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5/21/18 -- CRA:
Payday
Lending Scrutiny Survives Capitol Hill Review
Period, US Comptroller Otting Eyes CRA. Federal
Reserve's Quarles
Pitches De-Regulation of Global Banks After As IMF
Ignores Predatory Deutsche. Bank
Beat: UN
Bribery Indictee Patrick Ho Paid Through HSBC,
Stanbic, Mashreq and Deutsche Bank, UN To Charge?
UN - Global:
At
UN, Guterres To Move NYC Jobs to Mexico City,
Budapest and Nairobi, 290 From Uganda, ICP Asks.
Enviro:
UK faces fine. Bronx:
Metro North Still Disses the Borough
5/14/18 -- CRA:
Redlining case against Klein Bank dropped for new
assessment area. Federal
Reserve recites but misses on Ameris. Bank
Beat: Another merger, another recent Needs to
Improve CRA rating. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Met Finland FM, His Security Ordered
Inner City Press To Not Periscope. Enviro:
Smog into ink in India. Bronx:
UN
Guterres Banned Press From His Al Sharpton
Meeting, Dujarric Refuses Read Out; In
1st UN Bribery Case, UN Claims Cooperation After
Ng Sentenced to 4 Years, 2d Ho Case UNacted On
5/7/18 -- CRA:
US
Comptroller Otting Moves To Strip Community from
CRA, FOIA Docs Withheld. Fed
Watch: Small fine on Goldman Sachs,
ineffectual. Bank
Beat: Some mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
At
UN Press Restricted From Covering Guterres'
Lusophone Garden Party, Kids Climb Slavery
Memorial. Enviro:
Indonesia River. Bronx:
In SDNY, UN
Bribery Indictee Patrick Ho Fails To Get Bail,
Said China's Belt and Road, CEFC On Trial
4/30/18 -- CRA:
US
Comptroller Otting Bought Bank Stocks While
Regulating Banks, FOIA Docs Withheld. Federal
Reserve unwisely urged to follow OCC in
removing one of CRA's few teeth. Bank
Beat: On
UN Pension Fund, Investments in HSBC and Shell
Smell Bad, SG Passes Buck to GA, UNanswered. UN - Global:
UN
in DRC Drone Procurement Ousts Low Bidder, Lets In
Firm Under Probe, ICP Asks, Dodge. Enviro:
7 billion with air pollution. Bronx:
The Outrage of Shutting the 4 Train from Manhattan
to The Bronx
4/23/18 -- CRA:
Wells
Fargo Fined $1B By Otting's OCC and Mulvaney's
CFPB, End of An Era? Federal
Reserve's stress capital buffer. Bank
Beat: At
IMF Spring Meetings, Inner City Press Asked About
Yemen and IMF Response, Here. UN - Global:
On
North Korea Talks, Kim Talks Freeze, UN Stonewalls
From Margins, Amid Mis-Reporting. Enviro
defenders in Mombasa Kenya. Bronx/NY:
UN
Briber Patrick Ho of CEFC Asserts "Blame HSBC"
Defense from MCC, Could Have Wired Other Ways
4/16/18 -- CRA:
US
Payday Lending Protections Sued by Industry Group,
Otting and ACE. Federal
Reserve poses Bank
Beat questions to Ameris, no action on its
prior false statements. UN - Global:
On
Syria, After Trump Strikes and Russia Draft Fails
in UNSC, Sullivan Calls Iraq, Turkey, Kuwait and
Czech. Enviro:
Duke gets off cheap in NC. Bronx/NY/DC:
On
Cameroon, Inner City Press Asked US State Dep't of
47 Illegally Deported By Nigeria, US Statement
Here
4/9/18 -- CRA:
Mulvaney to testify on CFPB on April 11. Federal
Reserve picks
insider Williams for New York Fed. Bank
Beat: As
BancorpSouth Pays $13M To Shareholders Misled on
Redlining & Money Laundering, Pay To Play.
UN - Global:
Amid
UN Bribery of Ng Lap Seng and CEFC China Energy,
Guterres Spun Xinhua, ICP on Xi's Vase to Kim.
Enviro:
Pollution cancels 3 South Korea baseball games. Bronx/NY:
In
1st UN Bribery Case, Vivi Wang Pleads Guilty,
Cooperation Deal, UN Corruption Continues
4/1/18 -- CRA:
US
Senate Bill 2155 Mis-Represented As Only for
“Small Banks” by Federal
Reserve Bank
of NY's Dudley, Murky Process to Replace Him
Called Out. Bank
Beat: ICP
Asked IMF About US - S Korea Bilateral Deal on
Foreign Exchange, Here, Myanmar Q; Renasant
tried to move in on Atlanta. UN - Global:
After
UN Guterres Refused Press Question on UNAIDS
#MeToo, To Lisbon For 4 Days, Slow. Enviro:
Censorship and pollution in Thailand. Bronx/NY:
In
First UN Bribery Case, US Wants 6 Years and $2M
From Ng Lap Seng, UN Corruption Continues
3/24/18 -- CRA:
Payday
Lender Invited Back As Banks' Predatory Partner by
OCC's Otting, OneWest Echo. Federal
Reserve spins on Schwab, citing ERISA. Bank
Beat: In Florida, another one bites the dust.
UN - Global:
On
Cameroon, ICP Asked Nigeria's Ambassador About the
47 Taken, UN Not Sure DSG Will Raise. Enviro:
At
UN As Inner City Press Covers Guterres on Water,
UN Requires Minder, Cage, Lake Chad Dying, Pitbull
Cancels. Bronx:
To DC; On
Cholera In Haiti, Sen Leahy Calls UN Reckless,
$10M in Omnibus Budget, UN Silent
3/19/18 -- CRA:
As
US Senate Passes S.2155 Which Serves BOT
Mitsubishi, North Korea Sanctions Evader, Ironic
Praise.
Federal Reserve, as Ameris' Mis-statements on
Atlantic Coast, to Mull Hamilton State's 100% denial
rate. Bank Beat: mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
As
Cameroon's Biya Vows Crackdown in NW and SW
Regions, ICP Asks UN, Prober of Press. Enviro:
Scrutiny in Tamil Nadu. Bronx:
Gentrification watch
3/12/18 -- CRA:
Banking
on the Bomb Are Citi, Chase, BofA, Wells and
Goldman Sachs, ICP Asks Why In UN Global Compact?
Federal
Reserve Won't Object to Objectionable Capital
One. Bank
Beat: On
North Korea Sanctions Violations, Ship Was Funded
By Bank of Maldives, Ex-Prez Nasheed Says. UN - Global:
On
North Korea Talks, Location Ideas Range from
Pyongyang to Mar-a-Lago. Enviro:
When
UN Guterres Did Q&A With Bloomberg, Questions
Pre-Picked, CEFC UN Bribery Ignored. Bronx:
UN's
Ex-Gender Adviser Mayanja Is "Slumlord," Tenants
Say, Inner City Press Asks UN
3/5/18 -- CRA:
Capital One, getting sued for discrimination, tries
to sell deposits to Whitney Bank.
Federal Reserve's Powell Questioned about fair
lending as if he hadn't already shown his hand. Bank
Beat: Business booming in Africa. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon, Visiting UN's Fall Didn't Witness Biya's
Deployment, Didn't Mention Refoulement. Enviro:
UN
Environment Pays EUR 500,000 To Be in Volvo Ocean
Race, For Dee Caffari, ICP Asks. Bronx
/ Haiti:
On Cholera, UN Tells ICP "Transformation Retreat"
Canceled, Dinner Photo Gone
2/26/18 -- CRA:
After
ICP Protest to Ameris Bank Merger With Atlantic
Coast, Ameris Admits to Federal
Reserve Its Application
Was and Is False. Bank Beat: Amid
New US Sanctions, UN Let N Korea Take EUR 4M from
Sputnik Bank, US Asks UN to List, Japan 3. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon, UN's Mueller Congratulated Biya Despite
Crackdown & Corruption, ICP Asks Why. Enviro:
Minnesota let 3M off the hook. Bronx:
HBO rents on 135 St for The Deuce, Echoes of Wedtech
2/19/18 -- CRA:
On
CFPB, Mulvaney Dodges on Equifax Probe. Federal
Reserve slaps US
Bancorp for money
laundering. Bank
Beat: After
ICP Protest to Ameris Bank Merger With Atlantic
Coast & Hamilton, Fed Asks 10 Qs. UN-Global:
On
Cameroon, UK Denies Inner City Press FOIA Request
After 170 Days, Yemen Too, Appeal. Enviro:
free transit to fight pollution? Bronx,
Guns:
In UN, Weapons Advertised After Florida Shooting,
Inner City Press Asked, UN Takes Down
2/12/18 -- CRA:
FDIC
Deems Challenge to Ameris Bank Merger With
Atlantic Coast A Formal Protest, Radio Silence.
