The Loudest Person at The Citibank Was the Undercover Cop that Arrested the...
You should remember this incident where people trying to close their accounts with Citibank were locked in and arrested:
View ArticleBREAKING-D.C. Citibank-Occupied
This is a breaking post more information and video will be added throughout the day and into the weeks ahead. So please be patient we will find out the story. Washington, DC - A group of 40 protesters...
View ArticleUpdated: Protest Shuts Down CitiBank Branch & CEO Hacked!
Stop the Machine protest releases information on their DC Occupation: Washington, DC - A group of 40 protesters marched to the Citibank, a subsidiary of Citigroup, at 14th and G Streets NW this...
View ArticleLiveLeak Posts Citibank Arrests from Inside/New Video
Good morning from OWS. Sorry for the post and run diary - but I wanted to get this out to Dailykos community. I have to leave for work in 20 minutes but I just finished watching this video of what...
View ArticleConfessions of a Modern Day Bankster
bankster (plural banksters) 1. (informal) A personification of bankers as criminally irresponsible Actually, I’m not a bankster. I’m a Progressive working in an industry that is rightly vilified...
View ArticleJudge Skewers SEC Citibank Action As "Just For Show"
May I introduce to you my hero for the day: Jed S. Rakoff of the Federal District Court in Manhattan. Yesterday, Rakoff said what we all know: the government, our government, is not serious about...
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Fed President: Break Up the Banking Giants!
Should the FED use its authority to break up systemically risky banks? The Dallas Federal Reserve president says yes: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said regulators should...
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Big Banks have abandoned small businesses
Bank of America and company ... funding "small businesses" that make $20 million per year. The numbers are just staggering. Bank of America and Citibank, who collectively control about 20% of all...
View ArticleLetting the 1% Make Our Arguments For Us
Frankly speaking, the 1% can make our argument for us better than anyone else. So here's what I'm doing. I'm taking CitiGroup's 2005 Plutonomy Report and posting excerpts from it on the doors of my...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street: First Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Against NYPD
Two Occupy Wall Street protesters filed the first federal civil rights lawsuit brought against the NYPD in connection with the OWS movement on Monday, claiming they were falsely arrested and subjected...
View ArticleDistrict Judge says No More Business as Usual, Non-Disclosure Settlements
I seriously hope, that this is a start of a serious new trend ... a trend in actual accountability ... Citi Ruling Could Chill SEC, Street Legal Pacts by Jean Eaglesham and Chad Bray, wsj.com -- Nov...
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A Declaration of War on the Big Banks.
Martha Coakley, the Attorney General of Massachusetts, is already waging war. As David Dayen at FiredogLake puts it, writing about the lawsuit Coakley has filed on behalf of Massachusetts' citizens:...
View Article5 Ways You Can Occupy Wall Street
Thousands of people across the world are actively maintaining the front line of the Occupy movement; this article is not for those people. Those protestors are currently engrossed in alchemizing...
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SEC=Selective Enforcement Bailouts/ Bargains/ Cover UPs - Sachs/ Citibank
In New York, the 2nd Circuit has hired "RWing" to handle Judge Rakoff's case. is this just satire, snark or something greater Hidden. There's very little debate on the fact of, whether or not,...
View ArticleWhich Golden Rule?
It was very big of Richard Parsons to admit that the repeal of Glass-Steagall (the law that had kept traditional commercial banking walled off from Wall Street speculators for more than 60 years) was...
View ArticleUPDATED: SHOW ME THE PAPERWORK: Are Many Student Loans Uncollectible? DKos...
Will the DKos lawyers please take a look. How do we get itemized statements from the Student Loan Lenders? Copies of original Promissory Notes? All financial records? Without which, how can we know...
View ArticleBanksters & Gangsters: HSBC Will Testify On Money Laundering Tuesday
Ah, it seems like only yesterday Bank of America was caught laundering money for the Mexican Drug Cartels. Though to be fair Citigroup also got caught money laundering to Mexico. But don't worry other...
