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7/26/10 -- CRA: US Gov't into subprime auto loans, GM buys AmeriCredit. Citigroup conflict of interest. Goldman Sachs' “Tax Evasion” Hit by Rep. Doggett, Citi's and Transocean's Offshoring. Federal Reserve whitewashes Toronto Dominion HMDA disparities. Bank Beat: IMF Cuts Off Funds for Central Africa, Goes on Vacation, Ignores Guinea Bissau, Ukraine, Hungary and even Haiti Questions. UN - Global: At UN, As Ban Ki-moon Switches from S. African to Canadian As New OIOS Chief, Post-Ahlenius Rebellion Spreads, Sources Say. Enviro: HSBC partners with Total on energy- and rights violations? Bronx: Graffiti artist's son gun down, RIP

5/24/10 -- CRA: Protests of JPMorgan Chase on Wall St, of Predatory Loans and Mining, Laissez Faire. Federal Reserve could give emergency funds to clearing houses, under new bill? Bank Beat: Amid Protests, IMF Says Wage Cuts Were Romania's Choice; Citigroup costs public. UN - Global: As Sri Lanka Names Its Own Palihakkara as Investigator, UN Panel Would Not Look at UN's Role in War Crimes; Peiris Visit. Enviro: Vermont nuclear mishap, Trafigura perjury? Bronx: Murder in the Melrose Houses

5/17/10 -- CRA: On under regulation of Citigroup, Federal Reserve Board in kibuki fight with FRBNY's Dudley. Bank Beat: Unsure of prop trading, JPM Chase and Deutsche Bank drop out of bidding for RBS Sempra. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka War Crimes, US' Rice Supports UN's Ban, So Panel Without Delay? Enviro: NJ nuke leak, EPA Shanghai-ed in China? Bronx: After protest of gun violence, a teen is killed with knife

5/10/10 -- CRA: Lobbying against financial reform by Federal Reserve, one hopes too little too late. Bank Beat: Citigroup faces too big to fail hit. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, UN Soft Peddles Humanitarian Law, Still No War Crimes Panel for Ban Ki-moon after Gota Rajapaksa Threats. Enviro: California suits, Bolivia nationalizes. Bronx: Gentrification and broccoli rabe.

5/3/10 -- CRA: Protest to a Goldman Sachs application to the Federal Reserve, citing "poor subprimes" email. Bank Beat: Lawsuit against Wells Fargo as slumlord. UN - Global: In Anti-Nuclear March, "Free Palestine" Chants Trigger Questions of Iran, Ahmadinejad in Wings. Enviro: Yucca mount nuclear waste delay. Bronx: BP and Councilman fight relocation of high school to South Bronx

4/26/10 -- CRA: Protest to Morgan Stanley filed with Federal Reserve, Saxon, land grabs and cluster bombs. Bank Beat: Citigroup's cheapskatery gave WaMu to JPMChase, FOIA shows. UN - Global: As Sri Lanka AG Met With UN's Ban, War Crimes Panel Unnamed for Six Weeks; Kabul Death Cover Up, Video Debate. Enviro: Hydrofracking in the Catskills. Bronx: Nehemiah echoes in parks fight, downtown tarts

4/19/10 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs charged with misrepresentation of predatory loans, like Al Capone for tax evasion. Federal Reserve's Tarullo invented a safe harbor. Bank Beat: Loans from Citigroup and Deutsche Bank slammed Iceland like a subprime borrower. Ex-Chasers chase banks. UN - Global: UN Admits Afghan 'Friendly Fire' May Have Killed US Staffer, US Mission Dodges. Enviro: Texas toxins, Khartoum's accounting fudge. Bronx: Melrose Credit Union's benign redlining, even after 20 innings, Mets get no respect

4/12/10 -- CRA: Disparate High Cost Loans in 2009 by Citigroup, Wells, BofA and JPM Chase, Will Worsen Without CFPA Independent from Federal Reserve, Banks Too Big To Be Fair. UN - Global: As UN Paid Darfur Rebel Leader Ateem, UN Claims It Didn't Know What Bassole Did: Scandal Grows. Enviro: Vermont nuclear (power), Monsanto blocked in Kenya. Bronx: Times on Bronx? No Thonx, as Cross Bronx Honks

4/5/10 -- CRA: Robert Rubin, Chuck Prince of Citigroup to face Angelides on Federal Reserve pre-approval. Bank Beat: Jaime Dimon of JPM Chase blasé about bailout. UN - Global: In Central Asia, UN Ban Blind to Corruption, Skips Prisoners Rights and Water Wars. Enviro: Louisiana case to Inter-American court. Bronx: Surreal karaoke and bootleg DVDs

3/29/10 -- CRA: Yard sale by Citigroup stalls on toxic CitiFinancial, private label cards. Federal Reserve belatedly concerned by First Niagara gun jumping. Bank Beat: Pointing at China, will BofA leave NC for Boston? UN - Global: For UN's Sri Lanka Panel, Nambiar Meets with Kohona, "Two Foxes," Sources Say. Enviro: Pachauri's Opaque Moonlighting Critiqued by Figueres, of 2 Costa Ricans and the Alba Group, UNFCCC. Bronx: Dominican salads, Bulgarian cheese

3/22/10 -- CRA: MoneyCenters of Wal-Mart should be under the CFPA. Federal Reserve slapped down for withholding info about gift of Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase. Bank Beat: With Euro Tanking On Reports of Greece Turning to IMF, of Half Answers, on Dodd Bill. Abusive phone calling by Citigroup expands. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, As UK Disagrees With NAM Letter, IMF, Pascoe and Panel After Election? Enviro: Holes in TSCA Inventory. Bronx: Mis-spelled menus, corny empanadas and Balkan tales on Hughes Avenue

3/15/10 -- CRA: As Congress Dithers for Payday Lenders, CRA Activists Raise Stakes in KC and St. Louis. Federal Reserve seen as weak on consumers even by its own advisers. Bank Beat: Barclays hunts Fifth Third, Suntrust, Comerica or PNC. Citigroup, HSBC and JPMorgan Chase caused Lehman failure. UN - Global: Staged Leak of UN Somali Sanctions Report Echoes Bogus Shabab in Lebanon Claim of 2006. Enviro: Saccharine politics in Florida. Bronx: According to the Sunday Times

3/8/10 -- CRA: Weak payday lending guidance by OCC benefits JPMorgan Chase and HSBC. Federal Reserve ignores comments, but claims consumer protection. Bank Beat: IMF Says "No Agreement" With Sri Lanka, Meets in Hungary, Omits Bulgaria, Angola and Hugo Chavez Questions. Concealers of Greek debt bomb included not only Goldman Sachs but also Deutsche Bank. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka War Crimes, UN's Ban to Name Panel to Advise Only Him, No Pascoe, Nambiar Nepotism Follow Up. Enviro: Oil sander Syncrude confronted by raven eating stuck duck. Bronx: Misuse of Yankee funds is in Hudson Valley Bank.

3/1/10 -- CRA: JPM Chase and Bank of America enable subprime bottom feeders like World Acceptance. Federal Reserve Bank of NY's Friedman profits from AIG bailout, Corrigan spins Goldman Sachs' Greek deception. Bank Beat: Funding illegal settlements raised to regulator: now what? As Citigroup puts Zedillo on board, questions of Acteal massacre in Chiapas arise. UN - Global: UN Official Tony Banbury, "Elated" by Rapes, Says Corruption Watching is Up to Haiti's Preval. Enviro: 1st Amendment burned like dirty coal in W. Virginia. Bronx: Dead last in health, place of corruption? Promoters of Belmont gentrification.

2/22/10 -- CRA: Public Comment Period on Merger Only a "Technicality," Bank Law Insider Argues. Federal Reseve Bank of NY's Dudley muses in Puerto Rico. Bank Beat: IMF on Zim, Backtracks on Greece, Rebuffs Questions About Sri Lanka, Terse on Pakistan and Gbagbo. JPM Chase's sleaze for Carlos Slim. Finance Watch: Denying Corruption of Citigroup, Wells and BofA, Obiangs Cite Obama, ExxonMobil's Investment. UN - Global: CPJ on Pariah States N. Korea and on Sri Lanka, Buying Tickets, Iran's Eye. Enviro: Mining in West Virginia and Guatemala. Bronx: NYT's S. Bronx view is from Metro North, iPhone re gentriciation

2/15/10 -- CRA: Subprimers from Fremont resurface as bottom feeders buying foreclosed home = impunity. Ex-Federal Reserve's Geithner had a sleeping man behind him; business press asks and finds out who. Bank Beat: Fifth Third, from foreclosures to horse loans, scrutiny is needed. UN - Global: Amid Tear Gas, UN Lets Stand Sri Lanka Claim of Its Congratulations, UN's "Good Journalism" Guide. Enviro: Did EPA Region IV not get the memo? Bronx: Signs change, storefronts don't.

2/8/10 -- CRA: Hank Paulson, CRA hardly knew ye. As Russia Denies Paulson's "Dump Fannie Mae" Story, Chinese Tricks Explored. Federal Reserve's Bernanke claims transparency despite FOIA denials. Bank Beat: New.Citi.com omits predatory CitiFinancial, B of A shifts to the right? IMF's Strauss-Kahn Coy on Opposing Sarkozy and Intervening in Greece, IMF and Greek Denials, Yemen Deferrals. UN - Global: As Kofi Annan Wins a Double UN Pension, Ban's Nesirky Claims UN Pension Fund Not Part of UN, No Answers on Africa. Enviro: Kentucky whistleblower. Bronx: highest unemployment.

2/1/10 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs blacks out response on subprime Litton, document here, while Federal Reserve didn't even require one. Bank Beat: GSEs demand buybacks from JPM Chase and B of A, WaMu and Countrywide fallout. Citigroup and Banco de Chile: where are the regulators? UN - Global: As Sri Lanka Expels Journalists and Raids Opposition, UN's Ban Still Relieved. In Haiti, UN of Two Minds on China, NFL Games Blocking Medical Flights. ICP's Haiti Poem, here. Enviro: Big coal in Congress. Bronx: Former NY Cosmo Beckenbauer trashes the South Bronx

1/25/10 -- CRA: As Obama Proposes Goldman De-Bank and Liability Cap, of Dodd and BofA's Evasions. Federal Reserve under fire, with Geithner on outs, Bernanke on grill. Bank Beat: Crisis Commission turns from JPM Chase, B of A and Goldman over to Citigroup. UN - Global: On Haiti at UN, Dominican Dodging on Immigration, UNICEF on Staffing, IFAD to Forgive? BloggingHeads.TV on Haiti, etc. Enviro: Transportation cuts are disparate in Chicago - and NYC? Bronx: no green jobs, just automotive at Alfed E. Smith High School

1/18/10 -- Bank Beat: As Obama's Bank Fees Under-Target Citigroup and AIG, Geithner's Federal Reserve Days Questioned. CRA: Goldman Sachs seeks secrecy for branch opening. UN - Global:  On Haiti, Ban Says All Through UN, Through U.S. Not, Watchdog Possible, National Staff Questions Dodged. Enviro: Cadmium in Chinese toys. Bronx: Diner arson, Melbourne slander

1/11/10 -- CRA: Branch closing spree, Regions and PNC. Federal Reserve Bank of NY's Geithner told AIG to withhold info: the last straw? Bank Beat: Of Citigroup's deadwood directors, with spook Deutch out, one down, six to go. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, Last Act of UN's Ban Was Three Months Ago, Despite War Crimes, Authentication by Alston. Enviro: EPA's self-defense on Hunters Point. Bronx: Vodka in bodegas, Stoli gushes on Twitter

1/4/10 -- CRA: Predatory lending by Citgroup to continue in India, FDIC's belated crackdown on payday lending, new Kentucky law. Federal Reserve's Bernanke's mortgage muddle. Bank Beat: New lawsuit against Wells Fargo for discriminatory lending. UN - Global: UN's Afghan Selection Colored by Nepotism and No-Show Jobs, Karzai Veto Threats. Enviro: Luke Cole, RIP. Bronx: Racial profiling, cop on cop

12/28/09 -- CRA: Challenge to Goldman Sachs NY branch application, while Federal Reserve still uses kid gloves. Bank Beat: UN IPCC's Pachauri's Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse Links Unexamined. UN - Global: Unauthorized Entry into Ban's Home and Party Dodged by UN, Disputing Obama Analogy. Enviro: UK Zara and H&M hit for use of Uzbek child labor cotton. Bronx: Ready for hibachi?

12/21/09 -- CRA: Toward a HMDA in the UK? Federal Reserve's Bernanke passes Senate Finance Committee 16-7. Bank Beat: IMF Silent on Climate Change Proposal to Use Its Gold and SDR Interest. Citigroup called fraudster, not only by consumers. UN - Global: As UN Cameras' Footage Can Be Used to Identify Whistleblowers, They Remain in Place. Enviro: Monsanto spread PCBs. Bronx: Double slander

12/14/09 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs' target ignores low income as Federal Reserve belated releases Goldman's chart. Bank Beat: IMF Studies Congo Deals by India and China, Quid Pro Quo by Canada at Paris Club on Mining, UN's Kivu Spin. Citi's secret sleaze. UN - Global: Sri Lanka Falls Off Radar of UN and US, Despite Rapp Report and Disappearances. Enviro: As UN Flies 700 Staff to Copenhagen, Coup Leader Set to Speak, Major Emitter Excluded. ExxonMobil sued. Bronx: As Bloomberg Jokes of Media's Death, UN's Ban Lives It, Asbestos Links the Two.Cold empanadas replace Chinese on Fordham Plaza

12/7/09 -- CRA: Unbanked in US go worldwide, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac repurchases by Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America. Hold in Federal Reserve re-nomination of Bernanke makes audit of Fed more likely. Bank Beat: IMF Rebuffs Stanford Victims on Antigua Despite Iceland, and Romania, Ukraine and UN. Exit from Citigroup by Kuwait and UAE. UN - Global: On Darfur, Gambari To Be "Vigilant," U.S. Belatedly Says, No Comment on Blackmail or Myanmar. Enviro:BP leaks beyond petroleum. Bronx: compared to Mindinao and Somalia, the Mission

11/30/09 -- CRA: Praised in Dublin, dissed in London. Goldman Sachs and Stella D'Oro layoffs while Federal Reserve wants to continue to regulate while kid gloves on Goldman. Bank Beat: IMF Murky on Angola's Oil, Bond and China Deals, Doles Out $1.4 Billion. Suits by Deutsche Bank and BNP against Bank of America for Taylor Bean. UN - Global: As Africans Threaten Ban on UNDP Post, Panel Unnamed Beyond Diarra, Downgraded Conference. Enviro: African position for Copenhagen, strange ExxonMobil sponsor. Bronx foreclosures.

11/23/09 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs tries to buy off CRA while misdirecting response to Federal Reserve protest. Bank Beat: Amid Reports of War Crimes, IMF Gives More Funds to Sri Lankan Government and Spins on Human Rights. Citigroup closing branches... in London. UN - Global: At UN, As Diplomat from Cameroon Is Rebuffed by UNDP, Ban Ki-moon Faces African Challenge on Agency's Deputy Post. Enviro: Alcoa closes Italian smelters. Bronx: Italian flags displaced by Albanian

11/16/09 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs refuses any substantive answer to Federal Reserve on predatory lending issues. Bank Beat: House of cards, HSBC sells its buildings. UN - Global: As Blair Lobbies for Wataniya, Do Kuwait and JPM Chase's Arranger Role Spell UN Conflict of Interest? Enviro: Myths of jatropha hit in Mozambique. Bronx: Opposition to eminent domain to widen Major Deegan

11/9/09 -- CRA: As predatory Citigroup unravels, Primerica IPO. Federal Reserve threatened by Dodd bill, no action on Goldman Sachs. Bank Beat: Dimon's father given job at JPMorgan Chase, is it nepotism? IMF's Report Buries Its Icesave Conditionality, Enforcer's Duplicity? UN - Global: UN's Security Phase Confusion in Af-Pak Shown at Stakeout, Ban and Nambiar. Enviro: As UN's Ban Admits Copenhagen Deal Unlikely, His Story Is Re-Written. Bronx: Foster care shut down

11/2/09 -- CRA: Dimon of JPMorgan Chase opposes CFPA. Federal Reserve's CIT goes bankrupt. Bank Beat: Stock of Bank of America hyped by Citigroup, TARP for TARP-ers. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, UN's Alston Probes Execution Video, Kaelin Says His Praise Was Misquoted. Enviro: In NJ, Corzine threatens his patron's Corps of Engineers. Bronx: Masks and prison overalls.

10/26/09 -- CRA: Goldman Sachs takes money for nothing from New Jersey but hasn't responded to Federal Reserve on ICP's protest. Bank Beat: Ranieri moves on Taylor Bean, Citigroup runs scared, JPM Chase's contributions. UN - Global: Pay for Play on UN Day, UN Sings For Its Supper as Sponsors Strut in Green Room, Photo Ops for Sale? Enviro: Chinese water evictions. Bronx: NYT misses African - Caribbean co-existence on Webster

10/19/09 -- CRA: Challenge to Goldman Sachs application for share in four banks to the Federal Reserve, which let Goldman in without public comment. Bank Beat: HSBC gunning for Shanghai, watch for predatory. UN - Global: UN Assembly President Treki Hires Daughter and Cousin, For Family Values. Enviro: Even UN's Jeffrey Sachs predicts no climate change action in Coperhagen. Bronx: Overpriced wood burning by drinkers' corner

10/12/09 -- CRA -- Predatory lending by Citigroup continues, as do Geithner's calls. Federal Reserve delays 9 months to give GMAC and CIT applications under FOIA. Bank Beat: UK mulls breaking up Royal Bank of Scotland and others. UN - Global: At UN, Rebellion and Retaliation in Political Affairs Unit, Pascoe's Transfer Questioned, Faces French - Obama Switch? Enviro: Iraq oil contracts to BP and PetroChina. Bronx dissed in comic review.

10/5/09 -- CRA: Cut back to six markets denied by Citigroup, predatory everywhere. Federal Reserve now says hands off hedge funds. Bank Beat: With Lewis out at BofA, Fleeters choose successor. UN - Global: UN Counters Galbraith Afghan Fraud Fallout with Unnamed Official, Sampler Next for Kabul? Enviro: Lead poisoning in China. Bronx: Post offices face the chopping block

9/28/09: CRA: Predatory lending charges against Deutsche Bank and SunTrust. Citigroup mulls Portugal sale to Barclays, focus is subprime in emerging markets, as HSBC moves CEO to Hong Kong. Federal Reserve audit bill advances, Fed's counsel threatens. Bank Beat: IMF Disappears Questions on Post-Coup Honduras, Sri Lanka Withholding and Jamaica. UN - Global: At UN Entrance, Chavez on Zelaya, Mugabe, Obama Watch, Turkmen and Entourage; Iran Denounces UAE, Serbia Mocks Albania, Congo War Forgotten. Enviro: Mining problems in Utah, ENI deal for Tullow, in Uganda and Ghana, called off. Bronx: Hartford Courant trashes the boro

9/21/09 -- CRA: As PNC' s National City shuts down Youngstown branch, Federal Reserve belated says it will look at non-banks subsidiaries like CitiFinancial: too little too late. Bank Beat: After Household counseled fraud, HSBC plays the victim. UN - Global: With UN's Ban Shielded from Nepotism Questions, Scandals Brew, Defenses Outsourced to Mission. As UN's Bed Bugs Spread, Incoming Diplomats Warned of Itching, No Answers, Talk of Gaddafi's Tent Enviro: Oil find in Uganda. Bronx: in blotter, Gun play in Belmont

9/14/09 -- CRA: Foreclosure site parties by Wells Fargo, bloodbath profits for HSBC in Sri Lanka. Federal Reserve's Tarullo says listen to the news, but CAC. Bank Beat: IMF Still Murky on Honduras and SDR Use, Critique on Georgia, Serbia, Hungary and Latvia. In India, CitiFinancial will keep predatory lending. UN - Global: Crackdown on Somali Pirates, Based On Letter to UN by Ex-Prez Yussuf, Questioned. Enviro: Agent Orange remnants in Viet Nam. Bronx:: Burned out buildings and Sunkin Donuts

9/7/09 -- CRA: Predatory lending continues to expand, CitiFinancial in Indonesia. Federal Reserve loses FOIA case, sought to keep its bailouts secret. Bank Beat: G-20 nations agree money laundering havens shouldn't get IMF loans. UN - Global: In China, Misuse of UNDP for Chief Khalid Malik's Family Foundation, Local Whistleblowers Complain. Enviro: EPA and RCRA loopholes. Bronx: What kind of New Yorker is "The New Yorker" for?

8/31/09 -- CRA: Obama's status quo re-nomination of Ben Berkanke to chair the Federal Reserve is Geithner redux. As IMF Funds Latvia, It Props Up Swedish Banks and Evades Questions of Conditions. Bank Beat: Even FIRA hits Citigroup predator, B of A sues FDIC. Seeking IMF Loans, Service Cuts in Jamaica, Serbia, Congo Changes China Deal. UN - Global: Executions by Sri Lankan Army To Be Raised to UN's Ban in Norway.  Enviro: Sterling Oil pollutes Michigan, EPA watches. Bronx: Armory or supermarkets, a plague on both their houses

8/24/09 -- CRA: Contempt for public by FDIC, losing bids secret. Federal Reserve keeps citing Bagelot. Bank Beat: Citigroup lied about Ned Kelly being chased out. UN - Global: Reports of Nepotism for UN's Ban Ki-moon Removed From Internet After Legal Threats by Ban's Son in Law. Enviro: HK-based polluter of SF bay. Bronx: On Iran and Vendex, Sudan to No Bid Contracts, NYC Comptroller Candidates Square Off

8/17/09 -- CRA: As Colonial Bank is Handed to BB&T, Regulators Ignore Community Reinvestment Act and BB&T's Predatory Lending. Federal Reserve: Two CIT agreements too late. Bank Beat: Citigroup spins TARP for abusive loans and bonuses. Pittsburgh transfer by FDIC to PNC in G-20 run up. UN - Global: UN's Ban Expects Nepotism Report Aug. 18, As His Daughter's and Son in Law's Promotion Questioned. Enviro: Exxon Mobil (not) for the birds. Bronx: Post offices to close, smoothie de mamey

8/10/09 -- CRA: Taylor, Bean's HMDA run around foreshadowed sleazy Colonial role. Federal Reserve's Tarullo does not even mention consumers. Bank Bank: Congress demanded Merrill emails from Bank of America, by August 14. UN - Global: UN Nepotism from Congo to NY Criminal Court, UNDP Biter Case Set. .Enviro: Browner is opaque, Guzy asked in Senate. Bronx: Casita Poblana in a former garage

8/3/09 -- CRA: Predatory Lending Persists, Despite Rosy Views from DC and IMF, CitiFinancial's Dark Side in Knoxville. Federal Reserve rifts seen from the IMF. Bank Beat: Sri Lanka's Ethnic Cleansing Bonds Touted by StanChart and HSBC, IMF Silence on Vote Is "Policy." UN - Global: At UN, Biting Incident Reveals Nepotism of UNDP and Congo Envoy, Whistleblower Maced. Enviro: Nuke plant in Ohio pushed by USEC. Bronx: Bloody shooting called clean by NYPD

7/27/09 -- CRA: Board shift from Wells Fargo to Citigroup, no conflict of interest? Federal Reserve ex-Geithner's hypocrisy. Bank Beat: After IMF Vote, Sri Lanka Releases Letter of Intent, Drops IDP "Target" Release from 80 to 60%. UN - Global: At UN, Questions of Ban's Son in Law's Hirings and Promotion Unanswered, In Denmark. Enviro: Chinese buy Angola oil field. Bronx: Fire on 187, grill cooks on 189.