Federal
Reserve leaves H2A broken - on purpose? Bank
Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
In
UN Bribery Case, Ho Was Denied Bail, Inner City
Press Asks 3 Why CEFC Still in ECOSOC. Enviro:
“Chinese” pollution in Ghana. Bronx:
Killing investigated
2/5/18 -- CRA:
ICP
Challenged E Trade-Trust Co of America, Banks
Scoffs at Needs to Improve, FINRA Settlement.
Federal
Reserve Imposes
Cap on Wells
Fargo's Growth
For Abusing Consumers, After OCC Apologized for
Double Downgrade. Bank
Beat: New Low for Pinnacle. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon & Nigeria, UN Hides Behind Belated
UNHCR Statement to Inner City Press, DSG Avoids
Qs. Enviro:
On
Climate Risk, ICP Asks of CEFC, DSG Rosewood
Signings, Panel Cites Transparency, UNseen. Bronx
trial for killing of Deborah Danner has echoes of
Eleanor Bumpurs
1/29/18 -- CRA:
Bank Of America To
Raise Fees on Low Income People, Critics Cite
Predatory BofA. Federal
Reserve Asks
Schwab About Community Reinvestment Act After Fair
Finance Watch Protest. Bank
Beat: Worm turns in Charlotte NC. UN - Global:
On
UN Bribery, Inner City Press Asked Guterres of
CEFC, Now Suspended From Global Compact. Enviro:
Pollution in Thailand. Bronx:
Bank robbery, or, banks rob The Bronx
1/22/18 -- CRA:
In
DC, Mulvaney Says CFPB To Reconsider Payday Rule,
Critics Cite Predatory Lending. Federal
Reserve looks at little merger in Michigan. Bank
Beat: ICP
Asks IMF of Tunisia, Yemen Central Bank, Somalia
Debt, and Cameroon, Some Answers. UN - Global:
At
UNSG Guterres Presser, Inner City Press Asks of
Cameroon & UN Bribery for CEFC, Here. Enviro:
Smog in Seoul. Bronx:
Profiles in de-industrialization
1/15/18 -- CRA:
In
DC, Mulvaney Still at CFPB, Fair Finance Watch
Challenges E Trade-Trust Co of America. Federal
Reserve: Ends
Enforcement Actions on 10 Including Citi &
Chase After Micro-Fine of Goldman Sachs. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
After
Nigeria "Disappears" 10 in Abuja, Amina J.
Mohammed Tours with Gov't, ICP Asks UN, Nothing.
Enviro:
Black snow in Kazakhstan's Temirtau. Bronx:
RIP Tim Rollins
1/8/18 -- CRA:
Misreporting on CFPB litigation by New York credit
union, looking into trust. Federal
Reserve takes comments big banks to March 15.
Bank
Beat: merger watch-dogging, deep in the heart
of Texas. UN
- Global:
In
UN Bribery Case, Ho Again Seeks Bail, Saying CEFC
Is With UN Like Salvation Army. Enviro:
Protesting pollution in Nepal. Bronx:
Mensah as hero, from Ghana, UN silent
1/1/18 - CRA:
After
Covering Up Sterling Bank Scam, OCC Withholds
Records, Inner City Press' FOIA Appeal. Federal
Reserve held Sterling call with OCC. Bank
Beat: BancorpSouth brags of evading
accountability for redlining. UN - Global:
In 2017 UN's Guterres Failed in Myanmar, Yemen
& Cameroon, Amid Corruption, Censors Press.
Enviro:
Delhi pollution. Bronx:
As
Dozen Killed By Fire On Prospect Ave, Of Happy
Land & Woodycrest, Blame-Games
12/25/17 -- CRA:
After
ICP Fair Finance
Watch
Bank Merger Challenge, Fed Asked Associated of
Green Bay Market, Reply Here. Federal
Reserve deregulation views. Bank
Beat: First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co says
it'll buy Tampa-headquartered HomeBancorp. UN - Global:
UN
Over $5 Billion Budget Passed by UNGA With No
Public Present, Holiday Tree and Carol, Here.
Enviro:
Superfund by NYC. Bronx:
Apartment Misused
12/18/17 - CRA:
After
ICP Bank Merger Challenge, Fed Asks Associated
About Green Bay Market. Federal
Reserve's Quarles recused from dealing with Wells
Fargo. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon, Inner City Press Asks UN If Guterres Has
Done Anything on Press Freedom, No, Failing Fall.
Enviro
fail in Nigeria. Bronx:
history of 477 Gerard Avenue
12/11/17 -- CRA:
In
DC, Battle for CFPB Continues As English Sues
Again, ABA Cheers OCC Undercutting CRA. Federal
Reserve signs on to Basel III capital
standards. Bank
Beat: looking to Michigan. UN - Global:
North
Korea Said UN Feltman Agrees With Them On
Sanctions, Now He Cites Funding Gaps. Enviro:
Rosewood
Scandal of UN Deputy Amina J. Mohammed Reported by
France24 With Amina Omitted. Bronx:
Trials we're watching
12/4/17 -- CRA:
Trump
Taps Fifth Third Bank Lawyer For FDIC Amid OCC
Scams on CRA & Sanctions, CFPB. Federal
Reserve “fixes” merger listing, does not
extend any flawed comment periods nor explain. Bank
Beat: Chile seeks to buy Spain in Florida, is
it really local? ICP
Asks IMF of Caribbean Critique, No
Reclassification, Yemen & Zambia Answered,
Kenya Not. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon, ICP Asked UN of Biya Calling
Secessionists Terrorists, Now He Orders
"Relocations.” Enviro:
Entergy nuclear spin. Bronx:
On
UN Bribery, Patrick Ho Is Denied Bail, CEFC Bribes
Cited, Entries Into UN Questioned
11/27/17 -- CRA: Amid OCC
Scams on Sanctions & CRA, Cordray Taps
English, Trump Mulvaney, Showdown? Federal
Reserve stopped notifying public of mergers,
ICP / FFW complains. : Lew cashes out to private
equity firm Lindsay Goldberg. UN - Global:
On
UN Bribery Case, ICP Asked of Guterres Use of CEFC
Funds, Kutesa Travel, UN Half-Answers. Enviro:
#BlameBiya for Cameroon pollution. Bronx:
In
UN Bribery Case, Senegal's Gadio Seeks Bail But
Fails, Thanksgiving in MCC Jail
11/20/17 -- CRA:
Amid
OCC Scams on Sanctions & CRA, Withhold Otting
Documents, ICP & CRC Sue. Federal
Reserve accepts South State Bank disparities
on Park Sterling. Bank
Beat: Japan's
Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi Skirts North Korea
Sanctions With "Incorrect" Application to US OCC,
Public Excluded. UN - Global:
UN
Spox Runs From DSG Rosewood Qs, Now Guterres Is
Petitioned by 62,000 to Probe, Recuse. Enviro:
Health disparities in Detroit. Bronx:
RIP Mel Rosenthal
11/13/17 - CRA:
Now it's even easier for Needs to Improve national
banks to get OCC rubber stamp approvals. Federal
Reserve nominee for chair on Hill Nov 28. Bank
Beat: Branch closures in India. UN - Global:
Rosewood
Racket Signed Off On By UN's Amina J. Mohammed Has
Cameroon Smuggling. Enviro:
Protest at refinery in Detroit. Bronx:
On
UN Reform, SG With Rosewood Scandal DSG, Press
Confined to Minders
11/6/17 -- CRA:
Anticompetitive merger, BancorpSouth evades Federal
Reserve, would Jay Powell still be in charge
of (denying) FOIA appeals? Bank
Beat: mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
ICP
Asks UN If Guterres Doctrine Is Quelling
Secessionists for Old Rulers, Restricting Press.
