
like Wal-Mart; BNP
keeps spinning. Human
Rights: Rwanda, without press freedom, sells banks; Fortis
rules. Enviro:
Medical waste incinerators, in Illinois. Bronx:
The Labyrinth of Starvation, without helados or
shame
9/15-16/04 -- CRA: HSBC's Household gamed the system, just-released documents show (and Citigroup prepares another game for 9/20).
9/14/04 -- Anti-payday and car title lending commitment won from SunTrust-NCF recited.
9/13/04
-- CRA:
Predatory lending by AIG's American
General; continued delay by HSBC’s
Household; more moves by Royal Bank of
Scotland for preemption. Fed Watch:
No answer on conflicts; blabbing about accommodation. Bank Beat:
Cocky Banco (Santander); sneaky PNC and
Riggs, money
laundering twins. Global:
Dominican paper returned to bank-fraudster. Enviro:
MTBE; chromium 6 in Cali. Bronx:
Too-quiet first hearing on Related’s plans for Terminal Market
9/6/04 -- CRA: Continued lies by Wachovia; preemption moves by Royal Bank of Scotland; Easy Money is Citigroup's predator in Puerto Rico. Bank Beat: Huntington admits to no due diligence at all; Gramm's UBS, or UBS's Gramm, at the RNC. PNC's money laundering non-response. Fed Watch: Relying on (NatCity's) lies; Parry to Countrywide through the (wide) revolving door. Enviro: Texas slamming; CFCs. Bronx: A wannabe Judge Judy; the BP's call-in show; Inside Promesa
9/1-2/4
-- Bronx-view
of RNC (March on the Media)
8/30/04 -- CRA: No RNC breakfast with layoff BofA; revolving door to CitiFinancial from trade press. JPM Chase demands refund from schools in Ohio. Fed Watch: Lies and 150 closures, versus Wachovia's weak divestiture of 18. Fed's five-year FOIA delay. Bank Beat: Two-step on SunTrust-NCF. Money Laundering: "Wait and see" by PNC on Riggs; BNP plays Casablanca on Oil-for-Food. Human Rights: Terror designation extended to Burundi. Enviro: NRC's EJ policy is sop to industry. Bronx: Steve Kaufman's loud sound truck; downpour at Orchard Beach
8/23/04 -- Fed Watch: On sale of money laundering Riggs to PNC, Greenspan should be recused. CRA: new HSBC loss under FOIA; AIG's bogus credit insurance. Bank Beat: Late-summer M&A like overripe fruit (Citigroup-Hibernia); updates on BNP and Huntington. Human Rights: Congolese aftermath. Enviro: Sidestepping the rules in Niagara Falls. Bronx: Who’s paying for the RNC? Omniscient NYT; ICP in Chile, H&R Block in a mall
8/16/04 -- CRA: Protest to PNC and the money-laundering Riggs, including on PNC's funding of Check 'n Go. Fed Watch: Catch-22 on SouthTrust and its pawnshop lies. Bank Beat: Japanese banks' desperate gluttony, Huntington-Unizan sleaze. Human Rights: On the run in Rwanda. Enviro: Fish dead in Virginia; Cali's leaking faucet. Bronx: Signs of war; Wachovia's twangy guitars
8/9/04 -- CRA: Wachovia spins its SouthTrust lie, funding predators as exceptions to policy. Will the Federal Reserve accept it? Bank Beat: Huntington continues withholding. Royal Bank of Scotland looks west, HSBC looks east (while fighting FOIA on both coasts). Human Rights; Tracking down Pinochet's money in Riggs. Enviro: CT revolving door, Alabama ordnance. Bronx: African restaurants, subway ratings, exploding manhole covers
8/2/04 -- CRA: Editorials support ICP’s campaign around banks’ fringe financing links -- but Wachovia stands pat, while SouthTrust lies. FOIA seeks HSBC’s hidden documents. Fed Watch: weak money-laundering enforcement on ABN Amro. Bank Beat: The WSJ’s CitiFinancial blindness; RBS’ abusive break-up fees; Santander. Enviro: TCE in Cali and Indiana. Bronx: Crime between the cracks, dueling street fairs; Chase’s loud redlining.
