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Gang robs German poker tournament live on TV

A group of robbers wielding machetes and handguns stormed a Berlin poker tournament Saturday -- escaping with as much as $1.1 million in a stunt that was captured by German television cameras. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Did Citibank shut their account b/c they're gay?

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What does your gut tell you? "In a bit of strange and disturbing news, fabulis discovered today that someone(s) at Citibank had decided arbitrarily to block fabulis’ bank account due to what was described to us on the phone as “objectionable c [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Shon Hopwood, Mediocre Criminal Turned Top Jailhouse Lawyer

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Mr. Hopwood spent much of that time in the prison law library, and it turned out he was better at understanding the law than breaking it. He transformed himself into something rare at the top levels of the American bar, and unheard of behind bars: an  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Texas Bank Sues Customer Hit by $800,000 Cyber Heist

According to a Nov. 12 memo that Owens said PlainsCapital shared with him, the institution’s commercial banking platform requires that each customer not only enter a user name and password, but also “register” their computer’s Internet address [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Obama considers new fee on banks to help get our $700B back

The budget that President Obama submits next month is likely to include new fees on financial firms as the White House seeks to recover the full costs of its $700 billion bailout of the banking industry, officials said.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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AG demands bank bonus info from bailed out banks who have repayed

(... in an effort to prevent another meltdown) In letters sent Monday to Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, State Street Bank and Wells Fargo, Cuomo requested information on the size  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Judge erases Long Island couple's $525,000 debt

The judge blasted the bank for refusing to work with the couple and for apparently misleading him about the dollar amounts at stake in the case. He also lambasted the bank's treatment of the couple over months of hearings. Spinner said the bank "mu [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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USAA Bank Will Let Customers Deposit Checks by iPhone

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USAA, a privately held bank and insurance company, plans to update its iPhone application this week to introduce the check deposit feature, which requires a customer to photograph both sides of the check with the phone’s camera.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Bank teller fired for chasing and aprehending bank robber

After more than two years working as a teller at the Key Bank branch in Lower Queen Anne, Nicholson clearly understood the bank's strict policy of quickly complying with robbers' demands and avoiding confrontation. Instead, Nicholson threw the bag  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Mom Gives Back $270,000 accidentally dispensed at ATM

(May 13) - It seemed like a dream come true for a single mom struggling to make ends meet and facing the possibility of eviction. Lynita Regis of Bellevue, Wash., told KOMO-TV she was stunned when she went to an ATM and saw a balance of $271,366.01.  [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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BofA Needs another $35 Billion - should we give it to them?

So much for anchoring. You thought BofA might need $10 billion in new capital? Try $35 billion. Or, in English, lots and lots and lots of money — much more money than the bank could conceivably raise privately. The first obvious question is “if [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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Muslim Woman Asked to Leave Line at Bank Over Head Scarf

A Muslim woman was asked to leave her place in line at a credit union in Southern Maryland and be served in a back room because the head scarf she wore for religious reasons violated the institution's "no hats, hoods or sunglasses" policy, the woman s [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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