Enviro:
ExxonMobile pays (too) small fine for gas flaring. Bronx:
At
UN $50,000 Charge For Biden Talk, Guterres To Be
Sold on Wall St, Public Funds to Lisbon
10/30/17 -- CRA:
Shameful impunity for Mid America Bank &
Trust Co as pays to play with Needs to Improve
rating, Federal
Reserve approves merger with Reliable
Community Bancshares. Bank
Beat: Looking at Granite Bank and Bangor
Savings Bank. UN - Global:
As
UNSG Guterres Stopped in Cameroon, Now UN
Read-Out, Here, Destination UNdisclosed. Enviro:
Pollution in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Bronx:
ICP
Asked David Kaye About a FOIA for UN, Smale's
Threat to ICP, Then Asks UN Which Dodges
10/23/17 -- CRA: Wells Fargo Was Dropped 2 Levels by OCC, Which Now Says Only 1 Level Is Its Policy, Sop. Federal Reserve sends part of Associated's application, not protests. Bank Beat: Bank Mutual numbers down. UN - Global: In Cameroon, Opposition March Banned in Douala as UN Parades in Yaounde, UNheard. Enviro: As Mugabe's A Goodwill Ambassador of WHO, Guterres Silent, Echo of Biya & North Korea Cyanide. Bronx: UN Threatens Review of ICP's Accreditation For Audio Report While Staking Out on Cameroon
10/16/17 -- CRA: Fair Finance Watch files challenge with Federal Reserve to Associated - Bank Mutual. Bank Beat: On Cameroon, IMF's Superficial Answer, After Telling ICP Internet Cut Off A Financial Risk. UN - Global: In Cameroon Anglophones Tortured, ICP Requests UN Action, UNder Restrictions. Enviro: Death by pollution in South Sudan. Bronx Zoo kills, in the DR Congo
10/9/17 - CRA: In Puerto Rico, Disparate Bank Lending, Predatory Investors, UN's Maria Photo Ops. Federal Reserve former Gov Duke cashing out to Wells Fargo is an outrage. Bank Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN - Global: As Cameroon Kills Civilians, ICP Asks UN & UK, Crackdown Continues, Failing Fall. Enviro: For UN Guterres Trip to Caribbean, 4 Qs All on Climate, No Pool UNlike Sisi Scam, Cameroon Ignored. Bronx: Legit help to Puerto Rico. 10/2/17 -- CRA: More than 300 protests to Federal Reserve application of Association - Bank Mutual. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Talks with "Money Launderer" in Congo, Pakistan Minister Dar Charged. UN - Global: Angered at UN Praise of Cameroon's Biya, Letter to UN Cites Genocide Threat, UN Corruption. Enviro: Hurricane Irma impunity. Bronx: Support to PR victim of Hurricane Maria9/25/17
- CRA:
South State
Corporation
tells Federal
Reserve
the dog ate
its homework
in Atlanta. Bank Beat:
BB&T
closing
branches. UN - Global:
North
Korea's Ri
Yong Ho Meets
UNSG Guterres,
Asks For
Impartiality,
Conference.
Enviro:
Socializing
harm. Bronx:
Inner
City Press
Asked Trudeau
of Canada Arms
Sales to
Saudi, He
Called The
Question Bad
Behavior
9/18/17 -- CRA: Second comment against SoFi Bank from FFW. Federal Reserve laxity on mega-mergers challenged. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On Myanmar, UNSG Guterres Resisted Calls To Act, Officials Tell ICP, Deference to "The Lady.” Enviro: On Hurricane Irma, UN Spox Cuts Off Press Q on Debt Moratorium, Gives 3 Minute Notice. Bronx, NYC: UN General Assembly Week Bans Press on Day One on Refugees, UNprepared & UNfair DPI of Smale
9/11/17 - CRA: On Synovus - Cabela, Fed Rubber Stamps Despite "Confidential Matter," Cap One Scam. Federal Reserve: Faux regulator Fischer resigns. Bank Beat: Mock crackdown on Regions Bank. UN - Global: For UN General Assembly Week, List Here, UN Both UNprepared and UNfair. Enviro: Pollution in Los Angeles. Bronx: UN Encourages Hecklers of Haiti Cholera, Corruption and Censorship Qs in UN Bookstore Event on NYC and UN9/4/17
- CRA:
Regulators
Said Sterling
CRA Data
Unreliable,
Now Covers It
Up To Approve
Astoria. After
ICP/Fair
Finance Watch
Protest, Federal Reserve Asks South
State 5 Park
Sterling Qs.
Bank
Beat:
Associated
branch
closings
proposed. UN - Global:
As
ICP Pursues N
Korea Story,
UN Security
Orders It To
Stop, UNlike
Others,
Censorship for
Corruption.
Enviro:
Dow and Shell
plants after
Hurricane
Harvey. Bronx:
Facility to be
closed?
8/28/17
- CRA:
Fair Finance
Watch challenges
BancorpSouth
application
to evade Federal
Reserve
scrutiny. Bank Beat:
Alabama -
Florida
merger. UN
- Global:
After
UN Sold Itself
to Ng,
Stonewall on
Event By Guo
Xiangang,
Censors
Demand,
Canceled.
Enviro:
Dutch lawsuit. Bronx: At
NYC City Hall,
de Blasio
Talks Lisbon
& SDGs
With Guterres,
Mark-Viverito
on Columbus
8/21/17
- CRA:
Fair Finance
Watch
challenges
South State to
Federal
Reserve,
here. Bank
Beat:
Baltimore
merger. UN
- Global:
On
Kenya, ICP
Asked UN of
Monica Juma
Job, Blogger
Alai Locked
Up, UN Censors
Enviro:
Pollution in
Baltimore. Bronx: Censorship
at Bx
Community
College, After
Ng Bribery
Conviction,
ICP Asks Of UN
Rewarding Ng
For SSN
Coverage of
Ban Trip
8/14/17
-- CRA:
Comment on
small business
lending data.
Federal
Reserve:
Passing the
buck of bank
boards'
duties? Bank
Beat:
Mergers we are
watching. UN - Global:
On
Yemen, UN
Envoy IOCA
Tweets of
Churros Amid
Airstrikes on
Taizz &
Sa'ada,
Censorship.
Enviro:
Cities ranked
on pollution.
Bronx
/ NY: In
UN Guinea
Bissau Holds
Night Event
With Chinese
Art, MOU With
UNCG, Ng Echo
8/7/17
- CRA:
Challenge to
Sandy Spring /
WashingtonFirst
filed with Federal Reserve
by Fair
Finance Watch.
Bank
Beat:
Mergers we are
looking at. UN
- Global:
After
Ng Bribery
Conviction,
ICP Asks UN of
Carlos Garcia,
Helped Bribes,
Still In UN.