7/26/04 -- CRA: Challenge to Wachovia - SouthTrust, fringe finance and misstatements. Wells wobbles; HSBC Household spins. Fed Watch: Letting BNP and others off the hook. Bank Beat: Meet the new (Chase) boss, younger but the same. Human Rights: Clashes near Goma. Enviro: EPA in and from Delaware -- toxins to Mexico. Bronx: NYT's blindness; a view from Dreiser to Poe (Park)
7/20/04 -- SunTrust says it will stop funding payday and car title lenders; North Fork Bank, disparate in The Bronx, continues with pawnshops, for now; HSBC Household's motion to block release of documents to ICP is denied - but money buys them time
7/19/04 -- CRA: HSBC's Household seeks opponents friendlier than ICP; in payday lending, County Bank’s projected growth. Fed Watch: A visit to the Eccles Building, results TBD (including on Wells Fargo's military payday lending connections). Bank Beat: Comments filed on NatCity-Wayne; third on SunTrust; troubled PNC a questionable buyer for money-laundering Riggs; RBS Citizens gets questioned. Human Rights: Press freedom locked up in Rwanda. Enviro: FERC coddles PG&E. Bronx: revolving doors, NY banks and their regulators; sausages frying, senseless immigration delays
7/12/04 -- CRA: Wells Fargo funds predatory payday lenders, including to soldiers; JPM Chase ditches NY for OCC and preemption; HSBC does RALs while case heats up; BofA goes bush league Fed Watch: North Fork’s withheld pawnshop list Bank Beat: RBS's subprime list, now released, is long. Enviro: Oil companies' hearing & housing. Bronx: Paean to dusk on the mid-Bronx, casting light by use of FOIA
7/5/04 -- CRA: Huntington asked about pawnshops by the Federal Reserve (but not OCC, and not about money-laundering issues). HSBC's secrecy in court July 20. Bank Beat: Subprime for sale; high cost for Harrison to keep his JPM Chase job. Human Rights: Monitors threatened in Rwanda. Enviro: Arizona brownfields. Bronx: History on (Velella's wiretap) tapes...
6/28/04 -- CRA: The fringe finance connections of Wachovia and SouthTrust. OCC ignores HSBC Household predatory lending issues; JPM Chase payday lending blood-money. Fed asks RBS some subprime questions: but answers are withheld. Bank Beat: Round two of SunTrust-NCF, pawnshop redux. Enviro: Exxon and MTBE. Bronx: Ferrer corruption confirmed in Velella-case wiretaps: now what?
6/21/04 -- CRA: The many ways to cover predatory lending, by HSBC and Citigroup and AIG and others. Federal Reserve now approves without meeting. Bank Beat: RBS's ads, "less cred, more Shred." BNP's money-laundering in or for Iraq. Human Rights: a wall in the Congo? Enviro: PCBs in AL, NM and NY. Bronx: Two (train) the hard way
6/18/04 -- Bank Beat: Huntington on "formulaic" relevance; HSBC's Household runs to court to block release of documents about predatory lending that ICP requested under FOIA
6/17/04 - Bank Beat: Fed admonishes Regions-Union Planters on redlining, dodges Mafia-car title lending; ICP's fourth comment on RBS Citizens - Charter One
6/15/04 -- JPM Chase's & Bank One's support for predatory fringe finance is coddled by the Federal Reserve - click here for ICP's same-day analysis, here for AP
6/14/04 -- CRA: "Watching the detectives" at HSBC's Household; in CitiFinancial, whistle keeps on blowing. Federal Reserve, weak on NatCity, asks RBS-Charter One some initial questions. Bank Beat: Ficalora's stroll; Region's unexplained subprime. Global: Political sentence in Rwanda. Enviro: TCE in Nebraska. Bronx: NYT's blind spot; praise from Ghana; fairs on 187th & Tremont
6/7/04 -- CRA: Fringe finance precedents on pawn shops, rent-to-own and check cashers applied to BNP Paribas from secretive North Fork; CitiFinancial whistles blown. Federal Reserve finds that money laundering to Iraq involved Royal Bank of Scotland as well as UBS. Bank Beat: Huntingon - Unizan: nine branch closures and a bad attitude. Global: Bukavu showdown. Enviro: smelting in El Paso. Bronx: RIP Ronbo, from Charlotte Street to Wedtech
6/1/04 -- CRA: Crimes of Citigroup settled on the cheap, Federal Reserve, lied to, does very little, including JPM Chase antitrust. Bank Beat: Huntington's hit list. Round Two on RBS Citizens - Charter One, and BNP BancWest and ten new states. Global: Ex-presidents behind bars include Milosevic, Estrada, Noriega - and Rwanda's Bizimungu, still. Enviro: Milwaukee sewage: mistake on the lake? Bronx: prison break from Mount Vernon, HSBC tax sleaze, tires and fun in the Garden.
