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1/21/19 -- CRA:
As
Otting Targets Community Reinvestment Act Inner
City Press Requests His Calendar Under FOIA. Federal
Reserve Watch: Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act Fed Delays
on FOIA for WSFS No Notices Since Dec 21. Bank
Beat: Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act
BancorpSouth Deals in Texas and Alabama Challenged
on Disparate Lending. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Mistakes Sudan For DRC Says No Probe of
Khashoggi But Advising Cameroon Biya. Enviro:
Festival concerning oceans plastics in Antigua and
Barbuda. Bronx
/ NYC: As
Amazon Abuses Opportunity Zone Law To Gentrify
Local Fight Back to DC As UNSG in Limousine
1/14/19 -- CRA:
Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act
Centerstate Bank Takeover of NCC Challenged on
Disparate Lending; Federal
Reserve Allows Centerstate
to Withhold All Substantive Exhibits. Bank
Beat: Lawsuit
Against Eleven Lebanese Banks in New York Accuses
Them Of Assisting Foreign Terrorist Organization.
UN - Global:
As
UN Guterres Fails With Somalia and Guatemala Like
Cameroon His Supporters Blame P3. Enviro:
Mining
Project in French Guiana Called Out for Hypocrisy
and No Consent from Indigenous Bronx
/ Legal: On
Haiti Trial Against US Ending TPS Judge Cites
Cholera Exacerbated By If Not Introduced By UN
Peacekeepers
1/7/19 -- CRA:
Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act Fed Delays
on FOIA for WSFS CRA Program. Federal
Reserve Chair
Powell Says Would Not Resign If Asked Contrast to
FOIA Denials and Merger Rubber Stamping. Bank
Beat: In
EDNY Mozambique Former FM Indicted In Lusophone
Bribery Scandal Echoed By UN Guterres and
Gulbenkian. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Had Press Roughed Up and Accreditation
Withdrawn Now Basis For New Denial. Enviro:
Now Censorship for Sterlite in Tamil Nadu. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Reichberg Convicted Of Bribing For Private
Police As UN Corruption Cover Up Continues
12/31/18 -- CRA:
Mnuchin
Calls Big Six Banks and Monday Convenes Powell and
Otting Amid Targeting of Community Reinvestment
Act. Federal
Reserve Withholding
80% of Letter Urging Fast Merger Approval. Bank
Beat: Cadence Bank Sent Redacted Letter by
Snail Mail Only. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Stonewalls on His Links to China Energy
Fund Committee UN Staffers Met Ye Jianming. Enviro:
More from Tamil Nadu. Bronx:
Assemblymember white-wash
12/24/18 -- CRA:
Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act FFW
Protest of WSFS Leads to CRA Questions Here. Federal
Reserve gives itself more time on FOIA request
about Synovus merger the Fed already approved:
scam. Bank
Beat: Barclays
Bank Fined For Whistleblower Hunt by NYSDFS While
OCC Closes Its Ears On WSFS Abuses. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Refused to Audit China Energy Fund
Committee While Covering Up His Links to Partex
Oil For Sale to CEFC. Enviro:
Sterlite fight in Tamil Nadu continues. Bronx:
Court of Appeals ruling on jury trial rights not
headed to SCOTUS
12/17/18 -- CRA:
At
CFPB Kraninger Sworn In Without Press But Texas
Bankers Present Now Electronic Media Out in 5
Minutes. Federal
Reserve has FOIA as Targeting
of Community Reinvestment Act by Otting Includes
Excluding Comment on 25 Branch Closings by WSFS.
Bank
Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon UN Guterres Envoy Fall Claimed Biya
Gender Desks But After Fact Check No Answer. Enviro:
“Green” Tribunal Order Sterlite Plant Re-opened in
Tamil Nadu. Bronx
/ Legal: In
SDNY Michael Cohen Sentenced to 3 Years In Jail
Media Circus Unlike For UN Bribery Verdict; NYPD
Claimed No Records On UN Barred List But Called UN
About It Misspelling Assaultant Name
12/10/18 -- CRA:
Cadence
Bank Urged OCC To Speed Regulatory Approvals And
Gets It From The Fed Despite Jumping the Gun.
Federal
Reserve: Amid
Targeting of Community Reinvestment Act by Otting
WSFS Tells Fed To Withhold CRA Info But Inner City
Press FOIAs. Bank
Beat: On
Jamaica IMF Worries of Protracted Wage
Negotiations with What It Calls Unsettled Groups.
UN - Global:
UN
Bribery Guilty Verdict Against Ho of China Energy
Fund Committee Shows Need For Reform and Oversight
of SG. Enviro:
Dirty funding by Mizuho Financial and Mitsubishi UFJ
Financial. Bronx
/ NYC: On
UN Bribery Verdict SG Guterres Refuses To Comment
From Mercedes to Cipriani Corrupt Censors
12/3/18 -- CRA:
Targeting
of Community Reinvestment Act by Otting Included
Favor to WSFS Now Fed Protest by Fair Finance
Watch. Federal
Reserve withholding WSFS CRA information. Bank
Beat: On
Money Laundering Deutsche Bank Is Raided While UN
Briber Ho Used HSBC and Mashreqbank Which Settled.
UN - Global:
In
UN Bribery Case Ho Plotted Bribing PGA Ashe with
Yan and Repeatedly Entered UN Covered Up by
Guterres. Enviro:
UN praised Blue Economy conference, with single use
plastic. Bronx
/ Legal: In
UN Bribery Case of US v Ho Gadio Admits Taking
$20000 Then Pushes Photographer on Sidewalk
11/26/18 -- CRA:
Targeting
of Community Reinvestment Act by Otting Includes
Favor to WSFS Which Disses LMI Focus. Federal
Reserve Cadence
Bank Withholding Info on State Bank in Georgia.
Bank
Beat: In
SDNY SocGen Bank Hit With $1.3B Penalty for
Sanctions Violations. UN - Global:
After
Cameroon Leak Said PR Van Oosterom Thanked
Lobbyists Now Skype Hearing on WOB Appeal. Enviro:
UN
Guterres Told Solheim to Pull Himself For Travel
Spending No Worse Than His Own. Bronx
/ Legal: UN
Spokesman Dujarric Spins Censorship For Guterres
While Former Boss Helen Clark Questions
11/19/18 -- CRA:
US
Community Reinvestment Act Targeting by Otting
Urged On By ABA Fulton and Military Banks. Federal
Reserve: Step by step on Synovux. Bank
Beat: Inner
City Press Asks IMF of Pakistan Talks and Sri
Lanka "Coup" Ongoing Answers Here. UN - Global:
In
UN Bribery Case of China Energy Iran Sanctions and
Arms Deal Evidence Will Come In, Belt and Road Is
Out. Enviro:
Australia hot spots. Bronx:
BP meets Fed at Museum, here's hoping for more
serious merger review
11/12/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
Inner City Press FOIA Appeal Denied, Nov 19 ANPR
Scam. Federal
Reserve lets Synovus withhold fair lending
information? Bank
Beat: WSFS
Take Over Of Beneficial Bank in Philadelphia Is
Challenged By Inner City Press / Fair Finance
Watch. UN - Global:
UN
Spox Dujarric Claims Inner City Press Made
Diplomats and UN Officials Feel UNsafe But
Solution Is Simple. Enviro:
Lungs in India - and in NYS bus stops. Bronx:
Financial
Follies Mock Bankrupt Puerto Rico As in DC
Forecloser Joe Otting Targets the Community
Reinvestment Act
11/5/18 -- CRA:
Cadence Bank fends off FFW challenge to State Bank
application by calling operations it bought
“problematic.” Federal
Reserve: Synovus brags of branch reclassified
as moderate income. Bank
Beat: Enterprise - Los Alamos. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres On 16th Public Funded Trip to Lisbon For
Lula Award Decided by CPLP in Cape Verde Where His
Son Pedro Does Business. Enviro:
Bonfire Night. Bronx
/ Legal: UNSG
Guterres Tried To Have Press Thrown Out of
Synagogue Before His Speech No Answer on Why Or
Missionary Killed by Cameroon
10/29/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
Murky Meeting With Citigroup TIAA Wells. Federal
Reserve asks Synovus more questions on FCB. Bank
Beat: Mergers in Iowa and Transylvania; To
Argentina IMF Ready To Dispense $5.7B But Dodged
Inner City Press on Austerity. UN - Global:
UN
Rapporteur Kaye Asked Guterres USG Smale About
Ousting Inner City Press Answer Full of Lies Still
Banned. Enviro:
pollution in Melbourne. Bronx:
At
BDC on 151st Street, Great Liberia Photos and
Ambiguous Role of UN Failing on Cameroon and
Censorship
10/22/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
He Devalues Comments He Earlier Gamed. Federal
Reserve gets
Fair Finance Watch protest to State Bank being
bought by Cadence.