7/20/09 -- CRA: JPMorgan Chase funds mountain top removal in its CRA zone. Federal Reserve gives more exemptions to Citigroup's ICE Trust credit default swaps. Bank Beat: ICP filed comments opposing suibprime CIT's application for bailout. UN - Global: Proponents of R to P Say That UN's D'Escoto and Sen Are Opposed - But Is Honduras An Exception? Enviro: Appalachian coal. Bronx: Frankie's Franks on the Berry Go Round

7/13/09 -- CRA: Despite bailouts, Citigroup, JPM Chase, B of A and Wells Fargo decline California's IOUs, banks oppose more HMDA disclosure. Federal Reserve watch, Bernanke supported by Geithner, who poll says should go. Bank Beat: At CIT, subprime comes home to roost. UN - Global: At UN, Turkey Admits No Move to Put Xinjiang on Agenda, Ergodan Quote "Not Based on Realities." Enviro: Sunoco refinery fined. Bronx: Park closed mid-summer for crew of four workmen

7/6/09 -- CRA: Card rates spike at Citigroup, Ditech keeps on trucking. Federal Reserve Bank of New York dodged M&A lawyer Cohen and went for the Goldman. Bank Beat:: Belgium bars depleted uranium investments. UN - Global: Burmese Days of UN's Ban Are a Failure, By Ban's Own Measure, N. Korea Fires. Enviro: Climate fight move to U.S. Senate. Bronx: LoCo rezoning is too expensive.

6/29/09 -- CRA: Capitol Hill hearing questions credibility of Bank of America and Federal Reserve's Bernanke. Bank Beat: Japan hits Citigroup on money laundering. UN - Global: UN Runs Scared of Sri Lanka, Says National Staff Not Immune -- But Genocide Suspects Are. Enviro: SF oil leak fines. Bronx questions to Bloomberg, small business told to change products = gentrification?

6/21/09 -- CRA: Obama's Proposal By Splitting CRA from Mergers Could Cut Enforcement, Lost in Federal Reserve Sauce, the Hedge Fund Litmus Test. Bank Beat: Despite Human Rights Abuses, HSBC Gushes About Sri Lanka, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank Also Reportedly Hungry for Bloodbath Bonds. UN - Global: UN's Ban Tips Hat to Protesters from High Above NY, Claims He Met With Tamils. Enviro: Will EPA withhold coal ash disposal site locations? Bronx: merchants hurt not helped by new Yankee Stadium

6/15/09 -- CRA: Tales from the Subprime Meltdown Resonate from Coast to Coast as Regulators Spin. Bank Beat: While at Federal Reserve, Geithner opined on Bank of America -- and Citigroup too? UN - Global: UN's Ban Questioned on Record, on Sri Lanka, Half Time Pep Talk; In UN (Non) Walls Would Have Ears, Under Kane Whistleblowers Beware. Enviro: In Kentucky, landfill and the Sunshine Act. Bronx: Street fair, smooth transition from Albanian to empanadas

6/8/09 -- CRA: Why would Bank of America be saved by those who mis-regulated, FDIC's Powell and Federal Reserve ex-Governor Susan Bies? Bank Beat: At Citigroup, with ex-US Bancorp's Jerry Grundhofer, of subprime New Century fame, take over from Pandit? UN - Global: Sri Lanka Denies IDP Reduction Reported by Inner City Press, Raises to UN, Crackdown Explained? Bronx: Questions of Rep. Engel in predators' wake

6/1/09 -- CRA: Loan sharks lick their lips, in the UK. Federal Reserve favored as super-regulator by vulture investors. Bank Beat: Predator promoter McCollum faces Bank of America CFO in Florida gov race. UN - Global: Back at UN, Sri Lanka Sinks Lower than the Basement, Ban Criticized on Human Rights. Bronx: Are Sotomayor's Bronxdale Houses in the South Bronx?

5/25/09 -- CRA: Even in crisis, BBVA eyes US banks. On Bank of America, what explained the Federal Reserve's lack of public notice? Bank Beat: High rate subprime accounts are one third of book at Citigroup and B of A. UN - Global: In Sri Lanka, UN Shown Blown Out Land Devoid of People, UN Preaches Partnership Not Prosecution. Enviro: Small EPA fines in California. Bronx: Fight against Sheridan Expressway on PBS, bikes promoted in Denmark, dissed in Bronx

5/18/09 – CRA: Comments filed on application by Bank of America to Federal Reserve, lack of notice. Bank Beat: Even to airports, Citigroup can't deliver. UN – Global: In Sri Lanka, No Access to Carnage Until Victory Speech, UN Lowers Expectations, Prepares. Enviro: Chinese pollution by Jilin Chemical. Bronx: Before Yanks, Citi (TARP) Field, Puebla on 186 Street

5/11/09 -- CRA: Tenants evicted as landlords foreclosed on, by Deutsche Bank and others. Federal Reserve let Goldman Sachs fox into NY Fed chicken coop, backed down to Wells Fargo, let Bank of America $16 billion off the hook. Bank Beat: Sell off in Japan by Citigroup to Sumitomo. UN - Global: As Death Spikes in Sri Lanka and Press is Deported, UN Sees No Evil, Getting Late for Visit; UN Hides As War Criminal Bosco Surfaces in April 4 Congolese Army Minutes. Enviro: CRC on Illinois bad water, Chevon disclosures on Ecuador case? Bronx: Dollar fifty burger, thinking of the El

5/4/09 -- CRA: Ken Lewis stripped of Bank of America chairman's spot, trashes CRA then calls for support. Federal Reserve Bank of SF asks advice from M&A lawyer. Bank Beat: NASCAR TARP, CitiFinancial fields Ford car. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, UN Thinks Envoy's No Help, UK Will Not Punish. Enviro: Freeport McMoRan and Phelps Dodge in zinc smelting suit, Chevron under gas flare fire in Australia. Bronx: Immigration poem

4/27/09 -- CRA targeted by Bank of America, "7% of portfolio, 24% of losses." Wells Fargo Auto rip off, US Bank as well. Federal Reserve goes subprime, needs TARP. Bank Beat: Kibuki meeting of Citigroup has no taxpayers, victims bought off.. UN - Global: With 6432 Dead in Sri Lanka, UN Council Takes Over Press Room, UNHCR Funds Detention Camps, "Collective Punishment.” Enviro: DuPont in KY, Saudi Basic Industries loss. Bronx: The bypassing of Fordham, the 18 minute rule

4/20/09 -- CRA: Predatory resolutions at Citigroup and Cash America, TARP for RAL, HSBC's LaFalce for Dodd. Federal Reserve has few public orders in 2009. Bank Beat: Rate ripoffs at Citi and Bank of America. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, With 4500 Dead, UN Won't Ask Cease-fire, Nambiar May Brief Council But in Basement, Mexico Clarifies, Des Browne on the Way. Enviro: W.R. Grace asbestos case (and UN asbestos); Shell fined in Nigeria. Bronx: Spin wars, Yanks' stole parkland and fusilli

4/13/09 -- CRA: Regions Financial's contempt for public and HMDA triggers Federal Reserve complaint. Bank Beat: Citigroup's financial chief leaves, JPM Chase kills WaMu branches. UN - Global: UN's Ban Puts Convicted Korean Businessman Chey Tae-won on Global Compact Board, Dismisses Complaints. Enviro: In New Mexico, EJ filing v. new DC administration. Bronx: compare to Bushwick, Brooklyn, fewer hipsters, lower rents

4/6/09 -- CRA: Subprime Survivors Wells, BofA and JPM Chase Were More Disparate By Race in 2008 than Wachovia or Countrywide, Citigroup, US Bank and SunTrust also Disparate, Trends Will Worsen Under Federal Reserve, It's Bank Beat blues. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, UN's Ban Drops Call for Suspension of Fighting, Vague on Aerial Bombing. Enviro: Asarco El Paso smelter proposed settlement open for comment. Bronx BP debate April 8

4/2/09 -- Subprime Survivors Wells, BofA and JPM Chase Were More Disparate By Race in 2008 than Wachovia or Countrywide, Study Finds

3/23/09 -- CRA: Early protests of AIG were fended off by Patrikis of Federal Reserve, Geithner on the grill. Bank Beat: Bailout spin by Citigroup's Pandit and Bank of America's Lewis. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, Leaked Document Calls for UN Council Briefing, ICC's Ocampo Queried, UNESCO Silent. Enviro: American Smelting and Refining Co skips Superfund bill. Bronx: Columbia's Beat is beaten down

3/16/09 -- CRA: In DC, Obama Officials Defend Bailouts of Citigroup and AIG, as Federal Reserve Still Refuses to Say Whom it Paid. Bank Beat: In DC, "Inevitable" Fraud as Obama Jokes with JPM Chase, Meets ExxonMobil. On Sri Lanka, IMF Says Its Pending Loan Would "Support Government Policy Goals," To Wait and See. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon on Capitol Hill Grilled about Reform, "Deadbeat-Gate" Begins, But Where Will It End? Darfur Raised. Enviro: Ecuador vs. Accion Ecologica, on mining? Detroiters vs. incinerator operators Covanta and Energy Investors Funds. Bronx: Lack of bank branches covered, in a way...

3/9/09 -- CRA: Bailout of AIG benefited Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Societe Generale and Royal Bank of Scotland, as Federal Reserve hides names. Bank Beat: Storefront's of HSBC's Household to close, Citigroup's stock goes below $1. UN-Global:  As UN Council Meets, NGOs' Eviction from Darfur Called "Only the First Step," Bashir Indictment Freeze Requests. Click here for Haiti coverage.   Enviro: As UN Covers For Obama Climate Backslide, It Does Not Carbon Offset, "Act Not Together," de Boer Says. Bronx: Botanical Garden's Eyesore Vacant Lot

3/2/09 -- CRA: Directors sleaze in Citigroup partial nationalization. KeyCorp's TARP use critiqued. Federal Reserve's Duke admits deregulatory past. Bank Beat: Asia saves HSBC from Household, subprime included. UN - Global:  On Sri Lanka, UN Meeting Called One-Off, UK Makes No Proposals, Holmes Differs from Ban. Feb. 26 video debate on UN, Sri Lanka, etc  Enviro: ExxonMobil LNG off NJ. Bronx: Slumdog in the boro and crime stats.

2/23/09 -- CRA: Firms seeking bailout funds ask for FOIA withholding, OTS for Genworth and Federal Reserve for the CIT Group. Bank Beat: In Brazil, Itau and Unibanco hook up, Citigroup says its future's in Latin America (if it has one). UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, UK's for UN Council Session Upon Holmes' Return, "Shocking," Mary Robinson Calls It. Enviro: As Power Shift(s), BP pays for Texas killings. Bronx: As Metro North exclusion continues, corruption alleged

2/16/09 -- CRA: Subprime Non-Bank Lenders Ask Obama and Geithner for Bailout, in Guise of Stimulus. Federal Reserve Is JPM Chase's Self-Serving Choice for Meta-Regulator. Bank Beat: Ken Lewis of BofA claims no power over bonuses, Citigroup calls in favors for stadium name, why not jet too? UN - Global: At UN, Russia Maintains Sri Lanka Issues Not in Council, UK Disagrees But Does Not Act, No Ceasefire Call, Even by Holmes. Enviro: Honduran forest protection, Florida crack-down on protest. Bronx: From trattoria to street crime

2/9/09 -- CRA: After Bailout, ING's Kok Blames Regulators, including Federal Reserve, for pumping up subprime, food inflation. Bank Bank: As RBS slaps on bonuses, JPMorgan Chase pays them out. Citigroup sued by American Eagle. UN - Global: On Sri Lanka, UN Won't Confirm its Own Reports or Call for Ceasefire. Enviro: AIG drops climate lobbying, still stands to profit. W. Virginia water settlement scam. Bronx: Zoo cuts Skyfari, bad Madagascar timing, boro restaurants dissed

2/2/09 --  CRA: Banker Allison of BB&T in Meltdown Misdirection, Federal Reserve Shielded BB&T's Lendmark's Subprime Loans. Bank Beat: Weill slinks away from Citigroup, more branch closing by JPMorgan Chase. UN - Global: With UN Silent on the Missing Robert Fowler, Ambassador Whispers, "He's Alive" in Niger. Enviro: Mining under fire in Nevada and Australia. Bronx makes an appearance in Kuala Lumpur, Key Foods helped by crisis

1/26/09 -- CRA: Behind Bank of America's Toxic Assets, Subprime Links Obscured But Continued. Bank Beat: As JPMorgan Chase Shutters WaMu Branches, Commitments Gone, Federal Reserve Missing. UN - Global: Under Obama, UN's Lynn Pascoe May Stay, UNICEF's Ann Veneman Not, Consultant Hired. Enviro: NRC whitewash in Delaware, BHP Billiton cuts Chile copper, Aussie uranium. Bronx: At Fordham, stalking a deadly gang... of geese?

1/19/09 -- CRA: Geithner Evaded Taxes at IMF, Used Statute of Limitations Later, Mishandled Citigroup while at Federal Reserve. Bank Beat: Lawsuits against Bank of America, problem for HSBC with capital. UN - Global: At UN, Egypt's Gaza Text Beats Ecuador's, No Vote for Cape Verde. Enviro: FERC imposes LNG on Baltimore and Pennsylvania. Bronx: Foreclosures by Wells Fargo, pizzeria gone.

1/12/09 -- CRA: Chicken come home to roost at Citigroup, Rubin out, spin off to Morgan Stanley. Federal Reserve's web site goes offline. Bank Beat: Lawsuit against HSBC for involvement in Madoff Ponzi scheme? UN - Global: UN Council Passes Compromise Gaza Resolution, US Abstains, Withdrawal Unclear. Enviro: NYS Gov's land plan in the City. Bronx to go the way of Bushwick, by Bloomberg gentrified?

1/5/09 -- CRA: Treasury puts fig leaf on its Citigroup bail out. Federal Reserve has NYCB, with contempt for HMDA, as advisor. Bank Beat: Bogus $103,000 shack mortgage bought by HSBC and Wells Fargo. UN - Global: As Tanks Roll Into Gaza, UN Council Meets, Fireworks at Stakeout. Enviro: NY test air as parkland given away. Bronx: Family beaten by NYPD on Brook Avenue

12/29/08 -- CRA: Even Capital One beat Citigroup for Chevy Chase. Federal Reserve pretends it hear the Press on GMAC and the CIT Group. Bank Beat: HBOS cuts of Oz Minerals. UN - Global:  UN Wastes $3 Million on 30,000 Oracle Licenses Left Unused, Sources Say, As Budget Committee Meets, No Ban Comment. Enviro: NY Parks Dep't closed park for lead. Bronx: City workers with sticks and drinks

12/22/08 -- CRA: Morgan Stanley's stealth move into banking, Citigroup lends to Dubia, skates on thin ice. Federal Reserve needs to be covered by HMDA, is contemptuous of public on PNC. Bank Beat: Capital One's redlining wallet. UN - Global: At UN, Korean Staff Rise from 51 to 70 in Ban's Two Years, on Pianos and Lobbyists, An Evolution. Enviro: Listening with one ear in Posnan.  Bronx: Of quesadillas and flocking to DC

12/15/08 --  CRA: Swept Under the TARP by the Federal Reserve, Grabs by GMAC, PHH and CIT, Wells' Wachovia's Sewers. Bank Beat: Citigroup settles Egg and auction rate securities claims; Bank of America hit by $141 M verdict. UN - Global: ABN-AMRO and ING Are Facilitators of Congo Sanctions Violations, ICC Disclosure Not Solved. Enviro: Financial downturn means warning in Texas, gas war heats up in Ukraine. Bronx: At HUD, it's not Carrion but an evictor

12/8/08 -- CRA: Of Junkets and Spanish Highways, Citigroup Sleaze with Bail-Out. Royal Bank of Scotland in US and UK. PNC and Ocwen Need Hearings by Federal Reserve. Bank Beat: HSBC insists it will not reform. UN - Global: When UN Loses Money to Dictators, It Resists Disclosure, Unlike Even Corporations; Global Compact mulls the OECD complaint against BHP Billiton. Enviro: Uranium flip-flops, PetroChina finds. Bronx: SEBCO's Cantillo praises "upscale" development

12/1/08 --  CRA: Rubin of Citigroup claims he has no ax to grind, brought in Ameriquest. Horror story of Wells Fargo. Federal Reserve under-regulates, under-discloses under Bernanke. Bank Beat: HSBC's environmental sins. UN - Global: UN Accepted Mugabe's Exchange Rate in Zimbabwe, Refuses to Disclose Losses As In Myanmar. Enviro: Debate in Cincy, harm of oil palms. Bronx: Metro-North and the under-served, tree tale and "seedy atmosphere."

11/24/08 --  CRA: Crony capitalism tinges PNC's capture of National City. HSBC's re-aging began earlier than reported. Federal Reserve's Geithner did not act on predatory lending, Rubin / Citigroup ties. Bank Beat: AIG's grueling meetings in luxurious climes. UN - Global: As Spain Admits It Used International Cooperation Funds for UN's $25 Million Dome, UN Denies and Ban Ki-moon Ignores. Enviro: On Climate Change, UN Lobbies Itself. Bronx: NYT misplaces 2 train in Port Morris

11/17/08 -- CRA: Global fragments of the predatory lending meltdown, Citigroup in Japan, General Electric in Taiwan. Federal Reserve's Bernanke praised by conflicted JPMorgan Chase. Bank Beat: Oversight needed of HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank. UN - Global: UN's Larsen Refuses Ban-Requested Financial Disclosure As Conflict Questions Raised on "Peace" Event and Lebanon. Enviro: Pfizer sued in Indiana, pollution in Vietnam. Bronx: Team Bloomberg Evicts Without Due Process

11/10/08 -- CRA: Lobbying by Bank of America, Wachovia and Wells Fargo, use of bailout funds. Federal Reserve shields & sleazes with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch.  Bank Beat: Which WaMu branches does JPMorgan Chase plan to close? HSBC's card solicitations down. UN - Global: On Obama vs. Osama, UN's Ban Says Bombs Away, Some Opine, Second Term in Mind, Questionless Town Hall Meetings. Enviro: Maryland wind farms; UK car sales down. Bronx: Term limits sweep, NY Times promotes gentrification, ignores rest of borough. See this ICP debate

11/3/08 -- CRA: At UN, Stiglitz Slams JPMorgan Chase For Misuse of Bailout, Federal Reserve for Allowing Predatory Lending. RSB and arms trade, HSBC and cluster munitions. Bank Beat: Pandit's Citigroup's second rate, US Bank horror story. UN - Global: As Congolese Army Loots and Flees, UN Patrols Goma But Says It's Not Responsible. Enviro: Norfolk Southern's dangerous ethanol, Gold Hawk threatens Lima,Peru. Bronx: Marathan set-up, goat soup for immigrantes

10/27/08 -- CRA: US Bailout Will Subsidize Bank Monopolies, PNC and Chase, Excluding CRA and Public Review. Federal Reserve covers up hearing request on Wells Fargo - Wachovia by Fair Finance Watch; Fed subsidizes General Electric, Greenspan's too late. Bank Beat: HSBC falls, National City's scooped up. UN - Global: UNDP's Dervis Admits Paying Saakashvili Unwise, Dodges on Congo Security and Kosovo Fees. Enviro: Penn anti-corporate law? Ivory Coast toxic waste case. Bronx: Hip hop shop in Belmont

10/20/08 -- CRA: As FDIC Offers Bail-Out, Its Conference Calls Are Full Then Off the Record. Federal Reserve's shameful Caja Madrid rubber stamp. Bank Beat: Losses or loss of book value at Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPM Chase, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, State Street, Wells Fargo and others. UN - Global: On Sudan and ICC, Uganda Likes Deferral, Austria and Mexico Want Justice, Iceland Denounces UK Enviro: AIG slow pay, Myanmar sells endangered species. Bronx: Whole 4 train line shut. And see this Oct 17 (UN) debate

10/13/08 -- CRA: On Wells Fargo- Wachovia, no FDIC = no emergency. Federal Reserve gives Inner City Press a Bear Stearns - JPMorgan Chase response, five months late. Bank Beat: As Citigroup vows predatory lending in Asia and Europe, Royal Bank of Scotland begs for UK bailout. UN - Global: Mass Evictions Ignored by UN in World Habitat Day in Angola, As Arms Trial Begins. Enviro: Honeywell fund diversion averted; Alabama company grabs gas in Colombia. Bronx: NYTimes' skewed view of the boro

10/6/08 -- CRA:  In Wachovia War, Wells Fargo Would Require Public Notice and Comment, With FDIC on Citigroup, There's No Emergency. Federal Reserve reviewed by AIG's overseas regulators. Bank Beat: Would failure be better for Germany's Hyper Real Estate? For an debate by Inner City Press on the bailout, click here. UN - Global: UN and Microsoft, Conflicts of Interest and Increased Non-Reporting, Tech Help. Enviro: Native and EJ groups join forces. Bronx: Robber's reward; goat, rice and silence

9/29/08 -- Article: Citigroup - Wachovia Approved by Fed and Bush, Public and CRA Excluded, Laws Repealed?   CRA: Subprime Stoked By Regulation and Bipartisan Greed, not CRA, as Citigroup Shows. Federal Reserve claims it will not control AIG, despite warrants. Bank Beat: WaMu scooped by bottom-feeder JPM Chase. UN - Global: Iran's Ahmadinejad Denies Locking Up Journalists, Unless They "Infringe on Rights of Others." Enviro: Much of Green Funding Is Blood Oil Money, As In Norway's Case. Bronx: Shot deliveryman needs justice

9/22/08 -- Fed Snubs Any Public Review In Making Goldman and Morgan Bank Holding Companies. In DC, Bailout Bill Pushed Beyond US, to HSBC, Barclays, Deutsche Bank and Nomura. CRA: As Wachovia eyes Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup looks at WaMu, remember the law, Federal Reserve should apply to control AIG. Bank Beat: Cutting loose Korea, HSBC denies other interests too. UN - Global: At UN, Freezing Indictment of Al Bashir Discussed by France, Sharing Evidence with ICC Dodged. Enviro: Virginia coal protests. Bronx: R&S Strauss silence, White Castle slow food

9/15/08 -- CRA:  As Cox's SEC did nothing, HSBC in talks for Lehman bail-out the Federal Reserve tries for. Finance Watch: As US Tightens Insurance Sanctions on Iran, Lloyd's of London Writes Myanmar Policies. Bank Beat: Fishman brings an Independentista to WaMu. Citigroup's Fannie and Freddie losses. UN - Global: UN's Ban Avoids Questions of New Cold War, U.S. War on Terror, Excluded Journalists Speak. Enviro: Kentucky mines, Norway oil. Bronx: Boro's lack of FedEx / Kinko's explained as "lack of demand"

9/8/08 -- CRA: As Freddie Mac Is Handed by Paulson to Moffett of Carlyle and US Bancorp, Subcrime Questions previously dodged by Federal Reserve on New Century. Bank Beat: SEC hits General Electric on accounting, Merrill mis-chooses Citigroup mortgage trader . UN - Global: UNDP Admits Herfkens Broke Rules, Dodges on Currency Exchange Losses, Whistleblower Left Waiting. Enviro: Bayer blow up in West Virginia, nuclear Bulgaria. Bronx: Street fair features cheese and real estate scams. New debate

9/1/08 -- CRA: The saga of Citigroup's predatory lending and retaliation continue, as Rubin's title changes. GE Money in Australia. Federal Reserve's Geithner gunning for Treasury, on strength of bail-outs. Bank Beat: Commerzbank - Dresdner, HSBC in Vietnam. UN - Global: UN Whistleblower in Tokyo Raises Questions of Fraud, Cover-Up and Retaliation from Below. Enviro: NEJAC on September 11? Bronx: Ecuadorian restaurant, auto parts are gone.

