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Rachel Tepper Discusses Food Photography On 'Kojo Nnamdi Show'

The Huffington Post | Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Video, Rachel Tepper HuffPostDC, Kojo Nnamdi Show, Food, Lisa Cherkasky, Digital Photography, Wamu, Food Photography, Kojo Nnamdi, Rachel Tepper, DC News

WASHINGTON -- If you have ever seen a diner at a restaurant pull out a camera to document what's about to be eaten, that person might have been HuffPo...

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After Rejecting Two Previous Plans, Judge Sends WaMu Reorganization To Creditor Vote

AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Wmi, JPMorgan Chase, Washington Mutual Inc., Bankruptcy, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Wamu, Hedge Funds, Judge Mary Walrath, Business News

WILMINGTON, Del. -- The stage is set for creditors to vote on bank holding company Washington Mutual Inc.'s latest reorganization plan and for a heari...

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Ian MacKaye Discusses Fugazi Live Series

The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: DC News, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Punk, Video, Fugazi, Charity, Dc Around Town, Fugazi Live Series, Wamu, Kojo Nnamdi, Music, Ian MacKaye, Impact, DC News

WASHINGTON -- Legendary D.C. post-punk band Fugazi hasn't played a show since 2002, but languishing fans can now revisit their favorite performances o...

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WaMu, Biggest Bank Failure In U.S. History, Reaches Settlement

AP | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Washington Mutual Settlement, Washington Mutual Chapter 11, WaMu Settlement, Wamu, Washington Mutual, WaMu Chapter 11, Business News

SEATTLE -- Bank holding company Washington Mutual Inc. has agreed to a settlement with some creditors involved in its Chapter 11 bankruptcy case and h...

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WAMU Celebrates 50 Years On The Air (PHOTOS)

Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Dc, Video, DC Events, Carl Kassel, D.C. Events, Diane Rehm, Dc Around Town, Wamu, Galas, Kojo Nnamdi, D.C., Fundraisers, Paula Poundstone, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, DC News

WASHINGTON -- WAMU 88.5-FM, D.C.'s much-loved public radio station, is turning 50. A black-tie gala featuring past and current WAMU voices will be...

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Well Aware Of Bubble, WaMu Boosted Bad Loans, Report Finds

HuffingtonPost.com | Chris Kirkham | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, Wall Street Crisis, Wamu, Washington Mutual, Wall Street, Carl Levin, Business News

NEW YORK -- Top executives at Washington Mutual actively boosted sales of high-risk, toxic mortgages in the two years prior to the bank's collapse in ...

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Ex-WaMu Execs Sued By FDIC For Gross Negligence Over Bank's Collapse - READ The Lawsuit

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: WaMu Lawsuit, Wamu, Washington Mutual, Stephen Rotella, Kerry Killinger, Wamu FDIC, David Schneider, Video, Business News

Note: read the full complaint filed by the FDIC below. WILMINGTON, Del., March 17 (By Tom Hals) - A U.S. government regulator sued three former...

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Hook-Ups Don't Work For Me

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Loneliness, Teen Romance, Romance, Dating, Gay Teens, College, Wamu, American Pie, Hook-Up, College News

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By Joel Carela I've always been put off b...

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WaMu Settlement Deadline Extended

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: WaMu Bankruptcy, Washington Mutual Inc, WaMu Settlement, WaMu Settlement Deadline, Wamu, Business News

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) - Washington Mutual Inc reached agreement to extend a key deadline in its $10 billion settlement that is at the end of...

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Bravo JP Morgan! Just What We Need, Another Wall Street Casino

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Volker Rule, Fdic, Politics, JPMorgan Chase, President Obama, Derivatives, Oil, Financial Crisis, Tarp, Wamu, Wall Street Journal, Financial Regulation, Business News

Hardly deterred by the events of 2008, JP Morgan has been assiduously buying commodities trading assets spending more than $2 billion sopping up the trading operations of other firms.

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JPMorgan May Ask FDIC To Cover Some WaMu Expenses

Wall Street Journal | Dan Fitzpatrick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: JPMorgan WaMu Lawsuit, Fdic, Washington Mutual, JPMorgan WaMu Assets, Wamu, Business News

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is putting federal regulators on notice that it may go after the very funds it used to buy Washington Mutual Inc.'s banking ...

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Handcuffs for Wall Street, Not Happy-Talk

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citi, Sec, Recovery, Occ, Blankfein, Washington Mutual, Wall Street Prosecutions, Economy, Jobs, Obama, Wamu, Fraud, Financial Fraud, Ots, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Abacus, Wall Street, Chrystia Freeland, Lehman Brothers, Citibank, Washington Post, Indymac, Wall Street Fraud, Business News

When you steal a lot of money, you go to jail. Obama doesn't just need tough talk for Wall Street, he needs to prosecute the frauds that were committed, and explain them to the American people.