Bank Beat: Mergers we are looking into. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Obiang Pre-Congratulates Biya For
Re-Election Amid Guterres Ban and Cover Up. Enviro:
Pearl Jam offsets, UNlike UN and Guterres. Bronx:
The MTA's Connecticut train scam back on table
10/15/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
Inner City Press Raises His Bid to Free E-Trade
From CRA. Federal
Reserve Antitrust HHI Games. Bank
Beat: UN
Briber Patrick Ho Used Mashreqbank Which Settles
on Money Laundering As Guterres Bans Inner City
Press. UN - Global:
Nikki
Haley Took Names Then Went Native At the UN, Where
Corruption and Censorship Continue. Enviro:
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestle killing the oceans with
plastics. Bronx
/ Legal: UN
Has Secret List of People Banned Guterres Puts
Inner City Press On With Demonstrators No Review
10/8/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
He Back Pedals in Senate As Inner City Press Urges
Recusal. Federal
Reserve requests response from Synovus to Fair
Finance Watch comment. Bank
Beat: On
Panama IMF Upbeat on FinTech and Urges Sensitizing
on Money Laundering Panana Papers Page Turned?
UN - Global:
In
UN Bribery Case Patrick Ho Denied Bail Post Gadio
Role in Qatar Arms But UN Guterres Bans Inner City
Press. Enviro:
ASEAN. Bronx:
Ocasio-Cortez event full, no respones to Press
10/1/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
The Intercept Notes Inner City Press Urging
Recusal. Federal
Reserve ends enforcement against Prudential. Bank
Beat: On
Sri Lanka IMF Gushes Over Vision 2025 But Blind
Like UN to War Crimes and Cluster Bombs. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Revoked Inner City Press Access to UN
Claims E-Answers and Has Not Said For Life.
Enviro:
Norway brags as Solheim flies. Bronx
/ Legal: Gadio
Cooperates Against UN Briber CEFC Patrick Ho Says
$2M Donation to Deby Guterres Bans Press
9/24/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
Net Neutrality Echo FFW Urges Recusal to OCC.
Federal
Reserve: Trump nominates Nellie Liang, who's
written in subprime times. Bank
Beat: Inner
City Press Puts Zimbabwe Question to IMF Which
Says Arrears Must Be Cleared Cameroon Too; UN
Corruption Under Guterres Has Haoliang Xu Spending
$228000 on Travel UNDP Waste Up 44 Percent. UN - Global:
In Cameroon Biya Targets Anglophones in Yaounde as
Guterres Bans Press From Nigeria FM Briefing. Enviro:
At
UN Environment Solheim Blames His Travel Abuse On
His Staff In Email Leaked to Banned Inner City
Press. Bronx
/ Legal: UN
Guterres Said Press Made Hostile Environment For
Diplomats Now Says No Input from Diplomats
9/17/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
Fair Finance Watch Urges Recusal to OCC. Federal
Reserve accepts banks' withholding of basic
into. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN Global:
Misplaced
Focus on Nikki Haley Curtains in $58,000 a month
apartment While UN Says She Supports Censorship of
Press So FOIA Filed. Enviro:
Mystery mist. Bronx:
Alessandra
Biaggi Beats Klein Amid Bad Review of UN and US
Mission Good for Tacos El Bronco II
9/10/18 -- CRA:
Mulvaney's
Moves Against Disparate Impact At CFPB Opposed As
CRA Targeted by Otting at OCC, Approving Varo
Money Bank. Federal
Reserve Banks withhold any exhibit containing
any confidential info in FOIA-lite? Bank
Beat: Inner
City Press Asks IMF About Pakistan From Which No
Request Ghana Kenya Zambia Angola. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Inner City Press FOIAs US DOD For Report
and All Records on Anglophone Areas. Enviro:
Tamil Nadu gov rejects pro-Sterlite report. Bronx
/ Legal: UN
of Guterres Says Trump's USUN and UK Request Ban
of Inner City Press So FOIAs Filed
9/3/18 -- CRA:
As
Community Reinvestment Act Is Targeted by Otting
His OCC's Notice to Community Is Silent As Banks
Cheer. Federal
Reserve to follow or steer clear of Otting's
ANPR? Bank
Beat: With
Argentina In Financial Meltdown, IMF to Meet FM
Dujovne Sept 4 But Dodged Inner City Press on
Austerity. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Refuses To Answer Why He Bans Inner City
Press From UNGA What Done on Cameroon Son's
Conflict of Interest. Enviro:
Most polluted cities: Cairo, Delhi, Beijing, Moscow,
Istanbul, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Buenos Aires, Paris,
LA. Bronx/Legal:
UN
Guterres Justifies Censorship With Lies Like That
Inner City Press Shouted at Smale's Building But
Has Never Been There
8/27/18 -- CRA:
Redlining
Klein Bank Wants to Sell Out to Old National But
Fair Finance Watch Challenges. Federal
Reserve is said by Bloomberg to be looking at
the concentration it causes. Bank
Beat: IMF
Says Angola Requests EFF Program But Dodged Inner
City Press on Austerity. UN - Global:
For
UNGA Trump to Hold Drug Event Banned Inner City
Press Learns By Not From USUN Notified of Ban Like
Pressman. Enviro:
From Australia. Bronx:
UN
Guterres' Ban of Press Spun to IPS By Ex-IPS Haq
Eviction Was to Change Reporting
8/20/18 -- CRA: Otting's downplaying of discrimination in lending applauded by ABA. Federal Reserve ends enforcement against HSBC for money laundering for drug cartels - bygones. Bank Beat: We're looking at WSFS trying to buy Beneficial in Philly. UN - Global: On Cameroon Inner City Press Video Guterres' Smale Calls Derogatory for Lifetime Ban Remonetized by YouTube. Enviro: New Zealand ship bought to fight pollution. Bronx / Legal: UN Says Inner City Press' Accreditation Is Withdrawn In Kafkaesque Letter By Ex-NYT Alison Smale
8/13/18 -- CRA:
Otting goes it alone in selective assault on CRA. Federal
Reserve lets Citigroup off the hook. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Dutch and HRW Overplay UK Pres Vague Line
on Violence As Guterres Bans Press. Enviro:
Arrest
in Bangalore After Testimony to UNHRC To Be Raised
to UN But Will Zeid or Bachelet Speak? Bronx
/ Legal: As
UN Shifts Review Of Inner City Press
Guterres Spokesman Takes Anonymous Charges As True
But Stonewalled on Corruption
8/6/18 -- CRA:
With
OCC To Hand Out Fintech Bank Charters NY Regulator
Slams It But Lets First Republic Redline. Federal
Reserve Goes Finnish on Nordea. Bank
Beat: To
Gabon's Ali Bongo IMF Doles Out $100M With No
Mention of 40 Year Family Rule like Cameroon.
UN - Global:
To
Replace Zeid UN Guterres Who Bans Press Eyes 4
Latins from Mexico Colombia Argentina and
Guatemala. Enviro:
Wind blowing in from the Arabian Peninsula has
increased dust pollution in India. Bronx
/ legal: UN
Tells RCFP Inner City Press Will Be Told In Coming
Days Results of Review It's Been Heard Only Once
On
7/30/18 -- CRA:
People's
United Bank's Bid to Buy Farmington Challenged by
Fair Finance Watch on Lending Disparities. Federal
Reserve says it looks at redlining. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are looking at; On
France Lagarde's IMF Praises Banks Avoiding Large
Indebted Firms and Communications Amid Benalla and
Biya. UN
- Global:
On
Cameroon Inner City Press Asked UN's Zeid Before
Being Banned Now A Belated Statement With Guterres
Silent. Enviro:
Heat wave and pollution in France. Bronx
/ Legal: As
UNSG Guterres Bans Inner City Press 24+ Days His
Spox Hopes Kafka Probe by GA and Goes on Vacation
7/23/18 -- CRA:
Kathy Kraninger dodges on Puerto Rica, Hurricane
Maria. Federal
Reserve ends enforcement against Community
Banks of Georgia. Bank
Beat: In
SDNY, UN Briber Patrick Ho of CEFC Loses Motions
to Dismiss on FCPA and HSBC Money Laundering, UN
Bans Press. UN - Global:
Cameroon
Not Seen By Human Rights Watch As Top 90 Problem
But Now Spun For Money with UN Censorship Alliance.