8/25/08 -- CRA: Subprime fallout for Citigroup and Huntington, Wells Fargo's predatory servicing. Federal Reserve's answer to JPMorgan Chase bailouts? More secrecy. Bank Beat: HSBC and Russian corruption, GE Money's Guatemalteco moves. UN - Global: UN's Gambari's Trips to Myanmar Questioned, Without Answers, Photo-Op With Aung San Suu Kyi Denied.  Enviro: Alaska uranium, Chinese Kazakhstan oil. Bronx: Webster memorial, just south of Carvel. Watch this site. And this (on South Ossetia), and this, on Russia-Georgia

8/18/08 -- CRA: If Citigroup writes ARS settlement on taxes, what happened on its predatory lending settlements? Federal Reserve gives JPM Chase-Bear Stearns a legal patina. Bank Beat: Layoffs by HSBC, Goldman buys ex-AMRO. UN - Global: On Currency Exchange Losses, UN Starts Cover-Up in Myanmar and Beyond. Enviro: Honeywell's Arizona scam; Ecuador versus Chevron. Bronx: Nitty-gritty changes in the Hub.

8/11/08 -- CRA: Subprime fallout for Royal Bank of Scotland and National City. Federal Reserve swears in Duke but no Capital Oner. Bank Beat: Citigroup sleazy with SEC, GE Money layoffs in Ireland, HSBC Household woes. UN - Global: At UN, Georgian Protesters Demand Council Action on South Ossetia But Veto Seems Likely. Enviro: Exxon dominates Alaska, Norway wants the Arctic. Bronx: Hunts Point Wiki-Hype, Trash Talk in Jamaica

8/4/08 -- CRA: Inappropriate joint presser by Citigroup, JPM Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and their regulators. Federal Reserve rubber stamps Azerbaijan. Bank Beat: Seoul hard-ball by HSBC; for GE, Canada's too regulated. UN - Global: Leaked Minutes Show UN Knew of 20% Loss in Myanmar 2 Weeks Before $300 Million Request. Enviro: Kentucky mustard gas, Bulgarian gold. Bronx: More businesses closing

7/28/08 -- CRA: Foreclosure tale of woe caused by JPMorgan Chase and Wachovia's HomEq. Federal Reserve favor for SunTrust on Coca-Cola stock. Bank Beat: more failures and seizures. Citigroup (in London), HSBC (in South Korea)  and GE (in Abu Dhabi). UN - Global: As UN Admits 25% Currency Loss in Myanmar, Demand for Return of Cash Grows, No UNDP Answers. Enviro: Mining deal and oil fight between China and Vietnam. Bronx: noxious smells and closed-down restaurants

7/21/08 -- CRA: Foreclosures in Ireland by GE Money, fest by Federal Reserve in stadium with Bank of America and IndyBank, from beyond the grave? Bank Beat: Why did Holbrooke quit AIG? CitiFinancial slinks out of Slovakia. UN - Global: In Darfur, Lockheed is Late and Poor Performer, UN Admits of No-Bid Contract. Enviro: NC suit v. Duke, Lula's biofuels deal with Indonesia. Bronx: In a Bronx Juror's Eye View, Gypsy Cab Whip Lash Crash 9 Years Ago Gets 1-Day Trial

7/14/08 -- CRA: Prince and Steel, revolving doors from U.S. Treasury to Wachovia and from Citigroup to Xerox, Synovus downgraded. Federal Reserve keeps rubber-stamping JPM Chase - Bear Stearns. Bank Beat: GE Money sell off in Japan, HSBC still longing in Korea. UN - Global: UN Admits Losses to Myanmar Junta Through Currency Exchange, NGOs Skirt with Hawala. Enviro: French uranium leak; Cali chem plant whistleblower. Bronx: MLB ignores local media, religious tuba in Belmont

7/7/08 -- CRA: Subprime send-up of HSBC, the take-down of IndyMac. Federal Reserve gives off-the-record speeches to hedge funds. Does the FRB need Reg FD? Bank Beat: Pandit's pipedream, Citi and Chase, GE Money and Capital One make predatory loans for plastic surgery, teeth whitening and pets. UN - Global: On Darfur, While U.S. Lobbies for Lockheed, Sudan Says No, UK On ICC Moves. Enviro: Fuel fights in Bangladesh and Haiti; Utah yellowcake. Bronx: Restaurant closed for health, bakery back open.

6/30/08 -- CRA: Countrywide sued, Bank of America to layoff 7500. Federal Reserve's late FOIA response admits flawed JPM Chase - Bear bailout vote. Bank Beat: Unions pressure Citigroup's Germany sale, probably to Deutsche Bank. Desperate sales by GE, buys by RBS. UN - Global:  Darfur Envoys Question ICC's Timing, Call for Chad Solution, Don't Know of Lockheed; click here for debate. Enviro: Thai PTT in Myanmar, Laos dam, DuPont pollution. Bronx: Three EZ South Bronx deals, vs. 8 in Manhattan, city's worst bus line

6/23/08 -- CRA: Predatory spread by GE Money, fall-out from closed-door meetings of Federal Reserve. Bank Beat: Citigroup buy and spin, JPM Chase sues its own. UN - Global: On Darfur, Need for "More Activity from UN," US Envoy Says, France's Chad Support as a Problem. Enviro:  L.A. garbage, British deadly sonar. Bronx: Torn-up playgrounds and condos in Melrose

6/16/08 -- CRA: Challenge to insider access of Citigroup, JPM Chase, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, BofA, Wachovia, RBS et al. with the Federal Reserve.  Bank Beat: CompuCredit finally gets sued, protest to Caja Madrid's deal for City National Bank. UN - Global:  On Darfur, Mia Farrow Pans Ban Ki-moon, Calls for UN Action, Says JEM and Chad's Acts Are "Less Important." Enviro: DuPont cancer, PetroChina bond. Bronx: Street fairs in the rain, leaking underground storage tanks.

6/9/08 -- CRA: The spin of Citigroup's subprime, predators cracked down on in Massachusetts (H&R Block's and Wilbur Ross' Option One) and Australia. Federal Reserve vacancies to be filled by Bernanke? Bank Beat: GE Money buys 200 branches in Poland, spreads sleazy lending. UN - Global: Eastern Congo Violence Allowed by UN, Fancy Uvira Camp as Council Visits Goma, Gold and Guns Denied. Enviro: Maryland coal ash; Cote d'Ivoire citizens sue Trafigura, Gbagbo speaks to UN. Bronx:  Gentrification blithely promoted by the New York Times

6/2/08 -- CRA: Subprime fallout, hedge funds profit, Citigroup's mortgage head leaves, HSBC urged to sell. Federal Reserve considers permanent bailouts, ignores JPM Chase and Citi's Libor games. Bank Beat: GE beat Nataxis for Interbanca, gives UK cards to Santander. UN - Global: As UN Council Heads to Africa, Justice in Confidential Meetings, Impunity Not Mentioned. Enviro: Russian metal magnates, Alabama uranium enrichment. Bronx: Times sees Mott Haven fire from Upper East Side, more UK barbs

5/26/08 -- CRA: Baltimore calls Wells Fargo a predator, Citigroup lays-off by conference call, Delta's Miller re-emerges. Federal Reserve's Bernanke hit on Bear Stearns, focuses on trees not forest. Bank Beat: Privatization games by HSBC in Nigeria, GE Money in Australia. UN - Global: UN Peacekeeping Gives CISCO Access to Its Cairo Meetings, Roots of No-Bid Contracting. Enviro: Suez dams the Amazon, trichloroethylene in Texas. Bronx: Stadium parkland delayed, Rao's moved, pols pander on gas.

5/19/08 -- CRA: Foreclosure moratorium, Citigroup's commitment to predatory lending, KeyBank hit on student loans. Federal Reserve's Mishkin, missing on JPM Chase, muses on bubbles. Bank Beat: Russian money laundering cover-up fought by Moldovan reporter. HSBC in India, GE out of Kentucky. UN - Global: In Wake of UN's Darfur Contract with Lockheed, Promotions and Partying But No Peace. Enviro: DC arsenic, Petronas and Uzbek oil. Bronx: Slander in UK, Bloomberg's swingless playgrounds

5/12/08 -- CRA: Whistleblower from inside Wells Fargo, predatory lending at Chase and Citigroup, on the auto tip. Federal Reserve talks of foreclosures while cities file suit. Bank Beat considers Sweden, GE Money and ABN Amro. North Korea still on U.S. terror finance list. UN - Global: On UN's Congo Scandal, Ban Defers to OIOS, Which Itself Stands Accused. Enviro: Areva in Idaho, Ghana exports ethanol to Sweden. Bronx: Vornado moves to shutter supermarket

5/4/08 -- CRA: Predatory lending by CitiFinancial and Wells Fargo, quiet Countrywide shutdown as Bank of America looms. Federal Reserve chooses Wall Street over the hungry. Bank Beat: Korean market sleaze slows HSBC, Czech subprime by GE Money and BNP Paribas' Cetelem. UN - Global:  Access to Information Discussed But Not Practiced at UN, Which Journalists Are Protected? Enviro: On NY merger, Senator Green as in money. Shell bombed in Nigeria, Exxon by Norway's SWF. Bronx: Board of Ed's rubber rooms exposed, but what of District 75?

4/28/08 -- CRA: Disparities in California by Bank of America and Countrywide. Federal Reserve defends no-action on sovereign wealth funds' states in Citigroup and Merrill Lynch. Bank Beat: Korean capitulation to HSBC, GE under fire. UN - Global: WFP's Sheeran Says Speculators Are a Cause of Food Price Crisis, But Has No Suggestions. Enviro: Exxon Mobil insiders, Occidental sleaze. Bronx: Courthouse demolished, strip mall in its place

4/21/08 -- CRA: Data show combining Bank of America and Countrywide would worsen disparities. Federal Reserve lets JPMorgan Chase buy Bear Stearns Bank & Trust with no public comment. Bank Beat: Subprime expands at Citigroup, private banking at HSBC in Ireland, GE Money grows in Latvia. UN - Global: ­ ­ Gordon Brown in Sea of Snubs, In Private Press Conference, Zimbabwe Election Observers Called For. Enviro: Strip mining in Pennsylvania, radioactive Catalonia. Bronx: Pope visit, Yonkers hot sheet motels

4/14/08 -- CRA: 2d subprime study finds HOEPA loans at HSBC and Wells Fargo, disparities at M&I and GMAC. Federal Reserve's secret deals with JPM Chase and Blackrock on Bear Stearns dodge Delaware judicial review. Bank Beat: Four board members at Citigroup under fire. UN - Global: UN Censors Internet In Its NY Headquarters, Blocking Media Critique and Non-Google Video Sites. Enviro: Puget gas fraud, Naples mobbed-up garbage. Bronx: Of police sweeps and chicken wings in Belmont.

4/7/08 -- CRA: First Study of 2007 lending data, disparities at Chase, Citigroup, WaMu, Wachovia, Bank of America and Countrywide, in run-up to Federal Reserve public hearings. Bank Beat: Disparities at targets National City and KeyCorp, US Bancorp's HOEPA loans. UN - Global: UN Development Program "Launders Money" in Latin America, Chart and Sources Say. Enviro: Impunity in NOLA; coal-fired plant scrapped in Malaysia. Bronx: Yankee Stadium railroad waste, predatory lending slows the market.

3/31/08 -- CRA: Second challenge to JPM Chase - Bear Stearns filed with Federal Reserve, two-faced on too big to fail. Bank Beat: Work-outs rejected by Citigroup; in Australia, GE Money is highest-cost lender. UN - Global: UN's Top Lawyer Calls for Pension Reform, Says Ethics Office Decided Not to Mention His $10,000 Monthly Swiss Subsidy. Enviro: Corn ethanol in Cali, Afghan water tests. Bronxites Are Excluded from Metro-North Trains, As Congestion Pricing Looms

3/24/08 -- CRA: Discrimination by Citigroup's Argent. Federal Reserve has stake in JPM Chase - Bear's subprime portfolio. Bank Beat: High-cost tire loans by GE Money, Russian HSBC predatory expansion. UN - Global:  How GA President Kerim Spends Money Questioned as Part of Reform by France and Indonesia. Enviro: Wyoming trichloroethylene; France's Total leaks oil. Bronx: Latin music obit, Francophony in Williamsburg (music and hot sauce review)

3/17/08 -- CRA: Predatory lending by Citigroup exposed on Capitol Hill, exported by GE Money. Challenge to bailout of Bear Stearns via JPMorgan Chase filed with Federal Reserve and SEC. WashPost - Guardian (UK)  Bank Beat: Tax evasions supported by HSBC; Spitzer's alleged money laundering was through North Fork. UN - Global: UN's Censorship and Punishment of Press Criticized by Staff Union, From Google to Crackdown on Photos of the Dead. Enviro: Coal plant soot in Maryland; Ukraine gas flap. Bronx: Goat and lamb in Mott Haven

3/10/08 -- CRA: Foreclosures by Citigroup on Ameriquest loans continue. Federal Reserve flashes then pulls back the data. Bank Beat: Terror finance disclosures by Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays; HSBC in Vietnam and Tehran. UN - Global: In Darfur, UN Gave Lockheed $12 Million No-Bid Food Contract, Leaked Minutes Show, Breakfast in Nyala. Enviro: Arkansas rivers, rubber bullets in Brazil. Bronx: Courthouse to lost charter school, predatory Wells Fargo, UN trees to NYBG?

3/3/08 -- CRA: Predatory lending, by GE in Russia, counting costs at Chase, Wells, HSBC, US Bank. Citigroup's branching games. Federal Reserve plays hide-the-application with Bank of America. Bank Bank: Wikileaks lives. UN -Global: In UN's Corporate Frenzy, Western Union Dismisses Boycott, Coke Exonerates Itself, UNICEF Plays Footsie. Enviro: Indiana Super-fund, Samsung cheap with oil. Bronx: Zip(per) drive on the Concourse

2/25/08 -- CRA: Predatory lending by GE Money in Russia and Australia, Citigroup's Department of Defense cards deal questioned. Federal Reserve remiss again on HMDA guidance. Bank Beat: In the face of bank-requested injunction, here's to www.wikileaks.de. UN - Global: UN Official Speaks of Punishing the Press, Alleging Cowardice, Ouster for 1 or 2 Critical Accounts. Enviro: ArcelorMittal's Kazakh negligence, NY utilities conflict. Bronx: Snowy dancing and hubcaps, years-old FOIL request

2/18/08 -- CRA: While GE Money exports predatory lending, risks of climate change called like those of subprime lending, more disclosure sought, Federal Reserve is a next target. Bank Beat: Commerce Bancorp's Hill talks trash, which TD Banknorth wants to buy. UN - Global: Google, Asked at UN About Censorship, Moved to Censor the Questioner, Sources Say, Blaming UNDP. Enviro: Texas smelter, Nepal fuel shortage. Bronx: Kosovo celebrations, "Death on UN Lawn Leaves Photos Unexplained"

2/11/08 -- CRA: Predatory GE Money moves offshore, Merrill cuts out, funds sleaze at UN, CitiFinancial's arbitration clause struck down. Federal Reserve's blind eye to Royal Bank of Canada's lending to pawnshops. Bank Beat: Santander bites Sovereign bullet, HSBC admits UK losses. UN - Global: UN's Lute Admits No-Bid Lockheed Deal Caused "Confusion," No Conflict of Interest in Iraqi Overlap. Enviro: Frisco sewage, Mexican biofuels. Bronx: Long lines and trees cut down in Fordham

2/4/08 -- CRA: Time and money spending by CitiFinancial in buy-offs; aboriginals gouged, Mizuho gored. Federal Reserve's Volcker goes for Obama. Bank Beat: Predatory expansion by GE Money in UAE, HSBC in South Korea. UN - Global: At the UN, George Clooney Says that in Lockheed Martin's Sole Source Darfur Deal, Mistakes Were Made; click here for video debate. Enviro: Dow's Michigan dioxin, France lusts for Spanish utility. Bronx: Slumlord jammed onto NY National Bank board

1/28/08 -- CRA: Royal Bank of Canada Conceals Fair Lending and Layoff Response to Merger Protest. Federal Reserve spooked by SocGen trader. Bank Beat: Merrill's arrogant Thain. Citigroup in India, GE's Money in Australia. UN - Global: Senate Report Confirms North Korea Violations of UNDP While Letting Wider UN, Kemal Dervis and U.S. Allies Off the Hook. Enviro: ConAg chased out of Clovis, BG Group on the brink in Brindisi. Bronx: Smuggling with Schmuger's Hardware.

1/21/08 -- CRA: Congress summons Citigroup's Chuck Prince. Predatory investor hired Greenspan of Federal Reserve, where Toronto Dominion starts over. Bank Beat: Lost info of GE Money consumers, Bank of America loses jobs, HSBC's bottom-feeding. UN - Global: After Botched Procurement in Burundi, UNDP Denied Documents to UK & Belgian Board Member, Who Was Then Hired. Enviro: DuPont, Xerox and Kodak's Rochester dumping; lead in Saudi pipes. Bronx: Bloomberg's radio claims, cop shop on the El

1/14/08 -- CRA: Bank of America makes mockery of 10% deposit cap, Countrywide's predatory profits. WaMu-Chase rumors. Federal Reserve puts Wells Fargo on "consumer" board, as Wells is sued by Baltimore. Bank Beat: GE's corporate welfare, Citigroup's subprime loophole. Terror money laundering at BB&T triggers miniscule fine. UN - Global: Tony Blair's UN Role May Conflict with New Job with JP Morgan Chase, UN's Subprime View. Enviro: Maryland fly ash; Nigerian gas flaring. Bronx: Food wars, hardware to Bathgate, Dion to Wall Street.

