Dalton Chiscolm Lawsuit: Man Sues Bank Of America For "1,784 BILLION, TRILLION Dollars"

If Dalton Chiscolm has anything to say about it, Bank Of America may need another bailout. Chiscolm is suing the bank for '1,784 billion trillion dollars,' a sum that Reuters points out is actually bigger than the world's $60 trillion gross domestic product.

The lawsuit actually came across the desk of U.S. District Judge Denny Chin, who had the distinct privilege of sentencing Bernie Madoff earlier this summer. From Judge Chin's order in the case:

"[Chiscolm] seeks '1,784 billion trillion dollars' to be deposited in his ATM account "the next day," and seeks and additional $200,164,000. He seems to be complaining that he placed a series of calls to the bank in New York and received inconsistent information from a 'Spanish wom[a]n.' He apparently alleges that checks have been rejected because of incomplete routing numbers."

Hilariously, Reuters got a New York University mathematics professor to comment on the insanely large size of Chiscolm's monetary demands: "These are the kind of numbers you deal with only on a cosmic scale," professor Sylvain Cappell told Reuters.

Read Judge Chin's order:

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Comments

[GoodFeathers]

09:47 PM on 09/28/2009

It's not impossible for the bank to give that much money. That number is only series of Bytes in a database. Just enter the numbers in his account. Nobody is asking the bank to have gold, silver, platinum, hard currency or assets worth that much money. When you swipe your debit card at the super market, you aren't exchanging hard currency. Your bank just transmits bunch of zeroes and ones to the super market's bank.

[RightWingMarine]

03:00 PM on 09/28/2009

frivolous lawsuits such as this is why we need a loser pays system for our courts.

[SaneBull]

12:14 PM on 09/28/2009

Yay stocks surging on Wall Street. Lets forget about high unemployment, wall street greed & corruption, and heath care reform. Happy days are here again for the rich, while everyone else goes though the same $h1t everyday.

good articles; http://www.iamned.com

Ppl have no money, no heath care, no home, no job, no sanity.

[Micki Pacific]

11:44 AM on 09/28/2009

Go get'em Dalton!

I may file a few of these too. One on behalf of my 71 year old mother on social security who's account is currently -$221 dollars overdrawn (which equals one third of her monthly income) due to usurious BofA debit fees and selective processing that racked them up.

And another for my disabled sons account which is $245 overdrawn due to the same fees. Since his SSI is only $400 a month, this is over half of his monthly income.

And the CEO and upper management at BofA pushed $3.6 billion to upper management in bonuses while taking some $20 billion in bailout money? And did it in a sneaky way so that the board of directors were unaware of it? And are offering to settle out of court by paying $445 million of my mom's, my son's. and no doubt Dalton's fees?

I hope Dalton gets his settlement, and he may just be the first of a much larger wave of these sorts of cases.

Quit stealing from the poor, disabled, and elderley BofA. Go make up the losses from your credit cards off of someone else - preferable your own overpaid, overbonused management. Your way out of line with the rest of the banker's compensation packages around the world.

[Stephen-in-Seattle]

02:02 AM on 09/28/2009

I say, "Give him the Money". !

[PoliticalRockChick]

03:30 PM on 09/27/2009

Hope he wins. lol

[kidolympic]

12:14 AM on 09/27/2009

http://www.jackson-pollock.com/downfall.html

The brain was cloud-flashed; it's not his fault!
He can be put on a sailboat with two sympatheyic Orangutans. It corrects visual stimulus 'til it taps the right neve cluster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan

One of Jackson Pollock's paintings sold for 173 million.

[kidolympic]

06:33 PM on 09/27/2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu-Mbe4rchs&NR=1&feature=fvwp
http://www.moller.com/

http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsLitotes.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK_GM5Rs0Go&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN_58vHQKh4&NR=1

You might interrogate this guy close to this him with soft voices
To seeif he hadany vision a true state of [*is****M[(.

Just have someone whisper into his ear, hey, where did you come up with these numbers?

break-thru – or someone is using the term ‘Cosmicon’ out-of-place in the lisp; , ,has to be corrected! (ROtherwise: he’ll have to be put back on the boat with Kleddor one.]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/25/short-shorts-are-hot-on-m_n_299697.html

[kidolympic]

06:37 PM on 09/27/2009

http://dailynews.mcmaster.ca/story.cfm?id=3637

[SimJack]

11:14 PM on 09/26/2009

That would mean he could pretty much buy the planet if he wins.

[heroine addict]

08:18 PM on 09/26/2009

...change the currency to Monopoly money and watch the scrambling to see who gets Boardwalk & Park Place.

[LHB58]

06:35 AM on 09/26/2009

A lawsuit of that magnitude would bankrupt and completely destroy BOA. But I'm sure there must be a downside to it that I'm overlooking.

[mcmutter]

04:27 AM on 09/26/2009

Cap the interest rates BAC can charge at 15% and really screw em.

[ibsteve2u]

06:03 AM on 09/26/2009

No, cap 'em all at 5% over prime.

[mcmutter]

09:45 AM on 09/26/2009

better yet ... you are soooo right !

[ssaz]

03:39 AM on 09/26/2009

I for one hope he wins. As frivolous as his suit is, it's high time the American public is taken seriously. My mortgage is with BofA and I can say, with no reservations, they are the absolute worse bank I've ever dealt with. In 15 years, I've never been late for one payment.. not one. Every year I'm contacted by their insurance division (after forced flood coverage) to prove I have flood insurance even after my premiums were paid to their insurance division. Each year they make some lame assed excuse why the mortgage division doesn't talk to the insurance division and every year they reveres the charges... for fourteen years this has gone on!!! I just purchased a new home only to find out they (BofA) reported a 90 day late payment for a forced flood coverage that I didn't owe. They charged my equity line of credit which, by the way, was never used in fourteen years. I hope to god BofA goes bankrupt or is forced into it by people like me that have always been honest, and paid all debts on time. I don't buy the argument that "we are different divisions". BofA is BofA... it's time they stopped screwing people and time we stand up for our rights as American consumers. Don't do any business with this corrupt institution. You aren't a customer, you're a number on a balance sheet. Stop patronizing banks that treat you like another number.

[yappnmutt]

01:30 AM on 09/26/2009

since the dollar is monopoly money anyway why not add a coupla more zeroes and buy world peace from the military industrial complex.

[fcsakes]

12:26 AM on 09/26/2009

So, is this a class action suit, can we all get in on it?

[Hiphopcrates]

12:21 AM on 09/26/2009

My two cents? Do I hear the new Secretary of the Treasury?