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Will Perpetrators of Financial Crimes Ever Face Justice?

Mary Bottari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Big Banks, Financial Reform, Citigroup, Wells Fargo Wachovia, Bear Stearns, Wamu, Barack Obama, Business News

Some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen - Woodie Guthrie Like mushrooms popping up in a damp basement, a slew of court settleme...

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Banks Complicit in Fraud -- Is it Systemic?

Naomi Wolf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bank Fraud, Wamu, Identity Theft, Business News

Are banks profiting by not cracking down on fraud? Many banks now manipulate customers' withdrawals in time sequence and give customers a misleading balance figure that does not show their recent withdrawals.

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A New Spin on Bank Fraud: Banks Defrauding Their Investors, Auditors and Regulators, Which Also Helps Delinquent Mortgagees

Reggie Middleton | Posted 05.25.2011

Last week, I made clear to my readers and subscribers that the bank malaise is not over, despite what may appear to be encouraging moves by the exec...

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A Short History of "Baby Got Back" and Advertising

Danny Groner | Posted 05.25.2011

Last month, an investigation revealed that Washington Mutual employees performed a parody of "Baby Got Back" that expressed how much money they made d...

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Financial 'Reform' Dodges Big Lessons

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | David Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tom Coburn, The Financial Fix, Fdic, Washington Mutual, Kerry Killinger, Financial Reform, Office of Thrift Supervision, Ots, Wamu, Financial Regulation, Video, Business News

As congressional partisans wrangle over financial reform, neither side is grappling with a fundamental lesson learned from an investigation into the c...

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Sheila Bair

dealbreaker.com | Zachery Kouwe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdic, Sheila Bair, Carl Levin, Donald Kohn, John Reich, Wamu, Business News

Dealbreaker published a copy of an August 2008 email OTS Director John Reich sent to Sheila Bair after she emailed him about her desire to "discuss co...

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Thrift Supervision Regulators Ignored Risks At WaMu, Says Senate Panel

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdic, John Bowman, Financial Reform, Regulation, Wamu, Carl Levin, Senate, Washington Mutual, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, John Reich, Ots, Thrift Supervision, Banks, Financial Crisis, Bank Regulators, Wall Street, Business News

WASHINGTON — Federal bank regulators failed to stop shoddy lending and excessive risk-taking at Washington Mutual Inc. for years because they we...

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Rampant Fraud and Financial Collapse

Zach Carter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fraud, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street Reform, Wall Street, Financial Reform, Financial Crisis, Wamu, Glass-Steagall, Business News

Criminal charges are likely to be filed against some of WaMu's former executives. But WaMu isn't the only bad actor from the financial crisis. This is basically how the entire U.S. mortgage market operated.

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Financial Reform: The Righteous, the Greedy and the Clubby -- An Insider's View

Bill Donius | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Wamu, Kerry Killinger, Financial Reform, Business News

In the wake of the financial crisis, there is plenty of blame to go around. Everyone can look in the mirror and learn something. That goes for CEO's, managers, analysts, rating agencies, fund managers and shareholders.

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Kerry Killinger, Ex-WaMu CEO, It's 'Unfair' Bank Didn't Get Bailed-Out

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: WaMu Mortgages, Option ARM, Washington Mutual, Subprime Lending, Kerry Killinger, WaMu Hearing, WaMu Failure, Fbi, Sec, Wamu, Carl Levin, Bank Regulators, Business News

WASHINGTON — A trio of former Washington Mutual officials and a trove of documents on Tuesday portrayed a pattern of breakneck loan-making and a...

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WaMu Executives Knew Of Rampant Mortgage Fraud And Failed To Act

HuffPost Investigative Fund | David Heath | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Carl Levin, Senate, Washington Mutual, Predatory Lending, Financial Reform, Loans, Banks, Wamu, Bonuses, Mortgage Fraud, Investigation, Business News

One of the central unanswered questions of the financial crisis is whether bank executives knew fraud was rampant within their mortgage loans. A Sen...

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JPMorgan Tax Refund Of $1.4 Billion Opposed By FDIC

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fdic, Taxes, Corporate Tax, Tax Refund, Jpmorgan, JPMorgan Chase, Washington Mutual, Wamu, Business News

WASHINGTON — Federal regulators are opposing a proposed $1.4 billion tax refund for JPMorgan Chase & Co. The tax benefit has become an issue a ...

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Washington Mutual Files For Chapter 11

AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banks, Washington Mutual Chapter 11, Washington Mutual, Wamu, WaMu Chapter 11, Business News

DOVER, Del. — Washington Mutual Inc. filed a Chapter 11 reorganization plan, two weeks after resolving a $4 billion dispute with JPMorgan Chase ...

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