1/7/08 -- CRA: Protest to TD Banknorth grows; Citigroup sued for subprime. Federal Reserve admits communications chaos. Bank Beat: Foreclosure losses of National City, Keycorp, Fifth Third and Royal Bank of Canada soon. HSBC and tax. UN - Global: UN's Darfur Contract with Lockheed Troubles General Assembly, Of Coded Cables and Copters. Enviro: Kentucky mountaintop-removal; Uganda rainforest sell-off. Bronx: Bloomberg from Oklahoma closes day care center

12/31/07 -- CRA: Challenge to TD Banknorth - Commerce. CitiFinancial and HSBC's Household look at credit reports of non-applicants. Federal Reserve allows five year prepayment penalties. Bank Beat: Protest of Royal Bank of Canada's Alabama foray. UN - Global: After Bhutto's Killing, UN Statements Watered Down, Omitting Need for Speed and Rule of Law. Enviro: Sarin in the Blue Grass State. Bronx: Demographics and crime, redlining

12/24/07 -- CRA: Subprime evictions subject to spin in Deutsche Bank memo. Citigroup advocates for hard lenders AFSA.  Federal Reserve defends kids-gloves on YSPs. Bank Beat: HSBC's Colombian infusion, GE's investment in Brazilian oil search. UN - Global: UN Budget Approved, 142 versus U.S., Long Night's Saga at Ban Ki-moon's UN. Enviro: Missouri mergers, Mongolia moral rights. Bronx: Animals missing in Belmont, street hassles

12/17/07 -- CRA: UBS's subprime hit; Citigroup is shrinking, Ameriquest is late. Federal Reserve to punt on prepayment penalties. Bank Beat: Bottom feeding by HSBC, cards to be sold by GE to JPM Chase? UN - Global: Reticence to Vote Confines Kosovo to Private Meeting, No Room for Transparency on Budget or No-bid Contract. Enviro: Toxic tanks in NOLA, kebab crackdown in Beijing. Bronx: As Carrion Downshifts to Race for NYC Comptroller, Human Rights Disinvestment Balanced by Returns

12/10/07 -- CRA: In subprime shakeout, Delta Funding fails and Goldman scoops up Litton. HSBC's cards and GE's fraud. Federal Reserve wants cap on predators' liability. Bank Beat: Deals slow, TD Banknorth finally files for Commerce. Citigroup's SIVs. UN-Global: Behind Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract, Condi Rice and UN's Guehenno in Late 2006. Enviro: Toxic ships in Baltimore, China's Myanmar dam. Bronx: Bloomberg shuts Bronx school on way to Bali

12/3/07 -- CRA: After claiming to be out of subprime, Bank of America and Wachovia announce write-downs. What will Federal Reserve do? Bank Beat: SIV shenanigans at HSBC and Citigroup; Japan GE bribes. UN - Global : UN Confirms Lockheed's Contracts of $36 Million in Congo, $250 M in Darfur, Questions Multiply. Enviro: Coal protest in Utah, Chilean oil rights. Bronx: Albanians on Arthur, mad music on 187

11/26/07 -- CRA: Subcrime sell-outs praise bottom feeders, exported by HSBC, rudderless Citigroup. Federal Reserve bank president Stern against over-regulation. Bank Beat: Singapore dismisses anti-money laundering and tax, General Electric dismissed human rights in Turkmenistan. UN - Global:  On UN's No-Bid Lockheed Contract, Russia Demands Investigation, Why Was Security Council Misled? Enviro: Toxins in NJ, global warming in Brazil. Bronx: Glimpses in American Gangster; some good news on South Brother Island

11/19/07 -- CRA: Predatory Lending Bill Draws Praise from Brokers, Analysis of H.R. 3915, Citigroup's decline. Federal Reserve governors stalled in Senate. Bank Beat: Spin of HSBC, Korean laundering talks, GE Money in Singapore,  UN - Global: UN Controller Called No-Bid Darfur Contracts a "Troubling Pattern," PAE Benefited in the Congo. Enviro: Able UK's asbestos, Kentucky gag order. Bronx: As Bloomberg Repeats Threat to Cease School UN Visits, Does Real Estate Explain? Bronx Footnote

11/12/07 -- CRA: Subprime Citi's fast buck Prince hits the road, H.R. 3915 slinks to House floor. Federal Reserve's Kroszner zeroes in on escrow. Bank Beat: U.S. seeks Iranian sanctions in Greece; GE Money trolls for Vietnam buy,  UN - Global: NATO Staff Designed Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract, French and Legal Questions Arise. Enviro: Coal in Iowa, Idaho and Indonesia. Bronx: PR firms seek Astroturf support for congestion pricing, which diplomats avoid

11/5/07 -- CRA: Predatory mark-up predictions, HSBC documents release three years too late. Federal Reserve takes calls from Rubin of Citigroup. Bank Beat: Sleazy collections by Bank of America and GE. UN - Global: Behind Lockheed's No-Bid UN Contract, State Department Timing, DynCorp, Dissent. Enviro: Minnesota pesticides, UAE denials. Bronx: Visions from the train, slag heap and Typhoid Mary. Review: Bolton Memoir Settles Scores, Dishes Dirt, Ignores Kosovo and Uganda

10/29/07 -- CRA: Predatory lending in Hungary by Citigroup and GE Money. Federal Reserve's Kroszner defends sleazy securitizers. Bank Beat: Merrill's Wachovia outreach, sanctioning Iran's Saderat, Melli and Mellat. UN - Global: Lockheed Shifts Risks to UN in its No-Bid Darfur Contract, Yet To Be Disclosed. Enviro: Polycythemia in the Keystone State; Afghan herbicides. Bronx: Times follies, sadness of P.S. 205.

10/22/07 -- CRA: Subprime bailout fund pits JPM Chase against Citigroup, Bank of America spoofed by Guy Noir. Federal Reserve, not using it, loses it in Miller Watt Frank. Bank Beat: Strike by HSBC workers in Colombia. UN - Global: The $250 Million No-Bid Lockheed Contract for Darfur Mission Infrastructure that the UN Refuses to Disclose. Enviro: Vulcan's perchloroethylene, BHP Billiton seeks Falklands oil. Bronx: Two squibs in donor-gate, NYU's sell-out remembered.

10/15/07 -- CRA: In Subprime Sideshow, Paulson vs. Paulson in Proxy War, SIV sleaze. Federal Reserve: Greenspan's first class tastes. Bank Beat: Through revolving doors, money laundering lobbyists for Citigroup, GE Money, JPM Chase, Bank of America and Merrill. UN - Global: At the UN, Job Favors Cloud Management Audit, Issues Rise to 38th Floor, Investigator's Questioned but Mute. Enviro: W.R. Grace's sleaze; Cyprus sewage. Bronx: Trattoria, wings and B&N ejects those who question Vicente Fox. Review: Of Wine and Cyanide in Queens Plaza Gentrifying Museum of Fake Art -Modell's Magnate Makes Hipsters Gotta Go To MOFA

10/8/07 -- CRA: Flexibility by HSBC is overblown. Citigroup swallows Ameriquest. Federal Reserve talks ILC while Wal-Mart opens bank in Mexico. Bank Beat: Is Barclays for sale and will Bank of America buy it? GE puff piece by NYT. UN - Global: At the UN, Job Favors Asked and Given between Management and Chief Investigator, E-mails Show. Enviro: DuPont's dirty zinc. Bronx: Bloomberg's grants and rants from the S Bx; outer borough falafel. Review: Pere Portabella's circular take on Bach

10/1/07 -- CRA: Predatory cosmetic surgery loans by Citigroup, GE Money and Capital One, whose Larry Klane's head to Federal Reserve. Bank Beat: HSBC spreads to Peru, UAE and China. UN - Global: Big Eyes Over the Railing, Kouchner on Myanmar and Gbagbo, on War, on the Press, Sarkozy Excludes Non-French. Enviro: ADNOC oil slowdown; Baucus carbon offset.  Bronx: Late night street walkers, Wall Street profits

9/24/07 -- CRA: Consumers' data leaked by Citigroup on Lime Wire, HSBC closed Decision One. Federal Reserve's Greenspan closed his eyes on subprime. Bank Beat: Deal by GE Money for BPH. UN - Global: UN's Iraq Meeting Ends with Whimper, Wiesel Breathes Fire, Work and Japanese, Jerk Junkets Abound. Enviro: Schwarzenegger bites the bullet; capping Chernobyl. Bronx: Dead last in response time to fire

9/17/07 -- CRA: Re-opening space for Citigroup's predatory lending; Citi eyes an airline while Federal Reserve ignores Bank of America's compliance violations, including money-laundering. As Fed Releases Mortgage Study, Subprime Disparities Worsen at Citigroup, HSBC, Wells Bank Beat: Used car funding by GE Money in New Zealand, HSBC into Vietnam. UN - Global: UNDP's Dervis Foretells New Panel's Findings, Whistleblowers Left Exposed, Development Mis-served. Enviro: NRC visits Duke Energy, Iran-Turkey pipeline explodes. Bronx: Memories of burning, Bohemian over the bridge

9/10/07 --  CRA: Countrywide shifts its disparate subprime to bank (of America?), GE Money's take on the meltdown, Citigroup's warehouse sleaze, OKC horse. Federal Reserve wanna-be Larry Klane's HOEPA-rich eSmartLoan. Bank Beat: HSBC under attack, not yet for the right reasons.  UN - Global: Errors in Promises to Congress of UN Whistleblower Protection Go Uncorrected, Shooting Messengers. Enviro: DuPont toxins, Chernobyl's cesium-137. Bronx: Ferragosto and predators to the NYBD. Review: Manda Bala, frogs and ears in Brazil

9/3/07 -- CRA: With Subprime Hot Air in DC, Cold-Blooded Citigroup Buys Ameriquest. Federal Reserve's hands-off on consumer protection. Bank Beat: Barclays' predatory hungers come to cost it, HSBC into Korea, GE into Oil. UN - Global: In UN's Chad Preparations, Mystery of Tiger Team Dodged by France, Reverberates in Near-Empty Security Council. Enviro: ExxonMobil refinery suit; polluters behind 9/11.  Bronx: Bloomberg to the right on Bush on fair lending?

8/27/07 -- CRA: Countrywide's disparities inherited by Bank of America, while GE Money is frustrated by Japan's consumer protection. Federal Reserve meets with Dodd, hot air ensures. Bank Beat: Withholding of Royal Bank of Scotland's anti-money laundering policy overcome. HSBC eyes South Korea. UN - Global: At the UN, Whistleblower Loopholes Defended, Ban's Fragmentation Called Ludicrous (with video). Enviro: Citgo's oil spill, toxic mercury for gold mining in Guyana. Bronx: Leave the tamale sellers alone, looking at Mount Vernon

8/20/07 -- CRA: Royal Bank of Scotland files merger response on predatory deal with New Century. Dodd pegged in the crosshairs. Federal Reserve covers-up with rate cut. Bank Beat: Citigroup defends subprime, hides its costs. GE in Colombia. UN - Global:  Somalia Discussed As Journalists Are Killed, White Phosphorous Used --  (Somalia video here) Enviro: Cali pushes pollution to Mexico, and Vietnam. Bronx: We are not Westway

8/13/07 -- Greenspan's Shameless Cash-Out to Deutsche Bank Is a Sub-Crime, Consumers Complain  CRA: As BNP freezes, Dodd dodges. GE predatory in UK. Federal Reserve claims powerlessness. Bank Beat: Bank of America's payday lender sued. HSBC in China; Citigroup's soda. UN - Global: At the UN, Protesters Ask Ban Ki-moon to Do More to Help Free Hostages in Afghanistan. (and video) Enviro: Tesco's hot air. Bronx: Music fairs, de Panama and Sierra Leone. In UN - Bloomberg Fire Safety Stand-Off, Freedom of Information Is Lacking.

8/6/07 -- CRA: Bank of America evades questions from Federal Reserve, Larry Klane's false claims. Bank Beat: Fortis' dissed, Citigroup and TXU; HSBC funds "slave-driver" in Brazil. UN - Global: At the UN, Darfur Resolution's Ambiguity May Spell Trouble, Sudan Says It's Happy (and video). Enviro: EnCap's methane; E. Guinea Kyoto scam. Bronx: Methadone oblivion

7/30/07 -- Bank Beat: Challenge to Royal Bank of Scotland / Santander / Fortis application for ABN Amro. CRA: How many fair lending referrals? Will Federal Reserve take note of Santander's dealings with sanctioned Sepah? UN - Global: UN Mulls Banning Bloggers, Leaked Minutes Reveal, Fearing Coverage Not Easily Controlled. Enviro: Wicheta toxins, Belarus' gas bill. Bronx: Tattoo parlor opens, bike shop shuts down.

7/23/07 -- CRA: Blame for subprime lending losses cast by, and on, Federal Reserve. Volker-style investigation needed. Bank Beat: HSBC eyes Korea, GE stays only for corporate welfare. UN - Global: At the UN, Team Ban Accused of Undermining Africa, Leaking of Letter Is Counter-Charged. Enviro: Shell in Colombia, Illinois PCBs, Serbian ammonia. Bronx: Steam Pipe Incident Raises Underlying Questions, in The Bronx and at UN.

7/16/07 -- CRA: From Ameriquest, predatory notices. From HSBC, predatory spread to Vietnam. GE flees subprime, Nomura hurt by it. Federal Reserve faces loss of unused consumer protection functions. Bank Beat: New arrogance from Bank of America, while Citigroup looks to Toyko. UN - Global: In Somalia, Despite Mortars the Show Must Go On, For Funding (also on Reuters AlertNet, here). Enviro: Dupont's self-investigation, uranium in the Congo. Bronx: Zeppole war? Let the brother go.

7/9/09 -- CRA: Challenge to Bank of America - LaSalle. Federal Reserve pleases mortgage bankers, Citigroup and GE served by Fed's money laundering guru. FOIA harmed by Sen. Kyle. Bank Bank: UK FSA investigates GE Money for predatory lending, as HSBC expands it in Dubai. UN - Global:  At UN in July, China's Changed Position on Myanmar and Faith in Somali "Brothers" Among Tests. Enviro: Mongolian mines, oil merger blockage. Bronx compared to downtown Brooklyn nightlight, City Hall press corps notes

7/2/07 -- CRA: As regulators talk, predators continue. Mellon settles just after rubber-stamp by Federal Reserve, which money launders for North Korea. Bank Beat: Citi and GE in Chile and Guatemala, Wells Fargo dissembles. UN - Global:  At UNDP, Hunting Down Leakers and Whisteblowers' Photos, Hiding Disclosure Behind a Bored Board. Enviro: DuPont in C8 denial, Armenian copper-molybdenum mining. Bronx: Carrot juice and miniature NASCAR by Gun Hill Road

6/25/07 -- CRA: Subprime in Seattle. Federal Reserve spins. Bank Beat: BONY prepares Mellon cuts, HSBC accuse small consumers of money laundering in Singapore. UN - Global: In Ban's UN, Human Rights Arguments Can Be Ignored, Journalists Kept Out of the Club. Enviro: Blue birds nest in Seattle. Bronx: Shadows over Fort Apache stand-in

6/18/07 -- CRA: Bank of New York helps predators, looks the other way. Federal Reserve approves, and engages in money laundering too. Bank Beat: JPMChase's subsidized patriotism. Citi and Deutsche Bank face Parmalat trial. UN - Global: On Darfur, Mr. Ban Dislikes "Skeptical Reporting" While Questions Go Unanswered. Enviro: Bay State's ten toxins, Hyundai and Wartsila. Bronx: Fireworks; ads with BP as campaign contributions?

6/11/07 -- CRA: Regulator OTS Switches Republic Applications Dates for Subprime owner Merrill Lynch. Federal Reserve favors Citigroup in prospective India deal. Bank Beat: From predatory lending to mis-managing trusts, Deutsche Bank is under fire in courts in NY, Florida... and Ohio?  UN - Global: In Myanmar, Local UNDP Staff Must Tithe To Get and Keep Jobs, Yangon Insiders Say. Enviro: Dioxin in Florida, toxins in Chile. Bronx: Street fair with merengue, challenge to NYCB - Doral

6/4/07 -- CRA: Two thirds of Dodd's top 12 donors do subprime, Citi is #2; who hold stocks of Rent-A-Center. Federal Reserve meets more -- but not for consumers. Bank Beat: HSBC's secret toxins vs. its claims of carbon neutrality. UN - Global: At the UN, Dow Chemical Protesters Detained and Media Sent on a Blue Planet Run; UNDP Evasive on Myanmar Corruption. Enviro: Hungry Rio Tinto and Rubbertown. Bronx: Library branch chief says sayonara

5/28/07 -- CRA: Belated predatory lending action promised by HUD and Federal Reserve, which neuters CRA on Guam for ANZ: "Int'l loan sharks welcome." Nominee Betsy Duke's Wachovia problem. Bank Beat: Citigroup retail turmoil, GE South Pacific subprime. UN - Global: In Ban's UN, S. Korean Nationals Placed in Other UN Offices Avoid "Regular Procedures;" UN's Holmes Regrets Not Meeting Somalia's Hawiye Clan. Enviro: Honeywell toxins, Japan's whaling games. Bronx: Questions for MetroNorth, Arzu questions for the cops

5/21/07 -- CRA: Banker Described As Predatory May Join Federal Reserve, a Test for Senators. CRA: Bank of New York tries to withhold details of its subprime enabling, filed with the Federal Reserve despite money-laundering charges. Bank Beat: Questions arise if Wachovia does North Korea transaction; Citigroup predatory in Russia. UN - Global: On Darfur, Questions of Ban's Calls and Kazakh Plane Allegations Not Permitted; UN Withholds Nationality and Job Data Which Even Swiss Would Release. Enviro: Duke to burn coal in NC; toxins in Cambodia. Bronx: In Melrose, crushed for a crucifix

5/14/07 -- CRA: Stealth subprimer AIG hit for $128 million, what of Lehman Brothers? Citgroup's greenwash. Federal Reserve seat for Capital One and Deutsche Bank's Klane? Bank Beat: Chase's Dimon's Whisperings with Dow's Leveris. UN - Global: UN Counter-Terrorism at Crossroads, From Danish Cartoons to Sunset on Javier Ruperez. Enviro: ExxonMobil fined in Cali; in Nepal the lights grow dim. Bronx: Good doctor, bad doctor, chicken and greed

5/7/07 -- CRA: Dodd, funded by Citigroup, HSBC and Wells Fargo, says no law needed on subcrime. Federal Reserve delays action even on HOEPA. Bank Beat: BofA's petulant suing of ABN Amro, Gramm's UBS gets burned. UN - Global: DSG Migiro Says UNDP's Centrality Not Yet Decided, Condi Rice Theory; U.S. Highlights Bloggers at the UN, While Keeping Them from Amb. Khalilzad. Enviro: Lye in Massachusetts, lie in China. Bronx: Playground closure outrage, Cinco de Mayo in Belmont, Ridgewood's stiff upper lip

4/30/07 -- CRA: Pot accuses kettle, Citigroup calls for GE break-up. Wells Fargo and the defective bed loan. Federal Reserve's Gramlich spins on subprime. Bank Beat: The arrogance of BONY. UN-Global: UNDP's Audi(t); Somali TFG - Blackhawk Down connection. Enviro: Chevron's Arthur Kill; Uganda's DDT. Bronx: Drunken students stumble east to Crotona, simulacra

4/23/07 -- CRA: Prince of Citigroup Eyes Predatory Argent; problems at Wells Fargo Auto Finance. Bank Beat: Shred at Royal Bank of Scotland; Second comment on Bank of New York - Mellon, while Federal Reserve withholds information. UN - Global: Sudan's "White Plane" Was Bought From Russia; UN Rewrites Rwanda Genocide Exhibit. Enviro: Guam toxins, AIG plays cheap, post-Katrina. Bronx: BONY's disparities in boro it wanted to exclude

4/16/07 -- CRA: Predatory Lending in NY Compared to S&L Crisis, As Subcrime Disparities at Citi and JPMorgan Chase Worsen. Federal Reserve's Bernanke walks out on Cheney, invokes invisible hand. Bank Beat: Challenge to Mellon deal by Bank of New York, Enabler through Swaps and Caps of Predatory Lenders. UN - Global: At UNDP, Ad Melkert's Political Hiring Rivals Wolfowitz's; Ban Ki-Moon's 100 Days at the Helm. Enviro: Guam flim-flam; Palladium and acid rain. Bronx: Strike at Promesa, Inc.

4/9/07 -- CRA: Lending Disparities in 2006 at Citigroup, HSBC, Argent, GE, Chase, RBS and Other Large Banks. Wells Fargo cites Federal Reserve, which allowed subprime crisis. Bank Beat: Sloppy New Yorker Defense of Subcrime. UN - Global: Fijian Troops are "Rotated" to UN in Iraq through Loophole in UN Coup Response; UN's Africa Report Embraces Privatization of Banks. Enviro: Toxic sludge and loans in Carlsbad, toxic gas in Congo. Bronx: Around the HUB, no trains but hot dogs

4/2/07 -- CRA: Predatory Wells Fargo. Federal Reserve clings to the past. Bank Beat: GE Money Bank's Polish moves, HSBC's Iran exit. UN - Global: UNDP Officials Summoned to SDNY in N. Korea Case; UN Threats Against Dubai Corruption Whistle-Blowers Pose Test for Ban Ki-moon. Enviro: Murphy Oil pays in NOLA, Shell's nuclear loss in Nigeria. Bronx: Sears demolition and mashed plantains

3/26/07 -- CRA: Sen. Dodd Focuses on Brokers, HSBC Blames Its Victims, Citigroup Escapes. Federal Reserve, years late, dollars short. Bank Beat: Barclays Subprime hungers. UN - Global: Ahmadinejad No-Show Through Rashomon Lens, Finance Watch: Impact on Bank Sepah?  Enviro: Secret Delaware coal, Total oil bribes, Mozambique climate change. Bronx: MTA follies

3/19/07 -- CRA: Predatory lending notes, on Ameriquest layoffs, Citigroup opportunism, H&R Block's dreaming. Federal Reserve did nothing on New Century. Bank Beat: Wal-Mart drops ILC bid; GE Money talks of worldwide subprime. UN - Global: Questions of Iran Texts, At the IMF, Comment on Global Subprime Contagion Deferred. Enviro: Ohio radium; dam in Sudan. Bronx: St. Barnabas spread tuberculosis, schools threatened with closures.

3/12/07 -- CRA: Barclays' New Century sleaze, Patrick's Ameriquest call to Robert Rubin. Federal Reserve forgets Citigroup - AT&T conflict. Bank Beat: Deutsche Bank in Brazil, HSBC in Mexico, Chase in subprime, GE in Canada, Comerica leave Detroit behind. UN - Global: In Iran Talks, Hope to Shivering Reporters; Ban Ki-moon Dodges Mercenary Questions. Enviro: Qui tam in Denver, Russian corporate cops. Bronx: Movie reviews, Tremont and Bamako

3/5/07 -- CRA: Sleaze redux, Citigroup -Ameriquest and Arnall. Wells Fargo as predator. Federal Reserve: Despite foreshadow, slowdown for BofA means no need to rush. Bank Beat: GE Money spreads, while U.S. Bank echo in New Century meltdown. UN - Global: Suspending Operations in N. Korea, UNDP Slows Audit Called for by Ban Ki-moon; Darfur Falls Into Footnotes. Enviro: Honeywell haz mat, Nigeria oil tour. Bronx: Concourse mysteries, downtown paparazzi

2/26/07 -- CRA: Ex-journalist now defends CitiFinancial's fraudulent 21% loans; HSBC fires Household execs. Federal Reserve's Bies speaks up belatedly. Bank Beat: As U.S. predators fall, JPM Chase buys into UK subprime, Wells Fargo warns of layoffs. UN - Global: More Peacekeepers from Fiji, Cocheme Asked to Face Questions. Enviro: Study of Haz-Mat siting. Bronx: Spitzer's bank pick is TD and Citigroup insider, Sears takes sidewalk

2/19/07 -- CRA: Those who propped up Fieldstone included JPM Chase, Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers. Philly v. Wachovia. Federal Reserve speaks on ad scams. Bank Beat: The arrogance of Bank of America, including on money laundering. GE's Subic call center; Citigroup in the desert. UN Global: Ban Ki-moon Wants Access to Darfur, Has Genocide Office Shortlist. Enviro: BP in Texas, oil and chivas in Ecuador. Bronx: Reviews of tacos and periodic paper

2/12/07 -- CRA: The meltdown of HSBC, abuse by Citigroup as OCC spins. Federal Reserve begrudgingly reconsiders Wachovia's subprime withholdings. Bank Beat: Muni-bond sleaze by Bank of America, also GE Money scams. UN - Global: Head of UN Pension Fund Ignores Investigation, While Whistleblower Speaks to ICP. Enviro: Nigeria oil corruption; KeyBank's Artic sleaze. Bronx: FedEx scams, dollar store daze

2/5/07 -- CRA: A near-dead predator revived? Citigroup - Ameriquest would mirror HSBC's Household. GE Money fined in Britain. Federal Reserve want to bend antirust rules. Bank Beat: Subprime animal JPMorgan Chase, money laundering by Bank of America, pre-US Trust. UN - Global: Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army in Sights of UN Security Council President, for Action on War Crimes. Enviro: Hired guns for LNG, Davos pittance. Bronx: Bee-line to Rent-a-Center

1/29/07 -- CRA: Barclays goes predatory, Ameriquest gets sued. Federal Reserve defends payday lenders. Bank Beat: Challenge to Bank of America - U.S. Trust. UN - Global: UNDP Backslides on Audits As Scope Expands to UNICEF, WFP, and UNFPA, FAO and U of Peace, DSA of Vitaly Vanshelboim. Enviro: Indiana ethanol, BP's Azeri gas. Bronx: Bad-mouthed in Georgia, arrested to the north

1/22/07 -- CRA: Using Experian, AIG's American General spies to prevent payoffs. Bank Beat: Barclays buys Regions' subprime and stadium naming rights. UN - Global: In the Face of UNDP Scandals, Ad Melkert Says "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet." Enviro: San Diego pollution, Azeri repression. Bronx: Dissed again by elitist media, not BBC, but WYNC, on branches

1/14/07 -- CRA:  Predatory lending spread by HSBC, while CitiFinancial's wings clipped in Japan and Ireland; Ameriquest and Gates Foundation. Federal Reserve lets PNC whisper insider secrets. Bank Beat: Missiles and money laundering, U.S. at UN alleges; GE Money's Honduras deal. UN - Global: At UNDP, As Corporate Dealings Grow, Standards Are Lacking, With Coke and Cisco, Koc and Karimov. Enviro: ConocoPhilips oil flaring, Fiji's gold (mining) coup. Bronx: How and for whom is progress defined?