Enviro:
Emissions in Punjab. Bronx
/ Free Press: UNSG
Guterres Had His Guards Rough Inner City Press Up
Then Banned It As Heads On 2 Week Vacation of
Corruption
7/16/18 -- CRA:
First
Republic Bank Excluding All Bronxites But
Slumlords Wants 9th Manhattan Branch, Opposed.
Federal
Reserve ends enforcement action against
Pakistan's United Bank in NY. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Inner City Press Asks UNSC Members About
Videos of Abuses and UN Ban, Sweden 1st Reply.
Enviro:
Plastics in India. Bronx
/ Legal: UN
Bans Inner City Press Then Tells UK Independent
Claim of Targeting Is Ludicrous and Saunders
Innocent
7/9/18 -- CRA:
Leandra English is leaving CFPB, Kathy Kraninger on
tap. Federal
Reserve drops enforcement action against Amboy
Bancorporation from 2009. Bank
Beat: In
Cameroon Lagarde's IMF Pays Out $78 Million Amid
Biya's Killings in Anglophone Zones But Citing ACN.
UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Snubbed #MeToo Club in Vienna and Beagle
and Haq Ignore Since While Banning Press. Enviro:
Pollution in Guam post Hurricane Maria. Bronx
/ law: UN
Review of Practices It Authorized from Inner City
Press Video in Hall to Working Late Is A Scam,
Censorship
7/2/18 -- CRA:
Bank
of America Gets Sued For Discriminatory
Maintenance While Citigroup Brags At UN About
Renewables. Federal
Reserve fails Deutsche
Bank on stress test. Bank
Beat: UN - Global:
In
Cameroon Macron Envoy Lemoyne Unfurls French
Banner in Anglophone Buea With Soldiers.
Enviro:
On
Libya Fighting in Oil Crescent Inner City Press
Asked UN Which Speaks After UK, US, Italy and
France Bronx
/ Courts: In
1st UN Bribery Case Ng Lap Seng Is Denied Bail on
Appeal As Argues UN Not Covered, Not Audited
6/25/18 -- CRA:
In
NY Court CFPB Deemed Unconstitutional and Dropped
from Case, Hold on Kraninger.. Federal
Reserve's stress tests. Bank
Beat: mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
At
UN 5 Guards Eject Inner City Press As It Covers
Guterres Talk, Noting His Inaction on Corruption
and Cameroon. Enviro:
the scam of biomass, that burning wood is good for
the environment. Bronx:
UN
Guterres Told Pompeo About Mali But Not UN's Child
Rape, After His Guards Eject Inner City Press
6/18/18 -- CRA:
In
DC to Head CFPB Mulvaney OMB Staffer Kathy
Kraninger Is Nominated, Experience Questioned.
As Federal
Reserve Rubber
Stamps Merger By Ameris Jerome Powell Omits
Regulatory Duties. Bank
Beat: Citigroup
LIBOR Scam Yields $100M Settlement to 42 States
While Deutsche Did $220M to 45. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon Inner City Press Asked of UN DSS Staff in
Buea and UN Says UNaware of Reports. Enviro:
Dispute about cap and trade. Bronx
/ sports: World
Cup Opens on Big Screens in UN With Russia
Trouncing Saudi 5-0 and Ambassadors in Jerseys
6/11/18 -- CRA:
In
DC at CFPB Mulvaney Disbands Consumer Advisory
Board As OCC Cuts CRA, FOIA. Federal
Reserve solicits comments on its move to
weaken the Volcker Rule. Bank
Beat: Redliner
BancorpSouth Wants Icon Bank of Texas Amid
Deregulation at CFPB and Fed, FFW Challenges.
UN - Global:
On
Cameroon UK Told Inner City Press Monitoring But
Brags Of New Age Oil Deal. Enviro:
pollution in South Delhi. Bronx
/ Courts: UN
Accessed By Diplomat Who Helped Briber Ng Lap Seng
Pay Lorenzo and UN Covers It Up Like Ho, CEFC
6/4/18 -- CRA:
Weakening
of Volcker Rule Promoted By Federal
Reserve's Powell
and Quarles Without Wells Fargo Recusal. Bank
Beat: Citizens Bank Wants to Buy Franklin
American Mortgage. UN - Global:
As
North Korea's Kim Yong Chol Heads to DC, Pompeo
Cites 72 Hours of Progress in Presser. Enviro:
Protests shot in Tamil Nadu. Bronx
/ World Cup: UN
Guterres To Travel To See Portugal Play Morocco in
Moscow, Refuses Qs on Price Tags
5/28/18 -- CRA:
Enforcement on mergers ignored by Federal
Reserve governor Brainard. Bank
Beat: Fifth Third trying to buy MB Financial
will be closely watched. UN - Global:
After
UN Discloses Rape Case in Mali, Inner City Press
About Accountability, Cut Off, Guterres May 29.
Enviro;
India cracks down on protesters in Tamil Nadu. Bronx:
UN Security Blocks Inner City Press From 7 - 7:55 pm
After Trump, Escorts It To Get Laptop and Leave
5/21/18 -- CRA:
Payday
Lending Scrutiny Survives Capitol Hill Review
Period, US Comptroller Otting Eyes CRA. Federal
Reserve's Quarles
Pitches De-Regulation of Global Banks After As IMF
Ignores Predatory Deutsche. Bank
Beat: UN
Bribery Indictee Patrick Ho Paid Through HSBC,
Stanbic, Mashreq and Deutsche Bank, UN To Charge?
UN - Global:
At
UN, Guterres To Move NYC Jobs to Mexico City,
Budapest and Nairobi, 290 From Uganda, ICP Asks.
Enviro:
UK faces fine. Bronx:
Metro North Still Disses the Borough
5/14/18 -- CRA:
Redlining case against Klein Bank dropped for new
assessment area. Federal
Reserve recites but misses on Ameris. Bank
Beat: Another merger, another recent Needs to
Improve CRA rating. UN - Global:
UN
Guterres Met Finland FM, His Security Ordered
Inner City Press To Not Periscope. Enviro:
Smog into ink in India. Bronx:
UN
Guterres Banned Press From His Al Sharpton
Meeting, Dujarric Refuses Read Out; In
1st UN Bribery Case, UN Claims Cooperation After
Ng Sentenced to 4 Years, 2d Ho Case UNacted On
5/7/18 -- CRA:
US
Comptroller Otting Moves To Strip Community from
CRA, FOIA Docs Withheld. Fed
Watch: Small fine on Goldman Sachs,
ineffectual. Bank
Beat: Some mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
At
UN Press Restricted From Covering Guterres'
Lusophone Garden Party, Kids Climb Slavery
Memorial. Enviro:
Indonesia River. Bronx:
In SDNY, UN
Bribery Indictee Patrick Ho Fails To Get Bail,
Said China's Belt and Road, CEFC On Trial
4/30/18 -- CRA:
US
Comptroller Otting Bought Bank Stocks While
Regulating Banks, FOIA Docs Withheld. Federal
Reserve unwisely urged to follow OCC in
removing one of CRA's few teeth. Bank
Beat: On
UN Pension Fund, Investments in HSBC and Shell
Smell Bad, SG Passes Buck to GA, UNanswered. UN - Global:
UN
in DRC Drone Procurement Ousts Low Bidder, Lets In
Firm Under Probe, ICP Asks, Dodge. Enviro:
7 billion with air pollution. Bronx:
The Outrage of Shutting the 4 Train from Manhattan
to The Bronx
4/23/18 -- CRA:
Wells
Fargo Fined $1B By Otting's OCC and Mulvaney's
CFPB, End of An Era? Federal
Reserve's stress capital buffer. Bank
Beat: At
IMF Spring Meetings, Inner City Press Asked About
Yemen and IMF Response, Here. UN - Global:
On
North Korea Talks, Kim Talks Freeze, UN Stonewalls
From Margins, Amid Mis-Reporting. Enviro
defenders in Mombasa Kenya. Bronx/NY:
UN
Briber Patrick Ho of CEFC Asserts "Blame HSBC"
Defense from MCC, Could Have Wired Other Ways
4/16/18 -- CRA:
US
Payday Lending Protections Sued by Industry Group,
Otting and ACE. Federal
Reserve poses Bank
Beat questions to Ameris, no action on its
prior false statements. UN - Global:
On
Syria, After Trump Strikes and Russia Draft Fails
in UNSC, Sullivan Calls Iraq, Turkey, Kuwait and
Czech. Enviro:
Duke gets off cheap in NC. Bronx/NY/DC:
On
Cameroon, Inner City Press Asked US State Dep't of
47 Illegally Deported By Nigeria, US Statement
Here
4/9/18 -- CRA:
Mulvaney to testify on CFPB on April 11. Federal
Reserve picks
insider Williams for New York Fed. Bank
Beat: As
BancorpSouth Pays $13M To Shareholders Misled on
Redlining & Money Laundering, Pay To Play.
