More Hints That Wikileaks May Target Bank Of America In Next Release

UPDATE: Julian Assange did not confirm he has information pertaining to Bank of America. AFP misrepresented an interview with Assange in a Times of London story, according to an email sent to Forbes from Times reporter Alexi Mostrous.

ORIGINAL POST:
The folks at Boing Boing have unearthed gold within a Times of London article: Julian Assange has confirmed he's holding a trove of information about Bank of America, slated for release early next year.

AFP reports:

Assange also confirmed that WikiLeaks was holding a vast amount of material about Bank of America which it intends to release early next year.

"We don't want the bank to suffer unless it's called for," Assange told The Times. "But if its management is operating in a responsive way there will be resignations," he said, without giving details about the material.

Assange will appear in a live interview on MSNBC's "The Dylan Ratigan Show" today, where perhaps he will offer more information on the subject.

Comments

[Kevin Berner]

10:52 AM on 01/16/2011

What I hate most about a Bank Of America bankruptcy is the fact that I could lose my entire 401k,and because I'm still employed I can't do a damb thing about it.My 401k is through Merrrill Llynch,which is owned by B.O,A.,every statement I receive,they make it VERY CLEAR,that my 401k is not F.D.I.C.insured.I have tried to move my 401k into a gold IRA,but my company will not let me,and because I'm not 59.5 years old they will not let me withdraw it.I can only do this if I quit or get fired.This really sucks because I put over $75,000 of my own money into it.Whats the difference the government will most likely take everyones 401k's and IRA's,like they are doing all over Europe,and South America.

[USNDC]

10:04 AM on 01/16/2011

Wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf !

He's got nothing.

[optomist1]

08:27 PM on 01/15/2011

I sure wish this guy would leave the banks like B of A and Goldman Sachs alone for they exhibit the uptmost moral rectitude and are merely doing God's work.

The demise or restructuring of the banks cannot come soon enough. A conventional, sustainable baning model would seem to be in order.

The WSJ has become complicit in this debacle...its relative silence speaks volumes

[Debbie McPherson]

12:49 PM on 01/11/2011

Does anyone else find the info being leaked to be strangely hand picked to NOT include anything damaging about Globalists sacred cows? Look who has had damaging info leaked and WHO HAS NOT... Sorry, this is juts not adding up to anything more than some sort of stunt. My bet is you'll never hear anything damaging about JP Morgan and especially not Goldman Sachs...don't you wonder why not???? Goldman Sachs are the dirtiest dirt bags of all - or, at least certainly up there with BOA - no dirt on them - and there is Obama with his his office full of Govt Sachs employees and and now the JP MOrgan addition... Hmmmm - smells kinda fishy don't you think???? Come on people, connect the dots...

[marshel1969]

03:39 PM on 01/08/2011

I can't wait for this!!!

[Phil Waste]

10:40 PM on 01/03/2011

If B of A executives resign over a scandal within B of A, President Obama can pick them up for advisors.

[Norman Murphy]

06:02 PM on 01/04/2011

Phil Waste is an appropriate name. Why weren't you there for your Prince Charming, George W. Bush and the other war criminals and wackos of the Republican Party? They need more court jesters like you to ruin the economy.

[Debbie McPherson]

12:51 PM on 01/11/2011

Phil
 
Nope, won't happen - Obama is Goldman Sachs player all the way and BOA is the outsider...he'll fill is office with any crooks BUT not the crooks from BOA

[LDMerriam]

03:42 PM on 01/03/2011

Bank of America is learning that the role of brand is no longer strictly commercial. Brands have been co-opted as tools in social, political and economic debates before and will increasingly be so in the future: http://bit.ly/f64afo

[IMeMine]

06:23 PM on 01/01/2011

If WikiLeaks won't expose unethical and illegal business practices, who in the heck will?

[OneFish]

06:19 PM on 01/03/2011

Why the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the House Ethics Committee, of course!

[Debbie McPherson]

12:53 PM on 01/11/2011

IMeMine
 
watch VERY closely - Wikileaks is as controlled as our pablum being served up by media - handpicked all they way....think about it.