1/8/07 -- CRA: Predatory enablers of OwnIt included JPM Chase, Credit Suisse, Countrywide and Nomura. Bank Beat: The meltdown of HSBC, corporate welfare to GE Money in Hungary. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Demands Resignations, Then Won't Release the List; Kosovo Warnings. Enviro: Ohio solvents, Chevron in Ecuador. Bronx: Chicken wars in Hunts Point and decapitation

1/1/07 -- CRA: Predatory lending in Ireland, including by CitiFinancial. Challenge to PNC - Mercantile, beating Federal Reserve's absurd deadline. Bank Beat: The I-Kiosks of GE Money, a victim of HSBC. UN - Global: Inaction as Ethiopia Invades Somalia, UNDP's Dubious Russia Dealings. Enviro: Highway in Milwaukee, power plant in Chelsea. Bronx: Riverside park and James Brown's funeral

12/25/06 -- CRA: Subprime scoop picked up, now JPM Chase linked to OwnIt. Federal Reserve hides Citigroup's sins. Bank Beat: Even the City trashes HSBC's Household move. UN - Global: Mysterious Deletion from Iran Sanctions List, UN's Revolving Door. Enviro: Oak Ridge nukes, birds fooled in Finland. Bronx: Pro-development NY1 can't spell, bike lanes have holes

12/18/06 -- CRA: Philly vs. Wachovia, HSBC's subprime losses but RBS wants in. Federal Reserve lags even UK's FSA. Bank Beat: More Central American moved by Citigroup, Chase to sell Ameriquest; GE in China. UN - Global: UNDP's Ad Melkert Says He Will Finally Increase Transparency, Dodges Uganda Funding of Violent Disarmament. Enviro: DuPont toxins, California dumping. Bronx: The closing-down of Sears

12/11/06 -- CRA: Predatory lending by GE Money, in Singapore. Royal Bank of Scotland dissembles, and HSBC declines. Bank Beat:  ACC / Ameriquest sells off subprime auto unit, Deutsche Bank looks for a servicer. UN - Global: UNDP as Vanity Press, attacking independent media while withholding its audits. Enviro: Ohio nukes, Sakhalin blues, where are the banks? Bronx:  Foreclosures up, a Bronxite's death in Iraq, RIP

12/4/06 -- CRA: Irish loophole used by GE Money and CitiFinancial. HSBC covets predatory Champion. Federal Reserve sucks up to WaMu, ING and AmEx. Bank Beat: Who will buy Ameriquest? AIG takes subprime overseas. UN - Global: Taking a Look at UNDP, Brian Gleeson, Kalman Mizsei, Vietnam and Russia. Enviro: ConocoPhillips oil spill; Indonesia gas pipe explosion. Bronx: Meth labs and unlicensed shippers

11/27/06 -- CRA: Agencies' weak reactions to HMDA disparities, Wachovia's branch closing. Federal Reserve's Bernanke rides shotgun to China, free pass for Citigroup and BofA? Bank Beat: Capital One insider trading. UN - Global: UNDP Dodges Questions of Disarmament Abuse in Uganda and of Loss of Togo AIDS Grant, Dhaka Snafu. Enviro: Haz Mat Jazz and Tasmanian pulp. Bronx: Melrose Commons spreads blight. Review: Elite against I.F. Stone

11/20/06 -- CRA: National City and Chase take the money and run; subprime auto from Wells Fargo and Wachovia, for which a Philly fight is brewing. Federal Reserve blows off comments while mis-serving the public. Bank Beat: Predatory lending spread by Citigroup, HSBC and GE Money.  UN - Global: Nagorno-Karabakh President Interviewed, click here for the video. Enviro: Urenco moves the nukes; haz mat to Michigan. Bronx: Foot Locker Fire and Flushing

11/13/06 -- CRA: New Congress has oversight fodder in Chase - OCC, Federal Reserve's Capital One and Regions rubberstamps. Bank Beat: Foreign policy by HSBC, predatory GE Money spread. UN - Global: On Water, UNDP Talks Human Rights, While Enabling Violators; Deutsche Bank Collects USG. Enviro: Toxic waste in Gettysburg, GE's PCBs. Bronx: Broken Battery, park race debate in Times

11/6/06 -- CRA: Predatory expansion by Latin Citigroup and GE in the UK. Fed Watch: Capital One in the crosshairs? Bank Beat: Polish moves by HSBC and Fortis. UN - Global: Musical Chairs at the UN, U.S. Candidate for WFP Praises Mega-Corporations. Enviro: Jersey toxins. Bronx: Toxic political reflux. Review: Rory Stewart, Colonial Hipster

10/30/06 -- CRA: Payday lender and GE Money  head east to Asia, CitiFinancial misuses micro-credit card. Bank Bank: Pinochet's money-laundered gold found in HSBC?  JPM Chase chooses subprime for mortgages. UN-Global: A Tale of Two Americans Vying to Head the World Food Program, Banbury and Sheeran Shiner. Enviro: Mercury in Delaware, protests in Peru. Bronx: On Webster Avenue, slow busses and African movies and food

10/23/06 -- CRA: Predatory lending by GE Money and Citigroup in Japan, Provident in Hungary. Federal Reserve rubber-stamps Regions-AmSouth. Bank Beat: Wall Street goes subprime; Myanmar off FATF money laundering blacklist, no comment from U.S.. Global: As Turkmenistan Cracks Down on Journalists, UNDP Works With the Niyazov Regime. Enviro: ConocoPhilips fined for oil spill. Bronx: Kingsbridge musing, diss from New England

10/16/06 -- CRA: Subprime moves by Citigroup and Bear Stearns. Ameriquest impunity. Federal Reserve covers up predatory National City. Bank Beat: Latvian incursion by GE Money. In Abkhazia, money laundering alleged. UN - Global: Votes on North Korea and Slippery Eel; of Georgia and Sun Microsystems. Enviro: Texas toxins, nukes on the move, HSBC's green-washing.  Bronx: Fire musings on Valentine; Metro North's profiling by station location

10/9/06 -- CRA: Predatory lending by GE Money in Texas, by AIG in Utah. CitiFinancial in India. Federal Reserve's late questions to Wachovia and National City. Bank Beat. Terror money laundering by RBS and Credit Agricole. UN - Global: Darfur admissions, Gambian whitewash, UN SGs to disclose finances? Enviro: Citgo's Texas benzene; Three Gorges Dam displacement up to 1.4 million. Bronx: Forlorn Times, shelter jobs

10/2/06 -- CRA: Theft of consumer information by Citigroup, JPM Chase and Wells; subprime lending in Japan and Thailand by AIG; oily Snow. Federal Reserve sells out to Wachovia on Golden West. Bank Beat: IT at HSBC seized by predator, BofA money laundering. GE unregulated in Canada as well. UN - Global:  U.S. Candidate for UN's World Food Program May Get Lame Duck Appointment, Despite Korean Issues. Enviro: Illinois toxins. Bronx: MTA delays, global grocery is gone

9/25/06 -- CRA: Predatory lending whistleblower, and OCC punts on JPM Chase's branch closings. Federal Reserve gets snapshot of accelerating foreclosure rates by subprime National City. Bank Beat: Regions-AmSouth admit but hide assistance to payday and car title lenders, pawnshops to continue. UN - Global: On Darfur, Hugo Chavez Needs Time to Study, While U.S. Accuses (click here for ICP video). Enviro: Rubber-stamp on the Gulf Coast for Dupont. Bronx comes up at UN, while JPM Chase makes toxic loans

9/18/06 -- CRA: Predators for sale to I-banks. Citigroup as bad employer. Federal Reserve's Minehan talks subprime, with Board closes eyes to Regions-AmSouth. Bank Beat: Who's for sale? UN - Global: As UN's Annan Now Says He Will Disclose, Whether It Will Be to the Public Goes Unasked. Enviro: MBTE in Maryland, Nagorno-Karabakh and oil. Bronx: Dodging the health department and Britain's insults

9/11/06 -- CRA: Targeting of African Americans For High Cost Mortgages Grew Worse in 2005, While Federal Reserve Downplays Its Own Findings and (Fed Watch) excuses Credit Agricole's money laundering and rights violation. Bank Beat: Citigroup's duplicity, HSBC's belated disclosures, GE Money on the Pampas. UN-Global: Micro-States Simmer Under the General Assembly's Surface, a Vote on Nagorno-Karabakh. Enviro: As UN Checks Toxins in Ivory Coast, the Dumper Trafigura Figured in Oil for Food Scandal, with RBS and BNP Paribas as funders. Bronx: Ferragosto and faraway slander

9/4/06 -- CRA: Predatory lending in Australia by GE Money, by Ameriquest in Maryland. Will the Federal Reserve act as Wachovia spreads it overseas? Bank Beat: Sleaze by Citigroup is costing it. In name of anti-money laundering, North Korea is squeezed. UN-Global: Security Council President Condemns UN Officials Getting Free Housing from Governments, While UK "Doesn't Do It Any More." Enviro: Gaseous Kentucky, Port Harcourt in oil-driven flames. Bronx: Four Ballot Marking Devices = Voting Rights Act Violation

8/28/06 -- CRA: Cover-up of Federal Reserve's Mortgage Data Analysis, Which Citigroup Evades; Regions' AmSouth Sleaze. Bank Beat: Italian mega-merger; HSBC in Ukraine, GE Money's live Czechs, CitiFinancial in Poland. UN-Global: Inquiry Into Housing Subsidies Contrary to UN Charter Goes Ignored for Eight Weeks. Enviro: Manganese protests in Vietnam. Bronx: CDCs and gentrification, steam tables and hot sheet motels.

8/21/06 -- CRA: Challenge to Regions - AmSouth, including on Katrina Zone sleaze. Federal Reserve gets World Savings - Wachovia response on low-doc loans. Bank Beat: Partial FOIA win on HSBC, the fight continues. GE hungry for predatory loans in Hungary. UN-Global: Human Rights in Uzbekistan and Among Ship-Breakers in South Asia. Enviro: DuPont's C8 poison. Bronx: Targeted, gelato, sancocho and Organic Fertilizer.

8/14/06 -- CRA: Challenge to National City's subprime and FLA applications. Federal Reserve withholds Wachovia-solicited support letters to end of comment period. Bank Beat: Polish predatory Citifinancial, Czech's GE Money and HSBC hunts Takefuji in Japan. UN-Global:  Africa Can Solve Its Own Problems, Ghanaian Minister Tells Inner City Press, in Lebanon's Shadow. Enviro: Gas in Benin; Oak Ridge nukes on the move. Bronx: Loss of electrical power, rotting steel in 149 Street Station

8/7/06 -- CRA: Predatory lending spreads, by Citigroup in Hong Kong, GE Money in Singapore, and Chase in the suburbs of Atlanta. Federal Reserve allows duopoly by Wachovia and BofA in Florida. Bank Beat: Mergers in Ukraine. Global: UN Knew of Child Soldier Use by Two Warlords Whose Entry into Congo Army the UN Facilitated. Enviro: Beyond petroleum? BP's Indonesian gas and Alaskan whistleblowers. Bronx: Old folks swelter as the bus goes by.

7/31/06 -- CRA: Recent Golden West employee tells ICP of predatory practices, now in to Federal Reserve on Wachovia's application. Bank Beat: Stealth New Zealand moves by GE; the buying of power by HSBC, predatory into Brazil. UN-Global: As Congo Election Approach, UN Hastily Exonerates Itself. Enviro: Litigation abuse by Lockheed Martin; ExxonMobil's Sakhalin spill. Bronx: Hollywood does wild dogs; Clay chicken; gentrification on NPR

7/24/06 -- CRA: Protest filed to Wachovia - Golden West. Federal Reserve protects Wachovia, tries to impose FOIA fees. Bank Beat: Earnings roundup of Citigroup, Chase, BofA, and Wells, and HSBC and mining. UN-Global: UN Silent as Warlord who Kidnapped UN Peacekeepers Is Made Colonel in Congolese Army. Enviro: Sewage in Spokane, oil thefts in Iraq. Bronx: Lights out in housing projects and nobody cares; calumny and salsa on The Beach

7/17/06 -- CRA: Savings bank application by global bank Societe Generale, to buy mortgages, challenged by ICP. Predatory lending by RBS exposed in UK. Federal Reserve receives Wachovia - Golden West application; FOIA request submitted. Bank Beat: Export of predatory lending by HSBC to Brazil. UN-Global: Corporate partnerships with UN to be reviewed; Security Council's lawless votes. Enviro: Russian oil, Texas toxins. Bronx: Dominican street fair jumping, 187 less so

7/10/06 -- CRA: Solicitation of deposits by CitiFinancial. Faced with FOIA request on 200 disparate lenders, Federal Reserve withholds five feet of documents. Appeal to follow. Bank Beat: Synovus sleaze confirmed; GE Money lends on used cars in Latvia. UN-Global: North Korea Missile Test; UNDP Stonewalling. Enviro: Massey Energy and Wells Fargo, chopping off the tops of mountains. Bronx: Salsa and subway reviews

7/3/06 -- CRA: On predatory lending, the FDIC does very little, audit says. Federal Reserve delays FOIA response for 8 months. Bank Beat: Sleaze by Citigroup on CitiFinancial and Basel II. UN-Global: UNDP halts programs due to Ugandan army's abusive disarmament but questions remain. Enviro: Delaware toxins; Bolivia to sue Enron. Bronx: Death underground, condos high above.

6/26/06 -- CRA: On Regions - AmSouth, a call for a plan to serve the Gulf Coast, at last. Bank Beat: Countrywide dreams of deposits, while hiring from the Federal Reserve, which dissembles in Wachovia Freedom of Information Act appeal. Global: UNDP's undisclosed role in Uganda disarmament abuse. Enviro: Guam toxins; Sudanese oil games. Bronx: Webster's spine to 149.

6/19/06 -- CRA: The world is a ghetto, per UN-Habitat on way to Vancouver forum. HSBC now admits ripping off soldiers. Wells Fargo's two faces on HMDA. Chase branch closing games. Bank Beat: Challenge to Capital One-North Fork. BofA computer glitch? Federal Reserve ignores predatory lending by BB&T and others. UN-Global: ICP questions UN's Kofi Annan on FOIA and human rights. Enviro: Lead in NC; Haz Mat in Italy. Bronx: Anonymity blown on Fox Street; environmental confusion; Wal-Mart foreplay

6/12/06 -- CRA: Predatory tax Refund Anticipation Loans lie behind HSBC's stealth application to the Federal Reserve, which has delayed on 22 Inner City Press FOIA requests. Bank Beat: Mail on Wells Fargo and Citigroup in India. UN-Global: In Bolton's Wake, Speech and Silence at the UN. Enviro: Critique of EPA on Gulf Coast; Halliburton in Saudi. Bronx: Half the courthouse story, World Cup on the sidewalk

6/5/06 -- CRA: As with Wal-Mart, ICP Fair Finance Watch comments on Home Depot's bank attempt. Bank Beat: Rushing to Russia are Citigroup, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank, whatever the costs. Money laundering in Belarus. Federal Reserve so secretive for Wachovia it stops regulating. UN/Global: Reports on AIDS and pharma's power. Enviro: WMD in Indiana; a powerless nation, Niue. Bronx: Playgrounds plaything, no Thonx.

5/29/06 -- CRA: Challenge to Gulf Coast's Trustmark; more Ameriquest sleaze; JPMorgan Chase's Brooklyn disparities. Fed Watch: When is 25% not predatory? Excuses for money laundering by Santander. Bank Beat: Shorting its workers, Citigroup goes long with CitiFinancial. Global: Conflict Cocoa in Cote D'Ivoire but maybe no election. Enviro: GE in Oregon, gas plant in Rwanda. Bronx: The lye and fried chicken; NYT cool in whose code?

5/22/06 -- CRA: Challenge to redlining info-loser Mercantile. Predatory NovaStar enabled by RBS, Wachovia and Deutsche Bank, not subject to Fed Watch while deeper into subprime. Bank Beat: Silence on money laundering from Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. At the UN/Global: Kinshasa Election Nightmares, from Ituri to Kasai. Enviro: Denver asbestos; copper mine in Peru. Bronx: Conde Nasty? Lack of Prospect Avenue follow-up, and wi-fi below Fordham Road

5/15/06 -- CRA: Delaware's FOIA shielded HSBC's predatory lending; report on appeal. Worsened disparities at BB&T; Capital Hill half-truths from OTS. Bank Beat: After Wachovia's Golden shower, might it be Wells Fargo - 5/3? Citigroup's high-flying predators. Fed Watch: Blind to money laundering in Japan, challenged on FOIA in court. Global: UN Human Rights Council Has Its Own Hanging Chads. Enviro: Toxins from Kentucky to South Africa. Bronx: Missing out on jobs, the Times selective vision

5/8/06 -- Wachovia - Golden State: disparities and fringe finance. CRA: State by state, JPM Chase's disparities. Citigroup's stealth subprime sleaze. Bank Beat: Office closings by HSBC; silence 'til closing by Sovereign. Bank of America's Latin hide-out.  Federal Reserve punts on Chase-BONY. Global: Press freedom in Republic of Congo? Child labor litigations against UN Global Compact members Nestle and Cargill. Enviro: Toxic politics in Abkhazia and Transdniester. Bronx: Gentrification watch; pozole street fair.

5/1/06 -- Global CRA: At founding public forum, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank defend their operations. NatCity sued in Detroit for discrimination. Bank Beat: In Brussels, money laundering fears block retail banking. Federal Reserve lets BONY settle again, in lead-up to JPM Chase deal. Global: Report from UN's cut-cost info center in Europe's torn-up heart. Enviro: MTBE in Maryland; Csonka runs wild in Alaska. Bronx: Scam replicate, from Britestarr to Related - old jail, new jail, city for sale

4/24/06 -- CRA: Predatory Lending in the Big Apple, 2005 data worse than 2004, including at Chase, Citigroup, Wells, HSBC and WaMu, study shows. Bank Beat: Data called "too complex" to respond to by Citi's CEO; Lone Star's Korean payola. Federal Reserve lets AmSouth on money laundering and other issues slide. Global: Refugees in Liberia and Burundi, and UNHCR's silence. Enviro: Vinyl chloride and Belgian oil dealings. Bronx: St. Martin of Tours school spared.

4/17/06 -- CRA: Challenge filed to JPMorgan Chase's proposal to buy 338 branches from Bank of New York, and close 50 of them. Federal Reserve asks Santander about Sovereign's links to pawnshops. Bank Beat: Layhttp://www.innercitypress.org/bankbeat.htmloffs as Bank of America moves to close three call centers. UN-Global: Bombs on Chad, blindness in Uzbekistan. Enviro: Uranium in Tennessee. Bronx: The renamed Labs of Bathgate Park

4/10/06 -- CRA: First study of disparities in 2005 mortgage data at Citigroup, HSBC, WaMu, Wells and others. Bank Beat: Testimony on Wal-Mart's application. Federal Reserve defends to appeals court its denial of FOIA request by ICP about Wachovia and subprime. Global: Unexploded remnants of war. Enviro: On the Gulf Coast, EPA finally admits toxins. Bronx: City (and Citi) of the sell-out, borough of (nuclear) secrets

4/3/06 -- CRA:  The hidden Wal-Mart wholesale plan. HSBC exports its predatory lending. Federal Reserve holds nose on Lendmark and BB&T. Bank Beat: Sovereign's disparate lending, as Relational drops out. Global: At the UN, Dues Threats and Presidents-Elect; Oil and the Congo. Enviro: Toxic air in Delaware; sulfur dioxide in Alaska. Bronx: Slated closings of parishes and schools

3/27/06 --  CRA: From DC, questions about H&R Block and GE. Staffers on the move; HSBC's predatory lending. Federal Reserve questions Santander about Wells Fargo's subprime Island Finance. U.S. money laundering official jumps to JPM Chase, through revolving door. Bank Beat: BB&T admits aiding payday lender. Global: Kofi (and Kony?) in the Congo. Enviro: Water treatment woes on the Gulf Coast; El Paso's coal-bed drilling. Bronx: In remembrance of the Happy Land Social Club fire

3/20/06 -- CRA: Selective hearing by FDIC on Wal-Mart; BB&T's secret subprime Lendmark; Wachovia to close 65 branches. Bank Beat: From Abkhazia, money laundering complaint involves Citibank-Moscow. Federal Reserve giving M&I credit for projects never built. Global: Refugees in Nepal, oil still unmetered in Iraq. Enviro: Senator vs. science on climate change. Bronx: Mysteries of El train tracks and busted street lamps.

3/13/06 -- Bank Beat: Capital One's North Fork proposal will be opposed, by ICP/FFW. Rumor mill includes Citigroup - SocGen, and even NewAlliance. HSBC "invites" its own press.  CRA: The predators of Montgomery County (Maryland). Federal Reserve ignores (Whitney's) unfair lending on the Gulf Coast and money laundering issues for Hapoalim. Global: UN transparency does not extend to AXA's insurance for WFP; in aid, numbers between Davos and Darfur don't add up. Enviro: In Jersey, Dupont's Teflon. Bronx: Jobs losts and hidden; Rudy G for money laundering Santander. Review: Big drop off, from The Shield to The Unit.