5/28/04 - Predatory lending redux: Citigroup's HOEPA coversions, insurance fraud and cover-ups costs $70 million (for now); HSBC's moves to evade state law opposed by ICP
5/24/04 -- CRA: Payday lending outlawed in Georgia, but supported by Bank One, NatCity and others. Even the Fed notices Regions' Atlanta redlining. Bank Beat: Chase in the park (with Durbin on the trail?), AIG on the hunt; HSBC, Wachovia or Citigroup -- who'll buy WaMu? Global: Rwanda's grassroots courts (and border incursions). Enviro: Strontium-90 in Tennessee; W. Va water. Bronx: NYU got over, nice day at the Zoo; skipping on security at Casa Promesa
5/17/04 -- CRA: Fringe finance, south (SunTrust) and west (BNP Paribas). Another CitiFinancial whistleblower. Bank Beat: Will the Fed finally crackdown on Huntington National Bank? JPM Chase schmoozes on antitrust. Global: war brews on Rwanda's borders. Enviro: lead poisoning in Texas. Bronx: North Fork plans a single Harlem branch, while redlining the South South Bronx.
5/10/04 -- CRA: Questions raised on RBS-Charter One; RBS does stealth subprime business. CitiFinancial into Hong Kong at 20% interest. Bank Beat: SunTrust - National Commerce raises issues too. Federal Reserve's review of JPM - Bank One is ongoing. Human Rights: Action on Rwanda - DRC border. Enviro: Texas smelter. Bronx: A death, including Hubert Selby's
5/3/04 -- CRA: National City admits payday links; JPM Chase & Bank One withhold & mislead; Union Planters too, with no referral-up. Citi's Dollar. Fed's mysterious coddling of Credit Agricole. Bank Beat: Huntington-Unizan, Round Two. Enviro: Monsanto lobbies; Delaware burns. Bronx: North Fork, beyond GreenPoint, did CashPoint; Requiem to Hubert Selby
4/26/04 -- CRA: Challenges to GreenPoint and North Fork's enabling of check cashiers, pawnshops and rent-to-own, to HSBC's preemption and OCC's weak info requirements. Bank Beat: Huntington - Unizan play hide-the-ball on branch closings. FedWatch: Perfunctory on JPM Chase; Union Planters' HOEPA lender. CitiWatch at the shareholders' meeting. Human Rights: Rwanda tribunal hears of Bagosora's deeds. Enviro: hazards in Gary and Chicagoland. In TheBronx, Earth Day ironies
4/23/04 -- JPM Chase & Bank One play hide the ball; ICP's SEC complaint and Fed testimony
4/19/04 -- CRA: Payday lending and pawnshops unaddressed by JPM Chase's and Bank One's lax $800 billion pledge, in the run-up to Federal Reserve's 2d hearing. Bank Beat: Union Planters - Regions asked about car title lender; HSBC takes Señor Predator to Mexico; Citigroup's low-tech dinosaur Weill is in denial. Money laundering in Russia; GE and Nauru. Human Rights: Rwanda seen from Kampala. Enviro: Incinerator to close. Bronx: Major Deegan dumping; Bender goes to London.