Enviro:
Pollution on
New Delhi. Bronx: UN
Allows
Censorship by
N Korea of Art
Show, Leaves
It & Press
Restrictions
UNexplained
7/31/17 -- CRA: Amid Fed & OCC Sterling CRA Scam, Otting & Quarles In Senate July 27, FOIA. Federal Reserve and Synovus Talked "Confidential Supervisory Matter" July 21, on Cabela Application. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo Stole 25,000 Cars By Imposing Unneeded Insurance, CRA Downgrade Should Continue. UN - Global: After Bribery Conviction, UN Told Reuters It Wants to Get Paid, ICP Asks Why, Video Here. Enviro: Plastics in Cameroon. Bronx: Piano District Scam
7/24/17 - CRA: While Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Reserve Paper Over Sterling's CRA Scam, Otting and Quarles In Senate July 27. Bank Beat: Associated Bank's July 20 proposal to buy Bank Mutual. UN - Global: In UN Bribery Case of Ng Lap Seng, South South News Paid Ashe Wife, UN Staff & Contractors. Enviro: Denmark complains about EU. Bronx/DC: Brownfields; As Reuters Live-streams Spicer's House, Got Press Evicted From UN For Streaming Formal Meeting 7/17/17 - CRA: Quarles Nominated to Federal Reserve Board As It Papers Over Sterling's CRA Scam. Bank Beat: Royal Bank of Scotland in 1st Settlement, UN Sends to Greece Nimetz, Adviser to Firm Invested in Greek Bank Saxo, Conflict of Interest. UN - Global: On UN Bribery Case of Ng Lap Seng, UN Won't Answer on DGACM, Says DPI "Issue of Judgment.” Enviro: India legal complaint. Bronx: Shelter abuse, flight to Honduras7/10/17
-- CRA:
Regulators
Said
Sterling's CRA
Data
Unreliable,
Under FOIA
Federal
Reserve Blacks-Out
Most of 400
Pages, Patreon. Bank
Beat: ICC
Slams South
Africa For Not
Arresting
Bashir, IMF
Cites
“Weakening
Governance,”
Corruption.
UN
- Global:
On
Burundi, After
ICP Asked UN
Repatriated
Mayuyu, Now to
Somalia, DSG
to Act or Not?
Enviro:
Landfills in
Malaysia. Bronx: In
1st UN Bribery
Case, Lorenzo
Admits $20,000
a Month from
Ng's South
South News, in
UNTV
7/3/17 -- CRA: Regulators Said Sterling's CRA Data Unreliable, Now Admits to Federal Reserve It Needs to Improve 2017, Denial? Bank Beat: Like UN's Haiti Impunity, ICP Asks of New Srebrenica Decision, BNP Paribas Bank on Rwanda. UN - Global: On Haiti, ICP Asks Guterres Spox If New Cholera Envoy Against Reparations, No Answer. Enviro: Tunisia protests. Bronx Lebanon Hospital shootings
6/19/17 -- CRA: As SoFi Applies For Bank, FFW Opposes Evasion, Interest Rate North of 20%, FinTech. Federal Reserve new low: Regulators Said Sterling's CRA Data Unreliable, Sterling Response Here. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo Quoted UN IFAD Official In Its Press Release, IFAD Tells ICP No Partnership. UN - Global: UN Killed 10,000 in Haiti, Spox Claims UN Listens, ICP Asks of UNSC Visit. Enviro: Plastic waste from Haiti re-used. Bronx: Bathgate brownfield and Low Income Housing Tax Credits
6/12/17 -- CRA: While OCC Papers Over Sterling's CRA Scam, Otting Nominated as Head, Resume Fraud. On Brazil Land Grabs & CRA Flaws, Federal Reserve Parrots TIAA, Which Alludes To Confidential Info. Bank Beat: After FFW Protested on Cabela, Synovus Snail Mails & Withholds Response, Here; ICP Asks IMF About South Sudan, They'll Meet in Kenya June 12, Need Peace for Program. UN - Global: On Cameroon, Failing Fall's UNOCA Site Out of Date and Broken, Inaccurate Report Here. Enviro: UN Ocean Conference Ends on River Balcony, Guterres On Junket, New Envoy in the Works? Bronx: If you replace Sheridan Expressway, it should be with parks6/5/17 -- CRA: Wells Fargo Gets Cut Off from New NYC Business After CRA Downgrade, Sterling Next? Federal Reserve Expedites Now Delays Press FOIA on Bank Beat, Sterling - Astoria. UN - Global: Cameroon Visit of UN's Fall Cites Human Rights Concerns, UN Tells ICP, After 4 Days' Questions. Enviro: Plastic from Mich to Africa. Bronx: MTA failing
5/29/17 -- CRA: After Fair Finance Watch Protested Synovus - Cabela, Federal Reserve Asks Synovus 7 Questions. Bank Beat: WashingtonFirst / Sandy Spring Bancorp; ICP Asks IMF About Saudi - Blackstone Deal, and Possible Extension for Ghana, Cameroon. UN - Global: ICP Asked UNSG Guterres for Speech, Haiti Read-out, None Provided, Now S Korea - Japan, Money Talks? Enviro: Pollution in NYC. Bronx: The GlobaLocal seen, just south 5/22/17 - CRA: Regulators Said Sterling Bank's CRA Data Unreliable, Sterling Mis-Sends Response, Federal Reserve Expedites ICPs FOIA. Bank Beat: Mnuchin says OCC head is picked, banks to big to succeed. UN - Global: After ICP Asked of WIPO's North Korea Work, Nikki Haley Calls WIPO UNtransparent and Dangerous, Cyanide. Enviro: UK worse pollution than US. Bronx: UN Federal Credit Union Solicits North Korean & UNA-USA Funds, After NK Missile 5/15/17 - CRA: Regulators Said Sterling Bank's CRA Data Unreliable, ICP Exposed It, FFW Demands Hearing from Federal Reserve, Files FOIA. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF About Sri Lanka Inland Revenue Act, Here, and For Cameroon Silicon Mountain Update. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN Of WIPO Using Criminal Defamation Law, Spox Says “Not A Responsive Choice.” Enviro: Pollution in Nepal. Bronx: Of Souleymane Porgo; At UN, Press Coverage of Biz Event Praising Goldman Sachs Hindered by DPI Censorship 5/8/17 - CRA: After Capital One Failed on Cabela, Synovus Applies to Federal Reserve & Fair Finance Watch Protests, Here. Bank Beat: Mergers We Are Watching. UN - Global: From Cameroon to UNSC, "Urgent & Confidential" Memo About Weapons, Copter, via Patreon. Enviro: UK pollution. Bronx: At UN's World Press Freedom Event, ICP Asks of UN Censorship, WIPO & FAO, 1-Line Response5/1/17 - CRA: After FFW Protests Sterling's Application To Buy Damaged Astoria, Fed Confirms Receipt. Federal Reserve After FFW Protest Cites Community Bank OCC Deal & Disparities, Rubber-stamps Merger. Bank Beat: We're looking at South State saying it'll buy Park Sterling. UN - Global: Google Hinders Publication of ICP Video of UN Defending Abuse by Peacekeepers, DPI Deal So Patreon. Enviro: At UN, Indigenous Tells ICP Guterres Hasn't Met Them, Of Norway & Dakota Access Pipeline. Bronx: History in the soil in Mott Haven.
4/24/17 - CRA: Belated fines against predatory Deutsche Bank by Federal Reserve, now what? Bank Beat: On Yemen, IMF Tells ICP Central Banks in Aden & Sana’a Should Cooperate to Avoid Famine. UN - Global: On Burundi and ICP's Scoop of Kafando as UN Envoy, Shingiro Tells ICP Gov Comfortable With. Enviro: AMA on light pollution. Bronx: At UN, DPI Prejudice Against Critical Press UNanswered, Bello Wiffs on Haiti and Roma 4/17/17 - CRA: After FFW protest to TIAA-CREF and Everbank, Federal Reserve's Fifth Round of Questions. Bank Beat: Another merger to watch, and Wells Fargo Branch Closing Notices. UN - Global: UN Praised Cameroon Half-Net Pledge as Clergy Prosecuted, Defends RC Rajat Blocking Inner City Press. Enviro: South Korea fears. Bronx: At UN, Request To Explain Censorship of Press Yields 1-Line, Spox Says Criticism Is Harassment4/10/17 -- CRA: Homage to Kansas City activist Williams. Federal Reserve quietly weakens merger review, rejects challenge without reasoning. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On Syria, After US Airstrikes ICP Asks UN What de Mistura's "Operationally Focused" Means. Enviro: Glasgow pollution. Bronx to UN, Fight for Press Freedom
4/3/17 -- CRA: Wells Fargo Paying $110 Million For Fake Accounts, 400 Branch Closures Still On? Federal Reserve loosens merger reviews, ICP Fair Finance Watch requests reconsideration. Bank Beat:3/13/17
-- CRA:
After
FFW Protest
Stopped NYCB
Bid, Astoria
Wants To Be
Bought By
Disparate
Sterling.