3/6/06 -- CRA: Referral down for high cost loans by BB&T; CitiFinancial predatory in the UK; Wells Fargo, JPM Chase, and U.S. Bank help payday lender ACE Cash Express. Fed Watch: Roger Ferguson, we hardly knew ye. Bank Beat: Money laundering and "America's Mayor"™? Santander's new low. Global: ICP in Africa, the Congo and Sudan.  Enviro: Move for deregulation in small business' name. Bronx: Organ soup and quickly closed post office

2/27/06 – CRA: Payday lending and stonewalling Ameriquest; the fraudulent housing bonds of Gold Bank / M&I, still given Federal Reserve CRA credit. Bank Beat: European race of General Electric and CitiFinancial; copycat HSBC lags behind. UN/Global: Uzbek deportations; still no oil metering in Iraq. Enviro: On the Gulf Coast, EPA tries to pass the buck. Bronx: Blind item and Interim Story of Disenfranchisement

2/20/06 – CRA: Nose thumbing by OTS for General Electric, and soon H&R Block. Fed Watch: Bernanke talks the talk, but what action on M&I/Gold Bank scam? Bank Beat: Hot wind on the Gulf Coast from Whitney. Citigroup’s J&J lubricant. AIG in Taipei. TD goes subprime. Global: Of Collective Punishment and Electricity in Kosovo. Enviro: Propane tanks of SC. Bronx: Complaints Linger Long After DMV Lease Is Signed

2/13/06 -- CRA: Challenge to BB&T-Main Street. The volume of Ameriquest’s evasive Argent. Bank Beat: Russian deal and money laundering. BofA makes laws. RBS’ Fred the Shred in Ohio. Fed Watch: Passing the (FOIA) buck on Sovereign-Santander. Global: No real answers (yet) on Iraqi oil metering. Enviro: Mercury from NJ to Nevada. Bronx: Mayor’s press fest viewed from Melrose

2/6/06 – CRA: Predatory Super Bowl, Ameriquest and the Big Banks in Detroit. Layoffs by BBVA’s subprime unit. Bank Beat: B of A buys money laundering expert from FinCEN. Fed Watch: Rebuffing the public while whispering with Sovereign. Global: Post-tsunami rights abuse; Abkhazia disputes. Enviro: Amoco post-Katrina price gouging; ABB in Indiana. The Bronx: Beyond White Castle

1/30/06 – CRA: Challenge to subprime lender National City’s St. Louis / Pioneer foray. Updates on M&I, and GE. JDByrider, anyone? Bank Beat: Mid-Sovereign, Santander tries to buy Wells Fargo’s predatory Island Finance. Fed Watch: Following delegation, more comments needed: on the Gulf Coast, on Whitney. Global: At Davos, Citigroup called money launderer and tax evader. Enviro: Beryllium in FLA. Bronx: Friendly fire, roach spray and library wi-fi.

1/23/06 – CRA: Secret favors for General Electric and HSBC by the Office of Thrift Supervision. Abuse by Wells Fargo and MERS. Federal Reserve considers Synovus’ payday lending links (but not Gulf Coast or Florida specifics: lost in delegation). Bank Beat: Citigroup stakes its turnaround on shaky CitiFinancial, while Willumstad resurfaces at AIG, another subprime home. Global: Slovene president talks up Darfur. Enviro: Settling the LAX suits. Bronx: Mad dash for ‘net time in the glass house

1/17/06  -- CRA: Predatory lobbying by Ameriquest, and foreclosures by HSBC and by JPM Chase on the Gulf Coast. Fulton’s response to the Federal Reserve; M&I’s is in denial. Bank Beat: More evasions by Sovereign and Santander. RBS and UK subprime. Global: Who pays for the bird flu fight? Not the corporations, at least for now. Enviro: Hiding from Superfund in Utah, drill or face eminent domain in Alaska. Bronx: Yankees Stolen Places

1/9/06 – CRA: Behind the Mining Disaster, UBS and Lehman Brothers. Predatory Ameriquest. Referrals from Compass, blindness to redlining at Huntington. Federal Reserve FOIA-ed for discrimination list, since it flacked in Philly for Fulton. Bank Beat: Sovereign’s new low, HSBC’s dubious board of directors. Global: Royal Bank of Scotland’s money laundering for terror. Enviro: Cranberries vs. perchlorate? Bronx: Radioactive needles, ill-served by clichés

1/3/06 – CRA:  Challenge to strange Santander – Sovereign – Independence troika. EMC gets subpoena while Citigroup no-comments. Fed Watch: While Fed for now makes excuses for Synovus, its targets don’t. Bank Beat:  Comments against Sovereign Bancorp’s applications. RBS investment in allegedly money-laundering Bank of China. Global: Iraqis Absent from Oil Oversight Meeting on Development Fund for Iraq. Enviro: EPA arsenic games to avoid Gulf Coast clean-up. Bronx: Daily News praises gentrification

12/26/05 – CRA: Obtained under FOIA (finally), predatory lending cases against H&R Block and HSBC. Challenge to M&I and Gold Bank. Fed Watch: Compass Bank and fringe finance; Citigroup and Nikko Cordial seek to avoid the Fed? Money laundering investigation of Hapoalim not relevant? Bank Beat: ABN Amro’s money laundering in Dubai and Chicago, losing consumers’ information. Global: At the UN, blow-up then budget. Enviro: Nuclear Wisconsin. Bronx: The spy who lived here (in the vein of Sinn Féin)

12/19/05 – CRA: Challenge to GE Money Bank buys Belk; Proxmire remains presente; three rogues named to FDIC, including Synovus on the Gulf Coast, RBS / Citizens and PA’s Fulton Bank. Fed Watch: Sell-out to BofA despite Servicemembers’ Civil Relief Act info outstanding. Bank Beat: Export of predatory lending promised by Citigroup; Cathay’s weird approval. Enviro: Dirty air on disparate grounds. Bronx: In transit’s shadow

12/12/05 – CRA: Challenge to Alabama’s Compass Bank and TexasBank. Federal Reserve questions Cathay. Bank Beat: Comments on Hapoalim – Investec USA, on money laundering. Global: Who gives (UN) information? Enviro: Ford’s PCBs in Jersey. Bronx: Petting zoo and book review. JPM Chase in the Katrina zone.

12/5/05 – CRA: Evasion of the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act by Citigroup, HSBC, Wells Fargo, JPM Chase, BofA and MBNA. Federal Reserve urged to act. Bank Beat: GAO finds lapses allowing money laundering for terrorism. RBS layoffs; Wachovia sends jobs to India. Global: Total, like Unocal, settles Myanmar human rights charges for $6 million. Enviro: In Kentucky, toxic oil wells. Bronx: Hit by snipers, car bombs, and fees. Review: Empty banks and railroad stations of Detroit.

11/28/05 – CRA: Most disparate in Gulf Coast lending include Citigroup, AmSouth and Chase Manhattan Mortgage. ABN Amro goes subprime Down Under. Bank Beat: Belated disclosure of WaMu’s Providian layoffs; HSBC Private Bank (and money laundering?) in Saudi Arabia. Global: Investing in the Sudan. Enviro:  Pollution in Canada; General Electric tries to cap PCBs under the Hudson. Bronx: Slow action on lead paint. Review: Dry talk of social force.

11/21/05 -- CRA: Challenge to Fulton - Columbia; Citigroup exporting predatory lending to India. Federal Reserve questions ABC’s gun-jumping - but not yet TD Banknorth’s.  Favor to JPM Chase, without notice?  Bank Beat: More money laundering by Deutsche Bank; more scams by Fifth Third. Enviro: Oil spill on the Gulf Coast; ARCO pollution. Bronx: Thanks on Crotona corners, then and now. Review: A song of global fight-back

11/14/05 -- CRA: Disparities and gun-jumping by Toronto Dominion Banknorth. CitiFinancial fraud in Chicago. Bank Beat: Challenge to Huntington - Unizan, on mortgage pricing and denials. Fed Watch:  Favors for Bank of Montreal’s Harris including withheld info (Cathay too).  Enviro: Pfizer spills. Bronx: Dissed, missed and bussed. Review: Scrap yards of Augusta; Global secrets of the UN (building)

11/7/05 -- CRA: The Nov. 4 predatory lending enforcement action on BBVA’s Homeowners Loan Corp. is not enough; BofA finally discloses deals with Ameriquest and Ownit. Fed Reserve lets banks withhold their answers. Bank Beat: Secretive Cathay plays cute with language. Global: BBVA’s Colombia deal for  Granahorrar challenged. Wolfensohn to Citigroup shows need for anti-revolving door policies at World Bank. Enviro: Truck pollution by Wal-Mart in New England. Bronx: Small fish and bike repair under the El. Review: Latinos baseball legends; human rights remedies

10/31/05 -- CRA: TD Banknorth admits disparities, but still wants money laundering

(and subprime) Hudson United. JPM Chase tale. Fed Watch: Sky Bank redacts even the Fed’s questions. Bank Beat: Second ICP filing on hostile Cathay. Global: At UNEP FI conference, Citigroup’s spin falls flat. Enviro: Dumping in Utah and PA. Bronx: Looking back and north to Yonkers. Review: A dumbed-down intellectual history of the United Nations

10/24/05 -- CRA: Challenge filed to TD Banknorth’s try to buy money laundering Hudson United. Ameriquest’s Arnall on ice? Citigroup repo. Fed Watch: While withholding BofA’s fair lending info, on Citigroup will the Fed stick to its guns? Bank Beat: Cathay’s money laundering; Capital One as Gulf Coast vulture. Enviro: Ash and dumping in Jersey. Global: High cost lending by HSBC in Brazil.. Bronx: Predatory lending (help?) also from HSBC. Review: The tyranny of global finance

10/17/05 -- CRA: Pyrrhic victory for OCC (& Citigroup, HSBC, JPM Chase and Wells Fargo). Federal Reserve loses FOIA motion to reconsider for Wachovia. Bank Beat: BNP slips by while looking East. Global: China v. internet and press. Enviro: DuPont sleaze in SC. Bronx: River & History in the City Hall Library. Review: 9/11 without reflection

10/10/05 -- CRA: Predatory lending by General Electric exposed and exported globally to Turkey and the Philippines. Fed Watch: Comforting predators like Ameriquest, hiding BofA’s information. Bank Beat: Iraqi moves by HSBC opposed; Brazilian bank for sale. Enviro: PCBs by GE in the Hudson River. Bronx: Yonkers trip and burning trucks. Hammering Hank at the Stadium. Review: A guide to money laundering, focused on Citigroup

10/3/05 -- CRA: Confluence globally of predatory lending and money laundering, at HSBC and Citigroup. Fed Watch: Secret(ive) meetings with Bank of America. Bank Beat: Soc Gen in the Balkans; the arrogance of Capital One. Enviro rules on Gulf Coast waived. Bronx: Civil liberties and crime in Yonkers. Review: A wild card from San Diego

9/26/05 -- CRA: Systemic disparities at Citigroup, Washington Mutual and Wells Fargo, and in New Orleans. Federal Reserve should release Bank of America’s hidden fair lending answers. Bank Beat: From Oil-for-Food to China: BNP Paribas’ madness continues. Global: Mining pollution in Indonesia. Enviro: Colorado Superfund. Bronx: Bombers at home. Review: Three Chicago books

9/19/05 -- CRA: Payday news from NC, NV and the redlined Gulf Coast.  Fed: Extends on BofA-MBNA, slow on Citigroup-FDS. HSBC and Wachovia serve money launderer for North Korea. Bank Beat: Deals in Cali and Turkey. Global: Oil games from Citigroup: greenwash. Enviro: Dioxin in W. Va.; Lead poisoning in Chicago. Bronx NY: While Royal Bank of Scotland removes 500 jobs, 2004 mortgage data was more disparate than the New Orleans MSA. Review: Roberts in Courtroom 302

9/12/05 -- CRA: Lehman Brothers’ subprimer BNC accused of discrimination. Ameriquest complaints, and tale behind Illinois’ database law.  Bank Beat: North Korea money laundering scandal has RBS in denial; the Fed needs to act. Cap One short-sells Gulf Coast and New Orleans, with JPM Chase’s involvement. Global: Among the NGOs at the UN.  Enviro: SC nukes, coal in Illinois. Bronx: From Ferragósto to La Peña del Bronx. Review: The novel Windows on the World

9/5/05 -- CRA: Pre-Katrina redlining shown by ICP’s Gulf Coast Watch: Citigroup, WaMu and Hibernia. Wells and BofA scam and securitize. Bank Beat: Capital One brings fraud to the Bayou. Money laundering by North Fork comes home to roost. Global: Predatory eye of HSBC on Korea. Enviro: Rainbows on the river. Bronx: Jamaican juice on Gun Hill Road. Review: Superbarrio and the Young Lords

8/29/05 -- CRA: Evasion by Wal-Mart. Opposition grows to Bank of America-MBNA, which securitizes for Ameriquest and enables payday lenders while scamming the Federal Reserve on the 10% deposit cap. Bank Beat: Turkish moves by General Electric; China double dip by HSBC. Global: Pinochet money laundered funds in Santander returned. Enviro: Superfund and ethylene oxide. Bronx: Insults from Britain, bachata in Belmont

8/22/05 -- CRA: Predatory lending by AIG’s American General. SBA guarantees for payday and car title lenders? Federal Reserve delivers for Capital One, despite investigations by attorneys general. Bank Beat: SocGen beats BNP Paribas at global game in Egypt; Citigroup buys oil refinery, Parasito. Enviro: GAO versus EPA. Bronx: IHOP in the political orbit

8/15/05 -- CRA: 2004 data show decrease in community development lending by “intermediate small banks;” Ameriquest document ruling. Bank Beat: Online brokers play musical chairs. Global: BNP Paribas challenged, including on money laundering, to FDIC -- Federal Reserve says it has no application nor waiver request. Enviro: Beryllium swept under Lockheed Martin’s carpet. Bronx: Report from 161^st Street.

8/8/05 -- CRA:   Are Washington Mutual’s disparities “societal”?  Bank Beat: Sleazy is what HSBC wants.  Fed Watch: Capital One and Hibernia strong arm predict this week approval. Global: South Korea buy by General Electric, while indicted in Peru. Enviro: RICRA in New Jersey. Bronx: Uprooted trees, factories demolished

8/1/05 -- CRA:   Evasive Washington Mutual response; Ameriquest prepares to get off cheap. Fed Watch: Ignore the 10% deposit cap, Bank of America urges. Bank Beat: Commerzbank on prowl while money laundering. Telecom: Surreal hearing on Verizon’s and SBC’s applications. Global: Scams by Citigroup in Germany.  Enviro: PCBs left in Hudson by General Electric and EPA. Bronx: Tacos under the El train, station to be closed

7/25/05 -- CRA: Stealth moves by Wal-Mart challenged by ICP. WaMu buys subprime from Ameriquest and others. Bank Beat: SocGen’s Turkish intrigue. Citigroup’s predation is global, so too with HSBC. Cap One update. Federal Reserve ordered to release Wachovia’s subprime due diligence. Global moves by GE, Panama will see. Enviro: NJ toxins, Indiana WMD. Bronx: Samosas on Lydig, holes in the street.

7/18/05 -- CRA: More disparities at WaMu, more secretiveness from Ameriquest and HSBC’s Household. Bank Beat: Yes, BofA hard-sold to seniors. GE and AIG pass gas (pipeline). Philly Fed says card rates move fast. Money laundering unleashed, in spite of global terror. Enviro: Haz-mat in Western NY. Bronx: Deadly demolisher lent to by Citigroup, defended by ex-reporter Liff

7/11/05 -- CRA: Protest by ICP to Bank of America-MBNA. Bank Beat: Texas endgame. Federal Reserve questions Capital One-Hibernia. Global and UK money laundering burden pre 7/7? Enviro: Honeywell’s pollution. Bronx: Outsourced jobs, still-thick Terminal Market plans, fire on Featherbed Lane

7/5/05 -- CRA: Challenge to Citigroup’s card deal with FDS, demanding OCC act rather than sue for Citibank; Ameriquest’s spin; FFW comments to Central America on General Electric, human rights and BAC International. Bank Beat: Revving up on Bank of America - MNBA. Federal Reserve allows gun jumping by money laundering PNC-Riggs. Enviro: DuPont cons W. Va; Credit Suisse and Sakhalin. Bronx: A&P shuts plant; street surfing on Kingsbridge

6/27/05 -- CRA: Citigroup retells HOEPA tale to OCC. Ameriquest settlement no habla español. Federal Reserve, like OCC, coddles money laundering Wells Fargo. And AmSouth? Bank Beat: Toronto Dominion’s Waterhouse continues drifting. Capital One-Hibernia update. Enviro: DuPont brownfields on the cheap. Bronx: While NY Times front-pages gentrification, closure of youth programs ignored, Watch(ovia) this space

6/20/05 -- CRA: First challenge to WaMu-Providian filed, on disparities. Clearing House seeks to exempt Citigroup, too, from scrutiny. Ameriquest tries to withhold records as copyrighted. Federal Reserve preaches deregulation. Bank Beat: China moves by BofA; interior moves by BNP’s Bank of the West. Enviro: Nukes in New Mexico. Bronx:  Foodless fair, Yankee plan sweeps parks under rug

6/13/05 -- CRA: Chief of Ameriquest and Argent hits the road; book reviews. Citigroup data loss, job cuts, Enron pay-to-play. Federal Reserve questions money laundering PNC/Riggs. Bank Beat: Unicredito tries to swallow HBV. Human Rights under the gavel in Congress. Enviro: BP pays to play; GE’s nukes. Bronx: Warehouse fire and street fair review

6/6/05 -- CRA: Redlining by Citigroup, state by state. Federal Reserve is told that PNC jumped the gun on swalloiwing money laundering Riggs - now what? Bank Beat: Micro deal in NC; Romanian intrigue. HSBC does business in Sudan. Deutsche Bank ignores human rights by banking for Turkmenistan'sdictator. Enviro: Fraud in Alabama, dioxin in MN. Bronx: Smashed car on railroad tracks; burning man on track-marked streets - summer's here

5/31/05 -- CRA: Reverse redlining by region, as Citigroup excludes entire states from prime credit. HSBC exports predatory lending to the Far East. Fed Watch:  PNC/Riggs money launderer arrested. Bank Beat: Do Argent’s ads mean spin-off from Ameriquest? German bank HVB is up for grabs. Human Rights: Uzbek intrigue; CIA secrecy re Rwanda. Enviro: Appalachian gas; WR Grace asbestos. Bronx: Arsenal and the history of the Muller Army Reserve Center in squibs

5/23/05 -- CRA: The launch of Ameriquest Watch, in search of 41 boxes of withheld documents. Florida lending study. Citigroup’s HOEPA spin an editor’s note, not retraction by Willumstad. Fed Watch: Delayed questioning of money laundering PNC-Riggs; a kind word for Gramlich. Bank Beat: in the Balkans; Fifth Third’s Florida sleaze. Human Rights: HSBC’s non-response to the UN Global Compact. Enviro: PCBs courtesy of U.S. Magnesium. Bronx: Redlined by the banks, ignored by the paper of record

5/16/05 -- CRA: Ameriquest’s dubious best practices; illusory settlement of tax refund anticipation loans class action by HSBC and H&R Block; first-hand account of Citigroup’s Primerica. Fed Watch: Inaction, on Fifth Third and others, opens door for state attorneys general. Money laundering Riggs let off hook. Bank Beat: Micro deals in Michigan and NC. word of a FOIA / disclosure win. Human Rights: Darfur divestiture movement gathers momentum. Enviro: Xcel fine, BP’s secrets. Bronx: Street cuts and cheap spicy tacos.

5/9/05 -- CRA: Drilling deeper in the 2004 data, ICP’s Sixth Study, Disparities by Race and now also Gender, at Citigroup, JPM Chase, BofA, Wells Fargo and Wachovia; HSBC, WaMu, RBC and others.  Fed Watch: As revolving doors spin, inaction on SunTrust, Fifth Third and other data-hiders. Bank Beat: Micro-deal in Indiana, Scotiabank buys Salvador, sniffs in Peru. Human Rights: Update from Togo, money laundering in the vacuum. Enviro: Norfolk Southern RR toxins. Bronx: Priest’s jaw broken, your life for fifty bucks

5/2/05 -- CRA: Comprensive study of disparities at 12 largest lenders submitted by ICP to over thirty attorneys generals and the Feds: Citigroup, HSBC, Wells Fargo, Ameriquest, JPM Chase, et al. Payday lending updates. Fed Watch: On money laundering Riggs Bank, OCC tops Fed in human rights details. Bank Beat: ScotiaBank leaves broken hearts in Mexico. BNP fesses up late. Enviro: Exxon Mobil slow to clean its PCBs. Bronx: Stations opens but unserved; mail from beside the EAU; lame rap in Memphis

4/25/05 -- CRA: Commitments by Citigroup are broken; Citigroup is in denial. Study of lending in New York - Wells Fargo and JPM Chase are also disparate. Sayonara to Gilleran. Fed Watch: Last minute faxing re money laundering Riggs. Bank Beat: Deals in Florida and Texas, and by the roguish Lehman Brothers. Human Rights: Oil in the Sudan, Total and Cliveden. Enviro: perchlorate in Cali; bankrupt Texas smelter. Bronx: Death from a rooftop; boro by boro study of Citi, Chase and HSBC (& ICP in the UK press)

4/18/05 -- CRA: Drilling deeper into the data, ICP’s third study of 2004 mortgage records shows disparities at SunTrust, AIG and the Royal Bank of Canada; HOEPA loans at WaMu and KeyCorp. Fed Watch: Letting lenders off the hook, Fifth Third gives its data in PDF Adobe. Bank Beat: Watching Fortis, enforcement needed on Citigroup’s false data and HSBC’s lies. Human Rights: Son of Sani Abacha extradited on money laundering charges. Enviro: California’s soot; BP’s mist of oil. Bronx: Roosters in Bathgate; redlining continues.

4/11/05 -- CRA: Rate spread disparities at HSBC, Wells Fargo, and JP Morgan Chase. Fed Watch: Inaction on HMDA non-compliance, ex-Fed AIG, Merrill Lynch and others. Bank Beat: Riggs and PNC plays hide-the-consequences on money laundering; will the world's local bank Discover? Human Rights: HSBC and Deutsche Bank to respond to UNGC. Enviro: Sludge and smoke in Delaware and Cali. Bronx: Spring has sprung; NYCB stonewalls.