UN - Global:
Amid
UN Bribery of Ng Lap Seng and CEFC China Energy,
Guterres Spun Xinhua, ICP on Xi's Vase to Kim.
Enviro:
Pollution cancels 3 South Korea baseball games. Bronx/NY:
In
1st UN Bribery Case, Vivi Wang Pleads Guilty,
Cooperation Deal, UN Corruption Continues
4/1/18 -- CRA:
US
Senate Bill 2155 Mis-Represented As Only for
“Small Banks” by Federal
Reserve Bank
of NY's Dudley, Murky Process to Replace Him
Called Out. Bank
Beat: ICP
Asked IMF About US - S Korea Bilateral Deal on
Foreign Exchange, Here, Myanmar Q; Renasant
tried to move in on Atlanta. UN - Global:
After
UN Guterres Refused Press Question on UNAIDS
#MeToo, To Lisbon For 4 Days, Slow. Enviro:
Censorship and pollution in Thailand. Bronx/NY:
In
First UN Bribery Case, US Wants 6 Years and $2M
From Ng Lap Seng, UN Corruption Continues
3/24/18 -- CRA:
Payday
Lender Invited Back As Banks' Predatory Partner by
OCC's Otting, OneWest Echo. Federal
Reserve spins on Schwab, citing ERISA. Bank
Beat: In Florida, another one bites the dust.
UN - Global:
On
Cameroon, ICP Asked Nigeria's Ambassador About the
47 Taken, UN Not Sure DSG Will Raise. Enviro:
At
UN As Inner City Press Covers Guterres on Water,
UN Requires Minder, Cage, Lake Chad Dying, Pitbull
Cancels. Bronx:
To DC; On
Cholera In Haiti, Sen Leahy Calls UN Reckless,
$10M in Omnibus Budget, UN Silent
3/19/18 -- CRA:
As
US Senate Passes S.2155 Which Serves BOT
Mitsubishi, North Korea Sanctions Evader, Ironic
Praise.
Federal Reserve, as Ameris' Mis-statements on
Atlantic Coast, to Mull Hamilton State's 100% denial
rate. Bank Beat: mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
As
Cameroon's Biya Vows Crackdown in NW and SW
Regions, ICP Asks UN, Prober of Press. Enviro:
Scrutiny in Tamil Nadu. Bronx:
Gentrification watch
3/12/18 -- CRA:
Banking
on the Bomb Are Citi, Chase, BofA, Wells and
Goldman Sachs, ICP Asks Why In UN Global Compact?
Federal
Reserve Won't Object to Objectionable Capital
One. Bank
Beat: On
North Korea Sanctions Violations, Ship Was Funded
By Bank of Maldives, Ex-Prez Nasheed Says. UN - Global:
On
North Korea Talks, Location Ideas Range from
Pyongyang to Mar-a-Lago. Enviro:
When
UN Guterres Did Q&A With Bloomberg, Questions
Pre-Picked, CEFC UN Bribery Ignored. Bronx:
UN's
Ex-Gender Adviser Mayanja Is "Slumlord," Tenants
Say, Inner City Press Asks UN
3/5/18 -- CRA:
Capital One, getting sued for discrimination, tries
to sell deposits to Whitney Bank.
Federal Reserve's Powell Questioned about fair
lending as if he hadn't already shown his hand. Bank
Beat: Business booming in Africa. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon, Visiting UN's Fall Didn't Witness Biya's
Deployment, Didn't Mention Refoulement. Enviro:
UN
Environment Pays EUR 500,000 To Be in Volvo Ocean
Race, For Dee Caffari, ICP Asks. Bronx
/ Haiti:
On Cholera, UN Tells ICP "Transformation Retreat"
Canceled, Dinner Photo Gone
2/26/18 -- CRA:
After
ICP Protest to Ameris Bank Merger With Atlantic
Coast, Ameris Admits to Federal
Reserve Its Application
Was and Is False. Bank Beat: Amid
New US Sanctions, UN Let N Korea Take EUR 4M from
Sputnik Bank, US Asks UN to List, Japan 3. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon, UN's Mueller Congratulated Biya Despite
Crackdown & Corruption, ICP Asks Why. Enviro:
Minnesota let 3M off the hook. Bronx:
HBO rents on 135 St for The Deuce, Echoes of Wedtech
2/19/18 -- CRA:
On
CFPB, Mulvaney Dodges on Equifax Probe. Federal
Reserve slaps US
Bancorp for money
laundering. Bank
Beat: After
ICP Protest to Ameris Bank Merger With Atlantic
Coast & Hamilton, Fed Asks 10 Qs. UN-Global:
On
Cameroon, UK Denies Inner City Press FOIA Request
After 170 Days, Yemen Too, Appeal. Enviro:
free transit to fight pollution? Bronx,
Guns:
In UN, Weapons Advertised After Florida Shooting,
Inner City Press Asked, UN Takes Down
2/12/18 -- CRA:
FDIC
Deems Challenge to Ameris Bank Merger With
Atlantic Coast A Formal Protest, Radio Silence.
Federal
Reserve leaves H2A broken - on purpose? Bank
Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global:
In
UN Bribery Case, Ho Was Denied Bail, Inner City
Press Asks 3 Why CEFC Still in ECOSOC. Enviro:
“Chinese” pollution in Ghana. Bronx:
Killing investigated
2/5/18 -- CRA:
ICP
Challenged E Trade-Trust Co of America, Banks
Scoffs at Needs to Improve, FINRA Settlement.
Federal
Reserve Imposes
Cap on Wells
Fargo's Growth
For Abusing Consumers, After OCC Apologized for
Double Downgrade. Bank
Beat: New Low for Pinnacle. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon & Nigeria, UN Hides Behind Belated
UNHCR Statement to Inner City Press, DSG Avoids
Qs. Enviro:
On
Climate Risk, ICP Asks of CEFC, DSG Rosewood
Signings, Panel Cites Transparency, UNseen. Bronx
trial for killing of Deborah Danner has echoes of
Eleanor Bumpurs
1/29/18 -- CRA:
Bank Of America To
Raise Fees on Low Income People, Critics Cite
Predatory BofA. Federal
Reserve Asks
Schwab About Community Reinvestment Act After Fair
Finance Watch Protest. Bank
Beat: Worm turns in Charlotte NC. UN - Global:
On
UN Bribery, Inner City Press Asked Guterres of
CEFC, Now Suspended From Global Compact. Enviro:
Pollution in Thailand. Bronx:
Bank robbery, or, banks rob The Bronx
1/22/18 -- CRA:
In
DC, Mulvaney Says CFPB To Reconsider Payday Rule,
Critics Cite Predatory Lending. Federal
Reserve looks at little merger in Michigan. Bank
Beat: ICP
Asks IMF of Tunisia, Yemen Central Bank, Somalia
Debt, and Cameroon, Some Answers. UN - Global:
At
UNSG Guterres Presser, Inner City Press Asks of
Cameroon & UN Bribery for CEFC, Here. Enviro:
Smog in Seoul. Bronx:
Profiles in de-industrialization
1/15/18 -- CRA:
In
DC, Mulvaney Still at CFPB, Fair Finance Watch
Challenges E Trade-Trust Co of America. Federal
Reserve: Ends
Enforcement Actions on 10 Including Citi &
Chase After Micro-Fine of Goldman Sachs. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
After
Nigeria "Disappears" 10 in Abuja, Amina J.
Mohammed Tours with Gov't, ICP Asks UN, Nothing.
Enviro:
Black snow in Kazakhstan's Temirtau. Bronx:
RIP Tim Rollins
1/8/18 -- CRA:
Misreporting on CFPB litigation by New York credit
union, looking into trust. Federal
Reserve takes comments big banks to March 15.
Bank
Beat: merger watch-dogging, deep in the heart
of Texas. UN
- Global:
In
UN Bribery Case, Ho Again Seeks Bail, Saying CEFC
Is With UN Like Salvation Army. Enviro:
Protesting pollution in Nepal. Bronx:
Mensah as hero, from Ghana, UN silent
1/1/18 - CRA:
After
Covering Up Sterling Bank Scam, OCC Withholds
Records, Inner City Press' FOIA Appeal. Federal
Reserve held Sterling call with OCC. Bank
Beat: BancorpSouth brags of evading
accountability for redlining. UN - Global:
In 2017 UN's Guterres Failed in Myanmar, Yemen
& Cameroon, Amid Corruption, Censors Press.