4/16/04 - JPM Chase's 11th hour $800 billion pledge does not address the banks' enabling of payday and predatory lenders; it will be dissected before and on 4/23
4/15/04 - JPM Chase & Bank One finance and enable pawn and gun shops, check cashiers and rent-to-own, ICP testifies at Fed merger hearing
4/12/04 -- CRA: in run-up to JPM Chase - Bank One hearings, the two banks con affiliated groups to support payday lending. HSBC's Household loses a predatory mastermind. Federal Reserve excuses BofA and Manulife. Bank Beat: Regions and Union Planters withhold info, in bed with mobbed-up car title lender. Citigroup's spin. Global: Limits on Rwanda debate. Enviro: Corporate pollution in Delaware. Bronx: Ferris wheels at Easter, 156th Street's history of corruption
4/5/04 -- CRA: Regions Union Planters funds Mafia-connected car title lender; Congressman defends payday lenders. Federal Reserve increases FOIA gamesmanship, in run-up to JPM Chase- Bank One hearings. Bank Beat: Manulife's dissembling; BofA's deposit cap loophole. Rwanda: Who's PBS Front-ing for? Enviro: Hazmat in Cali. Bronx: terminal market sold for a song
3/29/04 -- CRA: Challenges to Regions - Union Planters, and County Bank on payday lending. HSBC's hunger for preemption. Federal Reserve finally sets JPM Chase - Bank One hearings. Bank Beat: UP-Regions hit. Global: Who buries Rwanda's past? Enviro: Dioxin and Pharmacia, Monsanto. Bronx: Two workers' deaths; Eastmond as negligent contributor
3/22/04 -- CRA: Payday lenders supported by National City and Bank One. County Bank applies to the Federal Reserve, whose laxity lures the predators. Bank Beat: ICP challenge to NatCity - Provident; Manulife hearing. Global: Rwanda fall out. Enviro: Arsenic in El Paso. Bronx: Ferrer and the yellow pages; Happy Land 14 years on
3/15/04 -- CRA: On Capitol Hill(ary); JPM Chase on subprime inconsistencies, ICP to Federal Reserve (also BofA reconsideration). Bank Beat: DJ puffs Citigroup; Sovereign swallows. Global: Rwandan revelations and U.N.'s flight recorder. Enviro: VX nerve gas in Delaware. Bronx: Voice for sale in at least two ways: bad reps, Predatory Bender in the Washington Post
3/8/04 -- CRA: Predatory payday lending courtesy of Bank One and JPM Chase; Ameriquest's Loan Shark Ballpark; Citigroup's corrupt rewards. Federal Reserve: Sucking up to BofA, blowing off the GAO. Bank Beat: AXA's market failure; JPM Chase's job outsourcing at issue; HSBC's wages of sin. Human Rights: Rwanda acquittals. Enviro: Boric acid and coal-fired Waco. Bronx: Un- and mis-represented; insults up, jobs down.
3/1/04 -- CRA: JP Morgan Chase's subprime connections; HSBC's predatory deceptions. Federal Reserve blows off the GAO, and BofA scandals. Bank Beat: National City, tangled up in blue. Human Rights: Two Rwanda acquittals. Enviro: EPA's Houston white-wash. Bronx: Amnesty, commutes and calumny.
