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Midnight Bombshell? Hackers Release ‘Damning Trove’ of Bank of America Emails

Business Insider writer Katya Wachtel:

Hacker group Anonymous (aka OperationLeaks on Twitter) just released what they say is a trove of damning documents on Bank of America.

You can find them here: bankofamericasuck.com

Remember, at this point, we can’t verify whether they are legitimate or not, but Gawker’s Adrien Chen, who has sources within Anonymous, suggest there’s something real to the leaks.

Anonymous says the emails deal with BofA’s mortgage practices, but the source is not an employee of Bank of America proper — the source is a former employee from Balboa Insurance, a firm which used to be owned by BofA.

The ex-Balboa employee tells Anonymous that what he/she sends will be enough to,

crack [BofA's] armor, and put a bad light on a $700 mil cash deal they need to pay back the government while ruining their already strained relationship with GMAC, one of their largest clients. Trust me… it’ll piss them off plenty.

Here is one of the emails:
Midnight Bombshell? Hackers Release Damning Trove of Bank of America Emails
To read the analysis of what this could mean for Bank of America click here.
Our hat tip for guidance on this goes to the tireless Brad Thor.

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  • LittleBigMouth
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 6:02am

    This is a symptom of what we have done with our politics. We now have a few people in Congress who will stand for the right things. They got there via the tea parties…These people we elect need more company. Keep reading and educating yourselves about the people you elect to office and look at the voting records of candidates. . We will be taking out the trash for years to come. Banking is just one corrupt arena under the big top. We need more momentum.

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    • blackcatrun
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 8:39am

      With you 100% there. Cant give up and stay silent. We need to make sure we keep marching in numbers in every state including D.C. for bigger events. Our message is being drown out by corruption that the media loves and in fact needs to protect to keep thier rellevence. WE THE PEOPLE NEED our own television station on cable to defend the Republic give us news. Cant ignore us when America can tune in at any time and see whats going on in real time. If they cant edit the TRUTH..they cant hide. This kinda story is one of many that are not known and are being kept from the American people eyes.

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:59am

    Think this is bad? Wait til they get a hold of Wells Fargo’s documents. I can guarantee you, every home owner that had to deal with them, will be outside their main offices with torches and pitch forks.

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  • Docroxall
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:04am

    What’s sad, is that folks will use this to throw ALL of banking and mortgage lending into the EVIL CESSPOOL category, without exception. There are many, ethical businesses/banks out there…find them, support them, let these criminals DIE OFF. That is how the market deals with this stuff…the government, would just regulate even MORE absurdities into the mix.

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  • burnteye86
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:02am

    Book of Luke : Therefore whatever you have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which you have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

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  • 13thGenerationAmerican
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:57am

    First NPR and now Anonymous? Something’s up here at the Blaze, are the cons pushing Beck too far out of the limelight?

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  • BoilitDown
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:30am

    Gee…. Wouldn’t it be a great time in history to have intelligence agencies and a Department of Justice? Clinton gutted the intelligence agencies and they’ve never recovered. Now, along comes Obama and Holder.

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  • dirtytricksjusttowin
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:26am

    What is Anonymous’ agenda? Is it for truth and justice regardless of political affinity or regardless of religion?

    Seems like their objective is to bring down capitalism or push for more government involvement.

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    • GOONKA
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 9:36am

      The person who contacted one of the twitter names was someone who said he/she was targeted (fired) and they wanted to make BOA ‘pay’ – than Operation Leaks (twitter name) said for the US to release Manning OR else they would release these emails via their site. This is nothing to do with that with Assange has on BofA

      I would like to see Obama be exposed for his part in all the cover up of BofA and CW – after all, they all knew of this before it happened. And Fannie/Freddie. But as someone else said, because it will affect them, the information will not happen. This is about bringing down capitalism – never mind that marxism and socialism do NOT work. There is nothing wrong with putting up your money to make money. That is the American dream, even if other countries do not like it. It is what brought the pilgrims to America – they wanted the chance to work hard and build up their fortune. They expected to profit from it.

      Hand outs are for those that like socialism.

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  • Flughafen
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:15am

    Sorry, but I’m not naieve enough to believe that mortgage pros at B of A would maintain high ethical standards in an environment where the government gave the green light to commission-hungry lenders while refusing to regulate mortgages. I would guess these emails are supposed to shock us. After all thats happened to the American housing market, I would only be shocked to see anyone who’s shocked.

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  • mauijonny
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:44am

    Personal responsibility…

    I got screwd by BofA, but I can‘t honestly say that it wasn’t all there in print, no matter how fine.

