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WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".

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Wells Fargo, Criminal Enterprise

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice September 13, 2016 by digital

New Orleans   I’ve never been a fan of Wells Fargo. We fought them endlessly over predatory lending practices in mortgages and subprime products. They don’t listen, they obfuscate, stonewall, and hide behind layers of lawyers in stubborn refusal even when faced with evidence of clear misdeeds. We were able to fight Citicorp, Bank of America, …

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Bank of America Record Settlement with Remorse

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure August 7, 2014January 11, 2021 by digital

Missoula     Accurate reports seem to indicate that the Justice Department is in the final drafting of a record setting, highest corporate penalty ever paid with Bank of America for mortgage related abuses. The price tag is going to be slightly north of $16 billion with $9 billion going to the government by way of a …

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More News of Banking as a Criminal Conspiracy with BofA and Chase

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure October 24, 2013 by digital

New Orleans    There are many small town papers that used to thrive by feeding their readers the daily police reports.  These days reading the financial pages is more than an adequate substitute, since every day we seem to get another perp walk in the criminal conspiracy now called modern banking. I know it’s tedious …

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Big Mistakes on Countrywide and Healthcare Polls

Health Care Ideas and Issues National Politics June 30, 2012 by digital

New Orleans   Charles Blow, the statistical columnist for the Times, did an excellent job today of “catching the cat,” as he called it by looking under the numbers of the polls around support or opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Looking at a Times/CBS poll that is widely cited by the Republicans as their …

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Bank of America’s Countrywide: One of the Worst Deals Ever

Financial Justice Foreclosure December 22, 2011 by wade

New Orleans – In one of the many articles on yet another multi-$100 million settlement, one story, almost in an aside, stated that the purchase of Countrywide’s assets by Bank of America, was “one of the worst deals ever.”  The price tag for Bank of America has been billions. This settlement with the Justice Department …

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