2/23/04 -- CRA: Predatory lending, from JPM Chase to Bank One's and HSBC's Refund Anticipation Loans to payday lenders, Bank One-funded. Federal Reserve withholds for BofA (and National City?). Bank Beat: Korean buy for Citigroup, from Carlyle. Human Rights: Rwandan jails and trials. Enviro: Citgo fined; Colorado revolving door. Bronx: It's tax season - and time for H&R Block, to rip you off with high-cost loans. Media watch: triple vision
2/16/04 -- CRA: Predators proceed, with single premium insurance (AIG) and pressure to hard-sell (Citigroup). Regulators capitulate: OTS, below 10%, is blind. Federal Reserve's lawless secrecy results in five FOIA appeals, including JP Morgan Chase and BofA (Oakmont). Bank Beat: stakes for sale in Thailand and Korea. Global: Consumer protection is Guam, Wells Fargo opposes. Enviro: Intel's pollution; Indiana burns. Bronx: NY Post sportswriter profits from calumny
2/9/04 -- CRA: Comptroller serves CitiFinancial, in Tennessee and elsewhere, will get Wells Fargo complaints. HSBC's subprime secrecy. Fed Watch: National City breaks the rules -- and so what? Bank Beat: RBC sleaze; gagging in New Haven. Global: Third force in Rwanda. Enviro: Chemical run-off, Enron fraud. Bronx: A hardhat is dead -- where is Joy Construction?
2/2/04 -- CRA: Redlining by HSBC; secrecy of CitiFinancial; Bank One's pre-Chase CDC close-down. Fed Watch: New lows in questions not asked (including National City). Bank Beat: Updates on Manulife and from New Haven. Enviro: Tennessee hazing, W. Virginia creek spill. Bronx: World in a grain of sand - Kosovar bumper stickers in Belmont
1/26/04 -- CRA: Payday lender enabled by Bank One; Chase Funding is a direct predator. Household redactions. Federal Reserve delays on FOIA, while projecting fast approvals. Bank Beat: AIG's Hank against hawala; Sovereign looks to Hong Kong. Global: Romeo re Rwanda. Enviro: BASF's behind pollution. Bronx: a jail to be abandoned?
1/20/04 -- CRA: Multi-state challenge to JP Morgan Chase-Bank One. Harassment at CitiFinancial's new buy. Fed Watch: Crédit Agricole leases oil platforms; 11th hour FOIA responses. Bank Beat: New Haven Savings Bank peddles and amends; pundits' sand wedge analogies slice left. Global: War criminal search, in Kenya. Enviro: Dirty Delaware deals. Bronx: What's in a name?
1/19/04 -- ICP files 21-page challenges to JP Morgan Chase-Bank One, with Fed and a dozen state regulators - in observance of MLK Day - other weekly Reports later
1/12/04 -- CRA: Preemption madness shields Citigroup and BofA. Bank Beat: Manulife-Hancock challenge. Crédit Agricole and ex-Federal Reserve counsel spin lawbreaking. Global: Broke government in Central African Republic. Enviro: Illinois brownfields. Bronx: Tales of two murders
1/5/04 -- CRA: Predatory lending as Mobius strip - BofA buys into Oakmont. Bank Beat: Challenge to National City - Allegiant, on First Franklin. Corporate irresponsibility: Wells Fargo lay-offs, GE flees Bristol. Global: India and HSBC's burden. Enviro: toxins on the border. Bronx: Unsolved murders, unreformed releases, ex-Yankee Reggie pitches subprime. Money laundering loopholes: too corporate-friendly.
1/2/04 -- Bank Beat: ICP challenges NatCity - Allegiant, including on First Franklin / predatory lending. Welcome to 2004...
12/29/03 -- CRA: Year in (fast) review; Citi worse than WaMuFi, at least in NC. Predatory lending by HSBC's Household: still withheld, ICP's FOIA lawsuit. Federal Reserve inaction (though BofA-Fleet hearings Jan. 14 & 16). Money laundering question. Global: Sudan's Darfur province and press freedom. Enviro: Tennessee nuclear. Bronx: Ferrer's redlining friends. Happy holidays!
12/22/03 -- CRA: Citigroup writes legislation, captures regulators, re WaMu and predatory lending. Federal Reserve thumbs its nose at law and public on BofA and Fleet. Bank Beat: Chase and the case of FINCEN / SSNs (money laundering?) Global: the silence of HSBC. Enviro: Louisiana train wreck lawsuit resolved. Bronx: Experiential snow day...