4/4/05 -- CRA: First study of the new 2004 HMDA data, of Citigroup, NatCity and others; AmSouth tells FFW no accounts for payday lenders. Fed Watch: Allowing non-compliance by Wells Fargo, HSBC, Wachovia, AIG, JPM Chase and others. Bank Beat: BBVA lurches forward; comments on PNC-Riggs: beyond money laundering and human rights abuses, Riggs’ redlining. Enviro: El Paso smelter; WMD in Alabama. Bronx: Hospital scandal update, North Fork keeps denying

3/28/05 -- CRA: Wells Fargo’s stealth servicing (including for Royal Bank of Canada); OTS hides documents for high-cost H&R Block. Bank Beat: Continuing Milanese intrigue; Citigroup follies. Fed Watch: Those rates are rising, including at payday lenders JP Morgan Chase enables. Human Rights: Review of HBO’s Rwanda film; banking in Bishkek. Money Laundering Riggs’ love of pro-Pinochet books. Enviro: Oil flares in Texas, BASF and BP; Indiana pesticides. Bronx: A tragic hospital story, from leap to stonewall

3/21/05 -- CRA: Ameriquest as serial settler, still a predatory. Fed’s Greenspan urges objectivity: for others. Bank Beat: BBVA and Amro make Italian moves; privatization in Brazil. Human Rights: Pinochet’s money launderers included Citigroup, BofA, Royal Bank of Scotland and Santander. Enviro: PCBs in New Jersey; mustard gas in Maryland. Bronx: River still polluted; The Bronx according to the N.Y. Times

3/17/05 - CRA: Ney II is scarcely better (except for predatory lenders); Citigroup is told it can’t “significantly expand” for foreseeable future: ICP’s underlying initial protest and reaction

3/14/05 -- CRA: Challenge to Capital One - Hibernia; payday lender buys self-help legal center. Fed Watch: Helping Wachovia to hide its subprime partners: the FOIA brief at last. Bank Beat: A tale of Citigroup fraud and retaliation against whistleblowers. Money laundering Riggs appoints new chairman; HSBC, in North Cyprus, will trim down its board. Human Rights: Kofi’s Compact; Allbritton’s impunity. Enviro: The irony of BofA; toxic news. Bronx: Courthouse sass; Bee-Line strike; self-storage for the displaced

3/7/05 -- CRA: Payday lenders’ profits, Wachovia’s 174 branch closings; HSBC’s Aldinger bails as material weakness is found; CitiFinancial confirmed as unconscionable. Bank Beat: Intesa’s Balkans deals; JPMorgan’s spin-off.  BofA layoff rumblings. Latex in Geneva; Regions throws mortgages to M&T. Fed Watch: Huntington brags of vague Unizan-less settlement. Human Rights: Turkmenistan outlaws copies but funds Deutsche Bank. Equatorial Guinea profiled by U.S. with no mention of Riggs Bank’s money laundering. Enviro: PCBs by General Electric. Bronx: Realty dreams while bullet flies: a time for E.A. Poe

2/28/05 -- CRA: Wells Fargo’s stealth servicing, disparate treatment and push into subprime. Gilleran at the FDIC; the redlining of Abbey / Santander. Bank Beat: Mega-merger road show; Citi downgraded in France; BofA loses identities. Fed Watch: A still-blind eye to payday (Synovus); keeping yet more secrets. Human Rights: Riggs’ money laundering payback is less than golden ‘chutes, Africa ignored. Enviro: Radioactive medical waste in Memphis. Bronx: Gunshots over Burnside; the fickle eye of academe.

2/21/05 -- CRA: Two views of payday, military and surreal. HSBC’s triple-digit interest rates; Wells Fargo’s stealth servicer ASC. Bank Beat: Two mergers in Serbia, and ethics films at Citigroup. On the Fed Watch, Chairman’s spouse rode on money laundering Riggs’ plane. Human Rights: FFW petitions Ex-Im Bank on Obiang and Togo. Enviro: Opposition to BFI/Allied Waste. Bronx: Fires and shootings and locked door at Rite-Aid.

2/14/05 -- CRA: Pawnbrokers call and response.Wells Fargo skimps on overtime. Bank Beat: Novastar like JP Morgan Chase breaks Reg FD; BNP fired for food, oil for fools. Fed Watch: Five more questions for Synovus, but too few for Citigroup and Riggs/PNC, about money laundering including Riggs and Togo, where human rights fall to coup. Enviro: Superfund delays; Clean Air fines in Louisiana. Bronx: Refugees in Mott Haven; Uzbek lagman in Brighton Beach; housing vigilance

2/7/05 -- Riggs Bank and PNC: money laundering investigations should expand [2/10 update]. Human Rights: Turkmenistan’s ruler hides in Deutsche Bank’s vault. CRA:  Reports on Ameriquest, from LA and Pittsburgh. Advance American on the grill; payday lending Dollar expands. Bank Beat: Scandal plagued Citigroup throws insurance to Met Life. Fed Watch: Passing the buck on Webster, health savings accounts. Enviro: Toxins in the Super Bowl’s shadow. Bronx: From the pampas to City Hall Park

1/31/05 -- Campaign against Riggs Bank’s cheap settlement for money laundering for human rights abusers, and the sale of still-a-crime-scene Riggs to PNC.  CRA: Subprime news from all over. Fed Watch: Holes in Synovus; contempt for FOIA. Bank Beat: Criminal prosecution for Citigroup; Asian back-and-forth for JPM Chase. Enviro BP in Delaware; toxins in NJ. Bronx: After the fire, a focus on parks.

1/27/05 -- Bronx Reporter: Fire Fallout - Following the Slumlords

1/24/05 -- CRA: Predatory exports by HSBC and Citigroup; OTS posts (193) comments, but will Gilleran pay any mind? Fed Watch: BBVA on the griddle; surprising Gramlich quote. Bank Beat: Cut-backs by BofA and Wachovia; Barclays and Deutsche Bank are expansive. Riggs money laundering and human rights in Darfur. Enviro: Michigan cement dust; NJ lunacy. Bronx: Obverse of the suburbs; cab driver jacked.

1/18/05 -- CRA: Auto pawn in Indiana; inside Citigroup.Webster cries poor, but wants to go nationwide without a plan. Fed Watch: Not only cost but rates, and Morgan Chase’s bribery, layoffs and NASD fine; SunTrust gets subpoenaed. Bank Beat: Toronto Dominion plays hide the ball; HSBC’s branding. Friedman, Billings goes subprime, Wells Fargo gets more private information. Human rights: Abacha’s money laundering partners. Enviro: Ford’s Jersey arsenic. Bronx: As heard on radio.

1/10/05 -- CRA: Predatory lending, from Citigroup in Montana and India, to HSBC in Bangladesh. Wachovia layoffs. Bank Beat: Will they? RBS-Amro? Wells Fargo-Barclays? Morgan Chase - BB&T? Federal Reserve: Covering-up Riggs’ money laundering less easy, given prosecution of Pinochet for human rights violations. Enviro: Mercury in Texas; creosote in FLA. Bronx: By the numbers (churches, cold and crime); RIP Will Eisner

1/3/05 -- CRA: Time to modernize in 2005. Predatory lending globalized, by HSBC to Asia. Fed Watch: Wake up to Toronto Dominion, Royal Bank of Scotland and Citigroup’s false denials. Bank Beat: Loose money-laundering by BofA; JPM Chase’s Canary. Global News: U.N. out of Guatemala; Hotel Rwanda fact-check and update. Enviro: Superfund in the Granite State. Bronx: Slow growth and Orbach’s obituary.

12/27/04 -- CRA: Predators’ politics; CitiFinancial in pawnshops; HSBC in denial. Federal Reserve defends secrecy for Wachovia’s subprime business. Bank Beat: PNC settles again; ICP’s supplements on Toronto Dominion and BBVA. Global: Pinochet in limbo; money laundering Riggs and Obiang. Enviro: Dioxin all over. Bronx: Fertile Christmas vignettes

12/20-21/04 -- CRA: Pawn and payday links in Pittsburgh law, but embraced by BBVA. Buck passed by Federal Reserve, on Citigroup and Fifth Third, for now. Bank Beat: Toronto Dominion in Boston; BofA out of Panama; BNP into Brazil. Global: Pinochet to stand trial; light on money laundering Riggs. Enviro: Toxins in Stockton; Arkansas blister agent burned. Bronx: Gunplay in Wakefield; donkeys in Belmont, singing Feliz Navidad; Mayor's press reception [12/20-21/04]

12/13/04 -- CRA: Merger fall-out, ICP’s views on Bank of America, Toronto Dominion, JPM Chase and others. Bank Beat: ICP challenges BBVA - Laredo National, including on money laundering issues. Fed Watch: Blind eye to Citigroup, payday lending questions to Synovus. Global: BBVA’s Latin payments, CitiFinancial to Russia without love. Enviro: Wax fire in Houston. Bronx:  Big Brother over Fordham Road

12/6/04 -- CRA: Payday lending madness, with Wells Fargo and Fifth Third. Bank Beat: Micro, HSBC to Iraq; PNC’s ill-fated bid for Riggs and it money-laundering (and Citigroup’s empty denial). Fed Watch: Inattention to data, time to extend. Human Rights: Rwanda incursions and FOIA appeals. Enviro: Brownfields in NY and Maine. Bronx: Blaming the victim? Murder of 19-year old mother still unsolved

11/29/04 -- CRA: On nationwide duties, ICP challenges Webster - HSA. Bank Beat: Balkan mergers, MassMutual buys a scandal, BNP into Turkey. Fed Watch: Fall-out from Wachovia; CIBC’s junkyard faxes. Movement: It’s payday lending and private prisons, by JP Morgan Chase enabled, by Citigroup as well. Human Rights: Rwanda into Congo, documents withheld. Enviro: Ford’s NJ pollution. Bronx: War of the beef patties, long arm of the law (ICP v. TD-Banknorth)

11/22/04 -- CRA: Chronicle of steering to subprime foretold; Countrywide is tip of the iceberg.   Fed Watch: Blind eye to HSBC’s money-laundering and BNP’s misdeeds; Wachovia FOIA answer due. Bank Beat: Micro M&A; TD interim update; Riggs’ further delay, Pinochet estimate grows. Global: Citigroup poisons the micro-finance world. Enviro: Toxic scam in Georgia. Bronx: Two ways to die, Bathgate / military training

11/15/04 -- CRA: Banks’ support of fringe finance results in song and dance, from Wells Fargo and Fifth Third. Bank Beat: ICP’s challenge to Toronto Dominion - Banknorth. Human Rights: Terror in Africa? Money Laundering Riggs admits investigations grow; PNC vacillates. Enviro: Air quality down. Bronx: Rotting garbage, gridlocked highway

11/8/04 -- CRA: Payday lenders and check cashers now supposedly spurned by Citigroup; ICP turns Citi’s claim on Wells Fargo on Federal Reserve application for Texas deal. Bank Beat: Huntington’s bad karma, PNC could be poisoned by money laundering Riggs. Enviro: Yonkers spews raw sewage.  Bronx: Death and equal justice on the Grand Concourse.

11/1/04 --  CRA: Armed Forces Loans-funder Wells Fargo is challenged by ICP, on its proposed acquisition of First Community. HSBC’s Household predatory in Tennessee, GE in Australia.  Federal Reserve asks PNC questions about Riggs’ money laundering: but answers are withheld, pending FOIA appeal. Bank Beat: Micro deal in Texas; Deutsche Bank threatens to offshore to Jersey. Human Rights: Word games in Rwanda. Enviro: EJ cites in Pittsburgh and NY. Bronx: Sears to get the boot? The blindness of the Times

10/28/04 - ICP challenges Florida application of Fifth Third, funder of pawnshops, car title and payday lenders

10/25/04 -- CRA: Focus on payday lenders, check cashers and pawnshops, which Citigroup and its Texas prey fund, and are exported to Australia. Federal Reserve subject to FOIA lawsuit by ICP for withholding Wachovia’s predatory connections. Bank Beat: PNC continues backtracking on money-launderer Riggs; Rabobank and Caver deals die.  Human Rights: In Rwanda, banks but not free speech. Enviro: Waste Management Inc. landfill holds plutonium. Bronx: Murders up, business for La Paz Funeral Parlor

10/18/04 -- CRA:  Predatory lending taken global, including by HSBC.  Let banks examine themselves, says FDIC. On money laundering too? Wachovia’s ongoing funding of pawnshops and payday lenders. Fed Watch: Ignoring human rights, and BNP in the oil-for-food scandal. Bank Beat:  Micro-deal; a dog ate Citigroup’s Texas homework. Enviro: Clean air plan opposed by GE in Kentucky. Bronx: Baseball death in Hunts Point; leaks in East Harlem. Unequal justice.

10/12/04 -- Human Rights: Challenge to Barclays, Juniper and beyond. CRA: OCC “accommodates” HSBC, which like BNP helped Saddam launder his money. Fed Watch: While Greenspan meets with Citigroup’s Willumstad, questions go unanswered. Bank Beat: Secrets from GE’s Dillard application; AIG breaks Reg FD. Enviro: Sewage in Syracuse. Bronx: Terminal Market scope finalized; two sides of Rikers.

10/4/04 -- CRA: ICP files 21-page challenge to Citigroup’s First American Bank proposal; Wachovia keeps lying and hiding. Bank Beat: Down South targets; BNP and Oil-for-Food. Fed Watch: What now that UBS confirms it held Osama’s funds?  Money Laundering comments on HSBC and Riggs; Human Rights, Pinochet as Al Capone. Enviro: Honeywell and Siemens, PCE and TCE. Bronx: Yankee “Vision Plan” unveiled in downpour without public notice

9/27/04 -- CRA:   Shamelessly betting, J.P. Morgan Chase leans rightward with Lazio. Lord’s tome tells Tale of Two Citis.  Fed Watch:  Wixted stands pat for PNC; Riggs’ spin. Bank Beat: What’s in SouthTrust’s record date? BofA’s rich move around. Human Rights: Kagame’s Rwanda silences questions; Pinochet faces them. Money Laundering: Games of HSBC and Santander raised by FFW.  Enviro: Toxins in Ohio and LA. Bronx: Rezoning SOBE, reopening bank branch as nightclub

9/23/04 - ICP’s anti-money laundering comment on HSBC and Santander (and its Abbey National proposal). Glasgow Herald article; Developing...

9/20/04 -- CRA: The Orwellian sleaze of Citigroup; FOIA shows  HSBC’s Household bought political access, to intimidate witnesses. Fed Watch: PNC uses ex-Fed Wixted to covet money-laundering Riggs; Wachovia FOIA appeal filed. Bank Beat: BofA’s like Wal-Mart; BNP keeps spinning. Human Rights: Rwanda, without press freedom, sells banks; Fortis rules.  Enviro: Medical waste incinerators, in Illinois. Bronx: The Labyrinth of Starvation, without helados or shame

9/15-16/04 -- CRA: HSBC's Household gamed the system, just-released documents show (and Citigroup prepares another game for 9/20).

9/14/04 -- Anti-payday and car title lending commitment won from SunTrust-NCF recited. 

9/13/04 -- CRA: Predatory lending by AIG's American General; continued delay by HSBC’s Household; more moves by Royal Bank of Scotland for preemption. Fed Watch: No answer on conflicts; blabbing about accommodation. Bank Beat: Cocky Banco (Santander); sneaky PNC and Riggs, money laundering twins. Global: Dominican paper returned to bank-fraudster. Enviro: MTBE; chromium 6 in Cali.  Bronx: Too-quiet first hearing on Related’s plans for Terminal Market

9/6/04 -- CRA: Continued lies by Wachovia; preemption moves by Royal Bank of Scotland; Easy Money is Citigroup's predator in Puerto Rico. Bank Beat: Huntington admits to no due diligence at all; Gramm's UBS, or UBS's Gramm, at the RNC. PNC's money laundering non-response. Fed Watch: Relying on (NatCity's) lies; Parry to Countrywide through the (wide) revolving door. Enviro: Texas slamming; CFCs. Bronx: A wannabe Judge Judy; the BP's call-in show; Inside Promesa

9/1-2/4 -- Bronx-view of RNC (March on the Media)

8/30/04 -- CRA: No RNC breakfast with layoff BofA; revolving door to CitiFinancial from trade press. JPM Chase demands refund from schools in Ohio. Fed Watch: Lies and 150 closures, versus Wachovia's weak divestiture of 18. Fed's five-year FOIA delay. Bank Beat: Two-step on SunTrust-NCF.  Money Laundering: "Wait and see" by PNC on Riggs; BNP plays Casablanca on Oil-for-Food. Human Rights: Terror designation extended to Burundi. Enviro: NRC's EJ policy is sop to industry. Bronx: Steve Kaufman's loud sound truck; downpour at Orchard Beach

8/23/04 -- Fed Watch: On sale of money laundering Riggs to PNC, Greenspan should be recused. CRA: new HSBC loss under FOIA; AIG's bogus credit insurance. Bank Beat: Late-summer M&A like overripe fruit (Citigroup-Hibernia); updates on BNP and Huntington. Human Rights: Congolese aftermath. Enviro: Sidestepping the rules in Niagara Falls. Bronx: Who’s paying for the RNC? Omniscient NYT; ICP in Chile, H&R Block in a mall

8/16/04 -- CRA: Protest to PNC and the money-laundering Riggs, including on PNC's funding of Check 'n Go. Fed Watch: Catch-22 on SouthTrust and its pawnshop lies. Bank Beat: Japanese banks' desperate gluttony, Huntington-Unizan sleaze. Human Rights: On the run in Rwanda. Enviro: Fish dead in Virginia; Cali's leaking faucet. Bronx: Signs of war; Wachovia's twangy guitars

8/9/04 -- CRA: Wachovia spins its SouthTrust lie, funding predators as exceptions to policy. Will the Federal Reserve accept it? Bank Beat: Huntington continues withholding. Royal Bank of Scotland looks west, HSBC looks east (while fighting FOIA on both coasts). Human Rights; Tracking down Pinochet's money in Riggs. Enviro: CT revolving door, Alabama ordnance. Bronx: African restaurants, subway ratings, exploding manhole covers

8/2/04 -- CRA: Editorials support ICP’s campaign around banks’ fringe financing links -- but Wachovia stands pat, while SouthTrust lies. FOIA seeks HSBC’s hidden documents. Fed Watch: weak money-laundering enforcement on ABN Amro. Bank Beat: The WSJ’s CitiFinancial blindness; RBS’ abusive break-up fees; Santander. Enviro: TCE in Cali and Indiana. Bronx: Crime between the cracks, dueling street fairs; Chase’s loud redlining.

7/26/04 -- CRA: Challenge to Wachovia - SouthTrust, fringe finance and misstatements. Wells wobbles; HSBC Household spins. Fed Watch: Letting BNP and others off the hook. Bank Beat: Meet the new (Chase) boss, younger but the same. Human Rights: Clashes near Goma. Enviro: EPA in and from Delaware -- toxins to Mexico. Bronx: NYT's blindness; a view from Dreiser to Poe (Park)

7/20/04 -- SunTrust says it will stop funding payday and car title lenders; North Fork Bank, disparate in The Bronx, continues with pawnshops, for now;  HSBC Household's motion to block release of documents to ICP is denied - but money buys them time

7/19/04 -- CRA: HSBC's Household seeks opponents friendlier than ICP; in payday lending, County Bank’s projected growth. Fed Watch: A visit to the Eccles Building, results TBD (including on Wells Fargo's military payday lending connections). Bank Beat: Comments filed on NatCity-Wayne; third on SunTrust; troubled PNC a questionable buyer for money-laundering Riggs; RBS Citizens gets questioned. Human Rights: Press freedom locked up in Rwanda. Enviro: FERC coddles PG&E. Bronx: revolving doors, NY banks and their regulators; sausages frying, senseless immigration delays

7/12/04 -- CRA: Wells Fargo funds predatory payday lenders, including to soldiers; JPM Chase ditches NY for OCC and preemption; HSBC does RALs while case heats up; BofA goes bush league Fed Watch: North Fork’s withheld pawnshop list Bank Beat: RBS's subprime list, now released, is long. Enviro: Oil companies' hearing & housing. Bronx: Paean to dusk on the mid-Bronx, casting light by use of FOIA

7/5/04 -- CRA: Huntington asked about pawnshops by the Federal Reserve (but not OCC, and not about money-laundering issues). HSBC's secrecy in court July 20. Bank Beat: Subprime for sale; high cost for Harrison to keep his JPM Chase job. Human Rights: Monitors threatened in Rwanda. Enviro: Arizona brownfields. Bronx: History on (Velella's wiretap) tapes...

6/28/04 -- CRA: The fringe finance connections of Wachovia and SouthTrust. OCC ignores HSBC Household predatory lending issues; JPM Chase payday lending blood-money. Fed asks RBS some subprime questions: but answers are withheld. Bank Beat: Round two of SunTrust-NCF, pawnshop redux. Enviro: Exxon and MTBE. Bronx: Ferrer corruption confirmed in Velella-case wiretaps: now what?

6/21/04 -- CRA: The many ways to cover predatory lending, by HSBC and Citigroup and AIG and others. Federal Reserve now approves without meeting. Bank Beat: RBS's ads, "less cred, more Shred." BNP's money-laundering in or for Iraq. Human Rights: a wall in the Congo? Enviro: PCBs in AL, NM and NY. Bronx: Two (train) the hard way

6/18/04 -- Bank Beat: Huntington on "formulaic" relevance; HSBC's Household runs to court to block release of documents about predatory lending that ICP requested under FOIA

6/17/04 -  Bank Beat: Fed admonishes Regions-Union Planters on redlining, dodges Mafia-car title lending; ICP's fourth comment on RBS Citizens - Charter One

6/15/04 -- JPM Chase's & Bank One's support for predatory fringe finance is coddled by the Federal Reserve - click here for ICP's same-day analysis, here for AP

6/14/04 -- CRA: "Watching the detectives" at HSBC's Household; in CitiFinancial, whistle keeps on blowing.  Federal Reserve, weak on NatCity, asks RBS-Charter One some initial questions. Bank Beat: Ficalora's stroll; Region's unexplained subprime. Global: Political sentence in Rwanda. Enviro: TCE in Nebraska. Bronx: NYT's blind spot; praise from Ghana; fairs on 187th & Tremont

6/7/04 -- CRA: Fringe finance precedents on pawn shops, rent-to-own and check cashers applied to BNP Paribas from secretive North Fork; CitiFinancial whistles blown.  Federal Reserve finds that money laundering to Iraq involved Royal Bank of Scotland as well as UBS. Bank Beat: Huntingon - Unizan: nine branch closures and a bad attitude. Global: Bukavu showdown. Enviro: smelting in El Paso. Bronx: RIP Ronbo, from Charlotte Street to Wedtech

6/1/04 -- CRA: Crimes of Citigroup settled on the cheap, Federal Reserve, lied to, does very little, including JPM Chase antitrust. Bank Beat: Huntington's hit list. Round Two on RBS Citizens - Charter One, and BNP BancWest and ten new states. Global: Ex-presidents behind bars include Milosevic, Estrada, Noriega - and Rwanda's Bizimungu, still. Enviro: Milwaukee sewage: mistake on the lake? Bronx: prison break from Mount Vernon, HSBC tax sleaze, tires and fun in the Garden.