Enviro:
Delhi pollution. Bronx:
As
Dozen Killed By Fire On Prospect Ave, Of Happy
Land & Woodycrest, Blame-Games
12/25/17 -- CRA:
After
ICP Fair Finance
Watch
Bank Merger Challenge, Fed Asked Associated of
Green Bay Market, Reply Here. Federal
Reserve deregulation views. Bank
Beat: First-Citizens Bank & Trust Co says
it'll buy Tampa-headquartered HomeBancorp. UN - Global:
UN
Over $5 Billion Budget Passed by UNGA With No
Public Present, Holiday Tree and Carol, Here.
Enviro:
Superfund by NYC. Bronx:
Apartment Misused
12/18/17 - CRA:
After
ICP Bank Merger Challenge, Fed Asks Associated
About Green Bay Market. Federal
Reserve's Quarles recused from dealing with Wells
Fargo. Bank
Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
On
Cameroon, Inner City Press Asks UN If Guterres Has
Done Anything on Press Freedom, No, Failing Fall.
Enviro
fail in Nigeria. Bronx:
history of 477 Gerard Avenue
12/11/17 -- CRA:
In
DC, Battle for CFPB Continues As English Sues
Again, ABA Cheers OCC Undercutting CRA. Federal
Reserve signs on to Basel III capital
standards. Bank
Beat: looking to Michigan. UN - Global:
North
Korea Said UN Feltman Agrees With Them On
Sanctions, Now He Cites Funding Gaps. Enviro:
Rosewood
Scandal of UN Deputy Amina J. Mohammed Reported by
France24 With Amina Omitted. Bronx:
Trials we're watching
12/4/17 -- CRA:
Trump
Taps Fifth Third Bank Lawyer For FDIC Amid OCC
Scams on CRA & Sanctions, CFPB. Federal
Reserve “fixes” merger listing, does not
extend any flawed comment periods nor explain. Bank
Beat: Chile seeks to buy Spain in Florida, is
it really local? ICP
Asks IMF of Caribbean Critique, No
Reclassification, Yemen & Zambia Answered,
Kenya Not. UN - Global:
In
Cameroon, ICP Asked UN of Biya Calling
Secessionists Terrorists, Now He Orders
"Relocations.” Enviro:
Entergy nuclear spin. Bronx:
On
UN Bribery, Patrick Ho Is Denied Bail, CEFC Bribes
Cited, Entries Into UN Questioned
11/27/17 -- CRA: Amid OCC
Scams on Sanctions & CRA, Cordray Taps
English, Trump Mulvaney, Showdown? Federal
Reserve stopped notifying public of mergers,
ICP / FFW complains. : Lew cashes out to private
equity firm Lindsay Goldberg. UN - Global:
On
UN Bribery Case, ICP Asked of Guterres Use of CEFC
Funds, Kutesa Travel, UN Half-Answers. Enviro:
#BlameBiya for Cameroon pollution. Bronx:
In
UN Bribery Case, Senegal's Gadio Seeks Bail But
Fails, Thanksgiving in MCC Jail
11/20/17 -- CRA:
Amid
OCC Scams on Sanctions & CRA, Withhold Otting
Documents, ICP & CRC Sue. Federal
Reserve accepts South State Bank disparities
on Park Sterling. Bank
Beat: Japan's
Bank of Tokyo - Mitsubishi Skirts North Korea
Sanctions With "Incorrect" Application to US OCC,
Public Excluded. UN - Global:
UN
Spox Runs From DSG Rosewood Qs, Now Guterres Is
Petitioned by 62,000 to Probe, Recuse. Enviro:
Health disparities in Detroit. Bronx:
RIP Mel Rosenthal
11/13/17 - CRA:
Now it's even easier for Needs to Improve national
banks to get OCC rubber stamp approvals. Federal
Reserve nominee for chair on Hill Nov 28. Bank
Beat: Branch closures in India. UN - Global:
Rosewood
Racket Signed Off On By UN's Amina J. Mohammed Has
Cameroon Smuggling. Enviro:
Protest at refinery in Detroit. Bronx:
On
UN Reform, SG With Rosewood Scandal DSG, Press
Confined to Minders
11/6/17 -- CRA:
Anticompetitive merger, BancorpSouth evades Federal
Reserve, would Jay Powell still be in charge
of (denying) FOIA appeals? Bank
Beat: mergers we are looking at. UN - Global:
ICP
Asks UN If Guterres Doctrine Is Quelling
Secessionists for Old Rulers, Restricting Press.
Enviro:
ExxonMobile pays (too) small fine for gas flaring. Bronx:
At
UN $50,000 Charge For Biden Talk, Guterres To Be
Sold on Wall St, Public Funds to Lisbon
10/30/17 -- CRA:
Shameful impunity for Mid America Bank &
Trust Co as pays to play with Needs to Improve
rating, Federal
Reserve approves merger with Reliable
Community Bancshares. Bank
Beat: Looking at Granite Bank and Bangor
Savings Bank. UN - Global:
As
UNSG Guterres Stopped in Cameroon, Now UN
Read-Out, Here, Destination UNdisclosed. Enviro:
Pollution in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Bronx:
ICP
Asked David Kaye About a FOIA for UN, Smale's
Threat to ICP, Then Asks UN Which Dodges
10/23/17 -- CRA: Wells Fargo Was Dropped 2 Levels by OCC, Which Now Says Only 1 Level Is Its Policy, Sop. Federal Reserve sends part of Associated's application, not protests. Bank Beat: Bank Mutual numbers down. UN - Global: In Cameroon, Opposition March Banned in Douala as UN Parades in Yaounde, UNheard. Enviro: As Mugabe's A Goodwill Ambassador of WHO, Guterres Silent, Echo of Biya & North Korea Cyanide. Bronx: UN Threatens Review of ICP's Accreditation For Audio Report While Staking Out on Cameroon
10/16/17 -- CRA: Fair Finance Watch files challenge with Federal Reserve to Associated - Bank Mutual. Bank Beat: On Cameroon, IMF's Superficial Answer, After Telling ICP Internet Cut Off A Financial Risk. UN - Global: In Cameroon Anglophones Tortured, ICP Requests UN Action, UNder Restrictions. Enviro: Death by pollution in South Sudan. Bronx Zoo kills, in the DR Congo
10/9/17 - CRA: In Puerto Rico, Disparate Bank Lending, Predatory Investors, UN's Maria Photo Ops. Federal Reserve former Gov Duke cashing out to Wells Fargo is an outrage. Bank Beat: Mergers we are looking at. UN - Global: As Cameroon Kills Civilians, ICP Asks UN & UK, Crackdown Continues, Failing Fall. Enviro: For UN Guterres Trip to Caribbean, 4 Qs All on Climate, No Pool UNlike Sisi Scam, Cameroon Ignored. Bronx: Legit help to Puerto Rico. 10/2/17 -- CRA: More than 300 protests to Federal Reserve application of Association - Bank Mutual. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Talks with "Money Launderer" in Congo, Pakistan Minister Dar Charged. UN - Global: Angered at UN Praise of Cameroon's Biya, Letter to UN Cites Genocide Threat, UN Corruption. Enviro: Hurricane Irma impunity. Bronx: Support to PR victim of Hurricane Maria9/25/17
- CRA:
South State
Corporation
tells Federal
Reserve
the dog ate
its homework
in Atlanta. Bank Beat:
BB&T
closing
branches. UN - Global:
North
Korea's Ri
Yong Ho Meets
UNSG Guterres,
Asks For
Impartiality,
Conference.
Enviro:
Socializing
harm. Bronx:
Inner
City Press
Asked Trudeau
of Canada Arms
Sales to
Saudi, He
Called The
Question Bad
Behavior
9/18/17 -- CRA: Second comment against SoFi Bank from FFW. Federal Reserve laxity on mega-mergers challenged. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On Myanmar, UNSG Guterres Resisted Calls To Act, Officials Tell ICP, Deference to "The Lady.” Enviro: On Hurricane Irma, UN Spox Cuts Off Press Q on Debt Moratorium, Gives 3 Minute Notice. Bronx, NYC: UN General Assembly Week Bans Press on Day One on Refugees, UNprepared & UNfair DPI of Smale
9/11/17 - CRA: On Synovus - Cabela, Fed Rubber Stamps Despite "Confidential Matter," Cap One Scam. Federal Reserve: Faux regulator Fischer resigns. Bank Beat: Mock crackdown on Regions Bank. UN - Global: For UN General Assembly Week, List Here, UN Both UNprepared and UNfair. Enviro: Pollution in Los Angeles. Bronx: UN Encourages Hecklers of Haiti Cholera, Corruption and Censorship Qs in UN Bookstore Event on NYC and UN9/4/17
- CRA:
Regulators
Said Sterling
CRA Data
Unreliable,
Now Covers It
Up To Approve
Astoria. After
ICP/Fair
Finance Watch
Protest, Federal Reserve Asks South
State 5 Park
Sterling Qs.