[IMeMine]

05:50 PM on 01/11/2011

Yeah, and the cow jumped over the moon.

[WIpatriot]

03:53 AM on 01/01/2011

Just do it....8-)

[dorthy smith]

02:30 AM on 01/01/2011

Oh Please Wiki Please do Tell!

[Paul Sta]

11:49 AM on 12/29/2010

Release it already!

[AlsoSarah]

03:56 PM on 12/27/2010

"If Citibank and Bank of America were going under, that would be a problem," said Mark Blyth, a political economy professor at Brown and a fellow of the Watson Institute for International Studies. "The bailout was meant to deal with a global systemic crisis. It was not to make sure that some bank in Utah with dodgy commercial real estate would be okay."

I am so sick of this. I went into a 3 month HAMP trial with BoA in June 2009. In August I was told I was modified as of November 2009. Today I called to check my status. I have still not been officially modified although BoA continues to report me delinquent to all the credit bureaus and pad my mortgage with fees and late charges. Today when I spoke with a BoA supervisor he told me that BoA will take care of all the fees and late charges when they modify me. THEY WILL ROLL IT ONTO MY MORTGAGE PRINCIPAL. yeah, that means that since Novemember 2009 they have been padding my mortgage LEGALLY. What's wrong with this picture? is this fraud?

[Lpeter]

08:44 PM on 01/02/2011

Sorry to hear your woes! Hang in there brother.

[hawkseye]

10:29 AM on 01/13/2011

Sounds like maybe you need a better lawyer.

I hope this all turns out all right for you.

[ObamAcornLies]

02:47 PM on 12/26/2010

It seems like most people have no clue why "Bank of America" is being targeted. They say, "Who cares, about what a bank is doing?" The BIG DEAL, is because BofA was started by The Bank of Italy, which is part of the Federal Reserve or better known as our Slave Masters. Many people also have no clue, that the Federal Reserve has nothing to do with the government. They are a privately owned bank, just like BofA. Would you stand for Bank of America to be the ONLY printer of OUR dollars and then charge us interest to borrow it? NO YOU WOULDN'T! The Constitution gives Congress the power to coin money, which we could do through the Treasury & not pay ANY interest on it. 100% of all income taxes, go to pay the interest on our debt to the Fed. Until people wake up & realize this & we end the Fed, we will NEVER get out of debt.

The Bank of England asked Ben Franklin how he would account for the new-found prosperity of the colonies, he replied:
"That is simple. In the colonies we issue our own money. It is called Colonial Scrip. We issue it in proper proportion to the demands of trade and tndustry to make the products pass easily from the producers to the consumers. In this manner, creating for ourselves our own paper money, we control its purchasing power, and we have no interest to pay to no one."

[Chudye]

06:01 PM on 12/28/2010

Fanned! This is goooooddddd and should be posted often to better inform the populace. Thank you!!!!!

[Name Not In Use]

03:30 AM on 01/03/2011

I agree. Problem is. This is well known to many, many people for many, many years. You are just learning that Santa Clause is not real. Every president who has tried to print money interest free has been assassinated.

[adamnb]

03:19 PM on 01/01/2011

more right wing conspiracy bs. Fairy tale: Bank of America was not started by Bank of Italy, nor is Bank of Italy a member of the Fed Reserve.

[Lpeter]

08:48 PM on 01/02/2011

What does it matter? It is was it is? We're a global economy so the gloves are off. America is just for looting because it is the only econony of it's kind out there. We have to prepare for a new way of life. It's not going to be pretty for alot of folks.

[Chudye]

02:42 PM on 01/03/2011

Maybe you should look up your facts.

[sbrannon]

01:48 PM on 12/26/2010

I cannot wait! But, let's hope that we all start fighting back at these slave drivers.

[Debbie McPherson]

01:12 PM on 01/11/2011

sbrannon
 
 
and what might that fight look like???

[Longtimeliberal]

07:23 AM on 12/26/2010

I want to see the Bank info! So far the cables have pretty well confirmed what we already knew.