12/15/03 -- CRA: The cynicism of Citigroup: splits WaMuFi so Rubin can lie. Fleet-BofA beef. Bank Beat: ICP files NY comments v. HSBC - Bank of Bermuda. Fed Watch: Royal Bank of Scotland's insane, Fed-coddled secrecy, about its meetings and loans. Enviro: Dow's dioxin delay. Bronx: Grassroots cable, steamships and white-wash. New Predatory Bender review - click here to view.
12/8/03 -- CRA: in WaMu-CitiFinancial, sad tales of bogus preemption. BofA-Fleet dodge, bob and weave. Fed Watch: late documents on Credit Lyonnais; RBS wants carte blanche to launder money. Bank Beat: NHSB fireworks; on Del. FOIA we're called right. Global: Hedge funder, stonewalling in Rwanda. Enviro: Monsanto's PCBs in Alabama. Bronx: Pork in the Garden, Darin in Berlin. Predatory Bender's Commonweal review
12/1/03 -- CRA: Protests to Citigroup - WaMu Finance in 25 states. HSBC's Household pays to continue predatory playing. Fed Watch: The silence of BofA-Fleet; Moe Forget of Wells Fargo in Canada. Bank Beat: The hungers of GE and Lehman. Global: Rwanda's ongoing mysteries. Enviro: Delaware sues, and gets sued under FOIA by ICP. Bronx: 83-word obituary & indictment.
11/25/03 -- Arrogant Citigroup wants to buy yet another predatory lending, WaMu Finance - click here for (pre-Thanksgiving) reaction to this turkey of a deal...
11/24/03 -- CRA: Round two versus Bank of America, with predatory links to Wells Fargo and others, and 10.1118% of deposits, prior to Federal Reserve word games. Bank Beat: RBS, lobbying and lies; Schwab's U.S. Trust and El Rushbo. Global: press arrests in Rwanda. Enviro: Florida dioxin, Hawaii conflicts. Bronx: a map and tour, where is Jack Bender?
11/20/03 -- Protest to Bank of America / Fleet: text here, BofA/Predatory Bender map here
11/17/03 -- CRA: Now 1300 complaints against Chase Manhattan; BofA has just applied to the Federal Reserve (more forthcoming). Bank Beat: Barclays stalks the Northeast; PNC defends its data. Global: Inner City Press FOIA response to State Dep't. Enviro: Polluter tries to buy an election. Bronx: background to a mall; preface to a map.
11/10/03 -- CRA: Hard-sell sleaze at Citigroup continues; foreclosures and loss of homes, including as topic of novel by ICP. Fed's secret business with Credit Agricole and counsel. Bank Beat: the madness of Deutsche Bank and its Russian bet. Global: State Dep't delay on Rwanda FOIA. Enviro: Boston toxic public playgrounds. My own romantic Bronx: novelistic descriptions 2003.
11/3/03 -- CRA: 500 complaints against JPMorgan Chase; FOIA win (of a sort) re HSBC's Household. B of A interim squib. Federal Reserve extends Credit Agricole for nothing, while excluding the public. Bank Beat: false data and bad times at PNC. Enviro: Delaware sulfuric acid. Bronx: Lean times at the NYT; good tacos in the Hub. AXA's MONY hit.