Federal
Reserve
has more
questions for
Simmons. Bank
Beat:
Mergers we are
watching, and
IMF
Tells Inner
City Press
Risks In
Cameroon in
2017 Include
"Events" in
Anglophone
Areas. UN - Global:
UN's
Cameroon
Troops in CAR
Accused of
Abuse, ICP
Asks UN's Haq,
No Answers,
Failing. Enviro: On
Honduras,
World Bank
Gets Sued. Bronx:
Gentrification
slated for
Mott Haven
3/6/17 -- CRA: After FFW Protest, Fed Sends Community Bank System 9 Questions, CEO Tryniski Trashes CRA. Federal Reserve switching Secretary post from dev. Frierson to Misback. Bank Beat: Merger and job loss in Indiana. UN - Global: As UNSC in Cameroon, Nothing on Anglophones from UN When ICP Asks, Ebute's Letter. Enviro: Talk in South Carolina. Bronx: BP says he supports Home Stability Support plan
2/27/17 - CRA: Overdraft abuse by FNB Bank downplayed by Federal Reserve on merger. Bank Beat: After IMF Tells ICP No Talks with Nigeria of Program, ICP Asks UN About Oslo Fundraising. UN - Global: After Guterres' Press Freedom Meeting, Spox Tells Press "It's Not Your Living Room," Runs. Enviro: Kenya urged to protect EJ activists. Bronx: Amber alert leads to “Foxhurst,” Hagstrom hangover 2/20/17 -- CRA: Of Capital One and Cabela's Bank. Federal Reserve rubberstamps mergers at Reserve Bank level. Bank Beat: Heartland Financial wants to grow in Colorado. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Uses UN in Kenya, Kim Won-soo in NY, Spox Calls Press Obsessive A*hole. Enviro: Indian mine in Australia. Bronx: Slumlord or vivero? 2/13/17 -- CRA: Amid DC Moves On CFPB, Acquisitive Simmons Is Asked by Fed of FFW's Protest. Federal Reserve Governor Tarullo to leave, FOIA improvements still needed. Bank Beat: Merger fall-out in Ohio. UN - Global: After PA's Fayyad Blocked, UN Selectively Spins US Green Light, UK Not Mentioned. Enviro: Free speech win in Alabama. Bronx: Catholic schools closing 2/6/17 - CRA: Branch closings by Wells Fargo. Federal Reserve asks United Bankshares about cases. Bank Beat: Mergers we're watching. UN - Global: UN Waste In Dump Caused Malaria in Central African Republic Under Ladsous, Bermann Next? Enviro: Niger Delta. Bronx: Fishing of post boxes, gone 1/30/17 -- CRA: Head of Community Bank System Mark Tryniski calls fair lending baseless. Federal Reserve goes vague on BB&T. Bank Beat: Investors Bancorp, already conditioned by Fair Finance Watch, had deal blow up. UN - Global: UN Wastes Funds Keeping Clinton-Aligned Feltman So His Pension Vests, Draft EO Here. Enviro: Trudeau and indigenous. Bronx: RIP Wayne Barrett - and Bobby Garcia 1/23/17 -- CRA: Fair Finance Watch challenges Community Bank System to Federal Reserve on Vermont proposed merger. Bank Beat: Simmons First tells FFW will close branches. UN - Global: US Has Asked For Ban Ki-moon Brother To Be Extradited, Hearing Reveals As Obama, Power Leaves. Enviro: Entergy in New Orleans. Bronx: UN Again Bans Staff From Women's March, ICP Questions, Gallach at Power's Elex Party1/16/17 -- CRA: Challenge to Scottrade - Toronto Dominion. Federal Reserve grilled on film. Bank Beat: Proposed mergers we are looking at. UN - Global: UN Referred ICP's Corruption Qs to Ban Ki-moon Seoul Spox, Whom They Have Never Called. Enviro: Mining in the Philippines. Bronx: Outgoing Samantha Power smirks at Haiti, cholera
1/9/17 -- CRA: Cardinal and United plans to close branches, but how many? Federal Reserve after comments asks. Bank Beat: The strange case of Capital One and Cabela's “World Foremost Bank.” UN - Global: As Budget Scrutiny Looms, UN Must Do Better on Press Freedom, Due Process and FOIA under Antonio Guterres. Enviro: Cambodian NGO against sand mining scam. Bronx: NYT promotes gentrification, again 1/2/17 -- CRA: After ICP filed FOIA request, Federal Reserve released entirely redacted fair lending plan in TIAA - Everbank proceeding. Bank Beat: Bank of Hope, closing branches. UN - Global: New UNSG Guterres Calls for Peace, Yemen, Myanmar & Burundi Early Tests. Enviro: EPA Office of Civil Rights. Bronx: For New Year's Eve in Times Square, Ban Ki-moon dropped the ball for the last time.12/26/16
-- CRA:
Bank
Merger Called
Off After ICP
Protested
NYCB - Astoria
on Disparities.
Federal
Reserve
delays on TIAA
- Everbank
FOIA request.
Bank
Beat: Next
round on
Capital One. UN - Global:
US
Power Abstains
on UNSC
Settlements
Resolution, As
UN Talk Turns
To Trump.
Enviro:
Ecuador
Chevron case
firings. Bronx:
Brownfield
with “historic
fill”
12/19/16 -- CRA: Terms expiring at OCC, FDIC and two Federal Reserve governor vacancies. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On South Sudan, US Draft Passes 15-0, ICP Asked US Power of UN Arming Warlord. Enviro: Coal ash protests in Puerto Rico. Bronx/NYC: UN Thugs Attack ICP Outside Ban Ki-moon's $1200 Wall Street Event, Throw Periscoping Phone
12/12/16 -- CRA: Now TIAA tries to withhold compliance information, Federal Reserve gets FOIA request. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF About Guinea Bissau's Bank Bailouts, No Deadline to Unwind. UN - Global: UN's Gallach Pays Public Funds To Call Detroit a 3d Rate Flyover City, Evicted & Restricts Inner City Press. Enviro: NoDAPL. Bronx: After NYC Praises UN, ICP Asks Ban's Spox of Gallach's Violations of Free Press & Due Process 12/5/16 -- CRA: After FFW Challenges TIAA-Everbank, Federal Reserve's 3d Round of Questions. Bank Beat: Mega-merger... in Kazakhstan? UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon To Fly For Anti-Corruption Award from Qatar After Promoting Son in Law to Top UN Post. Enviro: Princess Cruises' intentional pollution. Bronx: Open up North Brother Island - and Hart Island Too 11/28/16 -- CRA: Challenge to Union - Cardinal, Federal Reserve gets FOIA on TIAA. Bank Beat: Merger slides. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Brother Ki-ho Thrown Out of UN Global Compact, Mines in Myanmar. Enviro: NoDAPL news. Bronx: Sin City fall-out11/21/16 -- CRA: Bank of Oklahoma, despite compliance settlement, gets Federal Reserve rubbert stamp. Bank Beat: Trustmark is at it again. UN - Global: On Myanmar, Where Ban Ki-moon's Brother Mines, US Accepts Outcome-Less Briefing By Nambiar, Who Says Give Them Time. Enviro: UN Passes Buck After Morocco Rejected COP22-Accredited Beiruk's Document. Bronx NYC: Ban Ki-moon NYU Speech Has Prerequisites While $100,000 Speech Withheld
11/14/16 -- CRA: After ICP Challenges TIAA-Everbank, They Submit to Federal Reserve A Defense of Lending, Brazil Land Grabs. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: After UN Ban Ki-moon Censors Press, Expresses to Trump Confidence in Cooperation. Enviro: COP 22 and Civil Society Excluded. Bronx: the split electoral district11/7/16 -- CRA: After ICP Challenges People's United Bank's Suffolk Bid, Federal Reserve Asks 13 More Questions, Layoffs Threatened. Bank Beat: Looking at Genworth. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Brother Ki-ho Involved in Myanmar, Greenwashing. Enviro: COP 22. Bronx: Read-lining by Barnes & Noble
10/31/16 -- CRA: Challenge to TIAA's Attempt To Buy Everbank to Federal Reserve, Citing Landgrab in Brazil. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Hadi's Bid to Move Yemen Central Bank, Spox Calls It Complex. UN - Global: Under New SG Guterres, Who Will Head UN Peacekeeping, Public Information? Enviro: ICP on Dakota Access Pipeline Asks UN Expert, Then Ban Ki-moon's Spox, “No Communication,” Like Haiti. Bronx: Gentrification Watch 10/24/16 -- CRA: After redlining settlement, BancorpSouth tells Federal Reserve its merger applications are withdrawn. Bank Beat: Another merger we're looking at. UN - Global: As Ban Ki-moon Conceals DC Speech & Is Protested at UN, Tells Wire Of His South Korea Ambitions. Enviro: Detroit incinerator. Bronx: Where's UN on killing of Deborah Danner? 10/17/16 -- CRA: ICP Challenges FNB's Reach into the Carolinas for Yadkin Bank, Files with Federal Reserve on Disparities in Baltimore & Ohio, Insiders. Bank Beat: Mergers We Are Looking At. UN - Global: ICP Asked New SG Guterres About Yemen, His Transition Team Here. Enviro: EPA to re-examine flares in TX, LA. Bronx: Tour de Bronx10/10/16 -- Bank Beat: BNC's lending to people of color fell in 2015. CRA: People's United got worse in NYC in 2015 but Federal Reserve calls it “untimely.” UN - Global: On Yemen, ICP Asks UK, France, NZ & Saudi After Airstrike on Funeral, No Draft Yet. Enviro: Trend found in UN report. Bronx: In praise of libraries.