View ArticleLibor, Sandy Weill, and Endless Corruption
Note: This post was written by donnyg1941 and JeffreeB By now you've probably heard of Libor, the London Interbank Offered Rate, and the scandal surrounding it. And unless you have an advanced degree...
View ArticleIs Bernanke just bailing out banks again?
I'm an idiot, completely unqualified. But last I remember, mortgage backed securities were what were at the center of the economic meltodown of 2008, at the center of bank/mortgage company meltdowns,...
View ArticleWho Is More Valuable?
So, Chicago teachers agreed to end their strike, and go back to teaching for an average of $77,000 per year. Which made me think: which is a better bargain? A short rumination.
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Additional Ideas For Justifying U.S. Government Assassination of American...
The movie J. Edgar [Hoover] starring Leonardo DiCaprio opens with a scene of a bombing at the house of then Attorney General Mitchell Palmer. Historically, this bombing was part of a terror (some...
View ArticleHUNTING THE BIG UMBER BIRD
I have to tell you a very dull story. It relates no shootouts, no hangings, no burnings at the stake. This story would make a really bad comic book, er, sorry, graphic novel. Heck, it would make an...
View ArticleCitigroup in Violation of Money Laundering Laws - No Problemma
Get the anti-nausea drugs out. Citi found in violation of money laundering laws by two different Federal bank regulators. Now the Federal Reserve has also cited them and have given them 60 days to...
View ArticleNY-18: When Democrats go bad
The NY-18 congressional district is one of the swingiest in New York state. Redrawn in 2010, it was held by a tea partier and was high on the DCCC's "red-to-blue" list in 2012. It's now rep'd by...
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Major Bank Renounces Rush Limbaugh After Twitter Bomb
Sunday night, memes such as above were spreading throughout Twitter and Facebook, asking people to tweet and post messages to Citibank to request the mega bank pull its ads from the Rush Limbaugh...
View ArticleHUNTING THE BIG UMBER BIRD
I have to tell you a very dull story. It relates no shootouts, no hangings, no burnings at the stake. This story would make a really bad comic book, er, sorry, graphic novel. Heck, it would make an...
View Article"Our Energy Moment": The Blue Engine Behind Fracked Gas Exports PR Blitz
Cross-Posted from DeSmogBlogBehind nearly every major corporate policy push there’s an accompanying well-coordinated public relations and propaganda campaign. As it turns out, the oil and gas...
View ArticleWhy the Democrats Lost!
1. No Backbone! 2. No clear message! 3. Not having their party leader's back!
View ArticleSay it with me: THE REPUBLICAN BAILOUT BUDGET
No one likes taxpayer-funded Wall Street bailouts, not even Tea Partiers. However, if you look at changes proposed to the Dodd-Frank law in the current House Republican budget proposal, it sets Wall...
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Rep. Citibank, Er, Yoder Comes Out to Decry His Poor Treatment
Kevin Yoder, who had previously been seen as hiding out from the press, took time yesterday to interact with the Kansas City Star. http://www.kansascity.com/...Critics say that the relaxed rule — part...
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Break Up the Big Banks and #OccupyCitibank
[This is an announcement from some Occupy Wall Street folks in support of an action tomorrow, 12/18/14. I am one of the signatories.]Occupy Wall Street is an idea whose time has come. And those of us...
View ArticleCartoon: Citibank democracy
Now that the secret back room dealings are done and the latest budget bill passed Congress (of course, at the 11th hour), we can see the thumbprints of Wall Street once again. Actually, more than...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren by Hillary Clinton
It was always going to take a special kind of leader to pick up Ted Kennedy’s mantle as senior Senator from Massachusetts—champion of working families and scourge of special interests. Elizabeth Warren...
View ArticleSEC: Name Those Responsible for Fleecing Investors
As Gretchen Morgenson reported in Sunday's New York Times, the S. E. C. recently reached a settlement with Citibank over Citibank's promotion of risky municipal bonds to investors as safe investments....