10/27/03 -- CRA: ICP's quick statement on Bank of America - Fleet. Buying approvals with assessment fees? JP Morgan Chase and the OTS. CitiFinancial's hiring of its previous regulators. Federal Reserve requires application from Royal Bank of Scotland. Bank Beat: reply, on RBS money laundering, to Switzerland; PNC extension. Global: Rwanda as one-party state. Enviro: Tyco's pollution. Bronx: "Excessive force" as human rights violation
10/20/03 -- CRA: Challenge to New Haven Savings Bank, its buy-offs and sell-outs; Citigroup's compliance in hell. Federal Reserve: Secret waivers for JP Morgan Chase's corporate trust deal? Bank Beat: Royal Bank of Scotland hit in Philly and Boston and, on global money-laundering, in Switzerland. Enviro: Lead poisoning in Santo Domingo. Bronx: Negative thinking of hot sheet motels
10/13/03 -- CRA: Challenges filed to PNC's United proposal -- disparities at the fraudster, undisclosed communications. Fed's favors to Crédit Lyonnais. Bank Beat: JPMorgan Chase's ever-amending Bank One arrogance. Global: HRE FOIAs the Commerce Dep't on Gabon, the State Dep't on Rwanda. Enviro: nukes in TN. Bronx: One view of environmental justice, with an emphasis on the latter
10/6/03 -- CRA: Finding and trying to fill the Federal Reserve's stealth waiver loophole; range of Wells Fargo complaints. Bank Beat: Disparate N.Y. Community Bancorp approved nonetheless. Global: Vote-fraud in Rwanda. Enviro: Pollution courtesy of Intel and Dynergy. Bronx: Stench and lay-off (suicide?) at AIG...
9/29/03 -- CRA: Stealth attacks on public laws: JP Morgan Chase and preemption; the Federal Reserve and its exemptions. Bank Beat: NY Community Bancorp made to commit -- but to what? Bronx: Questioning this new era. Enviro: Benzene in FLA, nerve gas in 'Bama.
9/22/03 -- CRA: Preemption, and Chase's predatory lending, raised to officials in dozens of states. HSBC takes it global, while Citigroup takes it out of your pocket. Bank Beat: N.Y. Community update. Enviro: Cheap oil spills. Bronx: Politics low and high-heeled.
9/15/03 -- CRA: Evasive moves by JP Morgan Chase, shifting its subprime lending from state scrutiny, and seeking (with Bank One) waivers from the Fed. Quiet Citigroup announcement on predatory personal property insurance. Bank Beat: Roslyn-NYCB update. AIG's fraud. Global: elections lead to search warrants. Enviro: Free lunch in Louisiana. Bronx: grassroots civics on Nine Eleven and beyond
9/9/03 -- ICP challenges two JPMorgan Chase applications: to acquire Bank One's corporate trust business, and to use a federal savings bank to evade state anti-predatory lending laws
9/8/03 -- CRA: Predatory servicing by PMI's Fairbanks raised against GE insurance co. sale. Political $ by Citigroup and AIG. More spin of the Fed by Wells Fargo. Bank Beat: NYCB-Roslyn update. Human rights: Election without opponents in Kigali. Enviro: Mustard gas and vapors. Bronx: Finger-pointing at felons and donors.
9/1/03 -- Challenge to New York Community Bank - Roslyn Savings Bank. CRA: Shifty responses from Citigroup and AIG; Federal Reserve asked to close loophole. Global / human rights: sad scam election in Rwanda. Enviro: Penn. city pollutes and asks for low fine. Bronx: Redlining continues, NYCB-Roslyn...
8/25/03 -- CRA: Predatory lending, from Basel to Vegas, HSBC to Wells Fargo. Bank Beat: Jersey deal, Citi steals. Human Rights (and free speech) ill-served in Rwandan election. Enviro: Arsenic in NC, Alamos whistle-blower. Bronx: Rodents in hospital; roast pig in Belmont.
8/18/03 -- CRA: Challenge to AIG - GE, in Japan and U.S. Sleazy Citi loan put into evidence in Citi-Sears. Disparities at Wells Fargo; withholdings at the Fed. Human Rights: With parties outlawed, Rwanda's 8/25 election can't be free or fair Bank Beat: Deals in the blackout zone.. Enviro: Entergy-Koch manipulates; nukes in SC. Bronx: Lightless tales.