10/3/16 -- CRA: Bank of North Carolina enforcement actions withheld by Federal Reserve, which brags about applications withdrawn, BancorpSouth still in. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo grilled on the Hill. UN - Global: On Next UNSG, Of Kazakh Deputy & Nordic Dreamers, Russia To Get Political Affairs? Enviro: EJ paper tiger. Bronx: Clay Ave Tenants Association head to UN conference in Quito 9/26/16 -- CRA: Bank of North Carolina, still withholding CRA plan from ICP, get more Federal Reserve questions, here. Bank Beat: We're watching TIAA - Everbank. UN - Global: ICP Asks Ban Ki-moon's Mentor Han Seoug-soo of Moonlighting with StanChart & Doosan, He Says Banks Too. Enviro: Proposal shot down in California. Bronx: Gentrification documented 9/19/16 -- CRA: As Bank of Oklahoma is forced to respond to ICP's protest by OCC, will Federal Reserve take note? Bank Beat: Maryland, Ohio and history. UN - Global: For UNGA, Ban Ki-moon Prints Book on Legacy, But Who Wrote & Paid For It? Enviro: California app. Bronx: Maduro of Venezuela in the West Bronx. 9/12/16 -- CRA: After ICP Challenges Its Suffolk Bid, People's United Calls NYC "Lower Hudson.” Federal Reserve gets FOIA request on BancorpSouth. Bank Beat: United - Cardinal, we're watching. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon & Son In Law Use Jaffna Massacre Commander As Nepotism Defense. Enviro: Southeast activists meet. Bronx: Reynaldo Cuevas killing revisited9/5/16 -- CRA: Bank of Oklahoma's low satisfactories, KC Performance Evaluation scams. Federal Reserve gets admission and demand for confidential treatment from Bank of North Carolina. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Yemen Central Bank, Zim & Mozambique, IMF Staff Moves In. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Promoted Son In Law Reportedly Posed With Dead LTTE Fighters. Enviro: Baton Rouge EJ advocate, rest in peace. Bronx: Getting some LinkNYC wi-fi
8/29/16 -- CRA: ICP Protested BNC - High Point, Now Federal Reserve Asks Questions, Here. Bank Beat: Astoria Bank re-schedules its annual meeting, after protest. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Signed Letter Giving Son-In-Law Top UN Job in Kenya, Confirmed to ICP. Enviro: Big 90 corporations cause more pollution. Bronx: Old school filing dumping8/22/16
-- CRA:
People's United
“Comfortable” With No Loans
to People of Color in NYC in
2014. Federal
Reserve Jumbles Merger
Applications (But Takes
Goldman Sachs' Sunday
Calls). Bank
Beat: BancorpSouth
Down for the Count. UN
- Global:
At
UN, Why Ban Ki-moon
Dropped from Public List
Officials Who Refuse to
Disclose UNexplained.
Enviro:
With Floods in Baton Rouge,
New Gulf Drilling Rights
Opposed. Bronx:
Calling Out People's United
8/15/16 -- CRA: Citing Redlining, ICP Challenges People's United Bid For Suffolk County National Bank. Federal Reserve Disses Flint, Rubber Stamps Chemical-Talmer. Bank Beat: BNC Would Close At Least 3 High Point Branches. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Adviser Han Seung-Soo With UN Bank Standard Chartered, Spokesman Claims Bullying. Enviro: Oil water on plants in Cali? Bronx and Brooklyn and Queens and Harlem and Washington Heights Hall of Shame most recent nominee: People's United
8/8/16 -- CRA: After Taking Goldman Sachs Calls on Sunday, Federal Reserve Fines It $36M, Denies FOIA. Bank Beat: “Super-community” in NM, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Adviser Han Seung-Soo Is Director of UN Contractor Doosan, UNethical? Enviro: Shale wealth fund idea from UK to US? Bronx: Standing in Bronx Criminal Court delay case. 8/1/16 -- CRA: In FOIA farce FDIC Withholds in Full BNC's Compliance Plan the Federal Reserve Relied On. Bank Beat: On Zimbabwe, ICP Asks IMF of Arrears, If Any Program, UN of UNrest, #ThisFlag. UN - Global: On UN DSS Security Scandal, UN Refuses To Name Sponsor, If Ban Ki-moon Approved Or Negligent. Enviro: News from Nigeria. Bronx: Home Street church replaced, History Channel Out.7/25/16 -- CRA: ICP Protested NYCB - Astoria on Disparities from NY to Cleveland, Federal Reserve Questions, One-Two Punch? Bank Beat: Yadkin Wants to Sell to FNB Before Closing 12 NewBridge Branches. UN - Global: On Next SG Straw Poll, Results & Questions of Dual Nationalities, Exclusive. Enviro: Marching to DNC in Philly. Bronx: Gentification market, security abuse
7/18/16 -- CRA: Chemical & Talmer in $1B proposed merger “misunderstand.” Federal Reserve wants to get to know Bank of Oklahoma better. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Jordan & Lebanon, Reply Here, S Sudan & Yemen Not Yet. UN - Global: ICP Asks Ban's Spox Why 6 UN Guards Hindered It, Spox Replies He Was Stalked While NHK. Enviro: New law in Newark, NJ. Bronx: As YouTube Hinders Publication of UN Q&As, Censorship Questions UNveiled7/11/16 -- CRA: ICP Protested BancorpSouth, Now Sued by DOJ, Chemical & BNC. Federal Reserve Asks Chemical About Talmer Branches. Bank Beat: Deals We Are Watching. UN - Global: In S Sudan Leaked UN Memo Says 150 Soldiers Dead As Some Joined Kiir's Tiger Force. Enviro: Bloomberg on EJ. Bronx: ICP Asked UN About Philando Castile & Alton Sterling, Working Group Condemns
7/4/16 -- CRA: FDIC extends time on BNC, But Withholds Compliance Plan. Federal Reserve lets Bank of the Ozarks Off the Hook. Bank Beat: Chemical seeking U.S. Bank funds to buy Talmer. UN - Global: As UN Bribery Ng Case Expands, Ban Ki-moon in Para 12, His Spox Covers Up. Enviro: Gulf Coast letter to Big Green. Bronx: DJ Kool Herc in Crotona Park 6/27/16 -- CRA: Capital One closing branches. Federal Reserve ready for Brexit. Bank Beat: Chemical asked about Talmer. UN - Global: Brexit's UN Fall-Out, UK Less Likely to Veto Malcorra, Scottish P5 Question? Enviro: Duke Energy in NC. Bronx: ABC carpet pulls the rug out from under community 6/20/16 -- CRA: While withholding Compliance Plan, BNC goes for High Point. Federal Reserve lets Huntington withhold antitrust info. Bank Beat: ICP Asked IMF of Sri Lanka Airlines Resolution, Iraq & Mozambique. UN - Global: UN Rapporteurs Mistold by Ban's Gallach Of "Altercation," Press Eviction Pretext. Enviro: Coal victory in River Rouge. Bronx: Attack in Parkchester must be investigated. 