View ArticleWhat Everyone Here Needs to Know About the Financial Meltdown
Please, if you don’t think you understand the financial meltdown and why Obama rescued Wall Street and what they were rescued from, please know this very simple explanation of what has not been...
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A Tale of Two Economies
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light,...
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Go figure...When was the last time you saw a toothpaste commerical?
This has gotten ridiculous. Big Pharma, Big Insurance and the Automobile industry OWN the airwaves. Oh yeah..when was the last time you saw a pepsi commercial? Every now and then you will see a...
View ArticleNY Times now reporting second undisclosed loan to Cruz's 2012 campaign
Not really a diary, since it’s kind of breaking news, but…The New York Times is now reporting that Ted Cruz obtained a loan from Citibank and failed to report it in FEC filings. This would be the...
View ArticleTrump going for the kill on Cruz.
This is not a week that Calgary Teddy Cruz is going to want to memorialize in his remembrance chest. First, there was the fact that not only wouldn’t the Donald drop that very inconvenient issue...
View ArticleToo Many Secrets
Not knowing about the politically imprisoned former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman or the private rich and powerful men’s Bohemian Grove Club or what happened to the Electric Car and why, is not the...
View ArticleFin Crisis Commission referred Robert Rubin to DoJ for prosecution in 2010....
Fortune has the story: Robert Rubin Was Targeted for DOJ Investigation by Financial Crisis CommissionIn late 2010, in the waning months of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, the panel responsible...
View ArticleFed/FDIC tell five big banks their resolution plans are not credible, could...
Bernie’s campaign, Elizabeth Warren’s statements and widespread support for their call to abolish Too Big To Fail banks is having a real impact on how regulators act towards the largest financial...
View ArticleCitibank Targeted at Sacramento Picket Wednesday In Solidarity with Standing...
After news that Native Americans were attacked by dogs and private security guards at the encampment against the Dakota Access Pipeline on Saturday, a series of support actions in solidarity with the...
View ArticleSacramento Area Residents Hold Protest Against Dakota Access Pipeline Outside...
Over 20 people showed their solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s struggle against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) Wednesday by holding a demonstration outside of Citibank on Alhambra...
View ArticleSacramento Area Activists Hold Protest In Solidarity With Standing Rock
The Sacramento Area Friends and Relatives of the Lakota Nation sponsored a peaceful and indigenous faith-based protest in support of the Standing Rock Sioux on October 28 from 3 pm to 5 pm at the...
View ArticleHoopa, Yurok & Karuk youth lead Standing Rock solidarity event, Wells...
Arcata, Calif. – On January 28, youth from the Karuk, Hoopa and Yurok Tribes led scores of Humboldt County residents on a march and prayer gathering to highlight Wells Fargo’s financing of the Dakota...
View ArticleCitibank, Dirty Once Again – Alan Singer’s Latest Huffington Post
Citibank, Dirty Once Again – Alan Singer’s Latest Huffington PostFederal investigators uncovered Citibank’s Mexican affiliate, Banamex USA, laundering drug money and illegally shipping it back to...
View ArticleRepublicans, owned by the NRA, threaten banks for trying to reduce gun violence
The craven submission of the Republican Party to the gun industry and its Russian-funded mouthpiece, the National Rifle Association, is never more clearly illustrated than when GOP members of Congress...
View ArticleAs an Extremely Conservative Capitalist American™, I tried to keep from...
A guy who runs a taxi business in Long Island, NY, established some bank accounts with CitiBank in 2015. He apparently had the same initials as do I, but assumed that nobody else could possibly use...
View ArticleThe Federal Reserve is helping banks wake up to the risk climate change poses...
The Federal Reserve announced on Thursday that six banks would be participating in a pilot program to analyze climate-related financial risks based on “specific portfolios and business strategies,”...
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