Bank
Beat:
Associated
branch
closings
proposed. UN - Global:
As
ICP Pursues N
Korea Story,
UN Security
Orders It To
Stop, UNlike
Others,
Censorship for
Corruption.
Enviro:
Dow and Shell
plants after
Hurricane
Harvey. Bronx:
Facility to be
closed?
8/28/17
- CRA:
Fair Finance
Watch challenges
BancorpSouth
application
to evade Federal
Reserve
scrutiny. Bank Beat:
Alabama -
Florida
merger. UN
- Global:
After
UN Sold Itself
to Ng,
Stonewall on
Event By Guo
Xiangang,
Censors
Demand,
Canceled.
Enviro:
Dutch lawsuit. Bronx: At
NYC City Hall,
de Blasio
Talks Lisbon
& SDGs
With Guterres,
Mark-Viverito
on Columbus
8/21/17
- CRA:
Fair Finance
Watch
challenges
South State to
Federal
Reserve,
here. Bank
Beat:
Baltimore
merger. UN
- Global:
On
Kenya, ICP
Asked UN of
Monica Juma
Job, Blogger
Alai Locked
Up, UN Censors
Enviro:
Pollution in
Baltimore. Bronx: Censorship
at Bx
Community
College, After
Ng Bribery
Conviction,
ICP Asks Of UN
Rewarding Ng
For SSN
Coverage of
Ban Trip
8/14/17
-- CRA:
Comment on
small business
lending data.
Federal
Reserve:
Passing the
buck of bank
boards'
duties? Bank
Beat:
Mergers we are
watching. UN - Global:
On
Yemen, UN
Envoy IOCA
Tweets of
Churros Amid
Airstrikes on
Taizz &
Sa'ada,
Censorship.
Enviro:
Cities ranked
on pollution.
Bronx
/ NY: In
UN Guinea
Bissau Holds
Night Event
With Chinese
Art, MOU With
UNCG, Ng Echo
8/7/17
- CRA:
Challenge to
Sandy Spring /
WashingtonFirst
filed with Federal Reserve
by Fair
Finance Watch.
Bank
Beat:
Mergers we are
looking at. UN
- Global:
After
Ng Bribery
Conviction,
ICP Asks UN of
Carlos Garcia,
Helped Bribes,
Still In UN.
Enviro:
Pollution on
New Delhi. Bronx: UN
Allows
Censorship by
N Korea of Art
Show, Leaves
It & Press
Restrictions
UNexplained
7/31/17 -- CRA: Amid Fed & OCC Sterling CRA Scam, Otting & Quarles In Senate July 27, FOIA. Federal Reserve and Synovus Talked "Confidential Supervisory Matter" July 21, on Cabela Application. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo Stole 25,000 Cars By Imposing Unneeded Insurance, CRA Downgrade Should Continue. UN - Global: After Bribery Conviction, UN Told Reuters It Wants to Get Paid, ICP Asks Why, Video Here. Enviro: Plastics in Cameroon. Bronx: Piano District Scam
7/24/17 - CRA: While Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Reserve Paper Over Sterling's CRA Scam, Otting and Quarles In Senate July 27. Bank Beat: Associated Bank's July 20 proposal to buy Bank Mutual. UN - Global: In UN Bribery Case of Ng Lap Seng, South South News Paid Ashe Wife, UN Staff & Contractors. Enviro: Denmark complains about EU. Bronx/DC: Brownfields; As Reuters Live-streams Spicer's House, Got Press Evicted From UN For Streaming Formal Meeting 7/17/17 - CRA: Quarles Nominated to Federal Reserve Board As It Papers Over Sterling's CRA Scam. Bank Beat: Royal Bank of Scotland in 1st Settlement, UN Sends to Greece Nimetz, Adviser to Firm Invested in Greek Bank Saxo, Conflict of Interest. UN - Global: On UN Bribery Case of Ng Lap Seng, UN Won't Answer on DGACM, Says DPI "Issue of Judgment.” Enviro: India legal complaint. Bronx: Shelter abuse, flight to Honduras7/10/17
-- CRA:
Regulators
Said
Sterling's CRA
Data
Unreliable,
Under FOIA
Federal
Reserve Blacks-Out
Most of 400
Pages, Patreon. Bank
Beat: ICC
Slams South
Africa For Not
Arresting
Bashir, IMF
Cites
“Weakening
Governance,”
Corruption.
UN
- Global:
On
Burundi, After
ICP Asked UN
Repatriated
Mayuyu, Now to
Somalia, DSG
to Act or Not?
Enviro:
Landfills in
Malaysia. Bronx: In
1st UN Bribery
Case, Lorenzo
Admits $20,000
a Month from
Ng's South
South News, in
UNTV
7/3/17 -- CRA: Regulators Said Sterling's CRA Data Unreliable, Now Admits to Federal Reserve It Needs to Improve 2017, Denial? Bank Beat: Like UN's Haiti Impunity, ICP Asks of New Srebrenica Decision, BNP Paribas Bank on Rwanda. UN - Global: On Haiti, ICP Asks Guterres Spox If New Cholera Envoy Against Reparations, No Answer. Enviro: Tunisia protests. Bronx Lebanon Hospital shootings
6/19/17 -- CRA: As SoFi Applies For Bank, FFW Opposes Evasion, Interest Rate North of 20%, FinTech. Federal Reserve new low: Regulators Said Sterling's CRA Data Unreliable, Sterling Response Here. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo Quoted UN IFAD Official In Its Press Release, IFAD Tells ICP No Partnership. UN - Global: UN Killed 10,000 in Haiti, Spox Claims UN Listens, ICP Asks of UNSC Visit. Enviro: Plastic waste from Haiti re-used. Bronx: Bathgate brownfield and Low Income Housing Tax Credits
6/12/17 -- CRA: While OCC Papers Over Sterling's CRA Scam, Otting Nominated as Head, Resume Fraud. On Brazil Land Grabs & CRA Flaws, Federal Reserve Parrots TIAA, Which Alludes To Confidential Info. Bank Beat: After FFW Protested on Cabela, Synovus Snail Mails & Withholds Response, Here; ICP Asks IMF About South Sudan, They'll Meet in Kenya June 12, Need Peace for Program. UN - Global: On Cameroon, Failing Fall's UNOCA Site Out of Date and Broken, Inaccurate Report Here. Enviro: UN Ocean Conference Ends on River Balcony, Guterres On Junket, New Envoy in the Works? Bronx: If you replace Sheridan Expressway, it should be with parks6/5/17 -- CRA: Wells Fargo Gets Cut Off from New NYC Business After CRA Downgrade, Sterling Next? Federal Reserve Expedites Now Delays Press FOIA on Bank Beat, Sterling - Astoria. UN - Global: Cameroon Visit of UN's Fall Cites Human Rights Concerns, UN Tells ICP, After 4 Days' Questions. Enviro: Plastic from Mich to Africa. Bronx: MTA failing
5/29/17 -- CRA: After Fair Finance Watch Protested Synovus - Cabela, Federal Reserve Asks Synovus 7 Questions. Bank Beat: WashingtonFirst / Sandy Spring Bancorp; ICP Asks IMF About Saudi - Blackstone Deal, and Possible Extension for Ghana, Cameroon. UN - Global: ICP Asked UNSG Guterres for Speech, Haiti Read-out, None Provided, Now S Korea - Japan, Money Talks? Enviro: Pollution in NYC. Bronx: The GlobaLocal seen, just south 5/22/17 - CRA: Regulators Said Sterling Bank's CRA Data Unreliable, Sterling Mis-Sends Response, Federal Reserve Expedites ICPs FOIA. Bank Beat: Mnuchin says OCC head is picked, banks to big to succeed. UN - Global: After ICP Asked of WIPO's North Korea Work, Nikki Haley Calls WIPO UNtransparent and Dangerous, Cyanide. Enviro: UK worse pollution than US. Bronx: UN Federal Credit Union Solicits North Korean & UNA-USA Funds, After NK Missile 5/15/17 - CRA: Regulators Said Sterling Bank's CRA Data Unreliable, ICP Exposed It, FFW Demands Hearing from Federal Reserve, Files FOIA. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF About Sri Lanka Inland Revenue Act, Here, and For Cameroon Silicon Mountain Update. UN - Global: ICP Asks UN Of WIPO Using Criminal Defamation Law, Spox Says “Not A Responsive Choice.” Enviro: Pollution in Nepal. Bronx: Of Souleymane Porgo; At UN, Press Coverage of Biz Event Praising Goldman Sachs Hindered by DPI Censorship 5/8/17 - CRA: After Capital One Failed on Cabela, Synovus Applies to Federal Reserve & Fair Finance Watch Protests, Here. Bank Beat: Mergers We Are Watching. UN - Global: From Cameroon to UNSC, "Urgent & Confidential" Memo About Weapons, Copter, via Patreon. Enviro: UK pollution. Bronx: At UN's World Press Freedom Event, ICP Asks of UN Censorship, WIPO & FAO, 1-Line Response5/1/17 - CRA: After FFW Protests Sterling's Application To Buy Damaged Astoria, Fed Confirms Receipt. Federal Reserve After FFW Protest Cites Community Bank OCC Deal & Disparities, Rubber-stamps Merger. Bank Beat: We're looking at South State saying it'll buy Park Sterling. UN - Global: Google Hinders Publication of ICP Video of UN Defending Abuse by Peacekeepers, DPI Deal So Patreon. Enviro: At UN, Indigenous Tells ICP Guterres Hasn't Met Them, Of Norway & Dakota Access Pipeline. Bronx: History in the soil in Mott Haven.
