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Suspicious Envelopes Containing White Powder Close 3 Wells Fargo Branches

Reuters | Posted 04.30.2012

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April 30 (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co has closed three bank branches in New York City after they received suspicious envelopes containing white powder...

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Report: Wells Fargo Extends Loans With Extremely High Interest Rates

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.17.2012

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Big banks are participating in a practice commonly associated with the use of big signs to lure vulnerable Americans. Wells Fargo, the country's b...

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Wells Fargo Parties Hard on 160th Birthday... While Kicking Americans Out of Their Homes

Jose Suarez | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Financial Crisis, Wells Fargo Subprime Mortgages, Wells Fargo Foreclosures, Wells Fargo Bank, Foreclosure Crisis, Wells Fargo 160, Wells Fargo Earnings, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Wells Fargo 160th Birthday, Miami News

While the banks party on, the people continue to suffer. Throughout this very critical election year, we should prepare to take more actions to hold banks, and politicians beholden to them, accountable.

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Commercial Mortgage Bankers Are Doing Deals As the Real Estate Market Breathes New Signs of Life

Jerry Chautin | Posted 04.02.2012

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Rental apartments are back in demand, financing for hotels and motels is loosening up a bit and investors are stepping off the sidelines with wads of cash to do deals.

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City Looks To Move It's Money

Berkeley Patch | Emily Henry | Posted 01.25.2012

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The recommendation not to renew the city's contract will be addressed at the Jan. 31 council meeting, when the council will decide whether or not to s...

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Police Arrive At Romney Headquarters

Urbandale Patch | Anne Carothers-Kay | Posted 12.28.2011

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Police with a paddy wagon arrived at Mitt Romney's campaign headquarters in Des Moines after about 75 Occupy protesters descended on the office, pound...

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Wells Fargo To Pay Big To Settle Bid Rigging Case

AP | PALLAVI GOGOI | Posted 02.07.2012

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Wells Fargo will pay $148.2 million to settle federal and state charges that it rigged dozens of bidding competitions to win business from cities and ...

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Occupy Oakland Bank Choice Shocker!

Michael J. Hunt | Posted 01.08.2012

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Because of the urgency to get their fellow comrades out of jail as soon as possible, the banking institution many protesters consider the cause of the economic crisis and inequity will now occupy the movement's money.

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Man Wears FBI Hat In Wells Fargo Bank Robberies

The Washington Post | Posted 12.18.2011

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A new bank has come to Washington, and authorities say a man took a novel approach as he tried to rob it: He wore a hat marked “FBI.” The old W...

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How Foreclosures Could Have Cost Schools $150 Million

The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 02.14.2012

The housing crisis has cost Minneapolis Public Schools $150 million in state funding as students were forced to move from the area after their familie...

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U.S. Banks Finally Increasing Lending In Good Sign For Investors

Posted 09.05.2011

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Major U.S. banks appear to be finally opening the lending spigot. Second-quarter earnings reports due this month are likely to reveal a slight ...

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Hoodwinked! Selling Job Despair as "The New Normal"

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 08.03.2011

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Almost three years later, people are still hewing to the flawed philosophies that led to the financial crisis. That prevents the country from taking steps to end the permanent recession that enshrouds whole segments of our population.

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Year-End Perspective on Corruption

The 14th Banker | Posted 05.25.2011

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The steady exposure of corruption in our system will have its effect. There is developing a common understanding that the system we have today is broken and that we must find the means to make it constructive.

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Why We Partnered with Wells Fargo

Benjamin Todd Jealous | Posted 05.25.2011

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With a new agreement with Wells Fargo, as with our 2008 victories in Ohio and Arizona against payday lenders, we have won big victories. There are more to be won and we will not give up until we do.

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Evicted Homeowner Stole Doors, Lights, Toilets Before Leaving

NBC Chicago | Posted 05.25.2011

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One former Homewood homeowner thought he found away to recoup at least some value from his shuttered home at 19161 Crawford St. after he was evicted b...

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Protesters Heat To San Francisco To Target Wells Fargo's Lending Policies

Huff Post Citizen Reporting | Heidi Pickman | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Hey, hey, ho, ho - corporate greed has got to go" "We Want Justice, We Want Justice" "Wells Fargo, you can't hide, we can see your gree...

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Coloradans Challenging Wall Street on Main Street This Week

T.A. Taylor-Hunt | Posted 05.25.2011

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The sidewalk outside the Wells Fargo Bank office at 17th & Broadway in Denver will host two Main Street actions in support of strong financial reform legislation in the U.S. Senate.

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When a Bank Is too Big to Hide

Sanford D. Horwitt | Posted 05.25.2011

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It may be needlessly costly for a big bank to hide from determined, aggrieved adversaries who hold the moral high ground.

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Wells Fargo Mortgage Rep Demanded 'Phone Fun' From Customer: Lawsuit

Posted 05.25.2011

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A Wells Fargo customer service rep demanded that a customer have "phone fun" with him before he would correct an erroneous transaction, according to a...

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Fighting Foreclosure: Wells Fargo, You Never Knew What Hit You

Wajahat Ali | Posted 05.25.2011

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I was the guy who was going to save these people from being evicted from their own home? Who was I kidding?

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Nebraska Bank Hostage Situation Confirmed At Wells Fargo Kearney Branch

AP | TIMBERLY ROSS | Posted 05.25.2011

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OMAHA, Neb. — Police arrested a man suspected of holding hostages at gunpoint in a south-central Nebraska bank Wednesday and a local television ...

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What Consumers Can Do About Overdraft Fees

Christine Escobar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even if you're embarrassed to admit it, you're very likely among the estimated 50 million Americans who have been overdrawn on their checking account in the course of any given year.

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I See No Bailout

Angie Cordeiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wells Fargo made a mistake and has received over $25 billion dollars to correct it. Dollars that the bank said would be used to help stop foreclosures... I see no bailout.

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Wells Fargo asked to raise money after stress test

AP | DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Regulators have told Wells Fargo & Co. it may need to shore up its finances after government "stress tests" showed the bank would h...

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California AG: Wells Fargo Committed Securities Fraud

Los Angeles Times | Martin Zimmerman | Posted 05.25.2011

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The state of California accused Wells Fargo & Co. of fraud Thursday for the company's role in an investment meltdown that has been compared to the Ber...

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