6/13/16 -- CRA: Chemical lending in Flint toxic like water. Federal Reserve sends ICP its Qs to Huntington. Bank Beat: Some ones we're watching. UN - Global: UN Told Nobel Winner Ramos-Horta ICP "Openly" Broke UNpublished Rule, Geneva Next. Enviro: Oil field still closed in Los Angeles. Bronx: Roll back the rent 6/6/16 -- CRA: BNC Bancorp Withholds Compliance Plan Cited in Order by Federal Reserve, Which Called ICP/FFW A Day Late. Bank Beat: ICP Asked IMF of Protests in Suriname, IMF Supports Tariff Rise. UN - Global: ICP Asks Ban's Spox of Ng & Corruption, Request for Q&A, "All the Time You Need.” Enviro: EPA's EJ 2020 Action Agenda. Bronx: Ebling Brewery, Now a Brownfield5/30/16 -- CRA: Old National plays hide the ball with Anchor Bank cut backs. Federal Reserve still withholds FOIA documents. Bank Beat: protests of a bank merger.. in India. UN - Global: As Ban Politics in S. Korea, Hankyoreh Notes ICP's Qs About Kim. Enviro: Vermont chainsaws. Bronx: going market rate in Mott Haven, can you say, gentrification?
5/23/16 -- CRA: Looking at Cash America - First Cash (or, Cowboy and Frontier). Federal Reserve continues FOIA delay. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Protests in Suriname, IMF Supports Cut of Subsidies. UN - Global: UN Censors Q About Ban & Freedom of the Press from Transcript, New Low. Enviro: Metal shredding in Minneapolis. Bronx: Africa films 5/16/16 -- CRA: Huntington FirstMerit documents requested under FOIA still withheld. Federal Reserve questions by ICP, on video. Bank Beat: Franklin Financial Network and Civic Bank & Trust. UN - Global: Press on UN Rape & Genocide Accepted, But Ban's Corruption Triggered Eviction. Enviro: Alabama landfill SLAPP. Bronx: amNY for gentrification 5/9/16 -- CRA: Protest to Huntington Yields “Ex Parte” Notice. Federal Reserve: ICP's Republic Comments Lead to RALs Footnote. Bank Beat: Mergers We Are Watching. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN About Lack of Whistleblower Protections, Miranda Brown, Retaliation. Enviro: EJ Talk. Bronx: Rent Guidelines Board 5/2/16 -- CRA: Challenge to Chemical Talmer, focus on Flint. Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago lists no email address. Bank Beat: On Sri Lanka, IMF Reaches $1.5B Program, ICP Asked in Feb, Accountability. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN of US Bill on Peacekeeper Rapes, UN Doesn't Keep Records. Enviro: Demographics of Flint. Bronx: Et tu, Amazon? 4/25/16 -- CRA: On Huntington - FirstMerit, Comment Extended to May 16 New Date, As Federal Reserve Delays FOIA Response to ICP. Bank Beat: KeyCorp's Mooney Brags. UN - Global: After UN Evicts ICP, Ban's Spox Says "You've Been Afforded A Lot of Courtesies". Enviro: Amid Climate Hoopla, ICP Asks NRDC & Oxfam of ICAO and REDD Offset Scams. Bronx: Webster Avenue Changes, Gentrification Must Be Fought4/18/16
-- CRA:
Huntington is
defending closing 107
branches, ICP
re-petitions Federal
Reserve for
hearings. Bank
Beat: Goldman
Sachs' settlement is a
bad joke. UN
- Global: Ban
Ki-moon Has ICP's
Files Thrown Onto
1st Av, Bribery
Audit Names His
Gallach. Enviro:
Hillary in Sunset
Park. Bronx:
Back
to the roots
4/11/16 - CRA: While Huntington proposed to closed 107 branches, Federal Reserve closes its ears? Bank Beat: Mergers large and small. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN of Audit Criticism of DPI's Gallach, Lax on Slavery, Impunity? Enviro: At Apollo Theater, Bernie Sanders Asks Why Kids in South Bronx have to suffer asthma
4/4/16 -- CRA: ICP Zeroes In On Huntington Bank, Shutting Low Income FirstMerit Branches, files request for reconsideration of Federal Reserve approval of Goldman Sachs - GE. Bank Beat: Merger pace sped up in 2d half of 2015. UN - Global: UN's Gallach Says ICP Covers Wrong Things After Orders Eviction by April 6. Enviro: NYS Environmental Protection Fund boosted. Bronx: Evicton Pending for Chronicling the UN “Country Club” 3/28/16 -- CRA: On Huntington, ICP Expands Protest to FirstMerit, Akron Data Here. Federal Reserve: After Taking Goldman Sachs Calls on Sunday, Fed Approves GE, ICP FOIAs. Bank Beat: Anger in Canada at RBC branch closing. UN - Global: On Western Sahara, UN DPI Bans ICP From UNSC Stakeout March 21, Minders March 24. Enviro: Airborne lead north of Minneapolis. Bronx: Gentrification on E 144th Street 3/21/16 -- CRA: Protest to Huntington - First Merit filed by ICP with Federal Reserve, more than 100 branch closings. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Zimbabwe - Loans Not Sure - & Vultures Dart & Singer. UN - Global: ICP Asked About Lorenzo's Bribery, US Cites UN Audit, Not South South News. Enviro: Australia action on Peabody Energy / coal. Bronx: After Ousting Press, Ban Tells Bronxites To Rise Up For Rights, Hypocrisy 3/14/16 -- CRA: Good news in KC, Federal Reserve protest to BNC, Sandy we hardly knew ye. Bank Beat: Merger snafus we use social media to track, list of deals. UN - Global: UN Jan 29 "Incident" Had UNCA Hiding Ng Lap Seng Info, UN Staff at Pioli's Open Bar. Enviro: ICP asks Segolene Royal of Global Compact at UN. Bronx: HPD's Bean in S. Bx, will the Bean bear fruit? 3/7/16 -- CRA: Amid ICP Protest to BNC - Southcoast, Federal Reserve Gives ICP Memo of BNC Meeting, from Jan 28, Faux Ex Parte. Bank Beat: Conciliation deal in Kansas City. UN - Global Exclusive: UN Yemen Envoy Told Feltman Houthis Ready to Meet in Jordan, Saudi Low-ball. Enviro: St. Louis lead. Bronx: South Bronx Love Letter. 2/29/16 -- CRA: On First Niagara, Key Says It'll Address Branches Later, Withholds to Federal Reserve, ICP FOIAs. Bank Beat: Lawsuit against Deutsche Bank National Trust Co for negligence. UN - Global: UN's Ouster of ICP Opposed from Yemen, Burundi, NY, Nigeria, Dominica, Geneva. Enviro: Bridgeport deal. Bronx: Sedgwick Avenue gets its name 2/22/16 -- CRA: Regions Bank Rating Is Cut to Needs to Improve. Federal Reserve: ICP Protests Republic Bank, Key - First Niagara. Bank Beat: Merger blues in F.N.B. Metro glitches. UN - Global: UN Security Ejecting ICP Wouldn't Give Name, Grabbed ID Badge, Pushed Out Gate. Enviro: Spill prevention win in Southern District. Bronx: Taqueria gentrified out of South Bronx reappears in Brooklyn. 