4/24/17 - CRA: Belated fines against predatory Deutsche Bank by Federal Reserve, now what? Bank Beat: On Yemen, IMF Tells ICP Central Banks in Aden & Sana’a Should Cooperate to Avoid Famine. UN - Global: On Burundi and ICP's Scoop of Kafando as UN Envoy, Shingiro Tells ICP Gov Comfortable With. Enviro: AMA on light pollution. Bronx: At UN, DPI Prejudice Against Critical Press UNanswered, Bello Wiffs on Haiti and Roma 4/17/17 - CRA: After FFW protest to TIAA-CREF and Everbank, Federal Reserve's Fifth Round of Questions. Bank Beat: Another merger to watch, and Wells Fargo Branch Closing Notices. UN - Global: UN Praised Cameroon Half-Net Pledge as Clergy Prosecuted, Defends RC Rajat Blocking Inner City Press. Enviro: South Korea fears. Bronx: At UN, Request To Explain Censorship of Press Yields 1-Line, Spox Says Criticism Is Harassment4/10/17 -- CRA: Homage to Kansas City activist Williams. Federal Reserve quietly weakens merger review, rejects challenge without reasoning. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On Syria, After US Airstrikes ICP Asks UN What de Mistura's "Operationally Focused" Means. Enviro: Glasgow pollution. Bronx to UN, Fight for Press Freedom
4/3/17 -- CRA: Wells Fargo Paying $110 Million For Fake Accounts, 400 Branch Closures Still On? Federal Reserve loosens merger reviews, ICP Fair Finance Watch requests reconsideration. Bank Beat:3/13/17
-- CRA:
After
FFW Protest
Stopped NYCB
Bid, Astoria
Wants To Be
Bought By
Disparate
Sterling.
Federal
Reserve
has more
questions for
Simmons. Bank
Beat:
Mergers we are
watching, and
IMF
Tells Inner
City Press
Risks In
Cameroon in
2017 Include
"Events" in
Anglophone
Areas. UN - Global:
UN's
Cameroon
Troops in CAR
Accused of
Abuse, ICP
Asks UN's Haq,
No Answers,
Failing. Enviro: On
Honduras,
World Bank
Gets Sued. Bronx:
Gentrification
slated for
Mott Haven
3/6/17 -- CRA: After FFW Protest, Fed Sends Community Bank System 9 Questions, CEO Tryniski Trashes CRA. Federal Reserve switching Secretary post from dev. Frierson to Misback. Bank Beat: Merger and job loss in Indiana. UN - Global: As UNSC in Cameroon, Nothing on Anglophones from UN When ICP Asks, Ebute's Letter. Enviro: Talk in South Carolina. Bronx: BP says he supports Home Stability Support plan
2/27/17 - CRA: Overdraft abuse by FNB Bank downplayed by Federal Reserve on merger. Bank Beat: After IMF Tells ICP No Talks with Nigeria of Program, ICP Asks UN About Oslo Fundraising. UN - Global: After Guterres' Press Freedom Meeting, Spox Tells Press "It's Not Your Living Room," Runs. Enviro: Kenya urged to protect EJ activists. Bronx: Amber alert leads to “Foxhurst,” Hagstrom hangover 2/20/17 -- CRA: Of Capital One and Cabela's Bank. Federal Reserve rubberstamps mergers at Reserve Bank level. Bank Beat: Heartland Financial wants to grow in Colorado. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Uses UN in Kenya, Kim Won-soo in NY, Spox Calls Press Obsessive A*hole. Enviro: Indian mine in Australia. Bronx: Slumlord or vivero? 2/13/17 -- CRA: Amid DC Moves On CFPB, Acquisitive Simmons Is Asked by Fed of FFW's Protest. Federal Reserve Governor Tarullo to leave, FOIA improvements still needed. Bank Beat: Merger fall-out in Ohio. UN - Global: After PA's Fayyad Blocked, UN Selectively Spins US Green Light, UK Not Mentioned. Enviro: Free speech win in Alabama. Bronx: Catholic schools closing 2/6/17 - CRA: Branch closings by Wells Fargo. Federal Reserve asks United Bankshares about cases. Bank Beat: Mergers we're watching. UN - Global: UN Waste In Dump Caused Malaria in Central African Republic Under Ladsous, Bermann Next? Enviro: Niger Delta. Bronx: Fishing of post boxes, gone 1/30/17 -- CRA: Head of Community Bank System Mark Tryniski calls fair lending baseless. Federal Reserve goes vague on BB&T. Bank Beat: Investors Bancorp, already conditioned by Fair Finance Watch, had deal blow up. UN - Global: UN Wastes Funds Keeping Clinton-Aligned Feltman So His Pension Vests, Draft EO Here. Enviro: Trudeau and indigenous. Bronx: RIP Wayne Barrett - and Bobby Garcia 1/23/17 -- CRA: Fair Finance Watch challenges Community Bank System to Federal Reserve on Vermont proposed merger. Bank Beat: Simmons First tells FFW will close branches. UN - Global: US Has Asked For Ban Ki-moon Brother To Be Extradited, Hearing Reveals As Obama, Power Leaves. Enviro: Entergy in New Orleans. Bronx: UN Again Bans Staff From Women's March, ICP Questions, Gallach at Power's Elex Party1/16/17 -- CRA: Challenge to Scottrade - Toronto Dominion. Federal Reserve grilled on film. Bank Beat: Proposed mergers we are looking at. UN - Global: UN Referred ICP's Corruption Qs to Ban Ki-moon Seoul Spox, Whom They Have Never Called. Enviro: Mining in the Philippines. Bronx: Outgoing Samantha Power smirks at Haiti, cholera
1/9/17 -- CRA: Cardinal and United plans to close branches, but how many? Federal Reserve after comments asks. Bank Beat: The strange case of Capital One and Cabela's “World Foremost Bank.” UN - Global: As Budget Scrutiny Looms, UN Must Do Better on Press Freedom, Due Process and FOIA under Antonio Guterres. Enviro: Cambodian NGO against sand mining scam. Bronx: NYT promotes gentrification, again 1/2/17 -- CRA: After ICP filed FOIA request, Federal Reserve released entirely redacted fair lending plan in TIAA - Everbank proceeding. Bank Beat: Bank of Hope, closing branches. UN - Global: New UNSG Guterres Calls for Peace, Yemen, Myanmar & Burundi Early Tests. Enviro: EPA Office of Civil Rights. Bronx: For New Year's Eve in Times Square, Ban Ki-moon dropped the ball for the last time.12/26/16
-- CRA:
Bank
Merger Called
Off After ICP
Protested
NYCB - Astoria
on Disparities.
Federal
Reserve
delays on TIAA
- Everbank
FOIA request.
Bank
Beat: Next
round on
Capital One. UN - Global:
US
Power Abstains
on UNSC
Settlements
Resolution, As
UN Talk Turns
To Trump.