8/11/03 -- CRA: Citigroup - Sears and insignificance; HSBC has application rejected; Wells Fargo clams up. Global: Del Ponte or not, the Int'l Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda has been victors' justice to date. Bank Beat: Scotiabank (& RBS) doth protest too much. Fed Watch: Terse door revolving around Crédit Agricole. Enviro: Louisiana toxins. Bronx: A tale of lacks and street fairs.
8/4/03 -- Themed issue: Citigroup's still sleazy, now moving on Sears. Click here for ICP's comments, on CRA (redlining, including in The Bronx), money laundering, even human rights abuse. Wells Fargo update; HSBC's hiring flacks. Enviro: Cadmium in SC; Enron fall-out...
7/28/03 -- CRA: Protest to Wells Fargo's predatory lending, including overseas. HSBC's Household delays and is protected. Fed's willful blindness, including on Credit Agricole, compared to Swedish response. Bank Beat: Sleazy Lehman's deal. Global: Burundi update. Enviro: Colorado toxins. Bronx: Waste Management; hit n' run eggheads.
7/21/03 -- CRA: Citigroup succession; GE usury; Household's shredding won't go away. Fed coddles Crédit Agricole. Bank Beat: Loose lips at Greenpoint; sleazy RBS. Global: Human rights in Burundi. Enviro: Duke Power guaranteed 14%? Bronx: Political backdrop.
7/14/03 -- CRA: Predatory moves at Citi & Wells & HSBC. Bank Beat: ScotiaBank into Santo Domingo; Crédit Agricole snubs the Fed, moves on Belgium. Global: Killing in Burundi continues; Liberian flashback. Enviro: From a Camp Lejeune victim. Bronx: The homeless as pawns -- for shame.
7/7/03 -- CRA: Crédit Agricole's shady lending, money laundering and lack of human rights and environmental standards. CitiFinancial in Brazil. Fed Watch: Basel and lack of inclusion; RBS blindness. Bank Beat: Soc Gen power plants; sleazy deals in rent-to-own. Global: Rwanda, dissed and disappeared. Bronx: Fireworks; and an action to take.
6/30/03 -- CRA: Public accountability in insurance regulation; ICP's presentation, and NAIC response to date (corporate globalization in action). Bank Beat: Weak deals in NY, and Japan. Human rights in Bunia, hanging in the balance. Enviro: Texas refineries, Georgia disparities. Bronx: a Murder quietly solved, or pled to.
6/23/03 -- CRA: Reality and Citigroup's claims. The predators' enablers: Royal Bank of Scotland, round two (including on human rights and money laundering). Global: Eye on Bunia. Enviro: Prawn-farming woes; toxic waste. Bronx: Promesa investigation continues.
6/16/03 -- Update re Lehman Brothers' enabling of predatory lending; CRA: Campaign against General Electric and its lending proceeds on to Germany, after OTS hits new low. Bank Beat: Royal Bank of Scotland's grab for CSFB's insurance company is challenged. Global: Peacekeepers must move, like the conflict, beyond Bunia. Enviro: Toxins in Philly and Milwaukee; Citigroup's mining investment(s). Bronx: Church, state and street fairs.
6/9/03 -- CRA: Hypocrisy at Citigroup and AG's office (re HSBC's Household); Fairbanks switches lawyers midstream. Bank Beat: Royal Bank of Scotland, less talk, in deed. Global : Bunia shoot-out continues. Enviro: Pollution fine for GE, too cheap. Bronx: World's smallest (church-sponsored) woman?
6/2/03 -- Themed issue: Royal Bank of Scotland challenged, to Federal Reserve, on CRA, money laundering, and lack of human rights standards. Enviro: toxins on the move. Bronx: Promesa whistleblower; from the Bronx to Baghdad. Global: U.N. too cautious on Bunia.
5/26/03 -- CRA: Predatory fat cat prowls London (HSBC); OCC and U.S. Bancorp revealed. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo on a roll; Citi (or GE) move in on Sears. Global: Refugees pour into Uganda. Enviro: Delaware pleads with polluters. Bronx: Dirty parks annotations; blind item
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