2/15/16 -- CRA: Second protest of NYCB - Astoria to Federal Reserve, Which Asks More Questions, to Feb 26. Bank Beat: IMF Tells ICP Negotiating Mission to Sri Lanka Late March, Burundi, Romania Qs. UN -Global: As New UN Rapes In CAR Revealed in Feb 11 Emails, UN Says DRC Troops Still In Place. Enviro: Hats off to the Moral March. Bronx: Where does NYCB have no branches? 2/8/16 -- CRA: Huntington would close 100+ branches if allowed to acquire FirstMerit. Federal Reserve fines HSBC, belatedly. Bank Beat: Chemical - Talmer flying stealth? UN - Global: SG Ban Claims He's a Scapegoat, Press Qs on CAR Rapes, Corruption Ignored. Enviro: is there a global EJ movement? Bronx: Is Chase Bank branch on Arthur Ave closing? Because it is much reduced 2/1/16 -- CRA: Comments on Key / First Niagara; Federal Reserve didn't reply under FOIA in time, asks Republic Bank questions. Bank Beat: Deals in Ohio and Michigan. UN - Global: After Vote, ICP Asks Colombia's Holguín About Urabeños, She Calls Them a Gang. Enviro: On Coal, ICP Asks UNFCCC's Figueres Of Funding by Banks in Global Compact. Bronx: State of the City by de Blasio at Lehman 1/25/16 -- CRA: After ICP's Protest of NYCB - Astoria Bank, Comment Period Extended to Feb 16 by Federal Reserve, where Goldman Sachs Blacks Out Most of Its Jan 18 Fed Submission, ICP FOIAs. Bank Beat: Mergers, mergers. UN - Global: In Burundi, Shingiro Spoke for US Power, Censorship Not Mentioned. Enviro: At UN, Fake Recycling Can Mixes Glass, Paper & Waste, Ban Ki-moon and Scribes Say Nothing. Bronx: Africa art connection, 149th and the Concourse1/18/16 -- CRA: After
ICP's Protest of NYCB - Astoria Bank, FDIC
Denies Expedited Processing. Federal
Reserve: Goldman
Sachs Tries to Withhold GE's Deposits by
State, ICP FOIAs Fed. Bank
Beat: IMF
Answers ICP on Burundi, Had Said
Peacekeeping Income in Budget, Off Track.
UN
- Global:
To
Burundi, UN Cites Small Plane From Addis
to Ban Press, No Deployment Answers. Enviro: Comment
on USDA environmental justice plan, to Feb
14. Bronx:
Silvercup to Port Morris, Good or Bad?
1/11/16 -- CRA: Protest of NYCB - Astoria Merger to Federal Reserve, Which Asks 14 Qs, Extends Its Time on Goldman Sachs. Bank Beat: Kentucky's Republic Bank Tries to Withhold, ICP Challenges Under FOIA. UN - Global: Online Censorship Opposed by ICP, Under EU "Privacy" & DMCA in US. Enviro: Michigan declares emergency about poisonous water in Flint - after playing a role in it. Bronx: No room at the Inn (hotels slated for Gerard and Exterior Streets)
1/4/16 -- CRA: Republic Bank's high-cost cards raised to Federal Reserve by Fair Finance Watch. Bank Beat: Criticism of NYCB - Astoria, more to come. UN - Global: UN Won't Name Staffer Who Was Told of CAR Rapes, Won't Answer on Ban's Travel. Enviro: Hotspots in Denver, and the Mousetrap. Bronx: The Get Down
12/28/15 -- CRA: Bank of the Ozarks inquiry; Federal Reserve Asked BNC for CRA Info, Which Withholds It. Bank Beat: Mere extension on KeyCorp - First Niagara not enough. UN - Global: On Burundi, As Imbonerakure Rally, PR at UN Mocks Countrymen, Bans Press. Enviro: Waste transfer stations, NYC. Bronx: Et tu, Zaro's? Closing in Parkchester amid “cretzel” pitch
12/21/15 -- CRA:
Challenge filed to Bank of the Ozarks - C&S with
Federal
Reserve Bank of St Louis. Bank
Beat: On
ISIS Finance, Talk of Oil and Turkey, Paris
Pre-Paid Cards, No Bitcoin. UN - Global:
ICP
Asks UN & CAR Panel of Ladsous Failing to
Respond on Rights, Ban's UN. Enviro:
Critique of Jerry Brown in Paris. Bronx:
Whose
Streets? NYPD Officer Paid by Deutsche Bank To
Empty Atrium Early
12/14/15 -- CRA:
Challenge to Kentucky-based Republic's Florida move,
Federal
Reserve accepts timely comment. Bank
Beat: IMF
Answers ICP on Malawi Retrenchment, Global Fund
Steps In. UN - Global:
UN
Corruption Association Sells Seats with Ban,
Paparazzi Pioli. Enviro:
On
Paris Agreement on Climate, Grumbles Even at COP
21, of TPP and Ban's Travel. Bronx:
Queens businesses to Hunts Point.
12/7/15 -- CRA:
Fight against
Goldman Sachs - GE Continues, After
Federal Reserve Gov Powell Acknowledges
Wrongful Withholdings. Bank
Beat: BNC
Is Asked, Again, for Information. UN - Global:
IMF
Answers ICP on Burundi, Program Off Track, &
Zambia, No Request. Enviro:
Brownfields blown off for South
Bronx hotel
11/30/15 -- CRA:
Supplemental ICP Comments on Goldman Sachs to Federal
Reserve, Which Declines Comment. Bank
Beat: Redliner Evans Bank revved up by Key -
First Niagara. UN - Global:
With
Saudi Set to Stone Sri Lankan Maid to Death,
Threats to Sue for ISIS Comparisons. Enviro:
EJ in Baltimore, and Paris. Bronx:
With so many lanuages, no UN in sight
11/23/15 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs Uses Small Bank Relief to Defend Pre-Review of GE Capital Deal by Federal Reserve, Which Tries to Close Ears to Comments. Bank Beat: BNC wants to buy High Point Bank. UN - Global: In UN Rights Com'te, Syria, Iran and N. Korea Resolutions Pass Amid Complaints & Quibbles, On Syria Burundi Votes No, Sudan Abstains. Enviro: On Climate Change, ICP Asks UN's Pasztor of Adaptation, GCF & HSBC. Bronx: Thanksgiving on Walton Avenue
11/16/15 -- CRA: More sleaze
by Goldman Sachs; Federal
Reserve has yet to
rule on ICP's Oct 24
FOIA appeal. Bank
Beat: Acquisitive
Ozarks; IMF
Answers ICP on Iraq
and Mozambique, Not on
UN Antigua Corruption
Case. UN
- Global:
On
Libya, ICP Asks For
Whom Leon Queries UAE
(Himself), No Answer
on Feltman. Enviro:
Bill to test near marine
waste transfer stations
in NYC. Bronx:
Improvement like bike
path, but for who? Latin
restaurant evicted
11/9/15 -- CRA: Key Bank - First Niagara Would Trigger Branch Closing, Lending Disparities, FFW Says. Federal Reserve acts on a Goldman Sachs staffer, but still no extension or hearing on GE Capital. Bank Beat: NYCB - Astoria? We think not. UN - Global: Dead in Lahore, Haider Rizvi Covered Corporatization at UN, Opposed “Mafia”. Enviro: More Pennsylvania. Bronx: Rip off on top of rip