5/28/04 - Predatory lending redux: Citigroup's HOEPA coversions, insurance fraud and cover-ups costs $70 million (for now); HSBC's moves to evade state law opposed by ICP

5/24/04 -- CRA: Payday lending outlawed in Georgia, but supported by Bank One, NatCity and others. Even the Fed notices Regions' Atlanta redlining. Bank Beat: Chase in the park (with Durbin on the trail?), AIG on the hunt; HSBC, Wachovia or Citigroup -- who'll buy WaMu? Global: Rwanda's grassroots courts (and border incursions). Enviro: Strontium-90 in Tennessee; W. Va water. Bronx: NYU got over, nice day at the Zoo; skipping on security at Casa Promesa

5/17/04 -- CRA: Fringe finance, south (SunTrust) and west (BNP Paribas). Another CitiFinancial whistleblower. Bank Beat: Will the Fed finally crackdown on Huntington National Bank? JPM Chase schmoozes on antitrust. Global: war brews on Rwanda's borders. Enviro: lead poisoning in Texas. Bronx: North Fork plans a single Harlem branch, while redlining the South South Bronx.

5/10/04 -- CRA: Questions raised on RBS-Charter One; RBS does stealth subprime business. CitiFinancial into Hong Kong at 20% interest. Bank Beat: SunTrust - National Commerce raises issues too. Federal Reserve's review of JPM - Bank One is ongoing. Human Rights: Action on Rwanda - DRC border. Enviro: Texas smelter. Bronx: A death, including Hubert Selby's

5/3/04 -- CRA: National City admits payday links; JPM Chase & Bank One withhold & mislead; Union Planters too, with no referral-up. Citi's Dollar. Fed's mysterious coddling of Credit Agricole. Bank Beat: Huntington-Unizan, Round Two. Enviro: Monsanto lobbies; Delaware burns. Bronx: North Fork, beyond GreenPoint, did CashPoint; Requiem to Hubert Selby

4/26/04 -- CRA: Challenges to GreenPoint and North Fork's enabling of check cashiers, pawnshops and rent-to-own, to HSBC's preemption and OCC's weak info requirements. Bank Beat: Huntington - Unizan play hide-the-ball on branch closings. FedWatch: Perfunctory on JPM Chase; Union Planters' HOEPA lender. CitiWatch at the shareholders' meeting. Human Rights: Rwanda tribunal hears of Bagosora's deeds. Enviro: hazards in Gary and Chicagoland. In TheBronx, Earth Day ironies

4/23/04 -- JPM Chase & Bank One play hide the ball; ICP's SEC complaint and Fed testimony

4/19/04 -- CRA: Payday lending and pawnshops unaddressed by JPM Chase's and Bank One's lax $800 billion pledge, in the run-up to Federal Reserve's 2d hearing. Bank Beat: Union Planters - Regions asked about car title lender; HSBC takes Señor Predator to Mexico; Citigroup's low-tech dinosaur Weill is in denial. Money laundering in Russia; GE and Nauru. Human Rights: Rwanda seen from Kampala. Enviro: Incinerator to close. Bronx: Major Deegan dumping; Bender goes to London.

4/16/04 - JPM Chase's 11th hour $800 billion pledge does not address the banks' enabling of payday and predatory lenders; it will be dissected before and on 4/23

4/15/04 - JPM Chase & Bank One finance and enable pawn and gun shops, check cashiers and rent-to-own, ICP testifies at Fed merger hearing

4/12/04 -- CRA: in run-up to JPM Chase - Bank One hearings, the two banks con affiliated groups to support payday lending. HSBC's Household loses a predatory mastermind. Federal Reserve excuses BofA and Manulife. Bank Beat: Regions and Union Planters withhold info, in bed with mobbed-up car title lender. Citigroup's spin. Global: Limits on Rwanda debate. Enviro: Corporate pollution in Delaware. Bronx: Ferris wheels at Easter, 156th Street's history of corruption

4/5/04 -- CRA: Regions Union Planters funds Mafia-connected car title lender; Congressman defends payday lenders. Federal Reserve increases FOIA gamesmanship, in run-up to JPM Chase- Bank One hearings. Bank Beat: Manulife's dissembling; BofA's deposit cap loophole. Rwanda: Who's PBS Front-ing for? Enviro: Hazmat in Cali. Bronx: terminal market sold for a song

3/29/04 -- CRA: Challenges to Regions - Union Planters, and County Bank on payday lending. HSBC's hunger for preemption. Federal Reserve finally sets JPM Chase - Bank One hearings. Bank Beat: UP-Regions hit. Global: Who buries Rwanda's past? Enviro: Dioxin and Pharmacia, Monsanto. Bronx: Two workers' deaths; Eastmond as negligent contributor

3/22/04 -- CRA: Payday lenders supported by National City and Bank One. County Bank applies to the Federal Reserve, whose laxity lures the predators. Bank Beat: ICP challenge to NatCity - Provident; Manulife hearing. Global: Rwanda fall out. Enviro: Arsenic in El Paso. Bronx: Ferrer and the yellow pages; Happy Land 14 years on

3/15/04 -- CRA: On Capitol Hill(ary); JPM Chase on subprime inconsistencies, ICP to Federal Reserve (also BofA reconsideration). Bank Beat: DJ puffs Citigroup; Sovereign swallows. Global: Rwandan revelations and U.N.'s flight recorder. Enviro: VX nerve gas in Delaware. Bronx: Voice for sale in at least two ways: bad reps, Predatory Bender in the Washington Post

3/8/04 -- CRA: Predatory payday lending courtesy of Bank One and JPM Chase; Ameriquest's Loan Shark Ballpark; Citigroup's corrupt rewards. Federal Reserve: Sucking up to BofA, blowing off the GAO. Bank Beat: AXA's market failure; JPM Chase's job outsourcing at issue; HSBC's wages of sin. Human Rights: Rwanda acquittals. Enviro: Boric acid and coal-fired Waco. Bronx: Un- and mis-represented; insults up, jobs down.

3/1/04 -- CRA: JP Morgan Chase's subprime connections; HSBC's predatory deceptions. Federal Reserve blows off the GAO, and BofA scandals. Bank Beat: National City, tangled up in blue. Human Rights: Two Rwanda acquittals. Enviro: EPA's Houston white-wash. Bronx: Amnesty, commutes and calumny.

2/23/04 -- CRA: Predatory lending, from JPM Chase to Bank One's and HSBC's Refund Anticipation Loans to payday lenders, Bank One-funded. Federal Reserve withholds for BofA (and National City?). Bank Beat: Korean buy for Citigroup, from Carlyle. Human Rights: Rwandan jails and trials. Enviro: Citgo fined; Colorado revolving door. Bronx: It's tax season - and time for H&R Block, to rip you off with high-cost loans. Media watch: triple vision

2/16/04 -- CRA: Predators proceed, with single premium insurance (AIG) and pressure to hard-sell (Citigroup). Regulators capitulate: OTS, below 10%, is blind. Federal Reserve's lawless secrecy results in five FOIA appeals, including JP Morgan Chase and BofA (Oakmont). Bank Beat: stakes for sale in Thailand and Korea. Global: Consumer protection is Guam, Wells Fargo opposes. Enviro: Intel's pollution; Indiana burns. Bronx: NY Post sportswriter profits from calumny

2/9/04 -- CRA: Comptroller serves CitiFinancial, in Tennessee and elsewhere, will get Wells Fargo complaints. HSBC's subprime secrecy. Fed Watch: National City breaks the rules -- and so what? Bank Beat: RBC sleaze; gagging in New Haven. Global: Third force in Rwanda. Enviro: Chemical run-off, Enron fraud. Bronx: A hardhat is dead -- where is Joy Construction?

2/2/04 -- CRA: Redlining by HSBC; secrecy of CitiFinancial; Bank One's pre-Chase CDC close-down. Fed Watch: New lows in questions not asked (including National City). Bank Beat: Updates on Manulife and from New Haven. Enviro: Tennessee hazing, W. Virginia creek spill. Bronx: World in a grain of sand - Kosovar bumper stickers in Belmont

1/26/04 -- CRA: Payday lender enabled by Bank One; Chase Funding is a direct predator. Household redactions. Federal Reserve delays on FOIA, while projecting fast approvals. Bank Beat: AIG's Hank against hawala; Sovereign looks to Hong Kong. Global: Romeo re Rwanda. Enviro: BASF's behind pollution. Bronx: a jail to be abandoned?

1/20/04 -- CRA: Multi-state challenge to JP Morgan Chase-Bank One. Harassment at CitiFinancial's new buy. Fed Watch: Crédit Agricole leases oil platforms; 11th hour FOIA responses. Bank Beat: New Haven Savings Bank peddles and amends; pundits' sand wedge analogies slice left. Global: War criminal search, in Kenya. Enviro: Dirty Delaware deals. Bronx: What's in a name?

1/19/04 -- ICP files 21-page challenges to JP Morgan Chase-Bank One, with Fed and a dozen state regulators - in observance of MLK Day - other weekly Reports later

1/12/04 -- CRA: Preemption madness shields Citigroup and BofA. Bank Beat: Manulife-Hancock challenge. Crédit Agricole and ex-Federal Reserve counsel spin lawbreaking. Global: Broke government in Central African Republic. Enviro: Illinois brownfields. Bronx: Tales of two murders

1/5/04 -- CRA: Predatory lending as Mobius strip - BofA buys into Oakmont. Bank Beat: Challenge to National City - Allegiant, on First Franklin. Corporate irresponsibility: Wells Fargo lay-offs, GE flees Bristol. Global: India and HSBC's burden.  Enviro: toxins on the border. Bronx: Unsolved murders, unreformed releases, ex-Yankee Reggie pitches subprime. Money laundering loopholes: too corporate-friendly.

1/2/04 -- Bank Beat: ICP challenges NatCity - Allegiant, including on First Franklin / predatory lending. Welcome to 2004...

12/29/03 -- CRA: Year in (fast) review; Citi worse than WaMuFi, at least in NC. Predatory lending by HSBC's Household: still withheld, ICP's FOIA lawsuit. Federal Reserve inaction (though BofA-Fleet hearings Jan. 14 & 16). Money laundering question. Global: Sudan's Darfur province and press freedom. Enviro: Tennessee nuclear. Bronx: Ferrer's redlining friends. Happy holidays!

12/22/03 -- CRA: Citigroup writes legislation, captures regulators, re WaMu and predatory lending. Federal Reserve thumbs its nose at law and public on BofA and Fleet. Bank Beat: Chase and the case of FINCEN / SSNs (money laundering?) Global: the silence of HSBC. Enviro: Louisiana train wreck lawsuit resolved. Bronx: Experiential snow day...

12/15/03 -- CRA: The cynicism of Citigroup: splits WaMuFi so Rubin can lie. Fleet-BofA beef. Bank Beat: ICP files NY comments v. HSBC - Bank of Bermuda. Fed Watch: Royal Bank of Scotland's insane, Fed-coddled secrecy, about its meetings and loans. Enviro: Dow's dioxin delay. Bronx: Grassroots cable, steamships and white-wash. New Predatory Bender review - click here to view.

12/8/03 -- CRA: in WaMu-CitiFinancial, sad tales of bogus preemption. BofA-Fleet dodge, bob and weave. Fed Watch: late documents on Credit Lyonnais; RBS wants carte blanche to launder money. Bank Beat: NHSB fireworks; on Del. FOIA we're called right. Global: Hedge funder, stonewalling in Rwanda. Enviro: Monsanto's PCBs in Alabama. Bronx: Pork in the Garden, Darin in Berlin. Predatory Bender's Commonweal review

12/1/03 -- CRA: Protests to Citigroup - WaMu Finance in 25 states. HSBC's Household pays to continue predatory playing. Fed Watch: The silence of BofA-Fleet; Moe Forget of Wells Fargo in Canada. Bank Beat: The hungers of GE and Lehman. Global: Rwanda's ongoing mysteries. Enviro: Delaware sues, and gets sued under FOIA by ICP. Bronx: 83-word obituary & indictment.

11/25/03 -- Arrogant Citigroup wants to buy yet another predatory lending, WaMu Finance - click here for (pre-Thanksgiving) reaction to this turkey of a deal...

11/24/03 -- CRA: Round two versus Bank of America, with predatory links to Wells Fargo and others, and 10.1118% of deposits, prior to Federal Reserve word games. Bank Beat: RBS, lobbying and lies; Schwab's U.S. Trust and El Rushbo. Global: press arrests in Rwanda. Enviro: Florida dioxin, Hawaii conflicts. Bronx: a map and tour, where is Jack Bender?

11/20/03 -- Protest to Bank of America / Fleet: text here, BofA/Predatory Bender map here

11/17/03 -- CRA: Now 1300 complaints against Chase Manhattan; BofA has just applied to the Federal Reserve (more forthcoming). Bank Beat: Barclays stalks the Northeast; PNC defends its data. Global: Inner City Press FOIA response to State Dep't. Enviro: Polluter tries to buy an election. Bronx: background to a mall; preface to a map.

11/10/03 -- CRA: Hard-sell sleaze at Citigroup continues; foreclosures and loss of homes, including as topic of novel by ICP. Fed's secret business with Credit Agricole and counsel. Bank Beat: the madness of Deutsche Bank and its Russian bet. Global: State Dep't delay on Rwanda FOIA. Enviro: Boston toxic public playgrounds. My own romantic Bronx: novelistic descriptions 2003.

11/3/03 -- CRA: 500 complaints against JPMorgan Chase; FOIA win (of a sort) re HSBC's Household. B of A interim squib. Federal Reserve extends Credit Agricole for nothing, while excluding the public. Bank Beat: false data and bad times at PNC. Enviro: Delaware sulfuric acid. Bronx: Lean times at the NYT; good tacos in the Hub. AXA's MONY hit.

10/27/03 -- CRA:  ICP's quick statement on Bank of America - Fleet. Buying approvals with assessment fees? JP Morgan Chase and the OTS. CitiFinancial's hiring of its previous regulators. Federal Reserve requires application from Royal Bank of Scotland. Bank Beat:  reply, on RBS money laundering, to Switzerland; PNC extension. Global: Rwanda as one-party state. Enviro: Tyco's pollution. Bronx: "Excessive force" as human rights violation

10/20/03 -- CRA: Challenge to New Haven Savings Bank, its buy-offs and sell-outs; Citigroup's compliance in hell. Federal Reserve: Secret waivers for JP Morgan Chase's corporate trust deal? Bank Beat: Royal Bank of Scotland hit in Philly and Boston and, on global money-laundering, in Switzerland. Enviro: Lead poisoning in Santo Domingo. Bronx: Negative thinking of hot sheet motels

10/13/03 -- CRA: Challenges filed to PNC's United proposal -- disparities at the fraudster, undisclosed communications. Fed's favors to Crédit Lyonnais. Bank Beat: JPMorgan Chase's ever-amending Bank One arrogance. Global: HRE FOIAs the Commerce Dep't on Gabon, the State Dep't on Rwanda.  Enviro: nukes in TN. Bronx: One view of environmental justice, with an emphasis on the latter

10/6/03 -- CRA: Finding and trying to fill the Federal Reserve's stealth waiver loophole; range of Wells Fargo complaints. Bank Beat: Disparate N.Y. Community Bancorp approved nonetheless. Global: Vote-fraud in Rwanda. Enviro: Pollution courtesy of Intel and Dynergy. Bronx: Stench and lay-off (suicide?) at AIG...

9/29/03 -- CRA: Stealth attacks on public laws: JP Morgan Chase and preemption; the Federal Reserve and its exemptions. Bank Beat: NY Community Bancorp made to commit -- but to what? Bronx: Questioning this new era. Enviro: Benzene in FLA, nerve gas in 'Bama.

9/22/03 -- CRA: Preemption, and Chase's predatory lending, raised to officials in dozens of states. HSBC takes it global, while Citigroup takes it out of your pocket. Bank Beat: N.Y. Community update. Enviro: Cheap oil spills. Bronx: Politics low and high-heeled.

9/15/03 -- CRA: Evasive moves by JP Morgan Chase, shifting its subprime lending from state scrutiny, and seeking (with Bank One) waivers from the Fed.  Quiet Citigroup announcement on predatory personal property insurance. Bank Beat: Roslyn-NYCB update. AIG's fraud. Global: elections lead to search warrants. Enviro: Free lunch in Louisiana. Bronx: grassroots civics on Nine Eleven and beyond

9/9/03 -- ICP challenges two JPMorgan Chase applications: to acquire Bank One's corporate trust business, and to use a federal savings bank to evade state anti-predatory lending laws

9/8/03 -- CRA: Predatory servicing by PMI's Fairbanks raised against GE insurance co. sale. Political $ by Citigroup and AIG. More spin of the Fed by Wells Fargo. Bank Beat: NYCB-Roslyn update. Human rights: Election without opponents in Kigali. Enviro: Mustard gas and vapors. Bronx: Finger-pointing at felons and donors.

9/1/03 -- Challenge to New York Community Bank - Roslyn Savings Bank. CRA: Shifty responses from Citigroup and AIG; Federal Reserve asked to close loophole. Global / human rights: sad scam election in Rwanda. Enviro: Penn. city pollutes and asks for low fine. Bronx: Redlining continues, NYCB-Roslyn...

8/25/03 -- CRA: Predatory lending, from Basel to Vegas, HSBC to Wells Fargo. Bank Beat: Jersey deal, Citi steals. Human Rights (and free speech) ill-served in Rwandan election. Enviro: Arsenic in NC, Alamos whistle-blower. Bronx: Rodents in hospital; roast pig in Belmont.

8/18/03 -- CRA: Challenge to AIG - GE, in Japan and U.S. Sleazy Citi loan put into evidence in Citi-Sears. Disparities at Wells Fargo; withholdings at the Fed. Human Rights: With parties outlawed, Rwanda's 8/25 election can't be free or fair  Bank Beat: Deals in the blackout zone.. Enviro: Entergy-Koch manipulates; nukes in SC. Bronx: Lightless tales.

8/11/03 -- CRA: Citigroup - Sears and insignificance;  HSBC has application rejected; Wells Fargo clams up. Global: Del Ponte or not, the Int'l Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda has been victors' justice to date. Bank Beat: Scotiabank (& RBS) doth protest too much. Fed Watch: Terse door revolving around Crédit Agricole. Enviro: Louisiana toxins. Bronx: A tale of lacks and street fairs.

8/4/03 -- Themed issue: Citigroup's still sleazy, now moving on Sears. Click here for ICP's comments, on CRA (redlining, including in The Bronx), money laundering, even human rights abuse. Wells Fargo update; HSBC's hiring flacks. Enviro: Cadmium in SC; Enron fall-out...

7/28/03 -- CRA: Protest to Wells Fargo's predatory lending, including overseas. HSBC's Household delays and is protected. Fed's willful blindness, including on Credit Agricole, compared to Swedish response. Bank Beat: Sleazy Lehman's deal. Global: Burundi update. Enviro: Colorado toxins. Bronx: Waste Management; hit n' run eggheads.

7/21/03 -- CRA: Citigroup succession; GE usury; Household's shredding won't go away. Fed coddles Crédit Agricole. Bank Beat: Loose lips at Greenpoint; sleazy RBS. Global: Human rights in Burundi. Enviro: Duke Power guaranteed 14%? Bronx: Political backdrop.

7/14/03 -- CRA: Predatory moves at Citi & Wells & HSBC. Bank Beat: ScotiaBank into Santo Domingo; Crédit Agricole snubs the Fed, moves on Belgium. Global: Killing in Burundi continues; Liberian flashback. Enviro: From a Camp Lejeune victim. Bronx: The homeless as pawns -- for shame.

7/7/03 -- CRA: Crédit Agricole's shady lending, money laundering and lack of human rights and environmental standards. CitiFinancial in Brazil. Fed Watch: Basel and lack of inclusion; RBS blindness. Bank Beat: Soc Gen power plants; sleazy deals in rent-to-own. Global: Rwanda, dissed and disappeared. Bronx: Fireworks; and an action to take.

6/30/03 -- CRA: Public accountability in insurance regulation; ICP's presentation, and NAIC response to date (corporate globalization in action). Bank Beat: Weak deals in NY, and Japan. Human rights in Bunia, hanging in the balance. Enviro: Texas refineries, Georgia disparities. Bronx: a Murder quietly solved, or pled to.

6/23/03 -- CRA: Reality and Citigroup's claims. The predators' enablers: Royal Bank of Scotland, round two (including on human rights and money laundering). Global: Eye on Bunia. Enviro: Prawn-farming woes; toxic waste. Bronx: Promesa investigation continues.

6/16/03 -- Update re Lehman Brothers' enabling of predatory lending; CRA: Campaign against General Electric and its lending proceeds on to Germany, after OTS hits new low. Bank Beat: Royal Bank of Scotland's grab for CSFB's insurance company is challenged. Global: Peacekeepers must move, like the conflict, beyond Bunia. Enviro: Toxins in Philly and Milwaukee; Citigroup's mining investment(s). Bronx: Church, state and street fairs.

6/9/03 -- CRA: Hypocrisy at Citigroup and AG's office (re HSBC's Household); Fairbanks switches lawyers midstream. Bank Beat: Royal Bank of Scotland, less talk, in deed. Global : Bunia shoot-out continues. Enviro: Pollution fine for GE, too cheap. Bronx: World's smallest (church-sponsored) woman?

6/2/03 -- Themed issue: Royal Bank of Scotland challenged, to Federal Reserve, on CRA, money laundering, and lack of human rights standards. Enviro: toxins on the move. Bronx: Promesa whistleblower; from the Bronx to Baghdad. Global: U.N. too cautious on Bunia.

5/26/03 -- CRA: Predatory fat cat prowls London (HSBC); OCC and U.S. Bancorp revealed. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo on a roll; Citi (or GE) move in on Sears. Global: Refugees pour into Uganda. Enviro: Delaware pleads with polluters. Bronx: Dirty parks annotations; blind item

5/19/03 -- CRA: The predatory troika of HSBC (Canada), GE's evasions,