Enviro:
Ecuador
Chevron case
firings. Bronx:
Brownfield
with “historic
fill”
12/19/16 -- CRA: Terms expiring at OCC, FDIC and two Federal Reserve governor vacancies. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: On South Sudan, US Draft Passes 15-0, ICP Asked US Power of UN Arming Warlord. Enviro: Coal ash protests in Puerto Rico. Bronx/NYC: UN Thugs Attack ICP Outside Ban Ki-moon's $1200 Wall Street Event, Throw Periscoping Phone
12/12/16 -- CRA: Now TIAA tries to withhold compliance information, Federal Reserve gets FOIA request. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF About Guinea Bissau's Bank Bailouts, No Deadline to Unwind. UN - Global: UN's Gallach Pays Public Funds To Call Detroit a 3d Rate Flyover City, Evicted & Restricts Inner City Press. Enviro: NoDAPL. Bronx: After NYC Praises UN, ICP Asks Ban's Spox of Gallach's Violations of Free Press & Due Process 12/5/16 -- CRA: After FFW Challenges TIAA-Everbank, Federal Reserve's 3d Round of Questions. Bank Beat: Mega-merger... in Kazakhstan? UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon To Fly For Anti-Corruption Award from Qatar After Promoting Son in Law to Top UN Post. Enviro: Princess Cruises' intentional pollution. Bronx: Open up North Brother Island - and Hart Island Too 11/28/16 -- CRA: Challenge to Union - Cardinal, Federal Reserve gets FOIA on TIAA. Bank Beat: Merger slides. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Brother Ki-ho Thrown Out of UN Global Compact, Mines in Myanmar. Enviro: NoDAPL news. Bronx: Sin City fall-out11/21/16 -- CRA: Bank of Oklahoma, despite compliance settlement, gets Federal Reserve rubbert stamp. Bank Beat: Trustmark is at it again. UN - Global: On Myanmar, Where Ban Ki-moon's Brother Mines, US Accepts Outcome-Less Briefing By Nambiar, Who Says Give Them Time. Enviro: UN Passes Buck After Morocco Rejected COP22-Accredited Beiruk's Document. Bronx NYC: Ban Ki-moon NYU Speech Has Prerequisites While $100,000 Speech Withheld
11/14/16 -- CRA: After ICP Challenges TIAA-Everbank, They Submit to Federal Reserve A Defense of Lending, Brazil Land Grabs. Bank Beat: Mergers we are watching. UN - Global: After UN Ban Ki-moon Censors Press, Expresses to Trump Confidence in Cooperation. Enviro: COP 22 and Civil Society Excluded. Bronx: the split electoral district11/7/16 -- CRA: After ICP Challenges People's United Bank's Suffolk Bid, Federal Reserve Asks 13 More Questions, Layoffs Threatened. Bank Beat: Looking at Genworth. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Brother Ki-ho Involved in Myanmar, Greenwashing. Enviro: COP 22. Bronx: Read-lining by Barnes & Noble
10/31/16 -- CRA: Challenge to TIAA's Attempt To Buy Everbank to Federal Reserve, Citing Landgrab in Brazil. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Hadi's Bid to Move Yemen Central Bank, Spox Calls It Complex. UN - Global: Under New SG Guterres, Who Will Head UN Peacekeeping, Public Information? Enviro: ICP on Dakota Access Pipeline Asks UN Expert, Then Ban Ki-moon's Spox, “No Communication,” Like Haiti. Bronx: Gentrification Watch 10/24/16 -- CRA: After redlining settlement, BancorpSouth tells Federal Reserve its merger applications are withdrawn. Bank Beat: Another merger we're looking at. UN - Global: As Ban Ki-moon Conceals DC Speech & Is Protested at UN, Tells Wire Of His South Korea Ambitions. Enviro: Detroit incinerator. Bronx: Where's UN on killing of Deborah Danner? 10/17/16 -- CRA: ICP Challenges FNB's Reach into the Carolinas for Yadkin Bank, Files with Federal Reserve on Disparities in Baltimore & Ohio, Insiders. Bank Beat: Mergers We Are Looking At. UN - Global: ICP Asked New SG Guterres About Yemen, His Transition Team Here. Enviro: EPA to re-examine flares in TX, LA. Bronx: Tour de Bronx10/10/16 -- Bank Beat: BNC's lending to people of color fell in 2015. CRA: People's United got worse in NYC in 2015 but Federal Reserve calls it “untimely.” UN - Global: On Yemen, ICP Asks UK, France, NZ & Saudi After Airstrike on Funeral, No Draft Yet. Enviro: Trend found in UN report. Bronx: In praise of libraries.
10/3/16 -- CRA: Bank of North Carolina enforcement actions withheld by Federal Reserve, which brags about applications withdrawn, BancorpSouth still in. Bank Beat: Wells Fargo grilled on the Hill. UN - Global: On Next UNSG, Of Kazakh Deputy & Nordic Dreamers, Russia To Get Political Affairs? Enviro: EJ paper tiger. Bronx: Clay Ave Tenants Association head to UN conference in Quito 9/26/16 -- CRA: Bank of North Carolina, still withholding CRA plan from ICP, get more Federal Reserve questions, here. Bank Beat: We're watching TIAA - Everbank. UN - Global: ICP Asks Ban Ki-moon's Mentor Han Seoug-soo of Moonlighting with StanChart & Doosan, He Says Banks Too. Enviro: Proposal shot down in California. Bronx: Gentrification documented 9/19/16 -- CRA: As Bank of Oklahoma is forced to respond to ICP's protest by OCC, will Federal Reserve take note? Bank Beat: Maryland, Ohio and history. UN - Global: For UNGA, Ban Ki-moon Prints Book on Legacy, But Who Wrote & Paid For It? Enviro: California app. Bronx: Maduro of Venezuela in the West Bronx. 9/12/16 -- CRA: After ICP Challenges Its Suffolk Bid, People's United Calls NYC "Lower Hudson.” Federal Reserve gets FOIA request on BancorpSouth. Bank Beat: United - Cardinal, we're watching. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon & Son In Law Use Jaffna Massacre Commander As Nepotism Defense. Enviro: Southeast activists meet. Bronx: Reynaldo Cuevas killing revisited9/5/16 -- CRA: Bank of Oklahoma's low satisfactories, KC Performance Evaluation scams. Federal Reserve gets admission and demand for confidential treatment from Bank of North Carolina. Bank Beat: ICP Asks IMF of Yemen Central Bank, Zim & Mozambique, IMF Staff Moves In. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Promoted Son In Law Reportedly Posed With Dead LTTE Fighters. Enviro: Baton Rouge EJ advocate, rest in peace. Bronx: Getting some LinkNYC wi-fi
8/29/16 -- CRA: ICP Protested BNC - High Point, Now Federal Reserve Asks Questions, Here. Bank Beat: Astoria Bank re-schedules its annual meeting, after protest. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon Signed Letter Giving Son-In-Law Top UN Job in Kenya, Confirmed to ICP. Enviro: Big 90 corporations cause more pollution. Bronx: Old school filing dumping8/22/16
-- CRA:
People's United
“Comfortable” With No Loans
to People of Color in NYC in
2014. Federal
Reserve Jumbles Merger
Applications (But Takes
Goldman Sachs' Sunday
Calls). Bank
Beat: BancorpSouth
Down for the Count. UN
- Global:
At
UN, Why Ban Ki-moon
Dropped from Public List
Officials Who Refuse to
Disclose UNexplained.
Enviro:
With Floods in Baton Rouge,
New Gulf Drilling Rights
Opposed. Bronx:
Calling Out People's United
8/15/16 -- CRA: Citing Redlining, ICP Challenges People's United Bid For Suffolk County National Bank. Federal Reserve Disses Flint, Rubber Stamps Chemical-Talmer. Bank Beat: BNC Would Close At Least 3 High Point Branches. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Adviser Han Seung-Soo With UN Bank Standard Chartered, Spokesman Claims Bullying. Enviro: Oil water on plants in Cali? Bronx and Brooklyn and Queens and Harlem and Washington Heights Hall of Shame most recent nominee: People's United
8/8/16 -- CRA: After Taking Goldman Sachs Calls on Sunday, Federal Reserve Fines It $36M, Denies FOIA. Bank Beat: “Super-community” in NM, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. UN - Global: Ban Ki-moon's Adviser Han Seung-Soo Is Director of UN Contractor Doosan, UNethical? Enviro: Shale wealth fund idea from UK to US? Bronx: Standing in Bronx Criminal Court delay case.