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    • SeanW
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:00am

      It was, but that is the role of government and our laws. To protect the people from this sort of nonsense, not to be a party to the fraud that is the entire banking industry. One of the central reasons for escaping England was to be rid of the international banking interests and financiers that have been enslaving people for hundreds of years. Why do you think there were laws against usury? A priest in colonnial America defrocked himself and committed suicide for committing the sin of charging someone exorbitant interest of 2%. Larger than the slavery issue, larger than any other issue in US history is the battle against the monied interest. Is it any wonder that the last time the United States had 0 debt was under Andrew Jackson? You know why? Yes, he abolished the fed and got rid of all centralized banks. Guess who the last president was that tried to follow in Jackson’s footsteps? John F. Kennedy Jr. And his efforts were greeted with a bullet in the head.

      We have all been enslaved, and what’s worse, is that the United States has begged for this itself.

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  • SilentReader
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:29am

    This makes me furious!

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  • positive1
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:21am

    Private Universities for higher education, Lawyers, Fraternities, and Sororities have been teaching and sharing how to cook the books, lying, cheating and stealing, from American’s since the creation of the Federal Reserve, with the end of the gold standard, Military Industrial Complex, Dot com.CON bubble, Enron, Author Anderson, Fannie and Freddie, AIG, just to name a few.
    These CEO’S and upper management circles have spread thru-ought Wall Street and our government, infecting everything and everyone they come in contact with, in re-guards to banking, Wall street, government control, regulation and the federal reserve. Planning cons, scams, theft and corruption, no decision is made by one person, and no person is involved in any transaction involving more the $1 million without checks and balance due fraud for one’s personal gain. Therefor 10′s of thousands should be under investigation or arrested for the financial nightmare that has been dragging on for the last 20+ years and compounding since the Internet. They have used their stolen wealth to buy power and political favors on a scale never seen before. If we allow them to get away with it, it only gets worse.

    The collapse of the dollar will be due to this fact… The true value of anything and everything is in question. Like every other republic that has collapsed due to loss of faith, freedom, liberty, and integrity freely shared with a fellow man. For tyranny will rise up in its place in the name of justice.

    May God have mercy on your soul for the suffering you will bring due to starvation, violence and misery.

    THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE… THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL…. ALIVE AND WELL IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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  • mrmikejohnson
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:21am

    Crap…I just switched to B of A because Wells Fargo stuck me with a fee for no reason.

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  • Rob@AmPre
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:01am

    Personally, I’ve had nothing but positive experiences with BofA, but it really wouldn’t surprise me. We know all of the major banks were involved in the securities scam.

    I wouldn’t be quick to praise Anonymous though. They are a group of progressives and everything they do is in support of the progressive agenda. Even if they were conservatives I wouldn’t praise them though, they are criminals. There has recently been a flood of fake emails from BofA trying to get people’s account info. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are the same people.

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  • Strong-oldman
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:41am

    Screwball Obama is the one I blame.

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  • altmanblaudio
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:33am

    We need some serious reforms. There is a threat by our economic makeup that will destroy this country. Below listed in order of importance:
    1. Usury: We can not be based on an usurious economic system
    2. A private corporation managing our economy…the Federal Reserve. This is the U.S. Treasury’s job.
    3. Paper currency. We need a currency backed by hard assets, gold, silver and maybe oil.

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  • HippoNips
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:21am

    Seems like a clerical error they were attempting to fix

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:03am

    I just had dumb luck where I bought my last two houses for cash. I bought low and sold high because of the over valuation of houses (housing bubble). The house that I’m in now was recently devalued by the taxing authority, but it’s still valued at more than I paid for it.

    Taxes were reduced because of the lower value, but my taxes were slightly higher because another tax element was added that wasn’t there before. I live in Round Rock, TX and I wonder WHY I’m paying taxes to benefit a community college in Austin, TX. Rick Perry, you need to correct that.

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    • tankerBigRed1
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 9:54am

      Your valuation got reduced? can’t hardly comprehend..Assessors here have been raising valuation in spite or real world conditions- & doing same to friend in Golden Valley Minn-I was told that if assessed to high in Texas you have the option to say sold & county/ state has to buy you out – is that true- if it was here I would say sold..

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  • Psychic_Warrior
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:57am

    While I cannot say this is false, the use of the word “usual” seems like it should be “unusual” do to the context of the e-mail.

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    • razeus1
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:18am

      I had the same thought too…..”this is an unusual…“ VS ”…this is the usual…” See what I mean?

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  • pschlentz
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:56am

    Anybody that has ever been a customer of B of A is not surprised…. T H E Y S U C K E D T H E N A N D T H E Y S U C K N O W !!!!!!!!!!!!
    Do I hear a DITTO?

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  • 1-MARY-1
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:51am

    PATTYBBB1~Who’s Got My Mortgage~ IS VERY CORRECT!! That’s how the MORTGAGE SCAM GOT STARTED. That‘s how so many people’s house & property got forclosed on. The banks sold “package Deals” to Lending Companies. People weren’t notified. These “LENDING COMPANIES” sent rivers of checks to home owners (all you have to do is to sign here..). People cashed these checks. POOF..HOUSE & PROPERTY FORECLOSED! What Banker is in the Obama Administration right now??? RESEARCH IT!!!!!

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    • mauijonny
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:56am

      Really:? All of the folks I know who got foreclosed on couldn’t pay their mortgage. I agree that there was a lot of scam built into the whole scheme, but that was pushed by things like NINJA (No Income No Job No Assests) loans pushed by Fannie and Freddie via progressives. Either way, it’s all very convoluted and will be hard to unmesh.

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  • pschlentz
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:51am

    Anyone that has ever been a customer of BofA is not surprised, T H E Y S U CK E D T H E N A N D T H E Y S U C K N O W !!!!!
    Anybody disagree?

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    • Angelacw
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 8:48am

      You got that right! I would say more but I am in the middle of a law suit against them. Evil, evil people.

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    • BernieKittyCat
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:24pm

      I will NEVER, EVER do business with BofA again. I borrowed from my 401k to pay off my BoA card and made my husband do the same. To hell with them.

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  • CaptainSpaulding
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:48am

    If BoA catches these guys, they will have their butts sued off….

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:52am

      Whistle blower ?? I thought they were protected … maybe?

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:08am

      Not gonna happen.
      Have you seen what passes for a DOJ and AG these days ?

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  • pattybbb1
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:27am

    who’s got my mortgage?

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    • PoliticallyAwake
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:39am

      Now that is a good question. Our loan was with Countrywide, now services by BofA and I am wondering if BofA even has the right to collect my payments…

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    • Lucky3000
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 6:18am

      Patty, I’m wondering the same thing.
      Political, Mine also was with Countrywide and now is with BOA. It scared the heck out of me when they made the change over.
      My daughter had a bank account with BOA and got sick of them. She changed to my credit union.

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    • Montana Made
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 10:20am

      Your mortgage is probably with Fannie or Freddie. 98% of them are. BoA retains the rights to service them (they WANT you in a branch!), but after that- they have nothing to do with it. I worked for BoA and they were regularly packaged and sold to F&F as securities.

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  • CatB
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:26am

    I stopped dealing with BofA years ago .. I have NEVER been treated so badly as when I went in to close out that account .. they were rude and kept me waiting for over an hour for a check.

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    • Robert-CA
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:34am

      I call them : Bandits Of America .
      I stopped dealing with them cause of an overdraft fee , even though the money was deposit but they played the East Time vs Pacific Time zone card .

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:16am

      I am too paranoid to click on any of the links above because I don’t know what kind of germs my computer will catch. But I am really interested to see how BofA drafted the guidelines to sell loans to illegals. How did they cover up when those loans defaulted ,
      to give ANOTHER loan to the same person under different ID ?
      What was the total dollar amount that was bailed out by taxpayers because of illegals defaulting on loans and then disappearing into thin air ?

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    • quiet little lamb
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:56am

      this site is clean. they want peeps to read and not have something overshadow the message. Piratebay.org is a different story. that’s like holding a gun to your comp

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    • Taquoshi
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:28pm

      Like you, CatB and others, I stopped dealing with BOA years ago. And then they bought out one of my favorite credit cards!!!! I haven’t had too much trouble with them in the past two years, but I watch them very, very, very, very carefully. However, it sounds like it’s time to go credit card shopping. Oh, well…..

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:24am

    What’s in your wallet?

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:41am

      Who say’s a mortgage is a good debt when you have too many people who pilferage your data.

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    • Large Eagle
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:50am

      GOD said HE would expose the evil and shed the light on the wicked
      Faith and patiences – We the elect with a big grin on our face.

      I pray now for the safety of the courageous who expose these things for us
      In Jesus precious Name – So Be It

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:52am

      IF these are real then there will be hell to pay soon enough for a lot of people; remember that ding bat of wikileaks said he would release things on the bank business if events went into effect, guess he is now keeping that promise, again IF these are able to be authenticated.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 1:53am

      How come NOTHING from Freddie and Fannie ever got leaked ?
      I wonder why ?

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:09am

      Hmmm. I received a letter in the mail last week about a class action suit. And, I believe it was Bank of America.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:11am

      Somehow or another, I managed to get some BoA stock. I think it’s a good time to cash it in.

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:27am

      I’m looking forward to seeing what has been done. I would rather have FANNIE AND FREDDIE and the dang crooks we are paying the defense cost for.I bet Bawney Fwrank would be caught redhanded also. I hope Issa calls for investigations into everything in the Government. I am off topic and just dreaming, Sorry

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    • rekindle america
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:33am

      Nothing left!!!!

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    • DrewA72
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 2:49am

      Nothing is in my wallet Poverty!

      I dont know what angers me more about all of this with the banks. That these people still have jobs while continuing this garbage or the fact that to this day I am still paying the ultimate price (being unemployed and wiped out) for once working in the industry! Yea thats right I have been blackballed like many just b/c I worked in the industry! That blackballing snowballed into an unemployment gap that is now used against me!!! Last recruiter I spoke to about week ago told me I have to have a job to get a job.

      Where are the criminal investigations into all of these people why hasnt the SEC or DOJ stepped in? I mean c‘mon its been ongoing since early ’07 08. I wonder if it would even matter since the umpa lumpa Angelo Mozilo from Countrywide (now owned by BofA) got off with millions.

      Nice real nice these dopes take the economy apart and continue to do the things behind the scenes that brought it down they get to keep their 6 figure jobs drive their $80-100K cars …. While ppl like me with a college degree from a real school (not one that advertises on tv I sat in actual 300+ person lecture halls) and over 15yrs work experience and cant get work. Anyone in SO CA wanna help a brother out email me: A.Avilla at yahoo.com

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:39am

      @Cheezwhiz and SissyKatz

      Freddie and Fannie are both government dominated and government controlled right now via being in a state of receivership; and as such, no conveinent “leaks” will come out to be used against the administration or their allies and cronies.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:48am

      My wallet? Physical silver and gold…Anything else is juat plain worthless…

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    • quiet little lamb
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:53am

      Now if these guys would just get the trojans and worms off their sister site(piratebay.org) the world would be perfect.

      seriously this is something a journalist should have dug up. where the hell are they???

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:54am

      @ Snowleopard
      People in Balboa and BofA will be thinking :
      ‘who do we have to sleep with to keep our e-mails from being leaked ?’

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:10am

      quiet little lamb
      seriously this is something a journalist should have dug up. where the hell are they???
      ————–
      This ‘leak’ was promised initially by Ass-ange when BofA and Paypal etc refused to process his online ‘donations’ after the first round of (Manning’s) leaks.
      Just goes to show thatin the eyes of disgruntled employees, creepy looking d-bag Ass-ange has more credibility than regular journalists !!

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    • dr_funk
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 4:29am

      A BOA card.

      FML.

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    • quiet little lamb
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 5:34am

      @ cheez

      Yeah i remember hearing about assange planning a dump of info on the mortgage stuff, but i stand by my question about the journalist. This isnt a story that should be coming out in this medium. This should’ve…SHOULD’VE, been caught by journalist at least a year ago. It just seems like everyone wants to write a book and be a talking head instead of actually digging.

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 6:07am

      CHEEZWHIZ, great question and one I ask daily. I keep waiting to hear about a class action lawsuit brought by people who lost their homes with the crash of the housing market, starting with Chris Dodd since he is out of office, and going right down the line as the oversight committee leaves office. I would especially like to get Barney where he likes it best!

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 6:53am

      funny, ct unions were out protesting bank of america on saturday. The same connecticut unions who are ignoring the democrat house, senate and governor’s draconian hits to union rights, pay and benefits. The unions in connecticut are targeting business instead of politicians in wisconsin. The unions of connecticut are ignoring the cuts to union members and share the limosines with democrats in charge and drink champagne on the way to protest banks and businesses. then hours later, hackers hit the bank.

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 8:46am

      @poverty.sucks
      Our money which is in their wallets, time to put it back in our wallets!!!

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    • CowboyExpat
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 8:49am

      Not BOA…

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    • klevalt
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 10:00am

      I knew there was a reason I quit B of A 4 months ago. Shady? no! Criminal!

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    • Montana Made
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 10:23am

      DREWA72- I feel ya’. I worked for BoA for many years- left because of the “shake-down the customer” attitude that prevailed during the TARP years. Then scratched my head as to why I couldn’t get a job! Turns out- if BoA is called- you’re screwed!! Took me the better part of a year to get something- but I had to switch fields.

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    • bonanabo
      Posted on March 14, 2011 at 3:25pm

      Isn‘t what’s in your wallet Capital One

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